Also, while I think about it, this
£45m spunked on some painting which wasn't painted by a British artist, or depicted anything British, sold to the nation at a knock-down price by some Duke whose ancestors probably stole the fucking thing in the first place.

£45m. That's what, about the cost of 3 schools ? When a high-quality print could be produced for 0.001% of this cost that would look pretty much identical. Sure, you couldn't "admire the brushwork" but so the fuck what. £45m when this country's finances are going down the shitter.

I fucking despair.
(TheImmortalJenkins, Thu 1 Mar 2012, 12:46, 6 replies)

Why should it have to be of British things, or by a British artist?
Art is art. It's just another stock market, which uses a different form of currency.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 1 Mar 2012, 13:00, closed)

Because of the concept that
it had been "saved for the Nation" - as if it was imperative somehow for our cultural history that it remained in the UK. If it was something like Shakespeare's First Folio, a Turner or Gainsborough I could understand (somewhat). But it's a painting by an Italian, commissioned by a Spaniard, of a Greek myth...
(TheImmortalJenkins, Thu 1 Mar 2012, 13:07, closed)

...'a painting by an Italian, commissioned by a Spaniard, of a Greek myth'...
That makes it Welsh.
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Thu 1 Mar 2012, 13:11, closed)

Yes. It's £45m worth of whatever, which has been saved, and will be sold in the future for more than that.
That's all.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 1 Mar 2012, 13:41, closed)

Fuck off and live in some cultural backwater then you fucking peasant

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Thu 1 Mar 2012, 14:50, closed)

Just to point out....
that £45m was raised from private donors. Whilst, yes, £45m could always be better spent on a children's hospice, it isn't costing the tax payer anything.

Shit painting though.
(radio_shak has questions, got answers, on, Thu 1 Mar 2012, 19:39, closed)