06-24-2020, 01:02 PM
(06-24-2020, 11:54 AM)michaelsean Wrote: Well she'd hate me because half of it I would dismiss as not art. My niece who is now a nurse but graduated from the Cincinnati Art Academy argue about it all the time, although she pretty much dismisses me now. But there is a Rothco that sold for like $75million. It's a tall painting like 6 feet, and it's three stacked rectangles each in a different color. Just Wtf? Now he's done other stuff I would consider art, but this was just a pretty wall hanging.
People pay hundreds of dollars for people to scribble their name on things. We attach value to things for being one of a few finite pieces of a person. The art market is a lot more lucrative than the autograph market, but original art is also a lot more limited in supply.
Rothko is not for me, but I've read some arguments about his value that make sense.