Name: Anonymous 2015-10-07 4:17
Holding signs that said “ReNOir”, “Take ’em down! Renoir Sucks” and “God Hates Renoir”, members of the Renoir Sucks at Painting movement protested outside the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston on Monday. The group, led by organizer Max Geller, demanded the museum remove Renoir paintings – of which there are many, including the famous Dance at Boufival, 1883 – from its walls.
"You're talking a lot! But you're not saying anything!" This shitty painting is the work of an utterly #superfluous man. Empty Calories. Infantile green scribbles that look like crayon and shadows that require suspension of critical thought. What the fuck is doing in museum? #RenoirSucksAtPainting #emptycalories #jejune
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Geller said he felt “pretty agnostic” toward other artists; hating Renoir is his movement’s main passion, and he said every other painting at the Museum of Fine Arts is “overwhelmingly beautiful”. He suggested the museum replace its Renoir collection with work that reflects more diversity rather than “just white males and their white male gaze”.
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/oct/06/renoir-sucks-at-painting-protest-boston-max-geller