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<Threadjack>If guns are banned, then only art thieves will have guns!</Threadjack>
I have to disagree with ART. We would lose a significant connection with our past if paintings were destroyed upon the death of the artist, or modern painters were allowed to "update" older works with spray paint. Although the art world in general confounds me (it seems like nearly anything can be declared significant or artistic), I believe it has value. To allow temporary modern ideas to permanentaly scar or destroy a masterpiece that has stood the test of time reduces that value significantly.
Mr. Shafrazi is well within his right to see the painting in some kind of "dynamic raw state," but much of the populace would prefer the original work not be modified to suit the whims of an individual. Masterpieces are property of humanity as a whole, and should be preserved as such.
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