The frame gives context to the art

[Gregory K. Norris CPF]

From the Daily Beast:

Mark Leithauser, then senior curator of the National Gallery, made an analogy: "Let's say I took one of our more abstract masterpieces, say an Ellsworth Kelly, and removed it from its frame, marched it down the 52 steps that people walk up to get to the National Gallery, past the giant columns, and brought it into a restaurant,” he told The Washington Post at the time. “It's a $5 million painting. And it's one of those restaurants where there are pieces of original art for sale, by some industrious kids from the Corcoran School, and I hang that Kelly on the wall with a price tag of $150. No one is going to notice it. An art curator might look up and say: 'Hey, that looks a little like an Ellsworth Kelly. Please pass the salt.'"

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...yet-selling-his-art-on-the-street-for-60.html

 

[Russ Wood]

I saw the article in the Wall Street Journal this weekend (or yesterday?).

I mean they go for $20,000 an one woman haggled him down to $60.00

I guess it means that we have to be told what good art is. And how much it is worth.

Now if I can just find someone else to say my dog sketches are worth $20,000 maybe I can sell them at that price? Any takers?

Here is one that I'm even willing to haggle a little on.

 

[David Waldmann]

Interesting that it seems this kind of thing is all of a sudden coming out.

A few weeks ago there was a thread on the Grumble about kids art versus modern art - there was a site with I think 11 pieces and you had to guess which were done by kids and which by "artists". I'm not sure anyone got all of them right - I got 8 out of 11.

Then yesterday there was the article I saw first on FB and then mentioned on the Grumble as well, about Banksy (presumably a famous artist - sorry but I never heard of him) selling original stenciled pieces in NYC for $60 each. I think he sold something like 6 pieces all day and they are estimated to be worth thousands, maybe as much as $10k each.

Without turning this political, maybe it's our lack of faith in what we've been told our government is that's making us take another look at what the real value of something is. What it's worth to ME, not what someone else thinks. In other words, we're saying "Stop spoon feeding me!".