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This just in, the art community is full of gullible fools
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Re: This just in, the art community is full of gullible fools
Originally posted by Vesayen
To the untrained eye, they appear to be simple daubs that could have been created by a two year old. Which is precisely what they are. But that didn't stop the supposed experts falling over themselves to acclaim them. The toddler in question is Freddie Linsky, who has fooled the art world into buying and asking to exhibit his paintings
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I couldnt imagine this child deciding "Nah, Ill run and whoop and holler and watch Papa get all excited!!"Hi, I'm RAH and I'm a Benaholic.-rah
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Art is everything is art.
If there is an aesthetic and/or emotional connection with a piece of artwork, then it can sell high and attract popularity.
Some of the artworks this kid has done does have that quality.
Art gets hard when you know what you're supposed to do.be free
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Wait, so a guy who wants to pay 20 pounds for a painting and a Berlin gallery who wanted him to participate constitutes the "art community"?
Oh, btw, Best Loved Elephant is pretty cool.
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)
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20 Pounds aren´t that much, considering the fact that some paintings made by a chimpanzee once were sold for 12000Tamsin (Lost Girl): "I am the Harbinger of Death. I arrive on winds of blessed air. Air that you no longer deserve."
Tamsin (Lost Girl): "He has fallen in battle and I must take him to the Einherjar in Valhalla"
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I actually agree that Best Loved Elephant is pretty good-looking. I probably wouldn't pay twenty pounds for it, but I wouldn't make fun of the guy who did buy it.
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Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Wait, so a guy who wants to pay 20 pounds for a painting and a Berlin gallery who wanted him to participate constitutes the "art community"?Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La Rochefoucauld
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This just in, the art community is full of gullible fools
Yep.
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Originally posted by Dis
Is it too much to ask for the art community to paint something that looks like something? Preferribly a hot naked chick.“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)
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