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What Is This Painting Worth?

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
That worth is false. Have you (I haven't!) looked into when art went crazy priced wise? I can't imagine what is going on with it. You can imagine that it is money laundering. OK. But can that explain it all?
I don't follow the art market.
But items pop up in news.
 

savagewind

Veteran Member
Premium Member
I don't follow the art market.
But items pop up in news.
I don't follow any market but perhaps the yard sale market but not often.

How big is that painting? I think that it is large.
Consider the materials invested in it.
The artist himself (male, I assume). How have his paintings sold?
It's very colorful.
Has anyone else here seen how sexy it is? (
Anyway...there is food, housing, transportation, clothes, I suppose, power to run it all, there is more but I can't think. Art. Art has become like getting the hell away from here. What value is that?
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
I don't follow any market but perhaps the yard sale market but not often.

How big is that painting? I think that it is large.
Consider the materials invested in it.
The artist himself (male, I assume). How have his paintings sold?
It's very colorful.
Has anyone else here seen how sexy it is? (
Anyway...there is food, housing, transportation, clothes, I suppose, power to run it all, there is more but I can't think. Art. Art has become like getting the hell away from here. What value is that?
Most of the art I buy these days
is for salvaging the frame.
 

savagewind

Veteran Member
Premium Member
Or, maybe this is real. LOL isn't.

Like, maybe dreams and life are all mixed up and that explains it all.
 

savagewind

Veteran Member
Premium Member
I am going to share one crazy. (not me you assdhole)

I actually saw this one.

It was at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (Massachusettes USA).

Now, picture this. One wall. White. One white wall. One big white wall.

Just one (what shall we call the damn thing?) exhibit on it.

I think that it was wood framed.

It was a very large framed tray like construction with only












DEAD FIES on it. OMG! Look it up!

I think that it might have smelled a little bit bad.
 

Mock Turtle

Oh my, did I say that!
Premium Member
Such paintings are valuable simply because a rarefied class
of intelligentsia & wealthy elites value what others of their ilk
value in the lofty world of artists vaunted for their place in the
evolving world of arcane art. It's not about beauty, meaning,
or skill....it's the collection...the ownership of something coveted
by others willing pay a fortune for it.
But let's not ignore the fact that some valuable art is wonderful,
& can even be appreciated by rustic janitors & groundskeepers.
Quite. I think much of this is often only for the very few, apart as being for decoration within a home, and many a child could achieve that. Rich people and their money - soon parted when a profit or status is forthcoming. :D But no doubt those who do appreciate such art have their own aesthetic reasons and I wouldn't diss them for such - just not my cup of tea or kettle or whatever. :oops:
 
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