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Painted by Paul Gauguin in 1901 in Tahiti, the painting is expected to fetch between £7 million to £10 million

1 posted on 01/30/2011 4:36:18 PM PST by 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

2 posted on 01/30/2011 4:58:18 PM PST by RegulatorCountry

6 posted on 01/30/2011 5:16:32 PM PST by LibFreeOrDie (Obama promised a gold mine, but will give us the shaft.)

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.

12 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".)

It’s nice that everyone has different tastes in art.

(I’m not too fond of this one. To my totally untrained eye: Scratchy-itchy in unpleasant colors.)

22 posted on 01/30/2011 5:50:01 PM PST by bannie (( ))

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