"Art" - a one word oxymoron

2009-07-23T07:03:00.000-07:00

Walking Man I, by Alberto Giacometti

Sold at London auction for $104,000,000 February 3, 2010
(click on image to see full measure of *art*)

Aptly named "AGONY" by Arshile Gorky

Following the aptly named "Agony" is yet more agony, only under a different name.

If it's a Picasso, it's got to be good...

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Triptych - $86,300,000 at Sotheby's Auction, New York
May 14, 2008

Who says the Left has no taste

1957-J no.2 by Clyfford Still, scratched and urinated on in January, 2012 by perhaps the only sane woman to view it in Still's Colorado museum
Allegedly valued at $30,000,000 to $40,000,000

To finance this fine museum, four paintings by Still were sold. Behold 1947-A-No.1.
Truly a bargain at $61,682,500, at Sotheby's auction, November 9, 2011.

While 1947-A-No.1 was sold for the highest price at any art auction in 2011, the Top Ten was aptly rounded out by this fetching piece by Mark Rothko - $33,700,000. The fewer words wasted on such dreck,...

Abstractes Bild - $15,100,000
May 14, 2008
Turn it upside down, or sideways, it's all the same

And now for $3,000,000 cigarette butts:

Self Portrait, by Jean Michel Basquiat

This crap sold for $3,700,000 after Basquiat died of a heroin overdose.

Seven Suckers, purchased by one sucker for $4,500,000. The shadows are glaringly amateurish, but among the crap shown here, it is perhaps the least smelly.

Pecho Oreja, by Basquiat

$10,000,000 for Basquiat crap

Number 12, 1949, by Jackson Pollack, $11,655,000

Victory Boogie Woogie, by Piet Mondrian - purchased by a European museum, seulement $40,000,000

Suprematist Composition, by Kazimir Malevich, in 1916, $59,600,000 if you please on November 3, 2008 at Sotheby's

Diamond skull - $100 million
A fool and his money are not soon enough parted, if you ask me.

Blue Poles, by Jason Pollack
It is owned by the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, and is said to be "worth" $200,000,000

Tres Personajes by Rufino Tamayo, 1970
Found in the curbside trash, where it seems to me it properly belonged, this "art" was purchased by a Houston couple for $50,000. They thought so much of it that they put it into storage, where it was stolen in 1987. In 2007, Elizabeth Gibson retrieved it and received a $15,000 reward when it sold at auction for $1,049,000.

Displayed in the Brooklyn Museum of "Art" in December, 1999, featuring elephant dung on an ignorant hack's caricature of the Mother of Jesus Christ, the Madonna, symbol of the worldwide Catholic Church

Piss Christ (A crucifix in a jar of urine)
Serrano received a $15,000 grant from a North Carolina arts group that in turn had gotten money from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)

Finally, something worthy of the name "art":

Mercy: David Spareth the Life of Saul, by Chris Dadd
(Getty Museum, Los Angeles)

Some People Call This Crap "Art"

"Art" - a one word oxymoron