One out of ten

Damaged Goods: The 10 Best Abused Artworks Ever

by Paul Laster
in flavorwire.com

Guards at the Museum of Modern Art thought a 22-year-old art student had fallen ill when he vomited blue throw-up on Piet Mondrian’s 1940s masterpiece Composition in Red, Blue and Yellow, but later found out it was part of a trilogy of colored vomiting acts that the perpetrator had planned. His destructive 1996 performance, titled “Responding to Art,” was exposed after he upchucked a red slime on a Raoul Dufy painting at the Art Gallery of Ontario a month. Fortunately, he never completed the series and neither work was permanently damaged.