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Paris - A court in the southern French city of Avignon on Friday fined a 31-year-old French woman 1,500 euros (2,180 dollars) and sentenced her to 100 hours of public service work for having planted a kiss on a painting by the American artist Cy Twombly, French media reported. The Cambodian-born artist Rindy Sam kissed the painting in July while it was exhibited at a show in Avignon. The kiss left a distinct red mark on the predominantly white work.
In an interview published Friday in the daily Liberation, Rindy Sam said the kiss was "a gesture of spontaneous love. I didn't think about it at all."
At the time, Twombly said he was "horrified" by the act.
In an interview published Friday in the daily Liberation, Rindy Sam said the kiss was "a gesture of spontaneous love. I didn't think about it at all."
At the time, Twombly said he was "horrified" by the act.
12 comments:
This is one expensive kiss! Please remember that not everybody like to be kissed!
What a dumb artist she is.
She is dumb. How dare you touch thing that don't belong to you? Where is your Khmer's mother? or did you abandon her for The French?
She may have a french mother!
She just exited sometime or may get drunk! What the french alway did get drunk!
Bond lesson!!!
how about hun sen...kill all our trees....and many others treasures of our country...what is a reasonable fine??????????
I don't see any justice here. They treated an accidental case like a criminal case toward Asian. That is blatantly a poor use of rule-of-law.
"They treated an accidental case like a criminal case toward Asian"
Well, this demonstrate a poor knowledge of what the rule of law is in European countries. Were she a French caucasian woman, she would have had the same trial and same sentence. In France, the law is applied in the same way for everyone. There is no stronger/weaker judgement based on the color of the skin, as there are laws against that kind of racial discrimination.
Kissing a paint in a museum is not an accident. She should have known that it was something that would get her into trouble, and there are plenty of signs everywhere 'do not touch'. What if a French woman was visiting the national museum in Phnom Penh, kissed and soiled a unique and extremely valuable portrait of Khmer art? Wouldn't that cause outrage in Cambodia?
Dream on 10:24, there is no equality in the west.
And what "do not touch" sign are you talking about? I remember looking for any warning sign in the picture posted by KI and BBC, and I don't see crap.
As for the painting, it was just a white canvas with white paint. There was no mention of special stroke or anything on the canvas. It need not to cost more than 10-15 Euro to remove the lipstic, seal it, and repainted it over with matching new paint.
You are wrong 2:06, and 10:24 is right.
Khmer people always demand respect for their cultural identity - and they are right. But please, pay some respect for the grown cultural identity in other countries.
Cy Twombly is a highly respected artist in Europe and the US for decades. His paintings are in the collections of the most famous museums and galleries. If you want to buy one - it costs millions.
So if you visit a museum which does show pictures like that, it is totally evident, that you are not allowed to touch them. Never.
And is is ridiculous that someone, who never ever saw a painting from Cy Twombly in original feels competent to estimate the damage and costs of repairing. Just stupid.
4:24, get real will you? Rindy Sam did not kiss any picture. She kissed a blank canvas. As a matter of fact, you can see the picture of the white canvas in the article above entitled, "Rindy Sam: The most famous ( infamous?) French-Cambodian kisser in the world".
As for khmer demand anything in west, it doesn't mean they get it either.
I am reading this blog for more than a year. I visited your country a couple of years ago and I liked the friendly behaviour and the rich culture. I am dismayed about your terrible history and I tried to promote your country at my hometown.
I think I really do my best - but I am pissed off about this brutal ignorance and this rude and arrogant behaviour everything else against which is not Khmer. How would you react if I would make silly jokes about your monks, your ankgor or apsara dancing?
Inform yourself a little bit.
Here is a detail of the picture:
http://www.blick.ch/news/kurios/3-millionen-franken-kuss-76300
Here is something about the artist:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cy_Twombly
Go and learn. Stop writing nonsens.
3:12, just because you are one of the few good individuals, it does not make your entire country like you, alright? That is not realistic. Let's stick to the truth, shall we?
As for the picture, why are you giving me picture from a German report? Don't the French reported this also?
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