Oh my God it’s the second coming of Ecce Homo
Mysterious ways, alright
Reminds me of
this Trump picture
You dirty rat. You put that under the spoiler tag to sucker me into looking at that unholy thing.
I should not have clicked. It could have been something nice like tubgirl or goatse.
I always upvote a person of culture and taste.
Troma going all out to promote the Toxic Avenger movie.
There’s simply too many things to restore. They are building metro in my town now. They started working on a new line, digging under first street and boom, Roman graveyard. Had to examine and remove 500 graves before they could continue. It’s like that all the time. So yeah, sometimes people don’t wait for specialists or permits and fuck things up. It’s not that often and it happens to some less important works. It’s only in the news because it’s funny.
One starts to get the impression that they should just have the archeologists dig the tunnel in the first place, and budget the project like one big find.
Better than I could’ve done…
That’s A+ work if it was done by any of the overgrown toddlers in government in the US, Russia or Israel.
As someone who is currently feeling disheartened at… gestures wildly… I thought a nice, light piece about a botched art restoration in Spain would be a safe reprieve… But nope, you managed to tie it back in to world politics. Congrats I guess.
I think I need to get off social media for a bit.
It’s only politics in that that’s where they “work”. They’d be just as worthless anywhere else.
Just shut up? It’s very simple.
I’m starting to think you don’t take art to Spain to be restored…
Damn, the after looks like a face after reconstructive surgery from being mauled by an animal.
Picture from OP’s meme can be found here (via article in OP’s link): https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2020/11/11/the-potato-head-of-palencia-defaced-spanish-statue-latest-victim-of-botched-restoration
It lookes like they ruined more than just the face. All the decorations to the right of the face looks different as well.
How do you fuck up so badly?
I kinda wonder if it’s panic at some point. Like they make a fuck up and then start going “maybe this will fix it, maybe this will fix it” and it’s just getting progressively worse but they can’t stop themselves.
I see this with my kids sometimes, without the panic, they see that they’ve messed up a line when painting and they try to fix it but they do the same thing just slightly over, rinse repeat until a 7mm line is now 30mm thick.
Me when I make the eyeliner on one eye too thick…
Ah, the Mr Bean approach.
hold on i’ve got a clay mask i made in middle school that looks JUST LIKE THAT
… The land lord special.
Jim Carrey vibes
At this point some of these “accidental” restorations have to be on purpose.
