Renegade Art Restoration - john - 08-25-2012
Quote:Renegade Art Restoration Turns Into a Real-Life Photoshop Disaster
Michael Zhang · Aug 23, 2012
If there was such thing as a Photoshop disaster in real life, this story would probably qualify. An elderly woman in the city of Zaragoza, Spain recently took it upon herself to restore an 19th-century fresco of Jesus that had been deteriorating over the past few years. As you can see from the before and after photos above, the results weren’t pretty.
The woman was simply trying to do a good deed when she secretly took her paintbrush to the Elias Garcia Martinez painting, titled ‘Ecce Homo’. Although she didn’t have permission to do the restoration, she was apparently confident enough in her physical retouching skills to attempt it.
She claims that the project soon “got out of hand”, and the painting was left dramatically altered. ...
http://www.petapixel.com/2012/08/23/renegade-art-restoration-turns-into-a-real-life-photoshop-disaster/
RE: Renegade Art Restoration - Miguel - 08-25-2012
It's so bad, it's funny.
BBC:
Quote:Our correspondent says that to make matters worse, the local centre that works to preserve artworks had just received a donation from the painter's granddaughter which they had planned to use to restore the original fresco.
RE: Renegade Art Restoration - buzzenator - 08-25-2012
^ Right...and I have a trunk monkey in my car for security.
RE: Renegade Art Restoration - LovinDaHaley - 08-25-2012
(08-25-2012, 08:12 PM)buzzenator Wrote: ^ Right...and I have a trunk monkey in my car for security. 
And to make matters worse, the local security company that works to protect vintage Volvos just received a banana donation from granddaughter company Saab which they had planned to use to restore monkey motivation.
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