Lateral Thinking Problem - “Bad Impression”
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A man entered a city art gallery and did terrible damage to some very valuable Impressionist paintings. Later that day, instead of being arrested, he was thanked by the curator of the art gallery for his actions. How come ??
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David Rothman said,
March 4, 2007 @ 7:06 pm
Answer: The impressionist paintings were painted over older paintings on the same canvas that were more important and valuable.
Alternate answer: The impressionist paintings were by modern impressionist hacks, and the damaged paintings were more interesting than the originals.
sabaidi2 said,
March 5, 2007 @ 4:43 am
David, very good guess, and plausible answers. However, not what we are looking for. I will rephrase the question to clear things up.
A man entered a city art gallery and completely destroyed the entire painting, canvas and frames of verified originals of some very valuable Impressionist paintings while they were still on the walls of the gallery . Later that day, instead of being arrested, he was thanked by the curator of the art gallery for his actions. How come ??
sabaidi2 said,
March 9, 2007 @ 7:58 am
CLUE:
The man was acting with good intentions when we damaged the paintings. To try to figure this one out, don’t focus on the paintings themselves, but the surrounding area. What could someone being doing that would be with good intentions, ruin the paintings, and still consider their self successful?
sabaidi2 said,
March 11, 2007 @ 12:14 pm
instead of the answer, i will give another Clue:
CLUE #2: The man needed to to what he did, otherwise the situation would have been alot worse.
paul said,
March 11, 2007 @ 1:01 pm
Plausibly the gallery could have set on fire and the man ’saved’ the paintings by putting out the fire with, say, water - thus causing damage but ultimately rescueing them before they burned to nothing.
sabaidi2 said,
March 11, 2007 @ 2:01 pm
Good job Paul…
The man was a fire fighter. In the process of putting a fire he damaged the paintings, though saved them from completely being destroyed, and saving the other paintings in the gallery.