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Boy Sticks Gum On $1.5 Million Painting At Museum

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Originally posted by: Xanis
Originally posted by: Citrix
to me this is a million dollar painting. not that piece of crap with the gum stain.
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QFT. I always thought the value of artwork should be determined by how much effort and skill it took do paint it.
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i agree.

i got into an arguemnt in college over this. I was takeing a class (for fun) at the local community college last year. We got on a discussion on some art they had hanging in the hallway.

most of it was crap like what the article has. i thought most of it was ugly and not art. one guy got mad at called me a bunch of names over it.

I enjoy looking at art like citrix posted. something that takes skill and effort.
 
Originally posted by: Xanis
Originally posted by: Citrix
to me this is a million dollar painting. not that piece of crap with the gum stain.
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QFT. I always thought the value of artwork should be determined by how much effort and skill it took do paint it.
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Not neccesarily. I think it's possible to create profound pieces which are very simple, and not neccesarliy "realistic" in the manner of Citrix's link. No I don't have any examples off the top of my head.

Unfortunately, it's a slippery slope to crap like this, which really has all the aesthetics of a elementary school project.
 
Originally posted by: waggy
Originally posted by: Xanis
Originally posted by: Citrix
to me this is a million dollar painting. not that piece of crap with the gum stain.
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QFT. I always thought the value of artwork should be determined by how much effort and skill it took do paint it.
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I enjoy looking at art like citrix posted. something that takes skill and effort.
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Skill and effort is so much crap. Maybe you couldn't make a painting like that, but you probably couldn't play college basketball either. Sure the physical skill is not exactly *common*, but the world isn't exactly hurting for it. There are a ton of people who could paint a copy so that you would never see a difference.

Art is like technology - it keeps changing, and everytime someone with vision creates these changes, it gets copied like a chinese DVD. Consequently, the value is not with the physical representation of the particular style, but with the innovator of the style and the work of the innovator.

The picture citrix posted is a grotesquery of flesh that serves no purpose other than to verify that 17th century frenchmen enjoyed looking at obese women.

I'm not suggesting that the Frankenthaler work is a masterpiece by any means, but the only non-contextual difference from citrix's example is that it does not indicate the artist posessed fine motor control or dexterity - though it also does not prove the reverse - (and you have 6 billion subjects from which to select a better candidate) .. and citrix's choice, by virtue of age, is valuable as an antique.

Now, as far as that space in your living room above your sofa. Would you rather it be filled with a cool abstract splash of color, or several hundred pounds of cellulite-laden ass and pudenda?

Just curious.
 
That painting is only as worth as much as someone would pay for it.

As far as I'm concerned that painting is a piece of crap that looks like an 8 year old threw together while hopped up on nyquil.
 
This reminds me of that Simpsons episode when that old man from the nursing home was left to teach Lisa's class due to budget cuts:

Talk out of turn? Thats a spanking!

Sharpen your pencils too loud? Thats a spanking!

Put gum on $1,500,000.00 painting? Thats a spanking!
 
Originally posted by: ribbon13
DETROIT

Didn't read any farther than that before I thought to myself... figures.
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LOL...nice stereotyping. Of course, this is a kid from a nice private school in one of the richest counties in America...figures.
 
Originally posted by: EvilYoda
Originally posted by: ribbon13
DETROIT

Didn't read any farther than that before I thought to myself... figures.
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LOL...nice stereotyping. Of course, this is a kid from a nice private school in one of the richest counties in America...figures.
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You just proved that even the best kids from Detroit are little pricks.

😉
 
Originally posted by: Sluggo
This same kid probably throws a sh1t fit if someone touches their finger to his computer moniter.
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Indeed, too many children are spoiled and selfish. I'm no fan of modern art, but that kid needs to have the crap beaten out of him.
 
there are so many people in this thread I want to yell at, I can't even imagine taking the time to attempt it.

I like the painting (I have seen it in person, and remember it well). I doubt any one of you, even trying to copy it, could pull off something half as interesting.

and I like detroit. but the kid isn't from detroit.

you can all go soak your heads. 😀
 
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