Ten Famous Works of Art that Are Forever Damaged by Carelessness, Negligence, Anger or Pure Insanity

Snoutport

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Tue May-10-11 06:27 PM
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Ten Famous Works of Art that Are Forever Damaged by Carelessness, Negligence, Anger or Pure Insanity

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=47248

Ah, art...so often the small-minded hate you.

Great article...you can look the art up by name on google images as you go... more fun to see what they are talking about.

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petronius

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Tue May-10-11 06:37 PM
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1. I'm not sure that Duchamp would be all that upset about being #1

:shrug:

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CTyankee

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Tue May-10-11 06:53 PM
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2. Perhaps his interest in Dada and Surrealism was part of that.

Edited on Tue May-10-11 07:00 PM by CTyankee

He might very well have thought an attack on "fountain" was just right, given what it really was. Who knows? It was an interesting time in art...

(oh, you might want to show "fountain" so people understand what it actually is...just sayin').

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pitohui

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Tue May-10-11 07:03 PM
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3. a cool duchamp story on that topic

when i studied art, way before the dark ages and long before this rather symbolic attack on the fountain -- which i agree duchamp would have LOVED -- my art teacher told this story

duchamp had made some panes of art glass and shipped them to new york

they arrived with several cracks

he said "at last...they are finished..."

i don't think many people understood the beauty of time and chance better than he did

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CTyankee

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Tue May-10-11 07:06 PM
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4. what an interesting era in art! Extremely fascinating!

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Stevenmarc

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Tue May-10-11 07:11 PM
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6. Not the only Duchamp that was damaged

Edited on Tue May-10-11 07:11 PM by Stevenmarc

"The Large Glass" was damaged in transit and he decided to keep it that way, so yes, you're probably right.

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REP

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Tue May-10-11 07:09 PM
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5. Klimt's Medicine, Jurisprudence and Medicine - destroyed by the SS

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