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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Bodger on December 11, 2013, 12:24:56 pm

Title: Blind Art Thieves?
Post by: Bodger on December 11, 2013, 12:24:56 pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-25330237 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-25330237)

The gallery are offering a substantial reward for the return of these paintings but will double it if the thieves agree to keep them! :innocent:

Title: Re: Blind Art Thieves?
Post by: happygolucky on December 11, 2013, 12:43:00 pm

 :thinking:  I've seen worse....but then again I have seen better!
I am sure I am not alone when wondering how the price or class something so highly?
 

Title: Re: Blind Art Thieves?
Post by: henchard on December 11, 2013, 12:43:42 pm

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts-entertainment/stolen-damien-hirst-artworks-easily-replaced-2013121181948 (http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts-entertainment/stolen-damien-hirst-artworks-easily-replaced-2013121181948)

Title: Re: Blind Art Thieves?
Post by: happygolucky on December 11, 2013, 12:55:17 pm

To be honest, to paint those spots the same size and so equaly spaced is very clever indeed. Unless done on a computor :innocent:

Title: Re: Blind Art Thieves?
Post by: Bodger on December 11, 2013, 01:03:15 pm

Getting paid to do it is the clever bit. :excited:

Title: Re: Blind Art Thieves?
Post by: doganjo on December 11, 2013, 05:48:56 pm

I knew I'd missed my vocation.  I can do dots  :innocent: I'm very good at joining them up too.  :roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim:

Sorry but I can't see any cleverness or intelligence in painting dots on a white board. Certainly very clever being able to con people into buying and displaying them though.

Title: Re: Blind Art Thieves?
Post by: Rosemary on December 11, 2013, 07:03:08 pm

Quote from: Bodger on December 11, 2013, 01:03:15 pm

Getting paid to do it is the clever bit. :excited:

Truly, the art world is mad. It's like the Emperor's New Clothes.

Title: Re: Blind Art Thieves?
Post by: happygolucky on December 11, 2013, 07:07:05 pm

what would be really good is to pop in and replace a masterpiece with a painting done buy a child or monkey and see the critics praise it!!

Title: Re: Blind Art Thieves?
Post by: SheepCrazy! on December 11, 2013, 09:20:29 pm

If only I hadn't given up, dot to dot, I'd be rich by now!

Title: Re: Blind Art Thieves?
Post by: Lesley Silvester on December 11, 2013, 10:10:14 pm

You can buy stick on dots. They'd all be the same size then.  :roflanim:

Title: Re: Blind Art Thieves?
Post by: happygolucky on December 12, 2013, 09:55:23 am

I bet I would not be able to put any dots in a straight line so I am impressed. I remember a painting in Leicester art gallery that was a  black line on a white background that was across the canvas until a few inches from the end, then it went rough and down, just like the painter had dropped the brush, now that was bad in my opinion..I do that every time I try to paint any straight line! :innocent:

Title: Re: Blind Art Thieves?
Post by: Lesley Silvester on December 12, 2013, 09:38:46 pm

Maybe that is what happened, Sandy and the painter just said, "Oh s*d it, I can;t be bothered to put it right."

Title: Re: Blind Art Thieves?
Post by: happygolucky on December 12, 2013, 10:40:48 pm

 :roflanim: :roflanim: