But, before anyone jumps on this statement, I am sure that anyone might have noticed a change in the painting tool used - the ballpoint pen. I’ll bet that the only people who noticed that eyes had been added were those who were familiar with the work.
I hate to say this but the eyes did not look off or out of place. I’ve seen the painting and I guarantee that if you saw the painting and read that it had been defaced but without the details of the damage, you’d be hard pressed to work out what part had been defaced. Now since this particular piece was an abstract I wonder if the eyes went unnoticed because their addition did not look off in the picture. By the latter I mean that if the painting were of a landscape or seascape, you would not see part of a still life included in it, unless it was an abstract landscape. Rules such as perspective, proportionality and composition. The thing that struck me was that the damage was not discovered until days later when a gallery customer spotted the eyes.īy the way, did I mention that the painting was an abstract? I don’t wish to knock abstract works but, from what I can see, such works seem to break the incredibly difficult rules that traditional artists live by. The restoration of the painting will cost around US$3,300 but only because his ballpoint pen did not leave deep impressions in the brushstrokes. The authorities decided they didn’t wish to prosecute the 60-year- old because they felt that the damage was insignificant and fixable. The guard was subsequently fired and the whole case is under investigation. Well…they didn’t, until the security guard decided to take ballpoint pen to canvas. Suffice it to say that the faces have no eyes. The bodies are created with rectangles whose corners have been softened by ensuring they are round. The thick lines are created with a brush laden with paint, most likely oil. The painting looks a lot like line art with a large oval shape in the foreground and 2 smaller oval shapes in the middle distance placed at equidistant on either side of the first figure.
The painting was a US$1,000,000 abstract of the faceless figures painted by a famous Russian artist, Anna Leporskaya, in 1968. Last week a security guard at the Yeltsin Centre in Yekaterinburg, Russia, defaced a painting on his first night on duty. Anna Leporskaya's 'Three Figures' was defaced with two sets of eyes.
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