This article on the sale of an image of a potato for 1,000,000 Euros was posted on CNN. Personally, I think this is insane and the potato has no artistic value. What do you think?I'd like to get the contact info for that "anonymous businessman." I have a bridge I'd like to sell him.
Potato (http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/27/arts/potato-photo-million-euros/)
Bill
I think this is insane and the potato has no artistic value. What do you think?
This article on the sale of an image of a potato for 1,000,000 Euros was posted on CNN. Personally, I think this is insane and the potato has no artistic value. What do you think?
Potato (http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/27/arts/potato-photo-million-euros/)
Bill
…Kevin Abosch is a CONCEPTUAL artist from my point of view, who uses camera as a tool close to him. His ethical behaviour within a complicated story called art is the core truth about Kevin Abosch (http://www.kevinabosch.com/about.html), who will not allow, like some classical photographers or photography critics have, not to notice the person who is being photographed, but he will remove himself and put a person in his place to stand freely in front of the camera and Kevin Abosch!
I usually buy my potatoes for 2.5€ a kg, so I think this one is somewhat overpriced.
My potatoes cost 0.69 to 0.89€ per kg, so your potatoes must be more artsy than mine.
Maybe Kevin Abosch sees something in the potato that speaks to him....
… the second print of the said potato was apparently donated to a museum in Serbia.
Maybe Kevin Abosch sees something in the potato that speaks to him...
Hi,
Yes I buy some special kind, that is good for baking but a bit expensive.
Best regards
Erik
Tim,
Dinner (speaks to an empty stomach)? Or do you mean the potato literally "speaks to him (http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Mr._Potato_Head?file=Thinkway_PotatoHead.jpg)"?
...this one is fairly clearly a hoax.
… and the tongue in cheek artist's statement are not exactly subtle.
...I mean hoax in the literal and explicit sense of "the sale never happened".
No, it's specifically the sake of the potato that has the true of a hoax, and not even one the artist is trying to conceal particularly.
The astronomical price and anonymous buyer, and the tongue in cheek artist's statement are not exactly subtle.
If that is the case (and I don't know if it is or isn't), then it speaks more about the sad state of today's journalism than art.
People who don't understand economics think they can assign their own idea of what something is worth to an object.
OTOH, people who do understand economics always remember tulip mania (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania) and its consequences.
OTOH, people who do understand economics always remember tulip mania (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania) and its consequences.
Right Andrew. People who don't understand economics think they can assign their own idea of what something is worth to an object. Governments do it all the time. What something is worth is what someone is willing to pay for it.
Fact is, nobody knew what the damned tulips actually were worth, and there are plenty of other examples of that kind of thing.
Who cares whether or not a particular object can be called "art?" You can call ANYTHING art if that's your preference, and you can turn up your nose at someone calling something "art" if it's not your cuppa tea. Unless you first define what you mean by "art" the word is absolutely meaningless.
Who cares whether or not a particular object can be called "art?" You can call ANYTHING art if that's your preference ...
Who cares whether or not a particular object can be called "art?" You can call ANYTHING art if that's your preference, and you can turn up your nose at someone calling something "art" if it's not your cuppa tea. Unless you first define what you mean by "art" the word is absolutely meaningless.
Good idea, Russ. I find it very hard to delete my obvious "loser" images, but following your suggestion I think I'll make a folder called "Art" and dump all my rejects there. ;D
Eric
Abosch: "I use the potato as a proxy for the ontological study of the human experience."I think it would be more germane to use the excrement from a male bovine as a proxy for the ontological study of the human experience.
I think it would be more germane to use the excrement...
FYI, the latest illustrated list of:Hey! How come I didn't make that list?
https://www.photographytalk.com/photography-articles/3289-the-73-most-expensive-photographs-ever-sold
May just be a matter of exposure to the work. I find I like it better today than I did a couple of days ago. Maybe we need to wait a decade or two to give it a chance. :)
Narcissistic as hell, but never dull.I must agree with Andrew.
I don't believe she succeeds, Andrew. I think she descends into tedium.
I can't believe I'm adding the 60th post to this asinine thread.
With that strict, unbending way of thinking we can just write off the Mona Lisa as flea market schlock.It is interesting that the Mona Lisa was not well known until it was stolen. People queue for hours to see a relatively small painting behind layers of glass when there are probably 50 paintings as interesting outside that they can walk straight up to. Even in the same room the magnificent painting on the back wall hardly gets looked at. Art is like that.
It is interesting that the Mona Lisa was not well known until it was stolen. People queue for hours to see a relatively small painting behind layers of glass when there are probably 50 paintings as interesting outside that they can walk straight up to. Even in the same room the magnificent painting on the back wall hardly gets looked at. Art is like that.
It is certainly the best known decorative element of Napoléon's bedroom.
Edmund
Edmund
https://31.media.tumblr.com/4a5b6b04f214eef332b3f8a96072dd9c/tumblr_ng2lgrSkof1r3gb3zo1_400.gifGreat! ;D
https://31.media.tumblr.com/4a5b6b04f214eef332b3f8a96072dd9c/tumblr_ng2lgrSkof1r3gb3zo1_400.gif