How on earth can anybody think this is worth £29,000

It's all about perception

Portrait of George Best (GB-does bear a strong resemblance) is so striking . If I was a wealthy art collector I'd be happy to fork out a five figure sum to own such a fine piece

As for 'To The Studios' once it's coloured in fully I'm sure it would come to life

Of course , not everybody 'gets' it . I'm aware of that . But to the more refined amongst us with an appreciation for fine art , they are truly exceptional works

modern art is one of the most bizarre scams going

Douglas Murray has some interesting theories about how the fact modern art is so woefully sh1t, from memory he links it to the general demise and emptyness of western culture and our faith in ourselves to do anything good anymore, we've stopped trying. Above should be exhibit "A".

It's hard to compare the art lost / almost lost in say Notre Dame with the garbage modern "artists" churn out.

You don't have to be catholic or believe in god at all to be impressed by a lot of religious art.

To The Studios is a masterpiece and anybody with the slightest knowledge of Art can see that.

PLEBS the lot of you.

themightymac • April 16, 2019 6:33 PM BST
To The Studios is a masterpiece and anybody with the slightest knowledge of Art can see that.

ah , finally . Another connoisseur

Modern art certainly puts the "con" in "connoisseur"!

Just Checking • April 16, 2019 8:03 PM BST
Modern art certainly puts the "con" in "connoisseur"!

themightymac • April 16, 2019 6:33 PM BST

PLEBS the lot of you.

Modern Art is de facto money laundering .
"The market agrees"(nudge,nudge,wink,wink) that a blob of paint is worth 1 Million dollars and then it enters the circuit of money exchange  -
Like a "legal" counterfeit bill.

There’s a US TV prog where people sell stuff to pawn shops (I think).
Yesterday some guy came in with a Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys’ old surf board ... valued at $200,000 and wanted $100,000 for it.
Didn’t watch it to the end so don’t know how it panned out.
Who in their right mind would pay more than a couple of bucks. FFS.

The clue is in the "Who in their right mind" bit

Was that the name of the program after all?

One of the wealthiest living artists, Sean Scully, who's paintings sell for six figures has made a fortune out of these people. Have a gander at his paintings and tell me if a five year old couldn't replicate most of them.

I just did, they are basically all the same? Divide into rectangles and put stripes in the rectangles? Like endles duvets made out of flags.

I like Sean Scully's work a lot.  I have one in the cloakroom and one facing you as you come down the stairs. They are not originals but are signed "in the block" prints and are worth about 20/30 times what I paid for them, not that that matters as they will never be sold (not by me anyway!!).

Good to see the old "a five year old could do that" line coming out again

blackbarn • April 18, 2019 3:25 PM BST

...........Good to see the old "a five year old could do that" line coming out again

The unrefined always resort to that old throwaway line . They obviously don't 'get' it . Why can't they just admit that they don't understand the concept of 'art' in all it's forms ?

You shouldn`t live by the old "Who in their right mind" adage because there are a lot of individuals out there who are not in their right mind and who have more money than sense. There are also the speculators who understand that it`s not what something is really worth but what a fool and the sheep that follow are prepared to pay for it. Emperors new clothes and all that. Anyone who says a five year old could do Scullys stuff is spot on and anyone who talks about art appreciation and understanding concepts of art is talking from that place on their body where the sun don`t shine.

Reynard - I don't think it is as simple as that and I don't think it has much to do with refinement. Many famous painters were the antithesis of refinement after all.

I think people are just comfortable with....   well, simply what they are comfortable with!!! Since the days of Constable ("canvasses covered in green slime" according to a critic of the day), modern art, and nearly all art was modern once, has been almost universally unpopular.   It doesn't necessarily take time to get understood, but in time the best of it gets accepted and liked.   Twas ever thus

So if I really wanted to 'get it', what would my thinking process be looking at the painting? Or is it something that cant be taught? You either see the art or you dont?

Saying it's not exactly great art isn't the same as saying there isn't a place for it on someone's wall if they like that sort of thing. Scully's stuff I could imagine really brightening up a cloakroom or as a seat cushion design for a 1978 Vauxhall Chevette. It's still far better than a lot of modern "art", like the rubbish at the start of this fred.

Some pretentious **** could keep rubbing peppers into their eyes and throw a pile of used tear soaked betting slips on a table and stick it in a gallery called "despair of failure" and some mug would buy it if the "artist"' name fit. That's where we are at.

I see it ! I see it !

Before anyone accuses me of plagiarism I have been working on the 'tear soaked betting slips' as part of my 2019 consignment for display at the Tate Modern (Autumn 2019) . Everybody who appreciates real art is more than welcome

Art for Arts sake
Money for Gods sake

Gimme the readys
Gimme the cash
Gimme a bullet
Gimme a smash
Gimme a silver, gimme a gold

Make it a million for when I get old

Apr 18, 2019 -- 4:08PM, detraveller wrote:

So if I really wanted to 'get it', what would my thinking process be looking at the painting? Or is it something that cant be taught? You either see the art or you dont?

anyone?

Gimme a bullet to die on. Something to chew. Gimme a bullet to die on, and I'll make believe, make believe it's you.

It's a bit like those funny ink blot pictures the shrink shows you, what you see is impacted by your physical and mental state at time of viewing. There are no wrong answers.

There may be no wrong answers but if you say "it's me killing nuns" to every answer there may be follow up questions.

So basically none of those who do 'get the art' and claim to see the worth in it will bother explaining what they see. But you are stupid if you dont get it? Its more like the 5G conspiracy thread.

I do believe that if someone can sell a piece of anything for a particular amount, his being able to sell it for that amount alone deserves appreciation. If its a painting like that, he probably deserves a medal too.

So art is really like bitcoin, you could say.

... and what about Salvatore Mundi?
$450,000,000.
Again .. who in their right mind?
And now there are doubts over the authenticity.
Whoops!

Celebrity artists on TV painting chickens. All better than the original picture in this thread! Ok .. Phil Tuffnel's is perhaps a draw :)

Wondered who the brunette honey was. It's simon le bon's daughter and she's 29 ! That makes me feel old. Rio old.

Two reasons for this are

1) Some idiot says it is worth that amount

2) Some bigger idiot is prepared to pay that much for it

3) i wonder if i can win the Turner prize with my unhoovered/unwashed car