These People Really Hate Renoir

Everyone's a critic. But these people just really, really hate Renoir. 

Protesters gathered in front of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts on Monday and demanded the museum remove all paintings by the French impressionist artist, who has been dead for nearly a century.

The group was armed with signs reading, "Treacle harms society! Remove all Renoir now" and "Renoir sucks!" according to the Boston Globe.

A photo posted by Renoir Sucks At Painting (@renoir_sucks_at_painting) on Oct 5, 2015 at 11:43am PDT

The protest was organized by Max Geller, the "self appointed (ad-hoc) spokesperson for the #RenoirSucksAtPainting grassroots movement for Cultural Justice," according to the official "Renoir Sucks At Painting" Instagram account. The account has been around for a few months, but Monday's protest, which included six of Geller's friends and a couple of strangers, was the group's first demonstration to date.

Look. Look at her fucking face. She's like, "Really #Renoir? You're just going to leave me like this? #Jaundiced and lipless with this dipshit whose chin is resting on my breast without my permission?" #renoirsucksatpainting #steamingpile #creepy

A photo posted by Renoir Sucks At Painting (@renoir_sucks_at_painting) on May 20, 2015 at 7:45am PDT

In April, Geller even launched a national petition to "Remove all of the literally awful Renoir paintings hanging in the National Gallery in Washington DC." However, the petition garnered only 15 signatures and was archived by the White House for not meeting signature requirements.  

Though he and his troupe of fellow Renoir haters admitted the protest was meant to be taken more ironically than literally, the mission is somewhat earnest. His ongoing vendetta raises the question of who controls what gets featured in museums, and why. 

"I would say that every painting in the Museum of Fine Arts is really beautiful," Geller told 90.9WBUR on Monday, "except the Renoir ones. … Curators lack the courage to say, ‘Hey, wait, everybody’s been wrong this whole time.’ They’re not looking at the paintings."

To all the smarmy art nerds out there. The ones who think, because of their education or access, we should defer to them on matters of beauty, this one's for you. #RenoirSucksAtPainting

A photo posted by Renoir Sucks At Painting (@renoir_sucks_at_painting) on Sep 14, 2015 at 7:15am PDT

Max Geller did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

 

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