I bid my Cracker Jack prize!
Posted on 05/14/2021 6:35:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway
I bid my Cracker Jack prize!
He’s been conservative a long time.
LOL! You win the thread!
I’d have forgotten it, too - if I’d ever had any inclination to acquire it and then stow it in my garage.
Some people have a lot more money than brains. Imagine all of the beautiful, inspiring art that one could buy with that kind of money...
Peggy Lee’s ghost looks at that artwork and asks:
“Is that all there is? Is that all there is to a Masterpiece? Then let’s keep dancin.
Let’s bring out the booze
And have a ball.
If that’s all there is.”
He was a very religious person. He was Ruthenian Catholic and went to Divine Liturgy almost every day.
There are all sorts of religious people in the world, and some of them have also been breathtaking artists.
I don’t think that Warhol was one of them -regardless of how much I value ‘religiosity’.
Actually Cooper has been a Christian for quite some time.
When you are 73...
It’s like referring to the ‘new addition’ on your house that is now 30 years old.
Alice looks as good
as he ever did!
.
“I’m Eighteen”
Is my Favorite!
I have to say, I have always enjoyed the scene from “After Hours” with that song...:)
As an unintended consequence, it also served to monetize the works of these same "artists." It became fashionable to own their inscrutable crap entirely because it suddenly had become so valuable. The über-rich came to discover that they could buy a Rothko painting of two rather dreary and unremarkable squares painted on a giant canvas for $2 million and sell it in 10 years time for $20 million to another "sophisticate" who feared losing social status if they didn't buy one for their own collection, regardless how much it cost.
Rothko's 1962 Black and Orange on Red
How the CIA Spent Secret Millions Turning Modern Art Into a Cold War Arsenal
Cooper told the New York Daily News: “My wife and I are both Christian. My father was a pastor, my grandfather was an evangelist.
He should sell it to the idiot Eli Broad. Eli will pay top dollar for the garbage and Alice won’t need to pay an auctioneer fee.
I actually kind of like Rothko. He was full of himself, but there is something of simple beauty in his work... and it matches a lot of couches.
Yes, he even said in interviews years ago that he stopped performing songs that glorified "debauchery".
He feels it goes against his faith, and doesn't want to do anything anti-Christian any more.
Wonder if it’s an omen after all these years a Death And Disaster painting shows up and Biden in the WH.
His father was a preacher IIRC.
Great analogy
LOL, the only things in my garage that may be valuable in 50-100 years are a few thousand baseball cards purchased over 25 years ago.
I also have over 400 albums that I brought back from my tour in Germany (77-81). I lived a dozen miles off base, so I basically went without TV for 4 years. I'd buy 10-12 records a month, and mixed my own cassette tapes.
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