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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Art tends to be one of the biggest scam games out there, driven by people that want to appear to be more sophisticated and smarter then they actually are.
I still remember when the Canadian Government commissioned that faces of rage or pain or whatever for a million bucks and got a painting with a black bacground and a red stripe down the middle that probably took less then an hour to create.
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A thing is worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it.
So . . . . not really a scam since we are talking real dollars.
A scam would be someone selling a knockoff/misrepresentation of the real thing for that dollar amount.
In the late 1980's, when Japan ruled the world economically, a company there paid something like $84 million for a painting . . . . . back when that was real money.
It was mind-boggling then just like its mind-boggling now.
I don't get it either but, again, a thing is worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it.
Cowperson