Two years

December 13 2012

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The prat who vandalised Tate Modern's Rothko has been sentenced to two years in jail. Said the judge:

"Your actions on the 7 October of this year were entirely deliberate, planned and intentional."

Speaking about "yellowism", Judge Chapple said it was "wholly and utterly unacceptable to promote it by damaging a work of art" which he called a "gift to the nation".

He said it was "abundantly clear" that Umaniec was "plainly an intelligent man" and told the court he had described Rothko as a "great painter" in a letter he had written to him.

A good deterrent sentence, I think.

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