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Call me a philistine - however i'm struggling to understand what it is about this painting , that makes it worth 74m .
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I suppose your'e all going to direct be to the brush strokes ... ?
Be gentle now , mind
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I suppose your'e all going to direct be to the brush strokes ... ?
Be gentle now , mind
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I am the first to admit that I do not understand the financial value of art, but I do know that the work appeals to me immensely.
If you view it as the artist intended - that is, it s not the figure screaming, but the figure reacting to the sound of the scream, which is the entire world around him screaming at the state in which it finds itself - it makes a perfect depicition of the world as it was then, and is now.
Would I like it on my wall? Yes I would. Would I pay tens of millions of dollars for it? If I had the money, yes I would.
Do I understand why it is valued at tens of millions of dollars? not a clue!!!
If you view it as the artist intended - that is, it s not the figure screaming, but the figure reacting to the sound of the scream, which is the entire world around him screaming at the state in which it finds itself - it makes a perfect depicition of the world as it was then, and is now.
Would I like it on my wall? Yes I would. Would I pay tens of millions of dollars for it? If I had the money, yes I would.
Do I understand why it is valued at tens of millions of dollars? not a clue!!!
I'll try!
This must be the second oil version. It was commissioned by a man who made his fortune in coffee, which seems apt as the picture looks like someone who has had too much of the stuff. Not as good as the first version, which was painted to capture the artist's own feelings at that instant.
The picture just captures angst so well ( which may be why students often have it as favourite print!) The painting represents that far better than any more accurate, photographic, rendering of the subject would ever do. Munch himself was a disturbed individual when he painted it and graphically expressed his own state of mind.
If billionaires want to compete for such a significant work, the only example out there, well, the hammer price will be in the many millions.
What is a real mystery is why any Picasso is worth as much as $65 miilion (see link). Picasso never conveys any emotion through most of his work. Mind, if you like ceramics of goats or matadors, he made some good pottery!
This must be the second oil version. It was commissioned by a man who made his fortune in coffee, which seems apt as the picture looks like someone who has had too much of the stuff. Not as good as the first version, which was painted to capture the artist's own feelings at that instant.
The picture just captures angst so well ( which may be why students often have it as favourite print!) The painting represents that far better than any more accurate, photographic, rendering of the subject would ever do. Munch himself was a disturbed individual when he painted it and graphically expressed his own state of mind.
If billionaires want to compete for such a significant work, the only example out there, well, the hammer price will be in the many millions.
What is a real mystery is why any Picasso is worth as much as $65 miilion (see link). Picasso never conveys any emotion through most of his work. Mind, if you like ceramics of goats or matadors, he made some good pottery!
jno - she and the tennis ball were the models for the recent vandalism of the Church fresco by the pensioner in Spain
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Yes, VHG,the painting known as 'Willie Lott's Cottage', by Constable, would certainly sell for more than the cottage!
But that's nothing. Art buyers may be rich and crackers, but what of stamp collectors?. One paid $4.8 million for a block of four Chinese stamps, yet they' were buying something mass produced on a printing press, of no unique artistic merit whatsoever. That block only fetched that money because the stamp was withdrawn from circulation as it upset the Japanese, so it had rarity value, which seems to dictate prices.
But that's nothing. Art buyers may be rich and crackers, but what of stamp collectors?. One paid $4.8 million for a block of four Chinese stamps, yet they' were buying something mass produced on a printing press, of no unique artistic merit whatsoever. That block only fetched that money because the stamp was withdrawn from circulation as it upset the Japanese, so it had rarity value, which seems to dictate prices.
