This is worth $148 million dollars
Posted on: November 26, 2009 - 4:11pm
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This is worth $148 million dollars
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It looks like Modern Art ...
Those are some expensive fries....
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Three cheers for the "Drip Technique".
I think my cat hacked up something similar yesterday: Gwup gwup gwup *splorch* ART!
If you won a lawsuit against the person who owns it and they had to turn it over to you I bet you'd think it was worth 148 million then, maybe even more.
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Looks like my brillo pad after cleaning the frying pan.
Looks like it was lying on the floor as a real painter worked on his canvas above it. It should be called Picasso's Crusty Carpet.
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I don't much care for abstract art but I think it's interesting. A friend of mine who is a curator once brought to my attention that you don't see abstract art very much anymore except on screensavers. On screensavers you see it a lot and people seem to like it, maybe that's the proper milieu, but if a person did it everyone says "Wow, that looks like shit, I could do that with a crayon stuck between my toes " or something like that. It's kind of funny.
There are twists of time and space, of vision and reality, which only a dreamer can divine
H.P. Lovecraft
BigUniverse wrote,
"Well the things that happen less often are more likely to be the result of the supper natural. A thing like loosing my keys in the morning is not likely supper natural, but finding a thousand dollars or meeting a celebrity might be."
I would not, but I'd be glad others did.
There are twists of time and space, of vision and reality, which only a dreamer can divine
H.P. Lovecraft
Well, to be honest I don't think things that can be reproduced like paintings have value at all except raw materials. You could make billions of them and give one to every person on the planet. The fact that it's the one the guy actually painted is pretty meaningless I think. I mean what difference does that make?
There are twists of time and space, of vision and reality, which only a dreamer can divine
H.P. Lovecraft
Value is in the eye of the beholder, and I value gullible beholders
Art is is the art of selling. Diamonds should be worthless. SHOULD BE. They don't feed people. They don't build schools. They are merely a thing that a few companies managed to monopolize and sell as popular.
As far as this painting, I agree, I don't get it. I like paintings that are realistic. I saw once a painter who painted a photograph SO detailed that when you looked at the photo vs the painting, you could not tell the difference. THAT is talent.
BUT I also can see the appeal to the abstract. This one though, I wouldn't buy it at a flee market for a nickle. Art really is in the eye. I just think the hype on this one is over bloated and the moron who forked over the money might as well believe in Thor or FSM.
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This painting is bad and it's painter should feel bad about it.
30 Million please.
If I ever "got" "art", I'd be rich on it. I could easily replicate a whole tonne of high value art if I chose to. I don't get it though, so I'd be completely depending on others to get it for me. And I'd be competing with a whole bunch of people who do get it, effectively crippling my efforts.
I don't get art, poetry, or any form of story telling save the actual telling of the story. I don't see the need to dress it up to make it more complicated.
I wouldn't go that far. They have plenty of useful applications. But I would definitely agree that they are hyper-inflated in value. Much like gold.
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Art isn't supposed to have a point. That is what makes it art.
The moment you take something useful, and make it useless, it becomes art and a statement of itself.
Theism is why we can't have nice things.
I need a point that makes sense to me. I can get landscapes and people and objects, but art is too nebulous. And it can be found all around you anyway. I wouldn't pay money for it.
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And this is why value of art is subjective.
People can label a value to it, but it varies wildly from one to the next. It ends up being "what would X pay for it. Then if I want it more, I need to pay more."
Often it becomes a common pissing contest between affluent people. Such is the way of things.
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Well said! I enjoy Pollock's works, but I have always preferred Kandinsky (granted they are stylistically night and day, but...).