SEE: Russian gallery security guard doodles on avant-garde million dollar painting

When you choose to take on the job of a security guard, you choose to protect the event, venue or person from any sort of harm. 

When this Russian security guard at an art gallery was on the job, he threw all of this out the window. 

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An abstract painting, 'Three Figures' (1932-34) by Anna Leporskaya, was vandalised at the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center in the Russian city of Ekaterinburg. 

We are disappointed to share that it was actually by the 60-year-old security guard whose name has not yet been disclosed.

It is shared that it was apparently as a result of boredom - during his shift he used a ballpoint pen to draw eyes on the abstract painting.

The doodling was discovered by visitors at the gallery in December last year. 

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What happened to paper or scrolling endlessly on social media? 

What happened to radio or reading? 

When people are bored there is so much more to do that isn't getting yourself in trouble with the law. 

He has since been fired from his job and detained on vandalism charges, according to Art Newspaper.

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Have a look at the piece of art with the eyes included: 

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So it looks like we have a guard-turned-artist in jail...

His career as an artist was short lived but he definitely made the news!

Meanwhile, the Yeltsin Center has installed protective screens over the remaining works in the exhibition for fear of copycats.

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