[0402] Larisa Presents, Episode 2
└ posted on Monday, 13 August 2012, by Novil
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- Caption: Larisa presents…
- Caption: … Three ways to shock the art world even in this day and age.
- Caption: Paint over all of Banksy’s graffiti with scenes taken from Thomas Kinkade paintings.
- Caption: Apply to the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and threaten to become the next Hitler if they reject you.
- Caption: Formerly: “Portrait of a Lady” by Jean-Laurent Mosnier
- Caption: Formerly: “Francoise van Diemen” by Godfried Schalcken
- Caption: Bring a new edge to destructivism by scraping paint off the works of old European masters.
![[0402] Larisa Presents, Episode 2](/comics/2012-08-13-0402-larisa-presents-episode-2.png "[0402] Larisa Presents, Episode 2")
……..That is the Larisa we know a lo-Still nothing about fire…….make a third one of these, and make in involve FIRE.
That second one’s technically just a prank, not art…. and also something I guarentee people have tried before! I would.
No. You can destroy all the art in the world but not Banksy’s.
Number 1 would probably gain short-term attention… until the local council whitewashed the wall…
Number 2 would probably have negligible effect (as Nick/Tyrong mentions above).
Number 3 would definitely shock the art world… as well as attracting criminal charges, so is likely to be the most effective of the three.
Larisa threatening to become the next Hitler? Be afraid. Be very afraid.
I have no idea who Banksy is, but I can say these WOULD shock the world quite a bit!
“Dear Miss Korolev,
Regarding your main threat… that’s what they all say. So, I believe that’s a risk we shall just have to take. Likewise with your threat to commit creative vandalism against the artworks we have on display; with our security, you’d have to be some sort of tribal guerrilla ninja to get a scraper anywhere near them.
Regards,
Dean of Admissions, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna”
Larisa: Ye Thuza, pleeeeze!
Ye Thuza: No, Larisa. Not my sort of thing. Oh, and watch your back!
(The masked and hooded figure of Banksy scuttles off, having sprayed “Stop me before I paint another landscape!” on her back. In fire retardant.)
Scrape paint off a valuable painting? I’ll be sure not to let you at MY collection.
1) The Banksy Graffitis rise the property price significantly as it’s considered an art form. So painting over them is an excellent trolling technique.
2) Yeah, they will have class specialized on “Applicant who threaten to be future Hitler if they aren’t accepted” soon.
3) No fire involved?
Oh god. Imagine Larisa being caught scraping priceless paintings.
Mind you, she would probably burn the evidence.
Yea, I’m not getting arrested for all of that
@ orphandidgeridoo:
There’s a recent news that British govt want to tore down a wall with Banksy graffiti because the graffiti is created to protest the Olympic.
@ tfeth282:
She will be the cutest despot/dictator that love to use fire. The Fire Reich.
@ abowden:
Eh, Larissa has class.
1. Stat Wars, the Original Trilogy
2. At current count 17
3. Desktop, Laptop, Phone
4. Yes, TwoKinds.
I am proud to say I was the first to vote on the polls when they were posted 2 or 3 days ago
@ mittfh:
Number 3 would shock the art world, but should not attract criminal charges if she owned the paintings in question.
I do like how the pieces exhibited in Number 3 include both the scraped canvas and the pile of paint scraped off.
Couldn’t the last panel be considered Dada? And for those of you who don’t know: Dada rejects reason and logic, prizing nonsense, irrationality and intuition. In other words, Dada was anti-art. Art that set out to destroy other art, due to the first world war. The movement was born from Hans Richter, Tristan Tzara, and Hugo Ball, in Zurich Switzerland. It set out to, like I said destroy other art, through nonsense, irrationality and intuition, because the above mentioned men, saw no value in a society that could produce a human bloodbath like the first world war. Larisa just took it to the extreme, by literally destroying art, to “Make Art”. So she took Dada to its most extreme avenue.
I once got rejected by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and all I became was the next Stalin. Where did I go wrong?
@ Petah-Petah:
You went left when you had to go right.
Last one is so crazy that It would work for sure o___o”
I was very sadden to hear Thomas Kinkade died i loved his Art work they always reminded me of Home i have one of his paintings 🙂
Is it wrong to fall in love with Larisa?
Make-work projects for art restorers everywhere.
I’ve got an even better idea: threaten to sleep in Tracy Emin’s “bed” 😉
Well, that second one would certainly get you in trouble!
I’ve never really been fond of destructivism. It seems so disrespectful, yanno? Love how she is so proud of herself in all of these.
Forget Sandra and Woo, just make all comics Larisa Presents!
These are some of my favorite strips yet.
Just started reading this comic yesterday. Just finished all 402 and can’t wait for 403. Love this series! Well done! (Banksy graffiti trapped by Thomas Kincaid imagery would be some epic irony, albeit short lived.)
@ Skapo:
I did that too when I first got here. LOL
Regarding the second method, I actually wrote a short story about this a while back. An art student travels back in time, not to Berlin in 1933 to kill Hitler, but to Vienna in 1908 to convince him to continue pursuing his dream of becoming an artist, and ends up changing the course of history. The research I did for this was interesting to say the least. It seems that after his mother Klara died of cancer, Adolf developed an obsession with superficial perfection, for both human and architectural forms. He believed art should never reflect things like sadness, decrepitude, or ruin; and was unwilling to look beneath the surface. This might explain the motivations for his policies of ethnic cleansing the rebuilding of many of Berlin’s structures, in order to wipe out what he saw as imperfection in the world around him.
It’s always tragic when an aspiring artist abandons his dreams and gives into despair and hatred.
illeatyourself wrote:
Almost nobody has. He has managed to stay pseudonymous up to now.
The first and third ones reminds me of the old woman who recently attempted to “restore” an early-20th century painting of Jesus Christ in Saragoza. Sadly she wasn’t a pro, and not even a rookie, transforming JC in a monster..
http://www.tafter.it/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/cristimartinez.jpg
@ AckAckAck:
Larissa as dictator: I’m thinking some connection to the ‘Fire-Lord’ of Airbender.
You know…. its odd to look back on this in light of the Ecce Homo fiasco.
What happened to the colour ?
JustPassingBy wrote:
The really sad thing is, she was offered her own exhibition afterwards
Larisa as the next Hitler? Aw man, and they’d just got the Reichstag looking nice again too…
How many people know that Winston Churchill was also an artist?
…and a MUCH better one than Adolf Hitler
I have the feeling the third will no longer shock the art world. We’ve reached the level where removing a picture from a gallery is considered “art”, so we’re just one step behind.