Child's painting sells for $86.9m

[Animavore]

http://reverent.org/let_us_be_fair_to_malevich.html

[Robert_S]

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.

I don't think the piece was art, but the accomplishment of getting it recognized as art was a masterpiece. As a reaction to WWI, it and much of the other works coming out of the Dada movement seem appropriate to me. IMO, the respectable people who could not help but get themselves into such a mess deserved a good dose of and and and in the spirit of .

[Gawdzilla Sama]

It's a joke IMHO. I told Professor Roberts the same thing when we did Post-WWI Culture. I can imagine him getting drunk and telling his drinking buddies, "I can tell them a urinal is a work of art and they'll believe me." I think it's more of a reflection on a society that would allow that to be deemed a masterpiece.

[mistermack]

I don't think the piece was art, but the accomplishment of getting it recognized as art was a masterpiece.

I wouldn't say that. The work for that accomplishment was done earlier, in previous works, by getting himself recognised as a notable artist. He just correctly predicted the reaction of a gullible art world. It's not a masterpiece, it's just a gamble. And not a big gamble. There's no such thing as bad publicity in the art market.
He knew he couldn't go far wrong.

[amok]

Peter Singer would argue that if you spend £70 million on a work of art when for the same price you could, for example, literally save the lives of thousands of starving people, you are implicitly saying, "this paint and canvas are more important than a persons life. My enjoyment of it is more important than a persons life". And Peter Singer would be right.

What if the person who sells the work for $86.9m uses the proceeds for humanitarian work? The Rothko in the OP was sold by the estate of this man.

http://articles.philly.com/2011-12-22/n ... osnian-boy

[Hermit]

What if the person who sells the work for $86.9m uses the proceeds for humanitarian work? The Rothko in the OP was sold by the estate of this man.

http://articles.philly.com/2011-12-22/n ... osnian-boy

Oh, great. Can we expect a mailout of 86.9 million dollars' worth of Uncle David holiday cards and gifts bestowed on a wide circle of friends? That would be ever so philanthropic.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I just realized the picture in the OP was not done by a child.

[Svartalf]

Took me a bit to realize the fact too... then again, I jumped in when the thread was already like 9 pages long, and without having read it through.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Took me a bit to realize the fact too... then again, I jumped in when the thread was already like 9 pages long, and without having read it through.

Not seeing anything a child couldn't do did it for me.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Untitled watercolor, JD Gossett, ©2004

You saw it here, first.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

So what do people think of this guy's work?

[Hermit]

I like it, but I still think trading a few square a few square metres of painted canvas is obscene.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I like it, but I still think trading a few square a few square metres of painted canvas is obscene.

That's actually a photograph taken in Namibia as the sun lit up a sand dune while the foreground was still in shadows.

[Svartalf]

It's nice... I was about to say that while the bold coloring was naive, the degree of detail showed excellent technique...

[Hermit]

I like it, but I still think trading a few square a few square metres of painted canvas is obscene.

That's actually a photograph taken in Namibia as the sun lit up a sand dune while the foreground was still in shadows.

OK. Same goes for photographs.