/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

to be fair, that's a cute balloon doggo. did a clown make it?

>>3933689
a big clown, like most abstract artists

>>3933688
what the fuck is that shitty Hulk painting in the background....?

>>3933690
Genuinely a good one, anon.

Literally clown world

>>3933688
>also $91 million for this
literally putting /ic/ on suicide watch

>>3933700
>humans are the real rabbits
deep

>>3933692
lmao it looks like he's being showered in cum, literally deviantart fetish level drawing hanging in a gallery

>>3933688
Go to the money laundering thread.

>>3933688
thanks to cali tumblr artists

>>3933688
I'm sure it's not worthy of the 58mil price tag but I do wonder what the actual worth of the materials and time is. I'd imagine getting those cleanly rounded forms took some elbow grease

>>3933700
At least on the bright side pic related is no longer the world's most valuable piece of art.

>>3933804
I really like it

I sort of enjoy Koons when he straddles the line between kitsch and art, but most of his stuff is just pure kitsch. I like his Metallic Venus. The contrast between the dead metal and the living flowers is nice.

What are you talking about bud? That doggo is pure Loomis. Don't you see?

>>3933688
Could anyone explain why rich people buy this?
My rich friend said that it's to show their status but I don't trust him, nobody cares who bought the artwork, only the artist and the work gets a reputation boost not the richfag who is the current owner

>>3934326
It's a fairly sound way to store or launder money without having to worry about the potential of it depreciating. Think of it as a sort of pseudo gold as opposed to fiat money

>>3934346
This.
Stuff like this going for insane prices is simply money laundering.

>>3934326
Investment. Once an artist's piece sells for millions, that artist is now "worth" millions. Every time the artist sells another piece, which people now want because they're "valuable", the value of his old pieces go up as well. Then the buyer of the first piece can sell it for more millions, rinse repeat.

>>3934326
The nouveau-riche are driven by this bizarre impulse to both flaunt their excessive wealth and aggressively broadcast their lack of taste. You can also put millions of dollars into art for a tax write-off and/or launder money purposes as people have pointed out. Sadly money-laundering is not the only reason people spend millions on what is objectively trash by any other metric.

>>3933804

David Spade?!

But yeah that's a fine painting. I just wonder what makes it more valuable than any other number of "fine" paintings.

>>3933718
>a lot of white spots around the character
>first thing that comes to mind is that he "is being showered in cum"
kek

>>3933688
anon that artist is a part of a movement from the turn of the millennium that emphasized art's contemporaneity by taking commissions from excessively rich patrons (someone share the diamond-encrusted skull). It's not about representation vs abstraction; it's about "how much money can I have someone spend on something to frivolous, and then some."

>>3934326
autism

>>3934515
it's literally white fluid dripping out of his mouth
also I am grill so it's not gay to think of this

>>3934612
Actually my goal was not to imply that you're gay or sorta, but just point that your sentence helps to confirm that humans are mostly moved or think a lot based on their sex drives.

>>3934617
Ok, cool.

>>3934612
you know the rules

>>3934346
>>3934403
>>3934437
If it's so obvious that money laundering is involved, wouldn't the police realize that something fishy is going on when such art as in the OP image sells for exorbitant amounts of money?

>>3935066
you're a retard, they do.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.natlawreview.com/article/art-and-money-laundering%3famp

at best modern art is a ponzi scheme that's bound to crash, at worst, it's a laundering plot

>>3934326
money laundering and investment or both

>>3933688
The virgin /ic/ ngmi VS the Chad Jeff Koons, who makes billions of dollars shitposting in the art market

>>3935239
facts

>>3933688

Takashi Murakami is based though...

>>3935253

Based & redpilled

>>3933809
Why? I am dull and get nothing from it. It is not technically great, and the composition and colours are OK.

Serious question, want to at least try to understand how I am stupid.

>>3938539
Not sure, the space just felt uncanny to me. Tickled my brain the right way.

Could also be subconsciously because it's worth so much, but afaik i unironically like it on its own merits.

>>3938539
>>3938544
Thanks. Perhaps I should Google some critique on it.

You are in good company, chaps with money and I assume refined taste like it!

>>3933804
i didnt see the peice or context to your post but just the art. theres something amazing about it. i could look at it all day really

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>>3934572
It's not that frivolous anymore if you go from just rich to filthy rich in one stroke. Hirst partly owns the skull thing himself

>>3933700
>>3933688
>auction prices reflect real value
okay lol but still where the fuck else will you get something like that? 58 million, probably cots 1 million to make, artist only got a small cut

>>3934326
This makes me mad. Does no one actually likes art?