Sothebys Art Auctions program

[Audio Al]

Did anyone see this program last night

A Hong Kong business man popped in for a quick look with no intention of buying anything ,


Then decide to buy a work of art

this

18565

A snip at 2.8 Million Pounds :eek::doh::scratch:

WTF

[Ninanina]

I did see it

A blue panel for 2.8 mil crazy ... I could have knocked it up for him for a mere 2.7 mil... he's been done :doh: :eek:

[mikeyb]

I did see it

A blue panel for 2.8 mil crazy ... I could have knocked it up for him for a mere 2.7 mil... he's been done :doh: :eek:
It's not the painting though it's who painted it that counts ;)

[mikeyb]

I mean just look at the one done by Andy Warhol of the Campbell's soup, if you'd done that it be worth fekall but....

Just check out Jackson Pollock for something your local council painter and decorator does week in week out, and he doesn't charge millions lol

[Macca]

Modern art. It's always going to be a target-rich environment.

I get regular e-mails from some Mayfair gallery. I'll post a few up tomorrow if I can remember. Both the 'works of art' and the accompanying text are highly amusing. And the prices! I'm not kidding they charge seven large for a few bits of fuzzy felt stuck on a piece of card.

[stairpost]

The interesting thing about art is that anyone could have painted it once someone else has already had the idea and actually painted it.

[Spectral Morn]

The interesting thing about art is that anyone could have painted it once someone else has already had the idea and actually painted it.

Precisely ;)

[Macca]

Improvisation and working with materials-at-hand are cornerstones to Kyack’s practice. Circle of Hell / Ringer of Bell will harness his ad-hoc, urgent, and pragmatic methodology revealing comic impropriety and moral ambiguity. As a ‘foreigner’ who has never travelled to Hong Kong or Asia before, Kyack’s unique perspective and particular vision will produce a body of work that creates an anthropological collision with a cultural past and present that is simultaneously at odds and in step with one another. Kyack’s black comedic strategies will be pushed to the extreme in this context, to create a sculptural pantomime that explores the vulgarity and profanity of ‘the tourist’ alongside the Post-colonial realities of Hong Kong as existential metaphor.

Symbolic objects such as bells, vessels and tapestries found in Hong Kong will provide starting points for sculptural and two-dimensional work that establish conceptual and formal relationships between common, inexpensive products that define contemporary culture. Conflating the extremes of wealth and poverty in places like Kowloon with the shocking depictions of purgatory found in some Taoist and Buddhist temples, Kyack’s installation will employ the Circle as both opening and orifice, entrance and exit, where the bell is rung for both the sacred and the profane. Circle of Hell / Ringer of Bell will attempt to bring together the grotesque polarities of human experience through the filter of a Western artist working in Hong Kong.

Kyack’s practice brings together a combination of unlikely elements, often purchased from hardware stores, health care industries and Hollywood prop-houses to create surreal, darkly humorous objects and paintings that evince a dysfunctional and chaotic social context as their origin. Kyack maintains a Dadaist anti-bourgeois position rejecting ‘taste’ and traditional aesthetic sensibilities. He instead finds pragmatic yet subversive relationships between functional objects to achieve an outcome that relates back to the body and to the abject absurdity of the individual in relation to a disturbing and complex social world, always with the potential for violence and the grotesque.

[RothwellAudio]

The interesting thing about art is that anyone could have painted it once someone else has already had the idea and actually painted it.

What idea? Painting the whole canvas one colour is hardly an idea, is it? A three year old would consider painting a whole piece of paper in a single colour and then immediately dismiss it as a waste of time - because the three year old has bought into the whole load of beaulox that's exemplified by "urgent, and pragmatic methodology revealing comic impropriety and moral ambiguity".
BTW, while I'm on a rant about ideas, Damien Hurst prides himself on being a conceptual artist rather than a craftsman, but look at his "ideas". A dead animal in a glass case? People have been doing that since glass was invented! Or how about a diamond-encrusted skull? Chavs the world over have been blinging things up with jewels for thousands of years!
Albert Einstein's idea that time and space aren't rigid was a proper idea.
Rant over. As you were.

[stairpost]

What idea? Painting the whole canvas one colour is hardly an idea, is it? A three year old would consider painting a whole piece of paper in a single colour and then immediately dismiss it as a waste of time - because the three year old has bought into the whole load of beaulox that's exemplified by "urgent, and pragmatic methodology revealing comic impropriety and moral ambiguity".
BTW, while I'm on a rant about ideas, Damien Hurst prides himself on being a conceptual artist rather than a craftsman, but look at his "ideas". A dead animal in a glass case? People have been doing that since glass was invented! Or how about a diamond-encrusted skull? Chavs the world over have been blinging things up with jewels for thousands of years!
Albert Einstein's idea that time and space aren't rigid was a proper idea.
Rant over. As you were.

What is the minimum amount of colours that is acceptable in a piece of artwork?

[Macca]

Two

[stairpost]

Two

That actually made me laugh.

[Macca]

I went round a modern art gallery when I was in Rome earlier in the year. Normally I would give such a place a wide berth. But my colleagues were very keen to go so I tagged along. There were actually some really good paintings and installations. Clever stuff that needed working our and building meticulously in order to give the right effect. I'm happy to consider that art. Interestingly the stuff I liked tended to be the stuff that is actually highly rated which implies there is some graduation of 'quality'.

There was some rubbish too. A metal cylinder with a bicycle inner tube hanging off it. That sort of thing.

My view is that if I could get my 7 year old nephew to knock it up for me while I drink and watch telly, then it's not art. The blue canvas falls into that category.

[stairpost]

Art makes for an interesting conversation but a pointless argument.

It's such a personal thing, I really enjoy the simple ideas. I'm fascinated by why people get so annoyed at art that they have deemed to be stupidly simple.

Don't get me wrong, there is art out there that is pretentious shite that I wouldn't own regardless of value, Hirst and Emin for example.





I went round a modern art gallery when I was in Rome earlier in the year. Normally I would give such a place a wide berth. But my colleagues were very keen to go so I tagged along. There were actually some really good paintings and installations. Clever stuff that needed working our and building meticulously in order to give the right effect. I'm happy to consider that art. Interestingly the stuff I liked tended to be the stuff that is actually highly rated which implies there is some graduation of 'quality'.

There was some rubbish too. A metal cylinder with a bicycle inner tube hanging off it. That sort of thing.

My view is that if I could get my 7 year old nephew to knock it up for me while I drink and watch telly, then it's not art. The blue canvas falls into that category.

[Macca]

It doesn't annoy me at all, or I would have stayed drinking in the hotel rather than drag my arse across town to a gallery.

As to the artists; someone who can paint an all blue canvas , or stick some fuzzy felt on a bit of card, or reconstruct an unmade bed, and have it sell for a shedload of money has my admiration. he has had to do a lot of intelligent work to get to the place where he can do that.

[rdpx]

not just regular blue paint

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Klein_Blue

It really is an astonishing colour, when you see it.

Sent from my ZX81

[Ninanina]

not just regular blue paint

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Klein_Blue

It really is an astonishing colour, when you see it.

Sent from my ZX81

A nice blue granted but 2.8 mil :doh:... seriously some people just have too much of the folding stuff

[Macca]

He might be buying it as an investment. Better than leaving it in the bank. What is interesting is how it came to be worth so much money in the first place.

[RothwellAudio]

He might be buying it as an investment. Better than leaving it in the bank. What is interesting is how it came to be worth so much money in the first place.

He might end up with egg on his face if red becomes the new blue! Of course, he could consider a re-spray :-)