The adding of a face to Anna Leporskaya’s Three Figures still manages to pale in comparison to some unintentional defacements of classic works, including Cecilia Giménez’s infamous restoration gone wrong of Ecco Homo ( Behold The Man) by Elías García Martínez, otherwise known as “Monkey Christ”. See more ideas about black girl art, female art, black art painting. Luckily, explains Ivan Petrov in the story: “The vandal drew with a pen without strong pressure, and therefore the relief of the strokes as a whole was not disturbed.” “The ink has slightly penetrated into the paint layer, since the titanium white used to paint the faces is not covered with author’s varnish, as is often the case in abstract painting of that time.” The centre has since installed protective screens on all remaining works in the exhibition and the police have announced an investigation into the vandalism. Explore Seeester Jessies board 'Faceless Women Drawings', followed by 155 people on Pinterest. Three Figures, which was painted between 19, was returned to State Tretyakov Gallery and has since been sent for restoration. The Birth of a New Art.Īs reported in the initial story on the vandalism by Ivan Petrov in The Art Newspaper Russia, the “improvement” of the painting was noticed by two visitors to the exhibition in December, who informed a gallery employee. Anna continues: “His motives are still unknown but the administration believes it was some kind of a lapse in sanity.” The painting was on loan from the collection of State Tretyakov Gallery, provided for the exhibition The World as Non-Objectivity. Find high-quality stock photos that you won't find anywhere else. In a statement, the exhibition’s curator, Anna Reshetkina, states the damage occurred “with a Yeltsin Center-branded pen”. Search from Faceless Businessman Drawings stock photos, pictures and royalty-free images from iStock. Bobby grabbed up the drawings and started back for the living room. In what is possibly one of the worst first-day-on-the-job horror stories in recent history, the security guard had apparently worked at the gallery for less than 24 hours before he drew on the painting Three Figures is insured for approximately £740,000. Over 31,714 Faceless pictures to choose from, with no signup needed. As he went to his drawing table, a pair of dark black eyes watched him from the window. Anna Leporskaya’s Three Figures, a painting on display at the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center, has been vandalised by a security worker, who scribbled small eyes on two of the figures with a ballpoint pen.
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