If some clown's POS like this can go for +$30 million, the sky's the limit
Posted on 09/29/2021 2:11:10 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Denmark's Kunsten Museum of Modern Art was epically hoodwinked after giving artist Jens Haaning $84,000 to use in a piece -- only to have him pocket the cash and turn in blank canvases cheekily entitled "Take the Money and Run."
It was a case of art imitating heist.
Just in case you thought charging $120,000 for a banana was highway robbery, a Danish museum gave an artist $84,000 to use in a commissioned piece — only to have him pocket the cash and turn in two blank canvases cheekily entitled “Take the Money and Run.”
“The work is that I have taken their money,” the nada-Vinci told Danish radio program “P1 Morgen” last week of the irreverent performance piece and mega-minimalist work. “It’s not theft. It is a breach of contract, and breach of contract is part of the work.”
As for the $84,000, Hanning “hasn’t broke any contract yet,” Andersson said, since repayment isn’t due until early next year. However, he specified that if the money is not returned by then, the museum will “take the necessary steps to ensure that” the provocateur coughs up the cash.
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If some clown's POS like this can go for +$30 million, the sky's the limit
There should be public video feed of the people contemplating its piercing, insightful meaning.
Not blank. A polar bear in a snowstorm.
Woody Allen should sue the artist for stealing the name.
LOL - thanks for the ping.
Joe Biden’s Ct scan
A Dilbert strip of a successful Dogbert scam.
I remember fifty years ago, an “artist” who signed his name with a marking pen to a series of snow shovels and called them art.
When someone complained, he sputtered...”ANY THING I SPIT IS ART!”
I can see the art magazine writ ups on the 2 blank canvases.
“Provocative”
“Groundbreaking”
“A new school of art!”
“It brought me to tears”
“Complex in its simplicity”
Just opposite of “A black in a coal cellar at midnight.”
Reminds me of the film critic in the Peter Sellers movie AFTER THE FOX(1966).
As I recall, I’ve seen something almost as ridiculous in the Metropolitan in New York, a blank canvas with a red dot painted in the center.
In 1917 some fellow named Duchamp presented a porcelain urinal as art. “The work is regarded by art historians and theorists of the avant-garde as a major landmark in 20th-century art.”
Powerful.
At least WE can appreciate the existantionalist meaning behind “Dogs Playing Poker”.
—”Other examples of this guy’s “art.”
Looks like he was deep into the old, “sell the sizzle, not the steak,” method”?
So many choices?
May I submit "Blue Poles " by Jackson Pollock?
$350 MILLION DOLLARS!
Get drunk and throw paint on the floor with your drinking buddy! IIRC there are ACTUAL FOOTPRINTS visible in the "painting". 
—”Reminds me of the film...”
“What a Way to Go!”
Paul Newman as Larry Flint
Now a millionaire, Louisa vows never to marry again. She travels to Paris, where she meets Larry Flint, an avant-garde artist who is driving a taxi. Louisa falls in love with Flint, and they marry, living an idyllic life and bohemian lifestyle, shown through a foreign-film spoof. Flint invents a machine which converts sounds into paint on canvas. He plays eclectic sounds producing random art. One day, Louisa plays classical music, and it produces a beautiful painting which Flint sells in his first significant sale. Buoyed by success, he creates more and more paintings, becoming hugely successful. Obsessed now, he builds larger machines to do the painting. Flint relentlessly produces art until, one night, the machines turn on their creator and beat him to death.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_a_Way_to_Go!
People have paid big money for paint splashings by chimps. Others have paid 4.6 Million for “dung virgin.” 100K for “piss Christ.” Obviously a lot of people have a lot of money and very little brain matter.
Because of their stupidity, they deserved to pay that much for garbage.
What's even more hilarious is that the original has been "lost." The urinal seen in the museum is a replica. (How would you know??) https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/duchamp-fountain-t07573
Back in the day, I was visiting the Los Angeles Museum of Modern Art with my art class and we were walking through the Pop Art galleries when we came across the Finish Fetish pieces. One guy in our class was perplexed by a shiny red board leaning up against the wall. It was basically an incomplete surfboard done in the glossy red fiberglass finish. He said, "I don't get it. How does this end up in a museum?"
The teacher gathered us all around the piece to discuss it as if she had been waiting for the question. "It's not about the quality of the piece," she explained. "It's about who is willing to pay for it."
Or you could dig a little deeper and realize that it is much darker than that. It is about damaging the culture. It is about confusing the ideas of beauty and value within a culture. It is about making people question their own sanity.
In other words, these are the same people who have brought "Drag Queen Story Hour" into your child's public library. Their intention is to damage the culture. When you look at it that way, it's easy to see why they are willing to put so much money into it. It goes beyond money to them. It's about elevating ugliness. Ayn Rand published a whole treatise on the topic titled "The Romantic Manifesto."
The same art teacher that I discussed in my post above said something else that has always stuck with me. "When people talk about music, they have no problem expressing their likes and dislikes. If you said to them, 'What do you like about that band? What do you hate about it?' they would have no problem finding the words to express that. But for some reason, when it comes to art, they become overwhelmed. They've read or heard or been taught that what they like or don't like doesn't matter — they have no concept of the value of art and are dismissed as uneducated rubes — and so they walk away confused and eventually stop interacting with art because they 'don't understand it.' And this was all purely intentional by the people who make and sell art."
That was a great class and a great teacher. I learned a lot from her.
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