it looks like we "owe" all that crappy art in art galleries to billionares?:
The only 'crappy art' is kitsch, and even that can have charm. Remember, the map is not the landscape and different images can work on people in different ways.
Yup, I didn't even know such a thing existed...
I've seen them in modern offices in PL however they're generally a false economy and potentially a hazard.
I'm no fan of surrealism however Toni di Renzo (1915-1986) is interesting. He was a minor member of the Romanov family and born at Tsarskoe Selo. His first wife was the feminist and occultist artist Ithell Colquhoun whose paintings are better known than his (and rocketing in value). He's probably best remembered nowadays for fathering quadruplets in his 70s. This one I like:
The only 'crappy art' is kitsch, and even that can have charm.
Well, the thing is, there can be crappy art within every art style and art movement. There's kitsch good enough for me to like it and there's kitch that's simply crap. If we can discern crappy artwork among realistic paintings, for example, then why not also within abstract art? The fact that something is a novelty, that it hasn't been done before, doesn't automatically make it good. And I think people have the right to think and say that something is crappy. I mean, obviously, I wouldn't say that to the artist's face, because I have no need to make them feel bad, but we should be allowed to have an opinion. If AntV is allowed to hate hyperrealistic art and see no point in it, then I think I'm allowed to say which paintings I consider to be good and which are nothing special or just bad from artistic point of view (not historical, not societal, but artistic).
You may feel differently if you saw it presented in a gallery rather than online.
Nope. I would look at it for 10 seconds and just move on unimpressed to another painting. This is what I would bother to go to see in person (I wouldn't hang it on my wall, but at least it's clever and pretty cool):
For example, I quite like some of the paintings by Jason Anderson. I like the bright colours (that's subjective) and there's some technique and thought put into them, composition, he clearly knows how to work with colours and texture (that's an objective assessment). Additionally, in my personal opinion they look good and make me feel good (subjective):
Twombly is gallery art; something intended to be viewed in a large dedicated space.
I get that but for me it doesn't make any difference. The only thing the red scribbles suggest to me, other than being painted by a child, is that maybe the artist was angry and venting when he painted them.
Art is a very personal thing and I understand that you like abstract paintings but I can't see what you see in them. They go way over my head!
Once you create something new that hasn't been done before in art you automatically get a place in the pantheon of "great artists"
I agree and it seems to be all about what has become 'fashionable' at the time regardless of whether the art is actually any good. Damien Hirst and his sheep in formaldehyde springs to mind.......
Once the artist dies his works go up in value.
That's almost a given although in his case he was hardly starving in a garret somewhere.
Art usually goes up in value with time, so that's a good long-term investment. You don't have to like the art you're buying - what's important is that you know you will sell it with profit later on.
This is true but sad at the same time. If I wanted to make a profit on artwork I would definitely choose something I like that could be put on display. I feel anything otherwise amounts to little more than greed and is an insult to the artist. But then, I often have views contrary to other people.
When we moved to another place my parents took that dark, patterned carpet with us
I guess that's what people did. My parents took the carpets with them when we moved to a different part of the country. By then we had an expensive Axminster carpet although still equally hideous. Unbelievably, in yet another part of the country, I had the same carpet on the floor of my current home. First thing I did was to have it ripped out along with all the other carpets.
To maximise the value of their art collections, billionaires employ various strategies and tactics
I find this obscene. What does a billionaire need yet more money for. Greed, pure and simple :( I will read the link it came from later.
I think people have the right to think and say that something is crappy.
Me too. There's way too much snobbery in the art world.
I'm afraid I don't have the time right now to comment or introduce new artists, so I'll just drop a quick info for New Yorkers here - one of the artists I presented on this thread is having a solo exhibition in New York at Arcadia Contemporary art gallery - the artist is Nick Alm from page 2 of this thread (my posts #39, #40 and #41).
The exhibition is called "Portals and Places" and it will last from October 24 to November 12.
Gallery address:
421 West Broadway New York, NY 10012
Gallery hours:
Tuesday - Friday: 10 am - 6 pm Saturday - Sunday: 11 am - 6 pm Monday: Closed
I'm so happy that galleries that show such art still exist! 🥺❤️
This misses being kitsch by about an inch but somehow works.
The fantasy style and colours appeals to me.
Banksy's latest.
Hilarious and true!
I'm so happy that galleries that show such art still exist
He's a very good artist, I would go to see his work.
creates a sense of intimacy in some scenes - it feels like we're in the room with the person depicted in the painting.
I find some of the his more intimate paintings make me feel slightly uncomfortable. They're so realistic that looking at them almost makes me feel like I'm intruding.
The ladies of the Forum in conversation :) I love this kind of 'pretty' Victorian art. I'm probably alone in that. Artist is Charles Haigh-Wood, father-in-law of T.S. Eliot.
Frank Auerbach has just died aged 98. Perhaps the foremost British and European artist of the past few decades. He did this one in 1995, showing the road outside his studio.
It's used often. Has two meanings, the original and literal one a bit archaic nowadays, the metaphorical meaning is more usual now we don't use coal much.
