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Art is like comedy... In comedy, you can get away with a lot. As long as you're funny. In art, you can get away with a lot. As long as the art is good. (I'm not
by chasing 11y ago
Art is like comedy... In comedy, you can get away with a lot. As long as you're funny. In art, you can get away with a lot. As long as the art is good. (I'm not talking legally, I'm talking morally/ethically/aesthetically/culturally.)
(Banksy's a good example. I'd really rather not have to see shitty graffiti all over the neighborhood. But when a Banksy piece turns up, I'm okay with it. Because I think his art is interesting and relevant.)
Prince's "New Portraits" series is shitty art. It's somewhere between tone deaf and behind-the-times. It's obvious. He's not adding anything interesting to the photos. He's not saying anything interesting about copyright. Etc.
- vlehto 11y agoBut having bad art in a gallery is always interesting.
- bweitzman 11y agoMeh it's been done. Not that interesting anymore IMO
- vlehto 11y agoParody is ageless art form. I would not have canned shit in gallery over and over again. Having different kinds of bad art in gallery is always hilarious. But I have to admit I'm but of troll. The real treat is art snob fetishising over paint stains.
- kevin_thibedeau 11y agoYou can view it as a commentary on the shallowness of the elitist art collector world. Artists like Prince are all playing a game trying to con multi-millionaires into forking over megabucks for crap that everyone in their client's social sphere fawns over as some sort of status symbol.
- Nadya 11y agoTwo words: money laundering http://twentytwowords.com/canvas-painted-blue-with-a-white-line-sells-for-nearly-44-million-4-pictures/ http://twentytwowords.com/canvas-painted-blue-with-a-white-l...
- Dirlewanger 11y agoHow about you actually link a somewhat-credible source claiming that, and not a bunch of commenters? Also, googling "Onement VI money laundering", the first result is StormFront...nice.
- Nadya 11y agoA blue painting with a white stripe does not take an ounce of talent. Nor should that painting sell for more than the cost of paint to paint the canvas with. Believing it is a front for money laundering is far easier to believe than a fool spending millions of dollars for a color separated by a stripe of another color. There's also "Voice of Fire" [0]. Same concept but uh... red and blue instead of blue and white. Really speaks to me ya know? Don't forget Onement I [1]. The same painting, again, but brown with a yellow stripe! How does he come up with it! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_Fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_Fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnett_Newman#/media/File:Newman-Onement_1.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnett_Newman#/media/File:New...
- charlesdm 11y agoI actually quite like those paintings. Maybe not worth $44m (to me, maybe to others), but probably a lot more than paint + canvas. From afar, it seems that being an artist is actually sort of similar to being a developer/entrepreneur. Let's say you're a technically able artist. You can create anything. But what do you actually deliver? How do you create "value" (i.e. a piece someone, somewhere, loves) As a comparison: there are plenty of developers who can reverse engineer device drivers. But knowing which driver to actually reverse engineer, that can actually deliver value to someone, that's the tricky part.
- tajano 11y ago> He's not adding anything interesting to the photos. I like this about it. He adds a banal, trivial, perhaps non-sensical comment that satirizes the emptiness and one-sidedness of communication on today's most popular social platform. And the timing was perfect.