Ummm yeah.... It seems that those with metal working skills (I'm not one of them) are really wasting their time working on cars and making exhausts for mopeds. You've got to be kidding me: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051110/lf_afp/afplifestyleusart_051110150445
Ok I went and looked at it. True art speaks to you... All that says to me is STUPID! Nothing in that whole parts pile I can use on my Model A. Might make a good engine hoist frame but 23 Million is a bit steep. I'll wait for the chinese copy at Harbor Freight.
i get ya! my wife is a painter and her and her art buddies have been trying to get me to do metal sculpture for years... i tell her that you have to have a vision of the art you want to create... and mine ALWAYS LOOKS LIKE A HOT ROD... go figure! i guess i should try to have a vision of $$$$... but where is the fun in that?
For you modern art collectors out there, I've created this ensemble, which I have named "Assmaster: the awakening" I conservatively estimate it to be worth a million billion dollars. Any serious art collector would love to have this in their collection. Plus, you can poop in it.
If you actually made that a "piece of art," Squab...I think you'd be seriously surprised how many "collectors" would pay for that...maybe not as much as you think it's worth...but someone would buy it! There's a lot of strange "collectors" out there , or should that be "collectors of strange stuff"? R-
Research the artist's Bio and you'll know why. They bought the name. THE biggest American name in abstract sculpture. Just like people would buy the Picasso name. Or people would spend big bucks on a totalled Porsche that said "Little Bastard" on it, or a Lincoln stretch convertible limo from Texas if they came to market, because of the name associations. Yes, an art student's pile of shit in the corner is just a pile of shit in the corner. They may call it a "Site specific installation" and that might make it definitively "art", but it's still a pile of shit.
There are a couple of ways to look at this. One, is to be glad we liive in a country that can generate that kind of disposable wealth. The other is that spending 28 mil on that thing is just plain decadent. Granted, it his money to do with as he pleases but some place like the Scottish Rite Hospital could have put that money to much better use. Rusty.
I would love to be some art-whore's cash dumpster. I'm sure my art will go unappreciated until I die, then "Assmaster: The awakening" will be the centerpiece of the Squablow collection at the Guggenheim. You'll see.
Richard Mutt beat you to it, by about 88 years. "Fountain" is one of the most dynamic and thought provoking works of the 20th century.
Change the name to Helen Keller's Maid's Revenge. It'll sell for sure then... Or maybe a HAMB auction???
I did not know that I was an artiste ! I need to dig out back in the scrap pile and go plop theres some art.
what sucks is that the people that buy "art" at that price turn around and tell me that I don't pay enough taxes, or I don't do enough to feed the poor, or cure aids....................
One of the things that makes that artist and that piece of art so important is the "HISTORY" behind it. He was a leader in the modern movement. Before him, there was no sculpture like that......since him there have been countless copies. Its worth the money. I RESPECT that artist and his work. Do I like CUBISM...MODERNISM....or ABSTRACTION? HELL NO!!!!!! I'm a "lowbrow" artist.....thats why I hang out here. PLENTY OF LOW BROWS hahahaha. I love you guys.
As I was sitting on the crapper "pioneering a movement", I noticed this short article in one of the Playboy's that sit in the bathroom for my poop-reading enjoyment. The squiggle keeps me confident that my artwork is easily worth the million-billion I'm asking, and also note that in the picture below it, the batmobile is rolling on Rader Tri-ribs with batman cutouts for spinners.
Man I sure hope you remove the plunger before ya plop down on the bowl, could be painful to the roids!-MIKE
At my work, we invite artist to display their art work, mainly it's paintings. A few years ago, we get this guy who does abstract art. he put an ad in the paper inviting the public to come see. This guy was way the fuck out there. One display was to resumble a schick shaver. As a prop, he displayed the "real" shaver. The guy wanted 2,500.00 for this Foam Board art. I could have cut this thing out with scrap foam board. After his time was done, there was all sorts of chit people her made. It was really funny. We all thought of inviting him back, but he probably would have got off on it....
abstract art.the biggest con going since 1951. Nothing to do with traditional rods and customs.....lets move forward.
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