Child's painting sells for $86.9m

[Atheist-Lite]

No plagiarisation... the original designer made a urinal, Duchamp made a piece of art... Do to chemists who formulate the paints used by artists get credit?

This is why I call modern art bullshit. The rationalizations here are in the Papal Bull range.

Duchamp was full of shit and taking the piss, proving the world is full of suckers and sheeple.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

No plagiarisation... the original designer made a urinal, Duchamp made a piece of art... Do to chemists who formulate the paints used by artists get credit?

This is why I call modern art bullshit. The rationalizations here are in the Papal Bull range.

Duchamp was full of shit and taking the piss, proving the world is full of suckers and sheeple.

And thus is the foundation of modern art established.

[Animavore]

Hey! It's all about "context" - or something.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Art is as much about intent as it is about execution. Indeed, the latter cannot be measured accurately without understanding the former.

[Atheist-Lite]

Art is as much about intent as it is about execution. Indeed, the later cannot be measured accurately without understanding the former.

Hold it there? I need a minute.

[Thumpalumpacus]

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I rest my case.

[Svartalf]

Maybe I should sign male taurine excrement patties and sell them at inflated prices?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Maybe I should sign male taurine excrement patties and sell them at inflated prices?

First you have to be "discovered". A parasite art critic must decide you are his next big thing. If he succeeds is fooling the people into believing you're 'great', the money will start rolling in.

[Svartalf]

, Find a female art critic and polish her pearl until she'll do anything to retain my services...

[Hermit]

Maybe I should sign male taurine excrement patties and sell them at inflated prices?

First you have to be "discovered". A parasite art critic must decide you are his next big thing. If he succeeds is fooling the people into believing you're 'great', the money will start rolling in.

Provided you are a dab hand at self-promotion, you could open your own art factory and basically print money. The prints might look like pictures of Campbell's soup cans, but they'll work like real bank notes. Duchamp pioneered that sort of thing long before Warhol amped the process up.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

And laughed all the way to the bank.

[Hermit]

And laughed all the way to the bank.

Mind you, while the pyramid selling scheme keeps going, the artists' agents and the subsequent owners get the lion's share. I wonder how much Rothko sold the canvas for that just fetched 86.9 million dollars. He was pretty much struggling to keep his bread buttered until a few years before his death.

A few years ago an auctioneer was heard to say this in order to encourage higher bids for a work: "X is in very poor health now." The price for an artist's output usually skyrockets after his or her death. So much for the 'intrinsic value' of art. Bullshit from go to wo.

[Pappa]

The Chrome "attack site" warning should be gone now... it was the site the Rothko pic was hosted on, so I replaced all the links to a different file elsewhere.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The Chrome "attack site" warning should be gone now... it was the site the Rothko pic was hosted on, so I replaced all the links to a different file elsewhere.