Posted on 02/05/2016 9:20:49 AM PST by C19fan
The emperor’s new clothes.
They paid for a signature because they were told it was cool. Dumb asses
He is rather good you know - its more than just drips etc - those other paintings in the image are also famous artist fakes.
The painting in question, Untitled, 1956. It looks perfectly genuine to me.
It’s upside down.
It’s a flower. Well, that’s what I used to tell Mom when I brought home a fingerpaint and she asked me “what in tarnation is THAT?”
I saw a demo of elephants painting at Riverbanks Zoo a couple of years ago. I was impressed. The elephants could paint better than I ever could.
You posted it upside down. Or maybe sideways, I’m not sure.
I am reminded of the man who had an unsigned de Kooning painting he wanted to sell, valued at several hundred thousand dollars. Then it was taken to a de Kooning expert who pronounced it to be a fake.
It’s value went from several hundred thousand dollars to just the value of the paint and canvas. The quality of the painting did not matter.
Anyone who wants to see an expose of the art world should view the movie F for FAKE narrated by Orson Wells, but pay careful attention to it!
As for Picasso, he declared one of his paintings a fake. When it was pointed out by a visitor who had watched him paint that picture he said...”I can paint false Picassos just as well as anybody,” Picasso replied.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F_for_Fake
It’s easy to fake crap.
Bingo.
I remember Craig Ferguson’s frequent satire of Mark Rothko’s work, to the point of actually having an art expert on his otherwise farcial comedy show, to say that Rothko’s work is perhaps the prime example of “emperor-has-no-clothes” posturing in the art world. The lionizing of Rothko’s pointless, dreary, depressing and aggressively nihilistic canvases just galled Craig totally. Loved it!
We are not worthy of such genius.
And just waits till he starts kindergarten!
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