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BS: Wanna buy a painting?

01 Aug 09 - 09:34 AM (#2691586)
Subject: BS: Wanna buy a painting?
From: Lox

Warhols painting of Michael Jackson will soon be auctioned off to the highest bidder.

It will without a doubt go for an unprecedented amount of money.

Interesting how the aesthetic value and the monetary value of a painting seem to be inversely proportional ...

Look here


01 Aug 09 - 11:05 AM (#2691614)
Subject: RE: BS: Wanna buy a painting?
From: 3refs

Yer right! He was no Gainsborough, but it's a much better painting than some of his other stuff. It's all about taste. I think that much of what van Gogh painted was inspired by preschoolers or chimps!


01 Aug 09 - 12:19 PM (#2691647)
Subject: RE: BS: Wanna buy a painting?
From: gnu

"In the same year, the 1963 painting Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I) - depicting an overturned car on fire - sold for $71.7m (£42.8m), a record for a Warhol piece."

Can you say "money laundering"? I knew you could.


01 Aug 09 - 12:30 PM (#2691657)
Subject: RE: BS: Wanna buy a painting?
From: gnu

3... or drugs.


01 Aug 09 - 01:27 PM (#2691696)
Subject: RE: BS: Wanna buy a painting?
From: greg stephens

Banksy, the Bristol graffiti artist, has painted a terrific picture of Michael Jackson, though I think fans of MJ are unlikely to want to buy the original. It is in the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery at the moment, though I don';t know if anyone has put it on Youtube or anything.


01 Aug 09 - 07:25 PM (#2691887)
Subject: RE: BS: Wanna buy a painting?
From: frogprince

Greg, is that the one in the cottage door with the candy cane that's on Google?


01 Aug 09 - 10:22 PM (#2691969)
Subject: RE: BS: Wanna buy a painting?
From: olddude

I tell you what, our Dean Frogprince there is one heck of an artist. i would rather have one of his than any warhol ..He was ok but never really pressed my buttons very much except his monroe one


01 Aug 09 - 11:32 PM (#2691983)
Subject: RE: BS: Wanna buy a painting?
From: Rapparee

Never did a thing for me, any of his. If I had one I'd sell it and use the money to buy something else.


02 Aug 09 - 12:20 AM (#2691996)
Subject: RE: BS: Wanna buy a painting?
From: EBarnacle

I am not a fan of Warhol the "artist." He was an excellent draftsman but his work mostly consisted of reproductions of others' work or of "things that are art because I say they are art." His work is a tribute to the amplifying effect of publicity over originality.


02 Aug 09 - 05:58 AM (#2692061)
Subject: RE: BS: Wanna buy a painting?
From: Lox

"If I had one I'd sell it and use the money to buy something else."


If someone gave me the painting above I would sell it and buy an Island in the carribbean.


02 Aug 09 - 08:42 AM (#2692117)
Subject: RE: BS: Wanna buy a painting?
From: olddude

an island and a whole bunch of fantasy guitars yup


02 Aug 09 - 06:36 PM (#2692458)
Subject: RE: BS: Wanna buy a painting?
From: Lox

I forgot about the fantasy guitars ..