Would you pay EIGHTY NINE MILLION QUID for this ?

[Badger]

I'd buy the middle one, I haven't got enough space for the other two so I'd probably chuck them.

 

[pasty]

I don't think there is any single thing I would pay 89 million quid for.

 

[Coldeanseagull]

Things are relative. If you can afford £89m for this, you're probably not worrying about your mortgage or price of milk.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Paintings are also something that can be enjoyed for hundreds of years, a window into past generations. 500 years of enjoyment from Michaelangelo and Da Vinci, 200 years of John Constable and Joseph Turner, 120 years of Van Gogh, Henri Matisse...The value of art is something far greater than money. Francis Bacon's work will be poured over in 200, 300, 400 years time. It's cultural value is in essence priceless. It's actual cost only relative.

I can't see how you can throw your arms in the air at a painting going for silly money, when football players regularly get transferred for £40m+ and a twice annual basis.

 

[piersa]

I don't think I would buy this one but there are plenty I would for that money, mostly by Rothko.

Art is a very personal thing. I don't get Rothko, kids do better art.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

I need to wait til the end of the month. If I have £89m left after bills before payday, then maybe I'd think about it

 

[Badger]

Never mind that, you can grab yourself a bargain with this Andy Warhol effort, a mere £65.5m.

 

[ShandyH]

Probably a philistine but I wouldn't give that wall space.

No probably about it.

 

[Icy Gull]

No probably about it.

oh well, even so, I'll continue to decide for myself what I like. Give me Dali every time.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

oh well, even so, I'll continue to decide for myself what I like

Indeed. I've just spent a few minutes looking at it, and it does absolutely nothing for me.

 

[Triggaaar]

I hate it.

 

[5Ways Gull]

As it is a triptych the use of 'this' is entirely correct.

Poor pedantry...

This!! (or is it these?)

 

[Bold Seagull]

Indeed. I've just spent a few minutes looking at it, and it does absolutely nothing for me.

That's because art is something to be appreciated on a wall in front of the actual piece, not from a 15" screen or whatever. Having a sense of the scale, the brush strokes, the paint texture are all completely part of enjoying a painting.

It's all very well people saying they don't like a Mark Rothko, but until you stand in front of one of his huge paintings, you can't even get close to really appreciating what his work is about or the sense of scale.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

That's because art is something to be appreciated on a wall in front of the actual piece, not from a 15" screen or whatever. Having a sense of the scale, the brush strokes, the paint texture are all completely part of enjoying a painting.

It's all very well people saying they don't like a Mark Rothko, but until you stand in front of one of his huge paintings, you can't even get close to really appreciating what his work is about or the sense of scale.

Pretentious artsy rubbish. The picture just doesn't interest me.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Pretentious artsy rubbish. The picture just doesn't interest me.

Whatever.