Posted on 05/16/2019 3:36:49 AM PDT by C19fan
Our Treasury Secretary’s father made some money making the bid :
Art dealer Bob Mnuchin, the father of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, made the winning bid for the Koons work, Bloomberg reported. Mnuchin made the purchase for a client, according to the report.
https://nypost.com/2019/05/15/jeff-koons-rabbit-sculpture-goes-for-record-91m/
Seen Koons’ “PLay-Doh”?
I like his “Popeye” , Tweety Bird & Hulk Elvis
My brother (God rest his soul) was an oil painter. He did Western American scenery and Western American living and even went to Argentina and painted Gauchos at one point. It was pretty talented and he sold just about everything he painted and did pretty good. He told me once he said “I could paint sailboats up in Nantucket and make a living, you gotta find a niche in this business.”
The one thing that impressed me was he made his paint from scratch. Or rather he would buy powdered pigment and mix it and used natural pigments as well, you don’t find that too much anymore.
I have a framed and signed painting he did when he was in the fifth grade, it’s a picture of a T-Rex devouring a pile of meat on the on the ground. And it is prominently displayed.
I’ll be in the workshop this weekend!
How to get money out of the country.
My son in law is a metal artist. He makes a lot of money every year. No...I don’t always “get it.”
He has assistants who help his put his things together. His stuff is very large—the kind of stuff you would see in the lobby of a big corporate office. Without the assistants, he could never get that large.
I often tell him he should get more assistants and put out two or three of these things a week. He does not appreciate my artistic advice.
My wife an I were in my son in laws studio a couple of weeks ago. We were helping his clean up. My wife saw some “punched” scraps of metal. She mentioned they were cute.
Two days after we got home my wife received a pin made out of these scraps. My daughter told me he made them for her after she said they were cute. He made four of them out of the scrap.
The others sold by the end of the week for $300 apiece.
Creating a niche, and making a name is what is important in the art world. The agents and galleries decide who is “in.”
And there are plenty of them starving.
Steuben Glass
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It’s called kitsch.
The modern art business isn’t about art, it’s about monetizing the worthless. It’s similar to a Ponzi scheme in that the earliest investors are the ones who make out like bandits and the later you get in on the deal, the more likely you are to be the one who gets stuck with the (hideously overpriced and undervalued) white elephant.
It’s also a documented fact that the CIA put modern art on the map in the 1960s by secretly funding modern art investors, who bought Pollocks and Rothkos and Warhols specifically for the purpose of impressing the Soviets with our sophistication and metrosexuality in the hope that it would goad them into following us down that rabbit hole.
In the early 90’s, Jeff Koons was married to Ilona Staller, the famous Italian legislator and former porn star. From Wikipedia: “Koons produced a series of sculptures and photographs of them having sex in many positions, settings and costumes, which were exhibited under the title Made In Heaven.”
My definition:
Modern art is the product of the untalented, sold by the unscrupulous, to the unknowing.
Yes, Paul Joseph Watson is one of the most articulate, intelligent conservative commentators out there.
Well put. The art business has certainly become a racket these days. Just one more facet of our culture ruined by leftists.
“What a unique rabbit.”
“Thanks. I caught it myself.”
“How do you catch a unique rabbit?”
“Easy. Unique up on it.”
“How do you catch a tame rabbit?”
“The tame way. Unique up on it.”
You are fortunate in that I consider joke’s like pizza. I’ve never met one I didn’t like.
Jeff Koons “works” in ceramic, metal, plastic, etc. He doesn’t build any of it, and the source figures are appropriated (whether it be Pink Panther, Michael Jackson and Bubbles, or some couple swiped from a photographer’s work).
He says he doesn’t touch the materials because he’d get lost in it and go on to make something different.
He’s a concept artist selling a brand name (like Warhol without the originality).
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