In reply to Chris Summerfield:
In this economy with the credit crunch and the financial institutions crumbling, perhaps people would place their bets on valuable art as they don't really depreciate .
Arts and Culture
From Shakespeare to The Smiths, Wittgenstein to WarholIt gets annoying when my pictures are classed as being so valuable that they are stolen. For the second time in three years this has happened. This times its two 20x16 pictures of Robert Lenkiewicz and a 20x 16 silk screen picture of a torso on a rock.
In reply to KaWai:
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" people would place their bets on valuable art " ...
....... and interesting thought , but knowing how much influence money can have in making Art a valuable commodity , how do we really know that... that Art is really valuable as in VALUABLE ? .... Is it valuable as in adding something like vision, a reflection of our values, an eye opener or has Art ( never mind how promiscuous it is ) totally and hopelessly succumbed to the seduction of materialism ..... and just become a concubine in the harem of the "powerful' elite who is happy to teach us how to be "appreciative" of " ART " ? .... Just a thought ....... wondering and intrigued. Of course what is considered as " ART ' is and will always be debatable but what I find rather fascinating is that when you look at Kinkade's success and let's be happy for him for we know how difficult it is to get any recognition unless you can satisfy personal 'taste' and expectations .... and who can forget originals like Vincent Van Gogh , who most probably cut his ear as a symbolic gesture driven by desperation because while alive he couldn't find plenty of listeners ... back to Kinkade .... to be that successful, I think you must be either a fantastic visionary or a master of illusions .... but in his case there is something perhaps underlying the current state of people's mind , an inner desire for ' tranquility ' we no longer seem to know how to find it ? ...." the spirit of the age and its society" ? .... and as they say success is also to be at the right time ... and at he right place and yet how truly valuable is it in certain cases ? ... just a thought
In reply to Galileo's Universe:
Picasso's art would never loose its' values, Van Gogh's paintings as well. We are talking about people who go to art auctions and buy art, people who have lots of money and they collect art. China's current art is commodity for the weathy, because they are art as well as social commentataries of the rapidly changing society. People who have the good sense of taste and timing would reconize their value, and there are always those who just follow the hot trends in the art market and buy according to trends.
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PS........ and while talking about the search for ' spirituality ' ........ they certainly " have done their research ....:):) !
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