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Hitler Oil Painting Attacked With Screwdriver
BBC ^
Posted on 10/05/2017 12:23:20 PM PDT by nickcarraway
An oil painting by Adolf Hitler hanging in an Italian museum has been attacked by a man wielding a screwdriver.
The untitled work was damaged by a 40-year-old man who was outraged that the painting by the Nazi leader was hanging in a public space, the Corriere della Sera newspaper reports.
It had been loaned by a private collector to the Museum of Salo, on the shores of Lake Garda, for an exhibition called the "Museum of Madness" earlier this year.
The exhibition's curator, Vittorio Sgarbi, hasn't changed his view on the Hitler painting, calling it "a piece of crap", and has defended its part in the show.
"The exhibition addresses the theme of madness and this picture is perfect. Nothing is as crazy as war, " he told Corriere della Sera. "It is not the work of a dictator but that of a wretch, it reveals a profoundly melancholy soul."
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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: art; hitler; italy
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To: nickcarraway
It’s very evocative art, I’ll give it that. Creeps me out.
To: nickcarraway
Yup.
That’s a painting by a seriously distributed mind, alright.
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posted on
10/05/2017 12:25:41 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satirBrevik killed for polie or opinion. Or both.)
To: nickcarraway
“Hitler - there was a painter! He could paint an entire apartment in one afternoon! Two Coats!”
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posted on
10/05/2017 12:26:33 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: nickcarraway
I think from time to time...
That if Hitler could have painted hands and the Vienna School of Arts had accepted him as a student...
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posted on
10/05/2017 12:27:53 PM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: Billthedrill
“Museum of Madness”
And that’s just it’s customers!
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posted on
10/05/2017 12:29:48 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satirBrevik killed for polie or opinion. Or both.)
To: nickcarraway
“Nothing is as crazy as war”
How about mass genocide?
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posted on
10/05/2017 12:30:24 PM PDT
by
Leep
(Less talk more ACTiON!)
To: nickcarraway
And this is why you can’t have nice things. /s
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posted on
10/05/2017 12:31:40 PM PDT
by
yuleeyahoo
(Those are my principles, and if you do not like them...well I have others. - Groucho Marx)
To: BenLurkin
The guy that painted this was brought back down with
thorazine and forbidden to ever go back to Disneyland.
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posted on
10/05/2017 12:32:42 PM PDT
by
sparklite2
(I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
To: sparklite2
Yeah well, too many rides on “It’s a Small World” will do that to you.
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posted on
10/05/2017 12:34:11 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satirBrevik killed for polie or opinion. Or both.)
To: nickcarraway
Adolph Hitler Art and John Podesta Art:
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posted on
10/05/2017 12:35:07 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
(Are you tired of winning yet?)
To: 2banana
Rembrandt couldn’t paint hands either, and yet......
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posted on
10/05/2017 12:41:07 PM PDT
by
FrdmLvr
To: sparklite2
THAT sir is (first hand experience) FUNNY, right there !
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posted on
10/05/2017 12:43:38 PM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true.)
To: nickcarraway
What? Screwdriver? He never heard of a box cutter? Can't Leftists do ANYTHING right?
The image is a little dark...
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posted on
10/05/2017 12:43:39 PM PDT
by
jonascord
(First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
To: nickcarraway
And when we get to Berlin, I am personally going to shoot that paper hanging son-of-a-bitch Hitler.
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posted on
10/05/2017 12:45:21 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: knarf
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posted on
10/05/2017 12:47:04 PM PDT
by
sparklite2
(I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
To: nickcarraway
A poor man’s Escher, but without any doors.
No word on what the standing figure is doing with his hands.
Die flote spielen?
To: central_va
Do you read your bible, sir?
Every god-damned day!
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posted on
10/05/2017 12:49:24 PM PDT
by
sparklite2
(I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
10/05/2017 12:49:44 PM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(Screw The NFL!!!!!! My family fought for the flag!)
To: nickcarraway
After forty years, the Cylons sent a representative.
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posted on
10/05/2017 12:57:54 PM PDT
by
sparklite2
(I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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