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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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$160m for a Picasso painting. Yesterday this amount was paid (plus 12% commission) for his work called "women od Algiers" Seems like someone has been had over as I cannot see this as a work of art?
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It's definitely a work of art.....
Have they been had over? - if they have paid 160 million usd then they are unlikely to feel ripped off ... they value the work at that price, and are happy to pay that for it.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I must admit that I am a Phillistine on things like this. It looks like my granddaughter has painted it!"
Not entirely related but look up the golden ratio and it's use in art, architecture and even it's abundance in nature.
Once you can recognise it you'll realise why some paintings even it strange or seemingly skilless are very pleasant to look at and why others with very good artistic skill are not.
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I must admit that I am a Phillistine on things like this. It looks like my granddaughter has painted it!
Not entirely related but look up the golden ratio and it's use in art, architecture and even it's abundance in nature.
Once you can recognise it you'll realise why some paintings even it strange or seemingly skilless are very pleasant to look at and why others with very good artistic skill are not.
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Can't help think how many immunisations and mosquito nets that could buy?
Or how much food for the poorest people of the world it could buy, especially being as a price tag such as this is based on greed and how much this painting is wanted, it's not made of gold, it's nothing more than canvas and paint, but because some people really want it, and are prepared to flaunt their wealth to get it
It's sad |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Can't help think how many immunisations and mosquito nets that could buy?
Or how much food for the poorest people of the world it could buy, especially being as a price tag such as this is based on greed and how much this painting is wanted, it's not made of gold, it's nothing more than canvas and paint, but because some people really want it, and are prepared to flaunt their wealth to get it
It's sad"
And I can't even think how many babies that food would lead to being born babies that given that food would be gone before they're born would know a short life of misery and starvation.
You can't just keep giving people free food and watch as they continually breed to the point of starvation when their population is already well beyond their ability to feed it.
All your doing is increasing the numbers who will die over time. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The chilling fact is that war is the most efficient form of population control "
No it's not disease and starvation has killed way more than war.
Wars a pretty piss poor way of doing it as it usually results in a massive population boom afterwards.
Mail because war kills men who are on population terms expendable.
You need to kill the women if you want to keep a population reduced for any significant length of time. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Can't help think how many immunisations and mosquito nets that could buy?
Or how much food for the poorest people of the world it could buy, especially being as a price tag such as this is based on greed and how much this painting is wanted, it's not made of gold, it's nothing more than canvas and paint, but because some people really want it, and are prepared to flaunt their wealth to get it
It's sad"
you could pretty much say that about anything anyone buys  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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On BBC breakfast this morning an art expert was saying that Russian oligarchs or Forbes 500 types buy them purely as an investment...and then offload these works off art for twice what they paid in 5 years or so. |
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"On BBC breakfast this morning an art expert was saying that Russian oligarchs or Forbes 500 types buy them purely as an investment...and then offload these works off art for twice what they paid in 5 years or so. "
Did you really think people and organisations paid tens of millions on something that they could do nothing with and couldn't turn a profit on?
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By *londeCazWoman
over a year ago
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Whilst I'm a bit of an art philistine, if I were to be a billionaire I'd buy Dali's The Persistence of Memory (otherwise known as the melted clocks) as I like it a lot and I'd also buy Munch's The Scream as I could use it instead of a bathroom mirror in the mornings  ...yes, that amount of money could do lots of good for poorer people over the world, but it's entirely down to those who have the money how they spend it - and who knows, this anonymous buyer could also be a philanthropist who supports many good works  |
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