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why did an idiot pay $4.3 Million for this snapshot in 2011?
Sep 1, 2018 16:12:39 #
Los-Angeles-Shooter wrote:
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He must be loaded and bored to no end...
Tastes and colors are not the same for all I guess.
Sep 1, 2018 17:26:56 #
Los-Angeles-Shooter wrote:
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Sometimes art is only art because you convinced someone to buy it. Sometimes it is only art for the sake of preserving collector value... a tax shelter held in a duty-free warehouse somewhere. One of the public radio networks did a lengthy story about that sort of thing recently.
That said, the original is huge and highly detailed... nothing like what we see here on our monitors. It is a technical tour de force.
Personally, I think it would make good wallpaper in an airport terminal corridor, beside one of those moving walkways. It would be calming.
I agree with those who note that the super-rich have a sport-like spending culture the rest of us don't understand... perhaps because we have other priorities and no idle cash.
Sep 1, 2018 17:49:46 #
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Sep 1, 2018 18:08:13 #
IDguy wrote:
I don’t like Picasso either.
Leonardo more my style.
Leonardo more my style.
That says a lot!
But what it says is about you, not about Picasso or Leonardo.
That leaves one very important question though. Despite that you don't like Picasso's art, surely you don't deny that it not only is art, but is some of the best art ever produced. Or do you believe that art you don't like is not good art or not even art?
Sep 1, 2018 18:10:34 #
IDguy wrote:
You got it: because he is an idiot. Caught up in tulip mania.
I consider the image worthless.
I consider the image worthless.
Ya, and your opinion matters SO MUCH.
Sep 1, 2018 20:59:11 #
IDguy
Loc: Idaho
Apaflo wrote:
That says a lot!
But what it says is about you, not about Picasso or Leonardo.
That leaves one very important question though. Despite that you don't like Picasso's art, surely you don't deny that it not only is art, but is some of the best art ever produced. Or do you believe that art you don't like is not good art or not even art?
But what it says is about you, not about Picasso or Leonardo.
That leaves one very important question though. Despite that you don't like Picasso's art, surely you don't deny that it not only is art, but is some of the best art ever produced. Or do you believe that art you don't like is not good art or not even art?
I believe it is something that appeals to many. I don’t pretend to have an absolute answer as to what comprises art.
My grandchildren produce things that I like much better than Picasso’s stuff.
Sep 1, 2018 23:37:51 #
Los-Angeles-Shooter wrote:
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To put things in perspective: A Honus Wagner Baseball Card sold for 2.8 million. That wasn't art, it was just a piece of cardboard with a printed photo on it. It probably cost 1/4 cent to make (if even that much back in the early 1900's). When there is only one of something the perceived value just goes through the roof. I'm not saying the photo in question is or is not worth 4.3 million, but I guess the person who bought it thought it was that valuable.
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Sep 2, 2018 00:05:38 #
flashgordonbrown
Loc: Silverdale, WA
Well, after reading through all of the comments, l guess that it's a matter of "whatever floats your boat". In my opinion this artist falls in the same catagory as Andy 'Soup Can' Warhol, and Jackson 'Pour House paint On The Floor' Pollock They convinced that masses that they knew more about art than everyone else. Warhol was at best a skilled graphic artist, and traded more on his quirky personality. I'm not real sure what the attraction to Pollock was all about. And yes, a fool and their money are soon parted.
Sep 2, 2018 04:26:46 #
flashgordonbrown wrote:
... And yes, a fool and their money are soon parted.
Looks more like sour grapes for those fools who are never able to accumulate enough money to buy the finer things in life, and are embarassed that others are not the idiots they themselves are.
Sep 2, 2018 06:25:34 #
Sep 2, 2018 06:45:00 #
SteveR wrote:
Put it this way, you could have the photo or the McLaren P1 LM.
Or your own jet aircraft.
Or a lot of other things that cost in the millions. Stock portfolios, yachts, wives... the list is long.
If you are smart enough to amass the needed funds I assume you would make a smart choice on how to invest it. Art is always a viable option. What does a medium priced Picasso cost today?
Sep 2, 2018 15:15:56 #
Sep 2, 2018 15:52:49 #
flashgordonbrown
Loc: Silverdale, WA
Apaflo wrote:
Looks more like sour grapes for those fools who are never able to accumulate enough money to buy the finer things in life, and are embarassed that others are not the idiots they themselves are.
I'm not sure that 'sour grapes' is an accurate description of my attitude. I've been involved in photography for a very long time (60+ years ), and have developed an definition of what I consider 'art' to be. In some cases it's just my opinion, and in other cases it's based on artistic standards I once had an art teacher respond to an off the cuff remark referencing Thomas Kincaid say "what a hack"! I sensed that she was jealous of his success, in that she was stuck teaching art at a junior college in Washington,while he was making millions with his very realistic art.! There are always rules, and often those rules can be broken with some successful result, but sometimes breaking the rules for the sake of breaking the rules results in disaster. To paraphrase a famous person "I don't know what art is, but I'll know it when I see it "!
Sep 2, 2018 17:12:38 #
flashgordonbrown wrote:
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Like what the "Art In Crowd" did when they called Norman Rockwell an "illustrator" and did not consider him a "true artist". He called himself an illustrator. Many of them I think were just upset that he had 323 "Saturday Evening Post" covers to his credit over 47 years, a lot more illustrations in articles and other magazines, books illustrated for famous authors and more portraits of presidents and others than they had. He was a household word and known by the vast majority of people in the US and many other places while a lot of them were only known by readers of one low circulation art magazine or had to be looked up by students on the list of professors at their school.
Sep 2, 2018 17:52:15 #
flashgordonbrown wrote:
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I like another famous person's reply to the question "What is art?"
"What isn't?"
Pablo Picasso.
That just needs to be annotated with the fact that not all art is good art. Lots of folks think poor art is not art. They also tend to think art they don't like is not really art. The fact is, it is all art.
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