A Limerick A Day

Anna Leporskaya’s ‘Three Figures’ was sent for restoration after a security guard doodled on it with a ballpoint pen on his first day

A bored worker on his first day
Found his conscience beginning to sway
So he drew some eyes, tainting
A valuable painting
For which he was soon sent away

John Moynes

The Art Newspaper, Russia

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14 thoughts on “A Limerick A Day”

Paulus February 10, 2022 at 9:25 am

And here was me thinking this was a detail from a Lowry matchstick-men painting!

Janet, dreams of an alternate universe February 10, 2022 at 9:30 am

I thought it was the faces of the jabbed ! ;)
1. U N M U T U A L February 10, 2022 at 10:09 am
  
  Perhaps he felt it was lacking realism.
  
  They say the sign of a good portrait is when the eyes follow you around the room…
  
  Nobody mastered this technique better than Da Vinci.
  
  https://thevideosuite.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Gif-of-Mona-Lisa.gif
  1. Fergalito February 10, 2022 at 10:57 am
    
    “They say the sign of a good portrait is when the eyes follow you around the room…”
    
    I’ve had the same experience in a potato warehouse …
    1. Paulus February 10, 2022 at 11:08 am
      
      …or a needle factory.
    2. U N M U T U A L February 10, 2022 at 11:38 am
      
      :-D …Kerr’s Pinkeye?.
2. andrew February 10, 2022 at 12:39 pm
  
  Do you still believe the vaccine causes all sorts of weird side effects?
  1. Janet, dreams of an alternate universe February 10, 2022 at 12:42 pm
    
    I still believe in humor

Micko February 10, 2022 at 10:25 am

I kinda like the updated version

https://metro.co.uk/2022/02/09/bored-security-guard-draws-eyes-on-740000-painting-in-gallery-16077453/amp/

goldenbrown February 10, 2022 at 10:35 am

oh I think it improves it vastly
and I’m not being smart

I see a scenario where…
they are travelling on some kind of metaphysical conveyor belt
and the closest lad at the front there has reached the endpoint in the de-personalisation process already
with the pair behind almost there
just the outline of their eyesockets left to go
on their new clean personality-free homogenised heads

we wont need one when we finally finish our race to the bottom

Duncan Wheeler February 10, 2022 at 11:42 am

So much ‘art’is so precious and serious I reckon it’s a big improvement. Perhaps it should catch on with pens on twine beside all paintings etc for the public to participate interactively with great works. Provide some transparant film over images so as not to damage them. I this instance it looks funny and changed the vibe completely.

Gabby February 10, 2022 at 2:12 pm

Marcel Duchamp in 1919 drew a moustache on the Mona Lisa, the only difference being that he was an artist and not a bored art gallery employee.
https://www.artisoo.com/OilPaintingBlog/l-h-o-o-q-mona-lisa-with-moustache-by-marcel-duchamp/