Posted on 11/16/2017 6:05:03 AM PST by Bon of Babble
‘Ketchup on Canvas’ Modern Art Sells For Nearly Million Dollars
This is not satire.
(Excerpt) Read more at trumpfranchise.org ...
I should frame some of my dress shirts. I wonder what I could get for ‘Soup on a White Shirt’?
I wonder how many “short order cooks” (Those who cook at the large flat stainless steel cooking surface in our beloved diners across America), have “ketchup on canvas” in THEIR repertoire.
Art springs from the soul of man. Plainly, modern art shows the sorry state of the modern soul. Apes do more insightful work.
NOW I don't wear 'em anymore.
One or two switched out for church, anymore.
I have no problem with this. If certain buyers have more money than sense it is an artist’s duty to extract the excess from them. :)
... Or blood on ketchup on canvas ....
How does that old saying go?
“A fool and his money is soon parted.”
“”I should frame some of my dress shirts. I wonder what I could get for ‘Soup on a White Shirt’?””
What an idea! This would save me all the time removing stains from the front of my shirts before throwing them in the laundry. Beginning of the day - clean shirt. End of the day - stained front...and I’m a lady or at least I thought I was. Do ladies dribble? I guess when you get old, anything is possible - make that probable.
Why link to a link of the story?
“Art” is used as an alternative currency and sometimes to avoid taxes. All that matters is provenance, fame, and uniqueness. Otherwise, it can be a total piece of crap.
From the link - priceless:
“”As we highlight in the video below, the above gibberish is an example of obscurantism, a rhetorical device modern art snobs use to disguise the fact that their “art” is actually completely meaningless.
It’s a fancy way of confusing people so that their initial discernment is temporarily suspended, making them afraid of criticizing such “art” for fear of appearing uncultured or ignorant.
In reality, their first instinct is completely correct. The vast majority of modern art is talentless trash – sometimes literally trash – and the entire industry is a scam to con pretentious idiots out of their money.””
The follow up mustard and relish painting should be marvelous!! Picasso had his blue period, we’ll call this the artists condiments period...
I know why I don't like fake art.
My dog has made a better looking mess than this!
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Claim your dog is a homosexual drug addict, then sign him up with a PR firm and art gallery.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
The worse the art, the more verbiage required to justify it.
Saw a 3-page explanation next to ... a 2-foot square painted 2 shades of black (halves).
Decades back, the Canadian National Gallery was lambasted for paying $14M for a very tall canvas painted 2 colors in 3 stripes.
The modern art scam is "The Emperor's New Clothes" for the art world. If a prestigious art gallery touts a piece like the above, everyone's afraid to say anything to the contrary.
Galleries are all about marketing certain artists. If I, as a "nobody," wanted to buy a work by an artist a gallery is trying to promote, they likely would not sell it to me. They will sell to to someone with enough standing whose name they can drop to future potential buyers.
Years ago, when I took my 16-year-old daughter to a modern art museum (Tate Modern), we didn't stay long. A lot of pieces made her angry because she didn't think they were art and didn't deserve to be in a museum (for example, a solid red canvas or a toilet seat mounted on the wall). Her thinking was that if she (or a five year old) could create a similar piece, it wasn't museum worthy.
re: “... Or blood on ketchup on canvas ....”
Whether that be by “gyuto, santoku, petty, nakiri, chef, cook, utility, or paring knife”, ‘ooh! That’s gotta hurt!’
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