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Cheese · 03-06-2006, 08:57 AM

Kinda funny...but pretty serious in the same vein....IF you were this boys parents what would you do upon finding out?
You would think that the parents would have instilled some type of respect for personal property by this age anyways....

IF it was me when I was 12 Im sure my Dad woulda hung me upside down on a clothesline by my toe nails and beat me with a shingle till my nose bled.

Gum

Cowperson · 03-06-2006, 09:12 AM

IF you were this boys parents what would you do upon finding out?

Take away access to anything electronic for two months.

That would pretty much kill any modern kid.

Cowperson

nfotiu · 03-06-2006, 09:18 AM

He probably thought he was improving the painting:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4767888.stm

Cheese · 03-06-2006, 09:30 AM

LOL...man what an awful painting.

Frank the Tank · 03-06-2006, 10:19 AM

Well, the picture doesn't do it justice. Its really a nice painting. Not my taste, but still nice. That kid deserves a beating.

greyshep · 03-06-2006, 10:38 AM

Ironically that painting looks like a big piece of blue bubblegum squished into the middle of a kindergarten aged childs artwork.

How that could be worth 1.5million is beyond me.

Emperors new clothes I guess.

Cowperson · 03-06-2006, 11:17 AM

We could easily have another Nickleback debate in this thread over a painting no doubt defended by "snobs" while the "illiterate" wonder if they're looking at something put together by a Grade 6 kid in art class.

Cowperson

Table 5 · 03-06-2006, 01:11 PM

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Originally Posted by greyshep

How that could be worth 1.5million is beyond me.

same reason a guy like Tie Domi gets millions for his work. supply and demand, my friend.

Table 5 · 03-06-2006, 01:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Cowperson

We could easily have another Nickleback debate in this thread over a painting no doubt defended by "snobs" while the "illiterate" wonder if they're looking at something put together by a Grade 6 kid in art class.
Cowperson

Not to start this exact debate (or to defend this particular painting), but one thing that bothers me when people claim they could do something like this is that people forget about timing and context. Because frankly, you DIDNT do this when it was still not on the radar. It is easy to follow/copy someones ideas, but much harder to develop them yourself.

When you see a painting like this, the question to ask is not "Could I or my child make a similar piece of work?", it's "Could I or my child make a piece of work that approaches art in a new way that differs from the current way of doing things?" Because thats what a lot of these artists were doing.

I admit a lot of abstract art these days is crap, but when these early adopters were painting these works, this is not what hung in the museums of the day.

icarus · 03-06-2006, 01:45 PM

When I was at the Met in New York in January I saw a new piece they had acquired that was smaller than an 8 1/2" x 11" piece of paper. They got it at auction for $38M.

Reaper · 03-06-2006, 01:47 PM

If I was the parent of that kid I would do something in the vein of this. Since you do not respect art and asthetics your room will be 100% devoid of any and all colour, art, music, videos, pictures, etc. for three months. Your entire room will be painted bright white and will be devoid of any patterns or colours. You will have all white furniture. You will have zero access to television, radio, mp3 players and computers. This will be so that you can realize the value that the arts can bring to your life as well as the void that is left when they are removed.

icarus · 03-06-2006, 02:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Reaper

If I was the parent of that kid I would do something in the vein of this. Since you do not respect art and asthetics your room will be 100% devoid of any and all colour, art, music, videos, pictures, etc. for three months. Your entire room will be painted bright white and will be devoid of any patterns or colours. You will have all white furniture. You will have zero access to television, radio, mp3 players and computers. This will be so that you can realize the value that the arts can bring to your life as well as the void that is left when they are removed.

Stylish!

Flames_Gimp · 03-06-2006, 02:08 PM

I would pat him on the back. that painting is ****

FlamesAddiction · 03-06-2006, 02:19 PM

I would have been so ashamed if I was the kid. I would have probably ran away or killed myself.

LGA · 03-06-2006, 04:11 PM

Make the kid work off the value of the painting, that's right people, we export the kid as slave labour!

The Fonz · 03-06-2006, 05:45 PM

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CaptainCrunch · 03-06-2006, 07:42 PM

There would be no christmas or birthday gifts for this kid except for a pack of gum. I'd make him get a out of school job and all money would go towards the museum, and I'd make him stand in front of the museum with a sign that reads "I'm a disrespectful dirtbag"

Oh and I'd make him take the lamest art history course that I could find, and if he didn't get a perfect score I'd use the whole hanging upside down from a clothesline while getting beaten with a shingle.