Two years
December 13 2012
Picture: Guardian
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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