Posted on 11/11/2014 8:06:02 AM PST by C19fan
A pair of paintings by iconic abstract expressionist artist Mark Rothko sold Monday for a whopping $76.5 million, the auction house Sotheby's said.
Rothko's "Untitled," a blue and purple oil painting from 1970 sold for $39.9 million. It was estimated to earn up to $20 million.
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Art today is truly degenerate for the ost part.
the more defenerate the more expensive and LAUDED by the “avant garde” GOOFBALLS
Me Too!
I left in my Sophamore year and never looked back. :-)
I skipped art school and all further art classes after being given a small scholarship to the local art institute...
this is the very early 60’s
Useless, ugly excrement. Non-art.
You only won ‘cause I couldn’t decide whether to use “hang” or “hung”.
I remember going to a Rothko show with an artist gal friend in L.A. ages ago and at first was impressed only by the gigantic size of the canvases. Then at the end of the showing we were escorted into a small room with these very small paintings (like 8x10’s) and the one I actually liked seemed to be a study of how many shades of black there are. Creepy.
The great art is just a math symbol written sideways, which is as silly as marriage "equality" setting two things equal when they are not equal.
He isn’t far from the mark considering that, in 1961, Piero Manzoni sealed feces in a can and called it art.
Does it matter?
-PJ
Come on — we’re just two blokes trying to find some meaning to “fine art”
btw, there is a fun program on L.A. PBS called “Fake or Fortune” where they use modern forensic technology to determine if “found” works are fakes or not. Last night they investigated a Degas that was previously labeled a fake and now determined to be Real and worth 500 Thousand pounds (as opposed to a couple of pounds) to the British family.
I don’t know, but my wife had a book of Basquiat that I quickly threw out when we started dating.
I took Art Appreciation 101 in college but obviously it didn't work with Rothko.
The chapel has benches so that people can sit and, I assume, contemplate the symbolism in the paintings. I was never good at finding (or looking for!) symbolism.
I could have been an artist...like Rothko. :)
hope she was careful, what with the way he splatters and all...
Now you do your art on FR!
:-)
****labeled a fake and now determined to be Real and worth 500 Thousand pounds (as opposed to a couple of pounds) to the British family.***
Which proves it is not the QUALITY of the art but WHO DID IT.
Reminds me of the man who wanted to sell an unsigned de Kooning painting worth thousands to finance his son’s education. When it was found to be a fake it went from being valued at tens of thousands to to the value of only the paint and canvas.
Andy Warhol used to buy lots of common plates, saucers, cups and never even opened the packages.
He knew that on his death such items would fetch thousands at an auction because HE once owned them, not for any artistic merit in the items.
That’s a painting of three people hanging a painting on a museum wall, isn’t it?
Personally I found more “feeling” in the simplicity of the ceramic poppies in Britain than any Warhol, Rothko, Pollock or any modern art. As I remember from your previous posts you are an artist too — what did you think of the poppy display?
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