[Dr. Sivana]

It doesn't take any courage to be "Andy Warhol." Your art factory spits out thousands of avant garde pieces ... the commie (literally) art critics eat it up, and anythhing that doesn't get praise is simply stated to be too subtle or post-modern to be understood by the viewer.

Of course, there's courage in the later works of Ad Reinhart:

From his "ultimate painting series:"


This important work, Ultimate Painting #19, recently sold for $190,000 (http://www.icollector.com/Important-Design-Postwar-Contemporary-Art_as13336)

[Charlespg]

This important work, Ultimate Painting #19, recently sold for $190,000

LOL HA Ben Franklin was right!!

A fool and his money are soon parted

[tanuki]

Hey, that guy copied ‘Spinal Tap’!

[reformedliberal]

As a young art student, I remember taking the train to Chicago to see the exhibition that starred this piece. It left me depressed and confused. Why was I taking studio drawing classes? Why was I minoring in Art History? Why do art at all, if this was the be all and end all of modern painting?

I like a lot of different styles, including abstract watercolor that shows mastery of the wash, but this square of black, showing a few marks of the brush, was, IMO, just a joke perpetrated upon everyone.

$190,00 might, I suppose, be somewhat justified if the buyer wanted an icon of the emptiness of abstract art that has, unfortunately, gained a place in art history. But I think it is another example of “More money than taste or brains.”