This painting just sold for $75 million at auction. Someone please explain to me why.

Bob wrote:

Yella wrote:

Bob wrote:A B-17 just flew over my house.

there has been a stake truck circling the city all morning with a load of collards on board. Are you sure it was a B-17?

haha. yea I saw it in the air earlier when I was doing yard sales too. It's out at the airport giving rides for 450 clams per person.

Bob wrote:

Floridatexan wrote:

It would be hard to miss because it's probably 9' tall. If you visited the Rothko Chapel in Houston you would understand the meditative quality of these paintings. It's surely not the same as staring at white space. (That was funny, tho, Bob!)

I dunno. What if that white space was 20 ft tall? Those old drive-in theater screens sure got my attention even when no movie was showing on em. lol

W_T_M wrote:

Bob wrote:

Yella wrote:

Bob wrote:A B-17 just flew over my house.

there has been a stake truck circling the city all morning with a load of collards on board. Are you sure it was a B-17?

haha. yea I saw it in the air earlier when I was doing yard sales too. It's out at the airport giving rides for 450 clams per person.

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See. I told you that fools and their money are soon parted.

I bet those people paying for that ride have a few over-priced crappy Kinkaid prints hanging in their living room.

Floridatexan wrote:

W_T_M wrote:

Bob wrote:

Yella wrote:

Bob wrote:A B-17 just flew over my house.

there has been a stake truck circling the city all morning with a load of collards on board. Are you sure it was a B-17?

haha. yea I saw it in the air earlier when I was doing yard sales too. It's out at the airport giving rides for 450 clams per person.

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See. I told you that fools and their money are soon parted.

I bet those people paying for that ride have a few over-priced crappy Kinkaid prints hanging in their living room.

If you ever meed my sister, don't tell her what you think of Kincaid. LOL

Joanimaroni wrote:He was "America's most-collected living artist".

Floridatexan wrote:

Yella wrote:I have always admired Picasso. I found this Picasso story.

Can this be true? Picasso went into a car dealership to buy a new car. Cost was $25,000. He wrote out a check for that amount, then turned the check over and drew a sketch on the back. Then he told the dealership that the drawing on the back was worth $25,000, but if the dealer actually cashed the check, he would lose the valuable Picasso drawing. (So, the dealer could frame the check and hang it on the wall and claim he had a Picasso worth $25,000, or he could take it to the bank.) The story I heard never explained what the dealer did.

The stories I heard identified Picasso as a narcissist.

Yella wrote:

Floridatexan wrote:

Yella wrote:I have always admired Picasso. I found this Picasso story.

Can this be true? Picasso went into a car dealership to buy a new car. Cost was $25,000. He wrote out a check for that amount, then turned the check over and drew a sketch on the back. Then he told the dealership that the drawing on the back was worth $25,000, but if the dealer actually cashed the check, he would lose the valuable Picasso drawing. (So, the dealer could frame the check and hang it on the wall and claim he had a Picasso worth $25,000, or he could take it to the bank.) The story I heard never explained what the dealer did.

The stories I heard identified Picasso as a narcissist.

His ego, if it could be measured would be in the neighborhood of sixty-eleven feet tall.

W_T_M wrote:

Floridatexan wrote:

W_T_M wrote:

Bob wrote:

Yella wrote:

Bob wrote:A B-17 just flew over my house.

there has been a stake truck circling the city all morning with a load of collards on board. Are you sure it was a B-17?

haha. yea I saw it in the air earlier when I was doing yard sales too. It's out at the airport giving rides for 450 clams per person.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

See. I told you that fools and their money are soon parted.

I bet those people paying for that ride have a few over-priced crappy Kinkaid prints hanging in their living room.

If you ever meed my sister, don't tell her what you think of Kincaid. LOL

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He was a pasteurized purveyor of hackneyed, trite, overly sentimental candy box covers cranked out in obscene production numbers that sold like bread to a starving person with the only taste they had being in their dying mouth.

His death brought a sigh of relief to greeting card illustrators the world over. The only remorse I felt at his passing was that he relapsed and died a drunk.

Is that too harsh...?..

W_T_M wrote:hackneyed, trite, overly sentimental candy box covers cranked out in obscene production numbers that sold like bread to a starving person with the only taste they had being in their dying mouth.

His death brought a sigh of relief to greeting card illustrators the world over. The only remorse I felt at his passing was that he relapsed and died a drunk.

sjumani123 wrote:Many quality reproductions of fine art, especially oil paintings, are produced overseas and available in the market via online auction sites. Make sure that the quality of the work has not suffered. If you want to buy genuine fine art, I know auction houses, such as SaffronArt.com.
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Bose Krishnamachari

sjumani123 wrote:Many quality reproductions of fine art, especially oil paintings, are produced overseas and available in the market via online auction sites. Make sure that the quality of the work has not suffered. If you want to buy genuine fine art, I know auction houses, such as SaffronArt.com.
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Bose Krishnamachari

Bob wrote:I report, you decide.

Rothko



Kincaid



BTW, that's Lombard St in San Francisco

W_T_M wrote:

And on a different venue...

THIS JUST IN....(pun intended)

Justin Bieber wins AMA as Favorite Male Pop/Rock Artist....

Bob....ya better run right out and get a couple of Bieber's horrible CD's to listen to while you stare at the kinkaid and eat a Big Mac.


in edit....

America is downright distraught over Bieber/Gomez breakup....?

Really....?

He's 18 yo. Find something else to ponder...he'll get over it.