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quadrophrenic posted:Basically give me an art history course TIA You're basically asking why the art world is what it is, and I'm not sure many people can give you a straight answer. Why a Rothko, which some could say is simplistic enough to be reproduced by anyone, goes for millions of dollars but a photorealistic portrait done by an unknown can't even sell. Well, there's a few reasons: 1. Fame begets more fame. People want a Rothko or a Pollock or a Kandinsky in their homes because they want to show their friends how cultured they are. The art world (the buying end) is compromised by very wealthy liberal elites who want to keep up with the Joneses. So they spend a cool million on an original to hang in their mansion. This raises the price and demand of all of the art more and more. Some people even think of art as investable commodities like gold or coins. The value of a Picasso isn't going to plummet. 2. Lots of these things may seem like a child could do it, or that it's easily reproduceable, but you're seeing it from hindsight. Before Jackson Pollock painted what he did, no one had ever done that before, and he did it well. He has a completely unique style. When you say that you've seen a Pollock, someone can visualize exactly what you're talking about. 3. And a lot of the success of art is just like other creative mediums like music or writing, some of it is just dumb loving luck. Some people can be amazing and what they do but never get discovered, but some guy in Manhattan can glue tampons to toilets or something and get featured in MOMA. That's life.
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ITT: The layman's misunderstanding of modern art https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y685hA65x1E the fucked around with this message at 16:43 on Jul 27, 2014 |
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"I'm gonna paint him a dadaist cubist self-portrait he can't refuse."
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You wanna get into "how can you explain ____", try Franz Kline.
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Beat. posted:One big thing that nobody has mentioned here - kind of heady art critical stuff - is the concept of "value." And then the painting you bought for $300 turns out to be the last painting by a man who ended up being a cannibalistic serial killer. Suddenly someone offers you $30,000 for the painting. Its value has increased.
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