$179 million for a Picasso

[Matty]

I'm really proud of my Ikea Monkey Air Freshener.

 

[IAG]

I'm really proud of my Ikea Monkey Air Freshener.

I have a Nighthawks air freshner.






ok. That wasn't true.

 

[IAG]

 

[IAG]

Art is nice and all. I appreciate it....but paying that kind of money for a painting is obscene- so many things that could be done with that money...it's fucking sickening really.

 

[Mudcat]

Soft Construction with Boiled Beans. If pressed, I would name that as my favorite painting.

Soft Self-portrait With Grilled Rasher of Bacon ---> favorite title.

 

[Mudcat]

Soft Construction with Boiled Beans: Premonition of Civil War

 

[IAG]

I had never seen that before, but guessed who painted it. I'm pretty darned proud of myself. I have actually learned quite a bit more about art from Trivia Crack, believe it or not.

 

[roguejuror]

Nice! I have a Nighthawks coffee mug.

http://gamelive.com/forum/showthread.php/17144-What-s-the-story-behind-this-picture

 

[Mudcat]

At the same auction, Giacometti's sculpture, Pointing Man ---> $141.3 million.

Does he have a weiner? Looks like he might have a weiner.

 

[Mudcat]

This thread, by the way, is now my permanent, ongoing, general art discussion thread.

I have been needing one of those.

 

[bacon]

art

 

[Matty]

art art art

 

[bacon]

ART

 

[Matty]

Art is nice and all. I appreciate it....but paying that kind of money for a painting is obscene- so many things that could be done with that money...it's fucking sickening really.

Pretty sure that the guy who just bought that Picasso isn't doing it for the love of art. There are some tax-sheltering schemes associated with flipping valuable art.

 

[bacon]

 

[Mudcat]

Without starting up the video: Man Ray I believe? Possibly Marcel Duchamp?

Dada

Yes, it is art.

 

[IAG]

http://gamelive.com/forum/showthread.php/17144-What-s-the-story-behind-this-picture

Awesome! That was my favorite painting for a longggggggggg time.

 

[roguejuror]