God hates Renoir (the painter)

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God hates so many things, it doesn't come as a shocker...

Renoir haters picket outside Museum of Fine Arts

A group of playful protesters picketed outside the Museum of Fine Arts on Monday, expressing their dislike of painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s work.

By Mark Shanahan GLOBE STAFF OCTOBER 05, 2015
It’s nothing personal, says Ben Ewen-Campen, he just doesn’t think French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir is much of a painter. Monday, the Harvard postdoc joined some like-minded aesthetes for a playful protest outside the Museum of Fine Arts. The rally, which mostly bewildered passersby, was organized by Max Geller, creator of the Instagram account Renoir Sucks at Painting, who wants the MFA to take its Renoirs off the walls and replace them with something better. Holding homemade signs reading “God Hates Renoir” and “Treacle Harms Society,” the protesters ate cheese pizza purchased by Geller, and chanted: “Put some fingers on those hands! Give us work by Paul Gauguin !” and “Other art is worth your while! Renoir paints a steaming pile!”

https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/names/2015/10/05/renoir-haters-picket-outside-museum-fine-arts/e0ybbZMdhVclxN01wfmaYM/story.html

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1. “I love their sense of irony" (Liz Byrd, a grandmother from Phoenix)

https://instagram.com/renoir_sucks_at_painting/

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2. When I was a little bit younger, the media carried real news stories about important topics

like green poop. But now we get stuff like this instead ...

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3. News about 'God' have never been serious or important to begin with

Unless when it's about religious wars or religious motivated terrorism, of course.

This piece of news about God and Renoir was no more weird than other religious stuff,

but was a welcome respite from religious motivated violence.

[LostOne4Ever]

4. You win this one!

[Act_of_Reparation]

12. How to sound like a bitter anachronism in one easy step:

1) Tell people how things were better when you were younger.

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14. Of course, a young whipper-snapper like yourself may not remember the great news coverage

we had in my halcyon youth, such as the green poop story that broke last week, but I feel entirely justified in bitterly mourning the decline of the media since those days

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15. There are serious problems with modern news media.

Covering funny stories is not one of them.

But, I'm sorry. I digress. You were talking about how VERY SERIOUS you are. Please, tell me more.

[LostOne4Ever]

5. I agree, William Bouguereau and John Waterhouse are more my style.

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6. The guy in the first pic has nice wings

That's an angel, right?

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7. Nope, it Cupid (and Psyche) :P

[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]Neo-Classical artists had a thing for Greek mythology.[/font]

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8. The Catholic Curch wouldn't have borrowed the wings thingy from Greek Mythology?

Would they?

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9. Isn't it true that, nowhere in the Wholy Babble does it say that angels have wings?

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11. Must have been common knowledge

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13. No

but the approved art in the churches for centuries showed the Church approved of that concept.

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6th century

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10. Bouguereau was an amazing painter

admired by the likes of Sargent and Van Gogh. But his subject matter was banal or saccharine. I love his work for the technique.
But Renoir was also a wonderful painter. Not my favorite Impressionist, but of all the artists to get worked up over, you have to wonder about this.
Is it some sort of performance art? They can't be serious.