I think it's a horrible painting, the stuff of nightmares. Would be better if the rich buyer (not that I know anything about them) had spent his millions on something more worthwhile, like setting up a charity for people in difficulty or opening a help centre.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
The buyer is likely to be some sort of investment fund .... most paintings sold for huge amounts of money are bought as an investment, as are expensive antiques, jewellery, country estates etc.but it's always paintings and sculpture that seems to get the brickbats when they fetch a lot money.
Is it more offensive for a rich man to buy a painting or to pay millions for a building in Mayfair which will lie empty a large part of the year when it could be putting a roof over the head of countless homeless people?
The painting really is the stuff of nightmares ... Basquiat painted about the appalling injustices and inequalities in the world .... he was a gifted child whose life was marred by his mother's recurring bouts of mental illness and his own life ended tragically at the age of 27.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Art is about the communication of ideas ......... some subjects aren't pretty, however you paint them ........... that sort of art is probably best seen in museums and galleries rather than on the walls of most people's homes
A lot of 'Old Masters' that now seem perfectly acceptable were painted for what we would now see as questionable reasons .... what was in the mind of Philip IV of Spain when he commissioned Rubens to paint The Rape of the Sabine Women I wonder?
Don't get me started on art .....................
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Prettier Hosta? Like little kittens that us girlies like...oh - maybe not....
I thnk the unfortunate issue with buying paintings or any kind of art as an investment is that it often gets tucked away because it's too valuable to be left 'out'.
Perhaps I could have bought it and used it to scare away the local children....
I felt the same about watching 3Girls initially, but I felt I owed it to those girls to hear their story and not be a coward. There but for the grace of God and all that. It was horrifying, depressing, dreadful, miserable and downright appalling. But it was also astonishing. I'm not ashamed to say I wept at the end. Sometimes we all need a wake up call. The performances of those three young actresses was superb. The whole cast in fact. That can't have been an easy shift.
In answer to the question about my clematis T'bird - apologies for not seeing the post - are koreana Brunette and macropetala Lemon Dream. They're arriving in the next hour
I know Lord B is possibly a little tricky given the climate here, but I like a challenge. He may spend a little time under a perspex table I have
Not hardy LP - pelargonium. Beautiful though, and one I've always fancied. Lovely little specialist nursery I got the plugs from.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I remember a couple of weeks after Hubby and I got together, we visited Edinburgh and "the three graces" had just arrived. I'm not ashamed to say I stood and wept looking at it.
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I think it's a horrible painting, the stuff of nightmares. Would be better if the rich buyer (not that I know anything about them) had spent his millions on something more worthwhile, like setting up a charity for people in difficulty or opening a help centre.
The buyer is likely to be some sort of investment fund .... most paintings sold for huge amounts of money are bought as an investment, as are expensive antiques, jewellery, country estates etc.but it's always paintings and sculpture that seems to get the brickbats when they fetch a lot money.
Is it more offensive for a rich man to buy a painting or to pay millions for a building in Mayfair which will lie empty a large part of the year when it could be putting a roof over the head of countless homeless people?
The painting really is the stuff of nightmares ... Basquiat painted about the appalling injustices and inequalities in the world .... he was a gifted child whose life was marred by his mother's recurring bouts of mental illness and his own life ended tragically at the age of 27.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Not more offensive in the least Dove.
I just like my art, erm.... prettier????
To be fair, lots of very rich people who buy art DO support " good causes". Look at Lord Sainsbury and John Paul Getty Jnr, for example.
Art is about the communication of ideas ......... some subjects aren't pretty, however you paint them ........... that sort of art is probably best seen in museums and galleries rather than on the walls of most people's homes
A lot of 'Old Masters' that now seem perfectly acceptable were painted for what we would now see as questionable reasons .... what was in the mind of Philip IV of Spain when he commissioned Rubens to paint The Rape of the Sabine Women I wonder?
Don't get me started on art .....................
Last edited: 19 May 2017 14:09:49
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I knew you'd put a grown up perspective on it Dove. I'd never heard of the artist before one his paintings was sold after David Bowie died.
I adore Rothko's work, but it's hugely derided. "my 5 year old could paint that" etc.
Prettier Hosta? Like little kittens that us girlies like...oh - maybe not....
I thnk the unfortunate issue with buying paintings or any kind of art as an investment is that it often gets tucked away because it's too valuable to be left 'out'.
Perhaps I could have bought it and used it to scare away the local children....
I felt the same about watching 3Girls initially, but I felt I owed it to those girls to hear their story and not be a coward. There but for the grace of God and all that. It was horrifying, depressing, dreadful, miserable and downright appalling. But it was also astonishing. I'm not ashamed to say I wept at the end. Sometimes we all need a wake up call. The performances of those three young actresses was superb. The whole cast in fact. That can't have been an easy shift.
In answer to the question about my clematis T'bird - apologies for not seeing the post - are koreana Brunette and macropetala Lemon Dream. They're arriving in the next hour
I know Lord B is possibly a little tricky given the climate here, but I like a challenge. He may spend a little time under a perspex table I have
Not hardy LP - pelargonium. Beautiful though, and one I've always fancied. Lovely little specialist nursery I got the plugs from.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I've been brought to tears in the old Rothko room at the Tate on Millbank - incredibly powerful.
I've known many bright 5 year olds ... none of them were capable of work of that greatness.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
not just me then Dove.
I remember a couple of weeks after Hubby and I got together, we visited Edinburgh and "the three graces" had just arrived. I'm not ashamed to say I stood and wept looking at it.
This was done as part of the Venice Biennale.
It is a statement on Global Warming which I find very moving.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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