Posted on 11/11/2014 8:06:02 AM PST by C19fan
A pair of paintings by iconic abstract expressionist artist Mark Rothko sold Monday for a whopping $76.5 million, the auction house Sotheby's said.
Rothko's "Untitled," a blue and purple oil painting from 1970 sold for $39.9 million. It was estimated to earn up to $20 million.
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I was really interested in a girl in college until I found out she was a fan of Rothko.
It looks like it was made with painter's tape.
If some idiot paid 39 million for this.... no wonder the average person out there thinks what they do about people that have money.
Insanity.
I was in Art College at the height of the Abstract Expressionist Movement.
It was awful. All the Tuition I spent (which I earned while I was in high school) was wasted on learning “how to express myself”. Heck..I KNEW how to express myself. I was going to College to learn HOW to DRAW and PAINT!
Those idiots are hanging it upside down!
It’s hung upside down.
Where did she come down on Jackson Pollock?
Hedge fund managers, George Soros, Arab sheiks, Mark What’s his-berg, Bill Gates, Carlos Slim. In answer to the commenter at the original article, who asked the identity of the people who have been spending so much money on “art” the past three years. To these kinds of people, millions of dollars mean what hundreds of dollars mean to you and I.
haha me first. neener neener. (sorry. couldn’t resist.)
Looks like RR tracks to me...
Art today can be a booger with a hair in it!
I found the same thing when I went to Art School. We all went to learn to DRAW and PAINT, but were simply taught to “express ourselves” while the “teachers” spent most of their time in the teacher’s lounge, coming out only to criticize our work.
I ended up being self taught.
Maybe there’s some kind of massive arms deal behind the transaction somewhere — or a container ship full of opium.
Something to make the deal worth that much money.
“When I am alone with myself, I have not the courage to think of myself as an artist in the great and ancient sense of the term. Giotto, Titan, Rembrandt and Goya were great painters.
I am only a PUBLIC ENTERTAINER who has understood his times and has exhausted, as best he could, the IMBECILITY, the VANITY, the CUPIDITY of his contemporaries. Mine is a bitter confession, more painful than it may appear, but it has the merit of being sincere.”
-Pablo Picasso
MBECILITY, the VANITY, the CUPIDITY of his contemporaries.
GO PABLO!!!!!!!
Adolescent bodily function humor. Why is there always ONE poster with arrested psycho-social development on every FR thread?
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