Bananas on Velvet
by the Meso-Expressionist Visionary
Vincent van BONZO
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| Chimp's painting fools modern art experts |
| 2005-12-19 |
| A GERMAN art expert was fooled into believing a painting done by a chimpanzee was the work of a master. The director of the State Art Museum of Moritzburg in Saxony-Anhalt, Katja Schneider, suggested the painting was by the Guggenheim Prize-winning artist Ernst Wilhelm Nay. "It looks like an Ernst Wilhelm Nay. He was famous for using such blotches of colour," Dr Schneider confidently asserted. The canvas was actually the work of Banghi, a 31-year-old female chimp at the local zoo. While Banghi likes to paint, she is not able to build up much of a body of work as her mate Satscho generally destroys her paintings before they can get to the gallery. But this one survived long enough to give Dr Schneider a red face. Advertisement: "I did think it looked a bit rushed," she told Bild newspaper. |
| Posted by:too true |
| #4 Conclusion. Modern art is actually a return to the origins. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2005-12-19 19:16 |
| #3 A GERMAN art expert was fooled into believing a painting done by a chimpanzee was the work of a master. The same might have been said of the critique. |
| Posted by: BH 2005-12-19 18:16 |
| #2 The more stories I hear like this, the more I get pissed off at my mother for tossing out my crayon sketches. I coulda been a modern art phenomenon. |
| Posted by: Desert Blondie 2005-12-19 17:39 |
| #1 Bananas on Velvet by the Meso-Expressionist Visionary Vincent van BONZO |
| Posted by: BigEd 2005-12-19 17:36 |