Maybe the cans were worth $500k not to let any more ‘art’ be done by this fool? Don’t see any real change in the before or after. And besides, what fools leave paint open in a gallery?
That looks like a really bad morning after too much beer and too many super spicy burritos.
My dad’s old drop cloths look a lot better then the so called painting.
How can you tell?
How could anyone tell the difference?
I think most modern art is an ever accelerating copy of the emperor's new clothes. No one in the art world dares tell the truth about it lest the whole house of cards of art, galleries and million dollar price tags falls apart.
the “reimagined” artwork, which now sports three ugly black splotches.
So the photo is the "before" *and* "after".
Perhaps the offending position is in observing a distinction without a difference.
anything can be called art....I really don like just anything.
So, the black part was the ‘damage’ ?
Is that the artwork or what was painted over it?
Could be an improvement but the original had great colors.
When I was young, I used to insult my uncle’s painting collection. By a bunch of guys I had never heard of or hardly knew about - Picasso, Leger, Cliff Styl, Rotko, Arp, Miro, Kandinsky, Jackson Pollock (either #1948 or #1949), etc. Did love his small “Klee” paintings. Really good art.
One painting had a rough pebble like texture of a figure that looked like a skull (with eyes), crossbone arms, and bone legs or chest. I asked my uncle, a doctor, whether that was a painting of one of his patients who didn’t make it. He was NOT amused (actually he had a great sense of humor including putting Rembrandt print in his bathroom).
PS: Pollock and his wife were friends of my uncle as were some of the other artists.
Finally my uncle gave me an educational tour of his works and I learned a lot about them, esp. Picasso’s early works 1910-1915 period - really good paintings once you understood what they were portraying.
There were at least three that were painted in Army olive/brown camouflage color and had parts of broken clocks and toys pasted to the canvas. They really did suck!
A few good ones were sold by Sotheby’s decades later. Don’t ask!