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You should check out this article on the attacks on paintings by Jewish American artist Barnett Newman. Especially this quote on the piece Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow, and Blue III, which is basically just an 8' by 18' block of red with a blue stripe:
The dude who did eventually volunteer to restore it more or less went over the entire painting with a roller and red paint, and you can tell immediately.