I've been talking shit with an ebay sell about this item...
 

Is this really art? The seller wants $750 for this "piece" and he claims I don't know shit about fine art. I don't care what artist this is, anybody who drops $750 on this is fucking mental. Please tell this seller what an asshat he is.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Rex-a-graffiti-d...QQcmdZViewItem

http://i23.ebayimg.com/03/i/05/60/f8/df_2.JPG

Damn, thats hidious.

It's funny what is considered art.

I could do something like that in 10 minutes

He has three other auctions for similar paintings

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

But if someone on ebay will spend 7500 for an Xbox360 some retard will spend 750 for that crap

$750 for that, hell no.

lol. i wouldn't pay $7.50

That is funny! I wouldnt spend $7.50 on that!

Tell him that if what he's creating is "fine art", he's getting ripped off if he's only bringing in $750 from it. Hell, I see prints go for $100 at Target.

Modern art is nothing but a con. I remember seeing a painting of a small red square on a large white canvas. Just a simple red square. Maybe about 3 inches by 3 inches. Fucking thing sold for some ridiculous amounnt of money. Well over 20 thousand dollars.

Back when i was in highschool, we went on this school camp. The art students had to make these paper mache "installations" based on the trees in the area. The one group just drapped paper mache all around the tree, in long strips. The art teacher comes along, and starts praising it.

"It's so deep. It's like the tree represents humanity, and the paper mache strips are the bars of the prison that is society, and the branches are people trying to break free from society's constraints."

When the idiot left, i asked the people who did it if that was what they were going for. They said they just thought it looked kind of cool. Hahaha.

I got a friend that works in an art gallery down here, he could sell something like that in 5 minutes, he gets 15% of whatever he sells in the gallery he works at and sells garbage art all day, he makes about 40k/month in commissions.

People will buy anything and the higher priced it is, the more they want it, so they can show their friends, you dont want some picasso on your wall if you spent 20 bucks on it. You want the stupid dog painting you wasted 750 on.

Heh, I'll take a $20 Picasso... it's not like you have to tell what you really spent on something :winkwink:

"That's the ugliest painting I've seen beeing sold on ebay... you could put it up for 10 bucks and nobody with more then 2 brain cells would buy it"

just sent that

the price of an item is worth what someone would buy it for even if we all think its a piece of shit.

LOL. kinderkarten fingerpaints.

that is a priceless piece yo

Maybe worth 7.50,but that dude is high

Modern art can look really lame, but be really pricy at the same time. My father, a sculptor, one sold what basically were six big poles along a road for something like $250k.

http://tinypic.com/huruxj.jpg

The dog "painting" is clearly worth nothing, though.

It's not my style but if someone appreciates his art for whatever reason then that is between the buyer and the seller.

I don't think it is your place to tell him what you think his art is worth. If someone wants to buy it and they appreciate it, then that is their deal.

But I personally would not buy it for any price

Did he sell the land they were on too?

What were they supposed to represent?

I like this part of the description:

Decievingly simple,

:1orglaugh Nice

looks like a good deal
http://art4sale.netfirms.com/cgi-bin...gory=Paintings

he's not very popular
http://www.google.com/search?num=100...Man+of+Soho%22

total crap

That's not art.
Me painting an elephant with my cock print, is art.

I think if I wanted that on my wall I'd paint it myself.

I would not pay 50 usd for this...:) :2 cents:

Nope, no land. He got the money for putting those things on it.

As for what it represents... according to him, those who see it have to make that out for themselves :1orglaugh

Some critics' ideas on it: it is a play on the traditional picture in art of a road sidelined by trees, it's a commentary on the lack of nature in everyday society, it represents the organic essence of life and movement, it contrasts the alienating nature of traffic and technology with a view of organicity and human interaction, etc. Critics can be pretty creative.

I'd rather pay $750 for a Son of Sam drawing.

check this place out, marshall and indian school

http://www.artonegalleryinc.com/gallery/artists

loooks like a welsch terrier.

what do you bid on this? it was an instant classic and will endure through the years.

http://www.adultforum.ca/pics/convention.JPG

About an hour drive north of Toronto is a guy who owns a 100-yr-old schoolhouse he's converted in to an art studio. Several acres of the surrounding property is covered in 'art' he's created with junk and scraps of everything imaginable. The studio itself is completely covered in bizarre gargoyles and various statues. Some of its actually rather creative.

He and his wife graciously gave my daughter and I permission to freely wander around the property and take photos one weekend.

http://www.ec-photo.com/109053-2/kauer223.jpg

Reminds me of "The Great Figure Five" by William Carlos Williams and what one of my literature professors had to say about it.

I like the take your father had on it. Leaves a lot open to interp by whoever is feeling pretentious around it.

DAMN, I might consider, dropping this business and becoming an artist.
20g's for a square, I'm wondering what they would pay for triangle.

quoted for truth!

if anyone is willing to pay that much, I we give you the same painting for 300...

Lol, for 750 you can get a perfect handpainted replica of any famous painting you like.

If the dog had been painted by a monkey or a dolphin, ok, I could see maybe paying that much.

I collect Howard Finster art which many people think a 4 year old could make (and they might be right). But I like it so I buy it :)

http://www.finster.com/

Sold................

"Does the price on this have an accurate decimal point? The shipping seems reasonable for insured post and adequate packaging for a $75 painting of that size, however, I wouldn?t trust a $35 shipping cost for a $750 painting. Are you going to repost this auction at the right price?"

Sent to seller. Can't wait to see if he'll reply.

Two things said in this thread that pretty much sum up my feelings about this sort of "art".

Talk about riding the fence... :1orglaugh

what a fuck tard,,,he is sell 4 more in diff colors

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZhansfella