New-age art critic pisses on $30 million painting

[Blue_Tires]

DENVER (Reuters) - A 36-year-old woman was accused of causing $10,000 worth of damage to a painting by the late abstract expressionist artist Clyfford Still, a work valued at more than $30 million, authorities said on Wednesday.

A police report said Carmen Tisch punched and scratched the painting, an oil-on-canvas called "1957-J no.2", at the recently opened Clyfford Still museum in Denver and pulled her pants down to slide her buttocks against it.

Tisch was charged with felony criminal mischief on Wednesday and has been held on a $20,000 bond since the incident in late December, said Lynn Kimbrough, spokeswoman for the Denver District Attorney's Office.

Kimbrough said Tisch urinated after she rubbed up against the canvas, but whether urine got on the painting was still under investigation, she said.

Born in North Dakota in 1904, Still was considered one of the most influential of the American post-World War Two abstract expressionist artists, although he was not as well known as others such as Jackson Pollock.

http://news.yahoo.com/colorado-woman-accused-damaging-30-million-painting-051057896.html

[HappyMe]

1. Why?

Good grief.

[progressoid]

2. Fail

[whistler162]

3. Okay bad on her part but one question....

how could they tell?

[progressoid]

4. Colbert just commented: "C'mon, my five year old can do that"

[petronius]

5. What's really unfair is that if Kim Kardashian (for example) did that to a blank canvas,

someone would pay $30 million for it...

Silly critic should have taken the time to get famous before the stunt.

[Odin2005]

6. THAT crap is worth $30 Million?

[Rex]

7. Mel Brooks did that decades ago in a movie.

[Blue_Tires]

15. with much more style, too

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[unionworks]

8. It's not funny dammit!

So why. Am I laughing? :rotf:

[provis99]

9. she was just doing performance art!

heck, pissing on it probably improved it.

[sakabatou]

10. In case anyone wants to know

This is the painting in question:



And yes, it's hideous.

[HopeHoops]

11. Talk about expressing an opinion!

[rug]

12. I am intrigued by the mechanics of a woman urinating on a painting hanging on a wall.

[HappyMe]

13. This a.m. it was reported that said

incontinent 'art critic' peed on the floor by the painting. She scratched the painting up.

[rug]

14. Not to be sexist, but if a man pissed on a painting it would be spectacular.

[HappyMe]

16. More effective than a puddle on the dang floor.

But that would have upped the painting damage $$$$.