Can anybody help me with this 'Art' - please!

Del.Monte

This thing sold for €5,000 this evening. It's horrible and an outrageous piece of rubbish from the late Basil Blackshaw - like something he might have doodled on in his studio, But, what is it painted on? It looks like an old cereal packet and at 9" x 9" it could be.

Anybody?

http://morganodriscoll.com/art/lot-1-basil-blackshaw-hrha-rua-b1932/40149/?SearchString=&LotNumSearch=&GuidePrice=&OrderBy=&ArtistID=&ArrangeBy=list&NumPerPage=15&offset=0

The Wolverine

I actually thought you weren't being serious but it looks like a cardboard box or something alright

Then again it seems like you could **** on a blank envelope these days and it would be classed as "art"

Dr Crayfish

I like it. Way worse sells for way more.

me_irl

Subjective innit?

Del.Monte

But what is it painted on?

XR3i

supersonic-bass

Ken.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQVnRKIpzAU

BorneTobyWilde

Rather have a bowl of COCO POPS !

Cortina_MK_IV

Coco pops box with personalised spoon.

Edit: Doh!... Beated to it.

BorneTobyWilde

Cortina_MK_IV wrote: »

Coco pops box with personalised spoon.

Edit: Doh!... Beated to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5QGkOGZubQ

maudgonner

Looks like a magazine cover to me, with the title 'Spoon'. And Google says there is a fashion photography magazine by that name.

endacl

http://downtownvienna.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/12751403_963326367091535_372290633_n.jpg

I stood in front of this piece of pox in the Albertina in Vienna about a month ago, honestly wondering how the artist survived for 57 years without dying of repeated kicks in the hole. Sometimes I wish I had access to a time machine so I could go back and preempt the Warhols of the world, be acclaimed a genius, and die a very smug, wealthy and (hopefully) elderly man for a total of about 20 minutes work.

On the other hand, the painting did provoke an emotional response in me that the Cezannes and Matisses in the room above didn't. They were more 'oh. Isn't that lovely'. I had more of a visceral reaction to the big square of nothing. It's the one I remember, and the one I immediately thought about. I don't like modern art, but it has an effect on me. It challenges. I make a point of visiting IMMA once a year to get creatively annoyed. It's all daft, but provokes a response. The best yet has to have been a grainy, looped video of 'the artist' sitting against a red brick wall, pissing herself.

It's a load of mebollix. All of it. But I'm still here posting about it...

failinis

You don't like his work? Grand.
You whose work I don't really like? Pissarro.
Thats fine, its all subjective.

It is like someone saying they like all food. Does not work like that.

Its likely a sketch he done which means anything to hand, be it envelope or cereal box.

Was on the site a few days ago, browsing.

Surprised the Percy French ones went so cheap, given the name recognition. The Jack B Yeats Christmas Card went for about 4 times the bidding as it stood last Friday.

Del.Monte

It is - thanks everybody! I wouldn't have got that in a month of Sundays as I haven't eaten cereal for years.

http://cerealoffers.com/Kelloggs/Cornflakes/2010/Personalised_Spoon/personalised_spoon.html

Del.Monte

endacl wrote: »

http://downtownvienna.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/12751403_963326367091535_372290633_n.jpg

I stood in front of this piece of pox in the Albertina in Vienna about a month ago, honestly wondering how the artist survived for 57 years without dying of repeated kicks in the hole. Sometimes I wish I had access to a time machine so I could go back and preempt the Warhols of the world, be acclaimed a genius, and die a very smug, wealthy and (hopefully) elderly man for a total of about 20 minutes work.

On the other hand, the painting did provoke an emotional response in me that the Cezannes and Matisses in the room above didn't. They were more 'oh. Isn't that lovely'. I had more of a visceral reaction to the big square of nothing. It's the one I remember, and the one I immediately thought about. I don't like modern art, but it has an effect on me. It challenges. I make a point of visiting IMMA once a year to get creatively annoyed. It's all daft, but provokes a response. The best yet has to have been a grainy, looped video of 'the artist' sitting against a red brick wall, pissing herself.

It's a load of mebollix. All of it. But I'm still here posting about it...

I've love art but I'm afraid to visit IMMA as I might lose it altogether.

BorneTobyWilde

Del.Monte wrote: »

It is - thanks everybody! I wouldn't have got that in a month of Sundays as I haven't eaten cereal for years.

http://cerealoffers.com/Kelloggs/Cornflakes/2010/Personalised_Spoon/personalised_spoon.html

Dates it at least.
Does than mean it's fake given fact it's on such a recent cereal box .

Del.Monte

Del.Monte wrote: »

I've love art but I'm afraid to visit IMMA as I might lose it altogether.

I found it just...boring.

I really must get into the National Gallery at some stage.

fleet_admiral

I did something very similar to the toilet bowl this morning after the Guinness and red hot Indian I had last night

Lackey

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/a-pair-of-glasses-were-left-on-the-floor-at-museum-and-everyone-mistook-it-for-art-a7049551.html

The person taking the photo made me laugh

Del.Monte

Deleted User wrote: »

Was on the site a few days ago, browsing.

Surprised the Percy French ones went so cheap, given the name recognition. The Jack B Yeats Christmas Card went for about 4 times the bidding as it stood last Friday.

Percy French's paintings are still just about affordable but you don't get much for your money - size wise. There was a lot of worse abstract stuff in that sale than the Blackshaw and it nearly all sold - the Celtic Tiger is back.

endacl

Del.Monte wrote: »

I've love art but I'm afraid to visit IMMA as I might lose it altogether.

If you do go, and see a tall guy, early 40s, walking around muttering to himself, slightly faraway look in his eyes, and possibly with steam coming out of his ears.....




... come up and say Hi! It's always nice to meet a fellow Boardsie!

The_Valeyard

fleet_admiral wrote: »

I did something very similar to the toilet bowl this morning after the Guinness and red hot Indian I had last night

Wow, she was that good it inspired you to do art.

marketty

Shush, you're only encouraging them

Rothko

I like it.

On another note, I've been to the IMMA and I think most of the stuff in there is awful.

BlaasForRafa

The modern art scene is pretty inexplicable. An exact copy of a piece of commercial sci-fi book art sells for millions because it's done by one of the darlings of the modern fine-art world while the original artist got a few hundred quid for the piece it was ripped off from http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-5-7-million-magazine-illustration

Sprog 4

The Wolverine wrote: »

Then again it seems like you could **** on a blank envelope these days and it would be classed as "art"

Not getting much interest as of yet. Maybe if I keep all these smelly envelopes around until I die they'll be worth a fortune. I'll leave them to my grandchildren in my will.