Tuesday, December 27, 2005

Yet another right-wing smile...



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Thanks to Disaffiliates-Think Twice for the heads up and the following classic.

"It looks like an Ernst Wilhelm Nay"

Chimp's painting fools experts

From correspondents in Moritzburg, Saxony

A GERMAN art expert was fooled into believing a painting done by a chimpanzee was the work of a master.

The director of the State Art Museum of Moritzburg in Saxony-Anhalt, Katja Schneider, suggested the painting was by the Guggenheim Prize-winning artist Ernst Wilhelm Nay.

"Ernst Wilhelm Nay" is in fact the nom de guerre of Willy, an orangutan from Munich who also served with distinction in the elite German Scheißeflinggengruppen in WWII.

In fact, for the last twenty years lower primates have dominated the Guggenheim Prize awards, which has lead to charges of specieism from mollusks, who used to dominate the visual arts before the Dark Ages of Reagan.

"It looks like an Ernst Wilhelm Nay. He was famous for using such blotches of colour," Dr Schneider confidently asserted.

The canvas was actually the work of Banghi, a 31-year-old female chimp at the local zoo.

While Banghi likes to paint, she is not able to build up much of a body of work as her mate Satscho generally destroys her paintings before they can get to the gallery.

Everybody's a critic.

But this one survived long enough to give Dr Schneider a red face.

"I did think it looked a bit rushed," she told Bild newspaper.

Heehee!

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