The Artist Formerly Known As Mince

[douglas9401]

People urged to get a grip as straight faces declare 50m Euro price tag.

It's like a vandalised inner city fence panel.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz6dvdwjpj4o

[Clone]

Aye, absolutely ruined!

 

[Clone]

Is it the right way up?

[Bazile]

Get a bit of T- Cut on it - problem solved 

[Old_Geezer]

While disapproving of damaging art; it is clearly not something worth €50m.  I don't know how much the materials cost but at most the labour is probably a day's worth at, say, €400 a day ? Maybe.

 

This is the issue when art is defined by those calling themselves artists and valued by those with less sense than money, and who are gullible enough to buy into anything they're told.

[Canary42]

Some amusing examples in the link - especially the Dutch Town Hall throwing some art works away with the rubbish (including an Andy Warhol).

Details here :- 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cnv58ejyrpzo

I wonder if they will be charged 😀

[Old_Geezer]

Serves them right for employing someone with sense and taste to do the renovation job. Should've know better.

[Bazile]

50m€ ?

Ok - if you bought that you would have been spotted coming a parsec away 

[Old_Geezer]

Must stand for milli, not Mega.

[fripfrip]

It looks like one Tony Hancock did a few years back.

[albaqwerty]

Grey, orange on maroon no. 8

Does that mean there's another 7 of these pieces of doo-doo out there?

[Canary42]

No, 15 alba !  But repros are much cheaper. 

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1778497028/custom-mark-rothko-wall-art-set-of-3?ls=s&ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=rothko+no+7&ref=sr_gallery-1-5&pro=1&frs=1&;sts=1&content_source=b33c9a3cad3f2f13ceb5a501e6a7fb907764243f%253A1778497028&organic_search_click=1&;logging_key=b33c9a3cad3f2f13ceb5a501e6a7fb907764243f%3A1778497028

 

[albaqwerty]

Oh lawdy! Canary, we should get together and create summat and sell it for mega bucks :) x

A corrugated sheet of metal, painted blue in the dips and white on the ridges and call it 'Condors view over Peru', probably some daftie would enthuse about it lol

[Canary42]

🤣

[Deskdiary]

I get that whether art is liked or not is subjective, but even with that there is an awful lot of emperor's new clothes.

 

The gushing flowery language in the link below is laughable given some of the subject's artwork includes placing blutack on walls and crumpling up a sheet of A4 paper.

 

https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/turner-prize-2001/turner-prize-2001-artists-martin-creed

 

As for the damaged painting, I just struggle to comprehend how it can be valued at 50m Euros.

[The Builder]

Au contraire Douglé. When Rothko painted this in 1960, I'll bet he maybe got a few hundred dollars for it. Like the piece or not, subsequent price hikes are nothing to do with the original 'value.'

These are two separate issues. Money talks. In fact it positively screams 'investment' in your ear. The investment element leaves the original artist well out of it.

I've always liked Rothko (puts on tin hat.)  Come back in 5 or 10 years when it's 75m   😏