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If you "appreciate art", you're going to buy $20,000 pieces from brilliant artists, not the name brand stuff that is only marginally more merit worthy if at all
by cm2012 8y ago
If you "appreciate art", you're going to buy $20,000 pieces from brilliant artists, not the name brand stuff that is only marginally more merit worthy if at all.
- phreeza 8y agoSince perceiving art is highly subjective, couldn't it be subject to the same kind of placebo-like effect that makes a more expensive wine taste subjectively better than a chemically identical cheaper wine?
- cm2187 8y agoI think it is safe to say that people who store art in a safe or a secure warehouse in Geneva do not buy art because they enjoy looking at it.
- toyg 8y agoBut isn't that at investment, then? A secretary will show off his scarf (let's make him a man and tone down the sexist undercurrent), not bury it.
- cm2187 8y agoYou are seeing sexism when there is none. I don't think buying expensive cars, clothes or gadget is a male vs female thing. Call it an investment. But that still not for the love of art.
- Mediterraneo10 8y agoA great deal of art collecting by the wealthy are people who discovered a particular artist while young, and they felt a great impact from that art, but only later in life were they able to spend the large sums needed to own some of it for themselves. Parts of David Bowie’s collection are an example of this, artists whose work he fell in love with in the 1960s as a young man still far from wealth.
- cm2012 8y agoI'm going to peg this at less than 2% of name brand art purchases.