Would something like this actually be painted by Andy Warhol?
http://www.amazon.com/Muhammed-Ali-II-180/dp/B00E6HWXRG/ref=...
Amazon launches Amazon Art marketplace
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#52quick question: does anyone know of a service that serves free (as in »free beer«) art (paintings, photography, illustrations etc.) to download in high resolution so you can print them yourself?
Not a unified one, however most museums have decent interfaces to their collections these days. I would highly recommend the Met Museum in New York's catalog, for instance. Some produce limited resolutions or force you to decode some kind of image-slicing, but in general you can get super high resolution copies for free that would be suitable for personal use.
And if you want an api to the met museums art... I made http://scrapi.org . Full disclosure: I work there.
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#53Seriously??? Is this a joke? http://www.amazon.com/Crease-Constellation-2/dp/B00E67R24U/r...
Probably not easy to cast aluminum to look like crumpled paper. Probably takes as much time and effort as a week working on a web app.
It's cast directly from the paper. It sounds complicated.
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#54I just don't get it, 20k for pieces like this: http://www.amazon.com/Firecracker/dp/B00E70BZ3K/ref=sr_1_22?... I wonder if people would appraise it quite as highly without context, and the painter's life story.
Art is a racket. Not art as the human endeavor of expression, or art as the appreciation of beauty. Art as a business is ABSOLUTELY a racket in the same way that dutch tulips were a racket once upon a time. Nothing wrong with that at all in my book.
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#55I'm a fan of society6 -- sure it's not expensive art, but you can buy some pretty cool stretched canvasses for $85-$150 depending on the size you want. Of course you're also getting printed somewhat mass-manufactured stuff instead of one-of-a-kind pieces.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're too poor to own art whose primary defining characteristic as art is that it's too expensive for poor people to own.
Link to poor people art please? (And please don't let it be Homer Simpson art---i.e. garbage smashed together. And I don't count digital prints as art.)
Find your local art college and attend their graduation show.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're too poor to own art whose primary defining characteristic as art is that it's too expensive for poor people to own.
Link to poor people art please? (And please don't let it be Homer Simpson art---i.e. garbage smashed together. And I don't count digital prints as art.)
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#58I just don't get it, 20k for pieces like this: http://www.amazon.com/Firecracker/dp/B00E70BZ3K/ref=sr_1_22?... I wonder if people would appraise it quite as highly without context, and the painter's life story.
I'm sure a lot of the price is supply and demand. There is only one of an original work available.
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#59I just don't get it, 20k for pieces like this: http://www.amazon.com/Firecracker/dp/B00E70BZ3K/ref=sr_1_22?... I wonder if people would appraise it quite as highly without context, and the painter's life story.
I'm sure a lot of the price is supply and demand. There is only one of an original work available.
And he's dead, so he's not making any more.
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#60I just don't get it, 20k for pieces like this: http://www.amazon.com/Firecracker/dp/B00E70BZ3K/ref=sr_1_22?... I wonder if people would appraise it quite as highly without context, and the painter's life story.
Art is a racket. Not art as the human endeavor of expression, or art as the appreciation of beauty. Art as a business is ABSOLUTELY a racket in the same way that dutch tulips were a racket once upon a time. Nothing wrong with that at all in my book.
for the most part, art is a system that society affords itself to observe itself.