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Paul Gauguin's tribute to Vincent Van Gogh expected to fetch £10m
The Telegraph ^
| Jan 2011
Posted on 01/30/2011 4:36:10 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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Painted by Paul Gauguin in 1901 in Tahiti, the painting is expected to fetch between £7 million to £10 million
To: SeekAndFind
Well, I’ve studied art history, have a BFA and have critiqued numerous artists and their work before, so it’s surprising to me that this apparently highly noteworthy Gauguin leaves me cold. The color palette is murky and uninspired, composition is not particularly compelling and the subject matter is not just trite but somehow oddly depressing.
To think that this brown smudge of dead sunflowers and childish doodles of human figures is to fetch ten million pounds is just amazing to me, I really don’t see it. They have to be buying the provenance and the name(s), and not the beauty of the work. That, or the JPEG absolutely does not do it justice at all.
Or maybe I’m just feeling curmudgeonly, presuming to tackle a Gauguin and panning it.
/artsnob off, lol
To: RegulatorCountry
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posted on
01/30/2011 5:01:46 PM PST
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kabumpo
(Kabumpo)
To: kabumpo
Nice to have company, I figured I’d get flamed, lol.
To: RegulatorCountry
I don’t have any art degrees but I have painted for 20 years and taken classes and workshops and I completely agree with you on this Gauguin. It has got to be one of the ugliest paintings I have seen in a while. I am not crazy about Gauguin’s work generally, I think he was celebrated for his life style more than anything.
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posted on
01/30/2011 5:15:43 PM PST
by
Ditter
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
01/30/2011 5:16:32 PM PST
by
LibFreeOrDie
(Obama promised a gold mine, but will give us the shaft.)
To: RegulatorCountry
What makes this painting worth $77 Million ? Is it the artist or the quality of the painting itself?
To: RegulatorCountry
I have a BA in Art History and concur with your assessment. This is by far one of the weakest and least dynamic work of Gauguin’s that I’ve ever seen. Granted, I have little interest in much 19th century stuff after the Pre-Raphaelites to begin with, but at least a lot of late-impressionist to post-impressionist stuff is visually interesting (especially Seurat :-). This looks like the canvas was dropped in a mud puddle.
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posted on
01/30/2011 5:20:15 PM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: SeekAndFind
I'll Try again...This painting sold for $77 M in 1987 :
To: RegulatorCountry
To think that this brown smudge of dead sunflowers and childish doodles of human figures is to fetch ten million pounds is just amazing to me, I really dont see it. They have to be buying the provenance and the name(s), and not the beauty of the work. That, or the JPEG absolutely does not do it justice at all. My thinking on this is twofold.
On the one hand, I think that a lot of the value is because the painting is Gauguin's tribute to van Gogh.
On the other hand, while I agree that this isn't anywhere near as praiseworthy as much of Gauguin's other works, it's also been my amateur opinion that pictures of Impressionist art never even come close to capturing the beauty of the original.
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posted on
01/30/2011 5:22:32 PM PST
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wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: RegulatorCountry
Chance one has to take. As person in the arts, it’s sometimes frustrating and a challenge to communicate about art related themes in a Conservative forum. Sometimes I think it might be easier to convert leftists to our side than to have the average Conservative develop an aesthetic sensibility.
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posted on
01/30/2011 5:26:00 PM PST
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kabumpo
(Kabumpo)
To: SeekAndFind
Funny but Lust for Live (movie) is on right now as we speak. Vincent: Kirk Douglas and Paul Gauguin: Anthony Quinn. Great acting and many wonderful paintings of their works.
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posted on
01/30/2011 5:27:37 PM PST
by
fish hawk
(reporter to old Indian: you lived here on the reservation all your life? Old Indian, "not yet".)
To: wagglebee
You have a point re photos of paintings.
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posted on
01/30/2011 5:28:33 PM PST
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kabumpo
(Kabumpo)
To: fish hawk
change to : Lust For Life
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posted on
01/30/2011 5:28:52 PM PST
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fish hawk
(reporter to old Indian: you lived here on the reservation all your life? Old Indian, "not yet".)
To: kabumpo
I never appreciated any of the Impressionists until I saw some of the paintings in person.
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posted on
01/30/2011 5:32:15 PM PST
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wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: RegulatorCountry
You must REALLY hate it when a couple of scribbled lines and a woman with the face of a monkey or her eye is under her nose goes for millions. (Picasso) I'm not an art snob at all but I believe it's all about who painted it, not if you think it's his greatest works.(or if you even like it at all ) I hate Salvador Dali but wouldn't mind having a six pack of his paintings.
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posted on
01/30/2011 5:35:42 PM PST
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fish hawk
(reporter to old Indian: you lived here on the reservation all your life? Old Indian, "not yet".)
To: wagglebee
Great collection at the Art Institute in Chicago.
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posted on
01/30/2011 5:41:04 PM PST
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kabumpo
(Kabumpo)
To: RegulatorCountry
That, or the JPEG absolutely does not do it justice at all. I wondered how you could make any determination sight unseen. I would suspect the innate limitations of the Internet above all else. El Greco doesn't have a great impact on a webpage either.
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posted on
01/30/2011 5:43:29 PM PST
by
higgmeister
( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
To: kabumpo
I've been there once, but only for about an hour and didn't really have enough time.
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posted on
01/30/2011 5:45:57 PM PST
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wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: SeekAndFind
I'll Try again...This painting sold for $77 M in 1987 : Have you ever seen it?
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posted on
01/30/2011 5:46:51 PM PST
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higgmeister
( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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