On October 9, two people stuck their hands on Pablo Picasso’s painting. ‘Massacre in Korea’It is temporarily on display at a show by the Spanish artist at the National Gallery of Victoria. melbourne (Australia), to draw attention to the climate crisis.
Police managed to remove the glue that attached the protesters’ hands to a cover protecting the painting and arrested the protesters. two activists and another person helping them.
Also on May 25 this year Mona LisaOne of the main attractions of the Louvre Museum in Paris a visitor threw a cake, Although the artifact was undamaged when the pastel collided with the armored glass that had preserved the oil for six decades. The attacker was foiled by the security of the French museum.
Among the huge list of extraordinary pictures that suffer deliberate attacksApart from attacks on works of art in the context of wars and armed conflicts, there are also the following.
‘Mona Lisa’
In addition to the failed attack last May, Leonardo da Vinci’s symbolic work collects aggressions: a man with mental problems in 1956 threw a stone against the picture broke the glass caused the artifact to be preserved, causing the painting sheet to separate at the height of his left elbow. monna lisa. These damages are still visible despite the restoration.
Bulletproof glass was then placed, which made it possible for the painting not to be damaged elsewhere. attackwith this time to paintIt was started by a woman in 1974 when the painting was on display. Tokyo National Museum (Japan). The attacker was protesting the museum’s policy that made it difficult for people with disabilities to access the museum.
La Gioconda was then decided upon. I wouldn’t leave the Louvre, but that didn’t stop a woman of Russian nationality from throwing it in the bin in 2009 trophy he just bought from the museum shop To protest the denial of French citizenship. The canvas is not damaged.
‘The Night’s Watch’ (Rembrandt).
This masterpiece, painted by the Dutch painter in the 17th century, was also attacked by many. in 1911 stabbed for the first time but the cut was shallow and just tore off the varnish.
In addition, the attack in 1990 also took place with superficial damage. with acid A psychiatric patient thanks to the quick response of the museum’s security guards.
it was much more serious cut given when transferred to canvas From its original location in Kloveniersdoelen in Amsterdam to the Town Hall on Dam Square: they cut off the left and top part because it didn’t fit the town hall wall, which meant the loss of three characters. A copy existed in the original, which was kept in the National Gallery in London.
‘Venus of the Mirror’ (Velázquez).
In 1914, this work was attacked. National Gallery Stabbed seven times by London suffragist Mary Richardson. Richardson was sentenced to six months in prison.
‘The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist’ (Leonardo da Vinci).
It has been exhibited at the National Gallery in London since 1962 in the same year. attacked with red paint It was preserved in glass by a German painter. received in 1987 one shotit caused exactly some damage due to the protective glass particles, so it was preferred to display it protected by armored glass.
‘Guernica’ (Picasso).
Wrote with an art dealer in 1974 red paint In Pablo Picasso’s Guernica, then MoMa words of New York”Kill All Lies”. The paint has been cleaned and the paint has not been damaged.
‘Danae’ (Rembrandt)
Lithuanian in 1985 at the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg Bronius Maiguis He sprayed the work with sulfuric acid and inflicted several stab wounds. After twelve years of restoration, the painting was returned to the museum in 1997, protected by armored glass.
‘Liberty Leading the People’ (Eugène Delacroix)
A young woman in 2003 inscription with marker at the bottom of the box. The work was exhibited in the Louvre Museum in Lens (France).
Pont d’Argenteuil (Claude Monet)
In 2007 several people entered Musée d’Orsay in Paris and damaged the remaining painting. a crack of about ten centimetersThe obvious result is a fist.
Untitled painting by Cy Twombly.
In July 2007, a woman kissed a white painting by American artist Cy Twombly at a museum in Avignon (France) and left. lipstick mark on lips on canvas. The woman, who claimed that her kiss was a “work of love and art”, was fined 1,500 euros and sentenced to 100 hours of social work.
‘The Bay’ (Helen Frankenthaler)
in March 2006 twelve year old boy attend a school visit gum stuck American abstract expressionist painter Helen Frankenthaler’s painting “The Bay” on display at the Detroit Institute of Art (USA). The gum left a small stain, but the paint was restored.
‘The woman in the red armchair’ (Picasso).
a man in June 2012 sprayed with gold spray Painting made by Malaga painter in 1929 and exhibited in the Menil collection in Houston (USA). The picture is completely recoverable.
In addition to the paintings, many other works of art came under massive attack, including iconic sculptures such as Michelangelo’s ‘La Piedad’ in the Roman Basilica of San Pedro in 1972. lost his arm, eye and part of his nose after an attack hammer blows; or “The Little Mermaid” by Edward Eriksende in Copenhagen lost his arm He was decapitated twice in 1984, 1964 and 1998, ripped from his base with explosives and attacked with paint several times.
He was also beaten with a hammer Pompidou Center by ‘Fontaine’ (‘Fountain’), in Paris in 2006 Marcel Duchamp A lightly sculpted porcelain urinal.