Cy Twombly's work disturbs me, I never thought of putting my foot through one of his paintings…

“A man put his foot through a $300,000 painting Wednesday afternoon at the Milwaukee Art Museum and told museum workers later that the image disturbed him.”

“The 22-year-old Pewaukee man started kicking “The Triumph of David” by Ottavio Vannini as it hung on the wall in the museum’s Early European Gallery, said David Gordon, CEO and director of the Milwaukee Art Museum.

“Painted in 1640, the oil painting depicts the outcome of the biblical tale of David and Goliath, with David carrying the giant Goliath’s severed head, Gordon said.

“‘He was kicking it, aiming his blows at the head of Goliath, and then he pulled it off the wall and started kicking it,’ Gordon said”

Crazy. And I thought the tourists hanging all over the Egyptian artifacts in the British Museum was disturbing. What a sight that must have been.

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