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Oprah sells painting for $196 million [Greedy 1%er]
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Posted on 02/09/2017 1:30:00 AM PST by SoFloFreeper

....., according to Bloomberg, she sold a painting by Gustav Klimt for $196 million to an unnamed Chinese buyer....

....Oprah purchased the painting at a Christie’s auction in 2006 for $115 million....


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1percenter; celebrity; china; cultureappropriation; greed; hypocrisy; media; milliondollarmarxist
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To: SoFloFreeper
Looks like something a semi-talented 6th grader could do.

Image result for painting Gustav Klimt Oprah

The piece is called “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II” and is from 1912. The subject was the wife of a prominent Jewish industrialist and art patron in Vienna.   

21 posted on 02/09/2017 4:34:44 AM PST by ETL (Trump admin apparently playing "good cop, bad cop" with thug Putin (see my FR Home page))
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To: libh8er

Ow, ow, ow...Brain Bleach!


22 posted on 02/09/2017 4:35:42 AM PST by nickedknack
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To: SoFloFreeper

Crap, I buy artwork I can’t even give it away.


23 posted on 02/09/2017 4:46:04 AM PST by New Jersey Realist (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Hmmm.. wonder whose campaign nest she’s looking to feather.....


24 posted on 02/09/2017 4:57:54 AM PST by connyankee (#MAGABEGINS)
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To: SoFloFreeper

You know they are getting desperate when they start selling the artwork.


25 posted on 02/09/2017 5:09:26 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones.)
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To: Gaffer

Nope.

IMO, Klimt is over-rated.
Looks like modern collage/scrap-booking/multimedia crap, to me.

John Collier and Alphonse Mucha could paint circles around him, blind folded, with their hands tied behind their back.


26 posted on 02/09/2017 5:12:11 AM PST by Salamander (We're pain, we're steel, a plot of knives...)
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To: ETL

At least it’s partly representational and not completely full blown abtract modern art. Beyond that the value is in the eye of the beholder. If I had the money it wouldn’t be something I would hang in my home.


27 posted on 02/09/2017 5:12:20 AM PST by xp38
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To: Gaffer
It's this fugly thing


28 posted on 02/09/2017 5:13:40 AM PST by Salamander (We're pain, we're steel, a plot of knives...)
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To: ETL

Glad someone agrees with me.

It’s like liberals ruminating over “modern art”, each one trying to appear enlightened, when it reality, it’s hideous art but they’re all too afraid to say so, lest they seem “uncultured”.

Crap is crap, no matter how much it costs.


29 posted on 02/09/2017 5:15:38 AM PST by Salamander (We're pain, we're steel, a plot of knives...)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Her school for girls in Africa. Is that still in business or was it closed amid scandal some years ago?


30 posted on 02/09/2017 5:17:00 AM PST by FrdmLvr ("A is A. A thing is what it is." Ayn Rand)
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To: xp38; ETL

It looks like somebody’s weird, Freudian fever dream.

:D


31 posted on 02/09/2017 5:17:08 AM PST by Salamander (We're pain, we're steel, a plot of knives...)
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To: xp38
At least it’s partly representational and not completely full blown abstract modern art.

True, but even totally abstract art can be beautiful, simply in its shapes, colors and textures. Abstract art varies enormously. Some of it, IMO, is complete garbage, as in that somewhat famous painting of a red dot on a simple yellow background.

32 posted on 02/09/2017 5:19:30 AM PST by ETL (Trump admin apparently playing "good cop, bad cop" with thug Putin (see my FR Home page))
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To: Salamander

A well done black velvet Elvis would beat it eh?


33 posted on 02/09/2017 5:23:56 AM PST by xp38
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To: xp38
A couple examples of junk abstract art, IMO, and most normal people's I would think...

Miro3

Miro1

34 posted on 02/09/2017 5:26:24 AM PST by ETL (Trump admin apparently playing "good cop, bad cop" with thug Putin (see my FR Home page))
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To: Salamander

Yes and yes. I was always fond of Mucha. Klimt, not so much. I would have loved to have lived in Vienna in that era.


35 posted on 02/09/2017 5:28:52 AM PST by FrdmLvr ("A is A. A thing is what it is." Ayn Rand)
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To: Salamander

In the movie it had real gold leaf applied for the coat and dress.


36 posted on 02/09/2017 5:32:01 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: ETL
I looked up highest art sales. This one by Pollack has the record it seems for abstract at $200 million. Jack the dripper strikes again!


37 posted on 02/09/2017 5:38:01 AM PST by xp38
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To: xp38

oops that should be Pollock


38 posted on 02/09/2017 5:39:54 AM PST by xp38
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There’s a reason I never refer to myself as an “artist” even tho’ I draw, paint, sculpt and create music...The word is so dumbed-down and hijacked by talentless jagoffz I refuse to be lumped with them.


39 posted on 02/09/2017 5:42:15 AM PST by Maverick68 (.)
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To: xp38

Even a black velvet bullfighter.

:D


40 posted on 02/09/2017 5:59:26 AM PST by Salamander (We're pain, we're steel, a plot of knives...)
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