Because this just sold for $80M, or over $91M with commissions added.
Far beyond my capacity to understand.
The stainless-steel sculpture is 41 inches tall.
"This stainless-steel sculpture is at once cute and imposing, melding a Minimalist sheen with a cartoonish sense of play," read a sale preview on the auction house's website. "It is crisp and cool in its appearance, yet taps into the visual language of childhood. Its lack of facial features renders it inscrutable, yet its form evokes fun and frivolity."
I think really that fully explains everything...
The work “signaled the death of traditional sculpture—disrupting the medium in the same way that Jackson Pollock’s Number 31 permanently redefined the notion of painting,” Rotter says.
This statement is borne out by that bust of Springsteen you posted yesterday.
That painting is such a masterpiece that it took my four-year-old three tries to match its artistic brilliance
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You learn a lot about yourself when you study an abstract painting.
Tom Wolfe summed up my view of the hogwash that is modern art pretty well...he said it is all about separating the elite (who have The Word, and can understand why they should like a certain piece of art) from the masses. You need the Theory to understand it, which is why WE (who have the theory) are better than THEM (who don't).
"A hundred years before, Art Theory had merely been something that enriched one’s conversation in matters of Culture. Now it was an absolute necessity….All we ask for is a few lines of explanation! You say Meret Oppenheim’s Fur-Covered Cup, Saucer and Spoon (the piece de resistance of the Museum of Modern Art’s Surrealism show in December 1936) is an example of the Surrealist principle of displacement? You say the texture of one material – fur – has been imposed upon the forms of others – china and tableware – in order to split the oral, the tactile, and the visual into three critically injured but for the first time fiercely independent parties in the subconscious? Fine. To get the point was to understand….”Any work of art that can be understood is the product of a journalist,” said Tristan Tzara’s Dada manifesto."
All the fart-sniffing art critics loved it. Sometimes, certain intellectuals are just that stupid.
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Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3604278.stm
They had a monkey from the New Orleans City Zoo write some political articles.
You have to believe him for the articles to make any sense.
;-)
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How much more black can this painting get?
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Disruption! Disrupting! Disrupt!
But I guess tech-IPO zillionaires are the latest group of people getting bamboozled into paying $100mm for something that looks like a mylar balloon.