Looks fine to me

More info: https://www.npr.org/2020/11/11/933801380/behold-the-potato-head-of-palencia-another-botched-art-restoration-in-spain

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Kolanaki@pawb.social · 87 pts · 153d (4 replies)

At this point some of these "accidental" restorations have to be on purpose.

Zozano@aussie.zone · 25 pts · 152d (2 replies)

Never attribute malice to that which is easily explained by incompetence.

FreshLight@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 152d (1 reply)

Hanlon, huh? There are times when i find this razor hard to apply. Especially when thinking of the government.

Zozano@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 152d

Only intentional malice could explain systemic corruption.

No law maker just coincidentally aligns their values with lobbyists after receiving six digit election campaign donations.

join@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 152d

modern day relics: boost church attendance and pilgrimage by butchering one or your ancient sculptures or paintings. it’s about as honest as claiming you have the left testicle of joseph in your church.

bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 75 pts · 152d (1 reply)

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 152d

Crisco de Redentor

kata1yst@sh.itjust.works · 44 pts · 153d (3 replies)

Oh my God it's the second coming of Ecce Homo

MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io · 5 pts · 153d
ThunderQueen@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 152d
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wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 152d

Ecchi homo sounds like the name of a yaoi series...

altphoto@lemmy.today · 37 pts · 152d

I thought the lady with that gift had already died.

WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 153d (2 replies)

Reminds me of ::: spoiler this Trump picture :::

Machinist@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 152d (1 reply)

You dirty rat. You put that under the spoiler tag to sucker me into looking at that unholy thing.

I should not have clicked. It could have been something nice like tubgirl or goatse.

Spur4383@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 152d

I always upvote a person of culture and taste.

dumbass@piefed.social · 21 pts · 153d

Troma going all out to promote the Toxic Avenger movie.

ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 19 pts · 152d (2 replies)

There's simply too many things to restore. They are building metro in my town now. They started working on a new line, digging under first street and boom, Roman graveyard. Had to examine and remove 500 graves before they could continue. It's like that all the time. So yeah, sometimes people don't wait for specialists or permits and fuck things up. It's not that often and it happens to some less important works. It's only in the news because it's funny.

bstix@feddit.dk · 2 pts · 152d

Yeah there's too much stuff to restore.

Every time anyone wants to do anything new in my city, there's a choir of old people moaning about the removal of old stuff.

Seriously.. if they want to keep that shit, put it in a museum. We don't need your old railways in the center of the city for memorials. We don't use them. You don't use them. They haven't been used for 70 years. The same kind of shit is present in each and every city throughout Europe. It has no preservation value. We can remember your great grand uncle's achievement in other ways. Take a photo and look at it as fondly as much as you want.

It's apparently wildly surprising that humans were all over Europe thousands of years ago. Come on. They had feet, of course they shat in the shrubbery where we live. We do not have to preserve all of it.

I surely don't hope future generations dig out the shit I've posted online.

When they invented LIDAR scanning and flew over Germany, they found a lot of old stuff in the dense forests that had never even been investigated. It was silently decided not to even attempt to dig all that shit out. Good call Germany. We don't need any more stone axeheads in the museum. They're not that different, and I don't care if you can trace your lineage to the man who made it. We're not keeping that rock.

People should have a right to be forgotten.

Ötzi never asked to be dug up. People made stories about how he died of cold. Other people say it was sacrificial. The latest I've read was that he a tumor in the ass.

Have some decency. Leave that shit alone. The wearing of time is prettier than restoration anyway. It's a solid reminder. Restoration of artifacts is like botox to a 70 years old.. you're gonna look like shit either way.

dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 152d

One starts to get the impression that they should just have the archeologists dig the tunnel in the first place, and budget the project like one big find.

Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org · 16 pts · 152d

Looks like that cantina guy in A New Hope who threatens Obi-Wan.

philophilsaurus@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 153d

Better than I could’ve done..

AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 12 pts · 152d

Spain is just paying tribute to its 20th-century avant-garde heritage, i.e. Picasso and Dali.

Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz · 11 pts · 152d

That can’t be accidental? Someone has a shitty humour.

HeyJoe@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 153d

Damn, the after looks like a face after reconstructive surgery from being mauled by an animal.

GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 152d

I'm starting to think you don't take art to Spain to be restored....

sik0fewl@piefed.ca · 11 pts · 153d

Spain is on a roll.

captcha_incorrect@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 152d

Picture from OP's meme can be found here (via article in OP's link): https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2020/11/11/the-potato-head-of-palencia-defaced-spanish-statue-latest-victim-of-botched-restoration

It lookes like they ruined more than just the face. All the decorations to the right of the face looks different as well.

cows_are_underrated@feddit.org · 9 pts · 152d (4 replies)

How do you fuck up so badly?

BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk · 11 pts · 152d (2 replies)

I kinda wonder if it's panic at some point. Like they make a fuck up and then start going "maybe this will fix it, maybe this will fix it" and it's just getting progressively worse but they can't stop themselves.

I see this with my kids sometimes, without the panic, they see that they've messed up a line when painting and they try to fix it but they do the same thing just slightly over, rinse repeat until a 7mm line is now 30mm thick.

NikkiDimes@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 152d

Me when I make the eyeliner on one eye too thick...

Jyek@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 152d

Ah, the Mr Bean approach.

BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 152d

Too cheap to hire the expert.

spitfire@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 152d

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 152d

hold on i've got a clay mask i made in middle school that looks JUST LIKE THAT

sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 152d

... The land lord special.

baggachipz@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 152d

Jim Carrey vibes

J3N5T4R@thelemmy.club · 0 pts · 152d (1 reply)
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BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 152d

I ALWAYS choose the Director's Cut. That's the Director's real vision, before the studio fucks with it for profit reasons.

db2@lemmy.world · -14 pts · 153d (4 replies)

That's A+ work if it was done by any of the overgrown toddlers in government in the US, Russia or Israel.

Kraiden@piefed.social · 45 pts · 153d (3 replies)

As someone who is currently feeling disheartened at... gestures wildly... I thought a nice, light piece about a botched art restoration in Spain would be a safe reprieve... But nope, you managed to tie it back in to world politics. Congrats I guess.

I think I need to get off social media for a bit.

db2@lemmy.world · -12 pts · 153d (2 replies)

It's only politics in that that's where they "work". They'd be just as worthless anywhere else.

FishFace@piefed.social · 6 pts · 152d

Just shut up? It's very simple.

probablymissing@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 152d