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Related: About this forumGod hates Renoir (the painter)
God hates so many things, it doesn't come as a shocker...
A group of playful protesters picketed outside the Museum of Fine Arts on Monday, expressing their dislike of painter Pierre-Auguste Renoirs work.
By Mark Shanahan GLOBE STAFF OCTOBER 05, 2015
Its nothing personal, says Ben Ewen-Campen, he just doesnt 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

rug
(82,333 posts)struggle4progress
(116,856 posts)like green poop. But now we get stuff like this instead ...
Yorktown
(2,884 posts)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
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Act_of_Reparation
(9,066 posts)1) Tell people how things were better when you were younger.
struggle4progress
(116,856 posts)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
Act_of_Reparation
(9,066 posts)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
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Yorktown
(2,884 posts)That's an angel, right?
LostOne4Ever
(9,184 posts)[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]Neo-Classical artists had a thing for Greek mythology.[/font]
Yorktown
(2,884 posts)Would they?
mr blur
(7,753 posts)Yorktown
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but the approved art in the churches for centuries showed the Church approved of that concept.
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6th century
edhopper
(32,455 posts)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.