Piece of gum ruins $1.5 million painting.

[GmanJoe]

Rembrandt\'s paintings is what I call art. The Mona Lisa by DaVinci is art. The grotesques adorning Notre Dame Cathedral (as well as the Cathedral itself) is art.

But when you just literally throw shit on a canvas (there was this art work made of feces) - is not art.

I remember seeing a giant black canvas that had a single stroke of white paint in the middle. Just how the fuck that got in the museum, I\'ll never know. Grandma Moses had more skills than that.

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Originally posted by GmanJoe
Rembrandt\'s paintings is what I call art. The Mona Lisa by DaVinci is art. The grotesques adorning Notre Dame Cathedral (as well as the Cathedral itself) is art.

But when you just literally throw shit on a canvas (there was this art work made of feces) - is not art.

I remember seeing a giant black canvas that had a single stroke of white paint in the middle. Just how the fuck that got in the museum, I\'ll never know. Grandma Moses had more skills than that.

..yea i agree....i gotta admit alot of those art pieces that just have paint thrown together on a canvas, i\'m sure my little nephew or niece can create one similar to these supposed masterpieces....like you gman, when i see detailed paintings of people or of any type of structures, to me that is true art...it is incredibly difficult to catch details in painting than it is to sketch it or to have it drawn alone....

how many of u naysayers remember the last time you went to an art museum?  I\'ll be the first one to admit that I\'m no art connoisseur but much of the stuff I saw at the National Art Gallery & places similar is just really, really cool.  It\'s all about the experience... you can really derive a ton of stuff from the artist just by being there admiring the painting/sculpture.

people love to say, "oh anyone can do that" ok fine, then do it.  Make a cool million then come back & tell us how it went.

[GmanJoe]

Originally posted by THX

people love to say, "oh anyone can do that" ok fine, then do it.  Make a cool million then come back & tell us how it went.

The artist sold it to the museum for a only "few thousand dollars". It wasn\'t worth millions then.

There\'s a good chance that some of my art work that\'s been sold might be worth more later after I\'ve died. At least I know mine took some skill (I stopped painting after I almost killed my professor at the Washington Art Museum for not grading my work coz he stored it away and forgot to grade it. Long story.).

Do you know how many of the great artists were misunderstand during their time and had their works sold for millions later on?  Whether or not anyone here understands the piece on these boards does not in any way mean that there is no artistic merit to the artwork.

Originally posted by Phil
Do you know how many of the great artists were misunderstand during their time and had their works sold for millions later on?  Whether or not anyone here understands the piece on these boards does not in any way mean that there is no artistic merit to the artwork.

Yeah but 90% of them didnt have a mess of random stuff that looked like a kids drawing.The other 10% that had such paintings are just as overrated as some recent artists.

Usually it was the theme/subject that caused the misunderstandings.Especially back at the renaissance.

Originally posted by THX

people love to say, "oh anyone can do that" ok fine, then do it.  Make a cool million then come back & tell us how it went.

I made a $4 million painting.Havent you seen it?I posted it here.I ll be rich after I die.

Let\'s just agree you\'re out of your element ;>

[sarcasm] What do you mean?I AM DE ARTIST!I AM WORTH ZILLIONS!

YOU IGNORANT UNEDUCATED INSIGNIFIGANT PEOPLE CANT HAVE AN OPINION ON  MY WORK OR ME[/sarcasm]

art had gone down in quality over the years, and the world has just gotten more upper class idiots who see something in a museum and say "Ill but it for 1 million dollars!"

Beack in the Rennaissance is when art was real art and took real skill. It took artists years to finish masterpieces that were detailed down to the smallest hair on someone\'s eyebrow, now we see pieces of crap like this that took all of 30 minutes and have no detail at all and frankly look like it was made in a kindergarden classroom.

Just because you guys aren\'t trained in the study of art doesnt mean you have to think "Hmmm....I dont understand it, but if someone put it in a museum it must be magnificant!" have an opinion for yourself, its a piece of crap.

Maybe it IS a piece of crap.  That is possible.  However, I think it would be wise to acknowledge that you can\'t make such a judgement without seeing the piece in person.

I wonder how many of these negative attitudes are being provided by people who NEVER visit museums at all, and therefore have never noticed the huge difference between photographic reproductions and the actual artwork.

[Paul2]

if this is called art that\'s worth $1.5 million but that seem to take only a few seconds to a few minutes max to make.  Then I guess pretty much anyone in the world can be millionaire.