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And they let the Picasso painting drop on the floor lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wfmFsNec24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wfmFsNec24

axiosgunnar 5y ago
That‘s hilarious
happytoexplain 5y ago
It's frankly hard to imagine somebody putting a Picasso in that position. Look at the height of the painting! Look at how low the wall it's resting on is! Look at the surface it's sitting on! How is it that nobody there has their intuitive every-day-physics alarms going off??
- Nition 5y ago
  What really got me is how immediately after it fell, they put it back exactly the same.
- jbuhbjlnjbn 5y ago
  Sometimes, you need to be honest even if harsh - the people putting a picasso painting on that space to fall off are incompetent fools who should never touch expensive art in the first place...
  - heavenlyblue 5y ago
    How much of your salary are you willing to sacrifice in order for police to be able to afford such competent smarts?
    - subroutine 5y ago
      $3.50
      - dylan604 5y ago
        In other words, the same amount the government is willing to pay you to do your civic duty of sitting as a juror.
  - chmod775 5y ago
    "Local man surprised police officer who makes $15.50 an hour lacks qualifications to handle $100m artwork." Who cares. It's just a piece canvas that derives its value from provenance, not condition.
    - wpietri 5y ago
      You've confused value and price. Its price may not be affected by deterioration. But its value to people who study art is absolutely affected by the shape it's in. The most obvious example is "Ecce Mono", item 15 on a list of botched restorations here: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-history-restoration-fails-1591327 https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-history-restoration-fa...
      - coldtea 5y ago
        > But its value to people who study art is absolutely affected by the shape it's in. Who cares for its value "to people who study art"? It's also contigent on BS cultural norms. It's not even some objectively impressive artwork. Not to mention that Picasso mass produced tons of them after he got famous, for easy money...
        wpietri 5y ago
        Who cares? People who study art. People who care about people who study art. And almost everything is contingent on "BS cultural norms". Most of the rest is contingent on random evolutionary history. If your point is that everything is ridiculous, I certainly agree. But I disagree that the things other people care about are more ridiculous than the things I care about. It's all bananas.
      - stavros 5y ago
        > But its value to people who study art is absolutely affected by the shape it's in. > The most obvious example is "Ecce Mono", item 15 on a list of botched restorations here You are right, but probably not for the reason you think. Ecce Mono had no value until it was botched, and then it became famous. So, yes, its value to people who study art probably is affected by the shape it's in, but it's anyone's guess whether the value of the Picasso will go down or up now that it's "the Picasso that fell on the floor".
- swader999 5y ago
  And touching it with their bare hands getting finger prints on the canvas.
scudd 5y ago
Puts it back in the exact same position too
aledalgrande 5y ago
OMG they're touching it with bare hands too to put it back in the same spot it fell from! There's an art restorer somewhere choking watching this...
- deleted 5y ago
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stavros 5y ago
This has been a source of endless memes in Greece for the past few days. We are greatly amused and chagrined.

axiosgunnar 5y ago

That‘s hilarious

happytoexplain 5y ago

It's frankly hard to imagine somebody putting a Picasso in that position. Look at the height of the painting! Look at how low the wall it's resting on is! Look at the surface it's sitting on! How is it that nobody there has their intuitive every-day-physics alarms going off??

Nition 5y ago
What really got me is how immediately after it fell, they put it back exactly the same.
jbuhbjlnjbn 5y ago
Sometimes, you need to be honest even if harsh - the people putting a picasso painting on that space to fall off are incompetent fools who should never touch expensive art in the first place...
- heavenlyblue 5y ago
  How much of your salary are you willing to sacrifice in order for police to be able to afford such competent smarts?
  - subroutine 5y ago
    $3.50
    - dylan604 5y ago
      In other words, the same amount the government is willing to pay you to do your civic duty of sitting as a juror.
- chmod775 5y ago
  "Local man surprised police officer who makes $15.50 an hour lacks qualifications to handle $100m artwork." Who cares. It's just a piece canvas that derives its value from provenance, not condition.
  - wpietri 5y ago
    You've confused value and price. Its price may not be affected by deterioration. But its value to people who study art is absolutely affected by the shape it's in. The most obvious example is "Ecce Mono", item 15 on a list of botched restorations here: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-history-restoration-fails-1591327 https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-history-restoration-fa...
    - coldtea 5y ago
      > But its value to people who study art is absolutely affected by the shape it's in. Who cares for its value "to people who study art"? It's also contigent on BS cultural norms. It's not even some objectively impressive artwork. Not to mention that Picasso mass produced tons of them after he got famous, for easy money...
      - wpietri 5y ago
        Who cares? People who study art. People who care about people who study art. And almost everything is contingent on "BS cultural norms". Most of the rest is contingent on random evolutionary history. If your point is that everything is ridiculous, I certainly agree. But I disagree that the things other people care about are more ridiculous than the things I care about. It's all bananas.
    - stavros 5y ago
      > But its value to people who study art is absolutely affected by the shape it's in. > The most obvious example is "Ecce Mono", item 15 on a list of botched restorations here You are right, but probably not for the reason you think. Ecce Mono had no value until it was botched, and then it became famous. So, yes, its value to people who study art probably is affected by the shape it's in, but it's anyone's guess whether the value of the Picasso will go down or up now that it's "the Picasso that fell on the floor".
swader999 5y ago
And touching it with their bare hands getting finger prints on the canvas.

scudd 5y ago

Puts it back in the exact same position too

aledalgrande 5y ago

OMG they're touching it with bare hands too to put it back in the same spot it fell from! There's an art restorer somewhere choking watching this...

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stavros 5y ago

This has been a source of endless memes in Greece for the past few days. We are greatly amused and chagrined.