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Definition of "art":
" n. - something that is created with imagination and skill and that is beautiful or that expresses important ideas or feelings"
Definition of "artifice":
ar·ti·fice - ˈärdəfəs - noun - clever or cunning devices or expedients, especially as used to trick or deceive others. outright fakery
synonyms - trickery, deceit, deception, duplicity, guile, chicanery
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November 2017
Salvator Mundi, The Savior of the World, by Leonardo da Vinci
Sold for $450 million - real art, by a talented artist
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Universal Standards versus Artistic Relativism
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Leda and the Swan
Cy Twombly
$52,887,500
May 2017
"An exciting mixture of sex and violence" say the breathless savants of artifice.
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Three Studies of George Dyer by Francis Bacon
$51.77 Million
When you're good, you're good!
La Hara by Basquiat
$35,000,000
May 2017
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When Crap Is Art Literally
Giant turd sculptures by the Viennese art collective Gelatin at the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.Credit...Michel de Groot for The New York Times June 17, 2018
The *artists* act idiotic and mirror the crap they produce.
Scripps Turd, San Diego, California
Okeanos, by sculptor William Tucker, commissioned by the Scripps Green Institute for $200,000
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Willem de Kooning makes the news again!
Woman - Ochre was stolen from the University of Arizona in 1985 and just found in an Arizona home estate sale.
The art dealer paid the owner $200 for it.
Said to be worth $100 to $160 million
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More "art" from Willem de Kooning, because after all, he's SO "good".
Montauk Highway
Montauk IV
Interchanged, by Willem de Kooning
$300,000,000
February 26, 2016 purchased by Ken Griffin,
billionaire hedge fund manager, along with No 17A below
No 17A by Jackson Pollock
$200,000,000
February 26, 2016
The word "skill" cannot be associated with such dreck.
Les Femmes d'Alger (Version 'O')
Pablo Picasso
$179,365,000
May 11, 2015
The Bigger Fool Theory
CHARIOT by Alberto Giacometti
$101 million at Sotheby's auction 2014
Black Fire I by Barnett Newman
$84,165,000 at Christie's, 2014
"Black Fire I is a sublime Abstract Expressionist masterpiece that perfectly captures Barnett Newman’s radically reductive and uncompromising aesthetic. The Zen-like simplicity of Black Fire I embodies the spirituality, grandeur and solemnity that define all of Newman’s greatest works."
Would a second black line have added another $10,000,000 to the value of this "masterpiece"?
We will never know.
"Triple Elvis (Ferus Type) by Andy Warhol
$81,925,000 at Christie's 2014
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"Three Studies for a Portrait of John Edwards" by Francis Bacon
$80,805,000 at Christie's auction, 2014
To get a better idea of the artistic "talent" of Francis Bacon, this closeup:
"Tete" might possibly be justifiably called "art," but
this insane price epitomizes the Greater Fool Theory.
"Tete" by Amedeo Modigliani
$70,400,000 in 2014
Scribbles on a chalkboard is "Art"?
$69,000,000?
" n. - something that is created with imagination and skill and that is beautiful or that expresses important ideas or feelings"
Definition of "artifice":
ar·ti·fice - ˈärdəfəs - noun - clever or cunning devices or expedients, especially as used to trick or deceive others. outright fakery
synonyms - trickery, deceit, deception, duplicity, guile, chicanery
________________________________
November 2017
Salvator Mundi, The Savior of the World, by Leonardo da Vinci
Sold for $450 million - real art, by a talented artist
_______________________________________
Universal Standards versus Artistic Relativism
_______________________________________
Jeff Koons’s Giant Play-Doh Sculpture Could Fetch $20 Million at Christie’s This Spring - May 2019 "The work took around two decades to produce as the notoriously perfectionist Koons fiddled with the medium and refined the production process." [And isn't it simply perfect!]
__________________________
Leda and the Swan
Cy Twombly
$52,887,500
May 2017
"An exciting mixture of sex and violence" say the breathless savants of artifice.
__________________________
Three Studies of George Dyer by Francis Bacon
$51.77 Million
When you're good, you're good!
La Hara by Basquiat
$35,000,000
May 2017
_____________________________
When Crap Is Art Literally
Giant turd sculptures by the Viennese art collective Gelatin at the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.Credit...Michel de Groot for The New York Times June 17, 2018
The *artists* act idiotic and mirror the crap they produce.
Scripps Turd, San Diego, California
Okeanos, by sculptor William Tucker, commissioned by the Scripps Green Institute for $200,000
_______________
Willem de Kooning makes the news again!
Woman - Ochre was stolen from the University of Arizona in 1985 and just found in an Arizona home estate sale.
The art dealer paid the owner $200 for it.
Said to be worth $100 to $160 million
-------------------------
More "art" from Willem de Kooning, because after all, he's SO "good".
Montauk Highway
Montauk IV
Interchanged, by Willem de Kooning
$300,000,000
February 26, 2016 purchased by Ken Griffin,
billionaire hedge fund manager, along with No 17A below
No 17A by Jackson Pollock
$200,000,000
February 26, 2016
The word "skill" cannot be associated with such dreck.
Les Femmes d'Alger (Version 'O')
Pablo Picasso
$179,365,000
May 11, 2015
The Bigger Fool Theory
CHARIOT by Alberto Giacometti
$101 million at Sotheby's auction 2014
Black Fire I by Barnett Newman
$84,165,000 at Christie's, 2014
"Black Fire I is a sublime Abstract Expressionist masterpiece that perfectly captures Barnett Newman’s radically reductive and uncompromising aesthetic. The Zen-like simplicity of Black Fire I embodies the spirituality, grandeur and solemnity that define all of Newman’s greatest works."
Would a second black line have added another $10,000,000 to the value of this "masterpiece"?
We will never know.
"Triple Elvis (Ferus Type) by Andy Warhol
$81,925,000 at Christie's 2014
"Three Studies for a Portrait of John Edwards" by Francis Bacon
$80,805,000 at Christie's auction, 2014
To get a better idea of the artistic "talent" of Francis Bacon, this closeup:
"Tete" might possibly be justifiably called "art," but
this insane price epitomizes the Greater Fool Theory.
"Tete" by Amedeo Modigliani
$70,400,000 in 2014
Scribbles on a chalkboard is "Art"?
$69,000,000?
