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

Del.Monte · 12-09-2016 09:39PM #1

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 · 12-09-2016 09:42PM

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 · 12-09-2016 09:42PM

I like it. Way worse sells for way more.

me_irl · 12-09-2016 09:42PM

Subjective innit?

Del.Monte · 12-09-2016 09:43PM

But what is it painted on?

XR3i · 12-09-2016 09:44PM

supersonic-bass

Ken. · 12-09-2016 09:45PM

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

BorneTobyWilde · 12-09-2016 09:45PM

Rather have a bowl of COCO POPS !

Cortina_MK_IV · 12-09-2016 09:48PM

Coco pops box with personalised spoon.

Edit: Doh!... Beated to it.

BorneTobyWilde · 12-09-2016 09:50PM

Cortina_MK_IV wrote: »

Coco pops box with personalised spoon.

Edit: Doh!... Beated to it.

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

maudgonner · 12-09-2016 09:52PM

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

endacl · 12-09-2016 09:52PM

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 · 12-09-2016 09:53PM

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.

12-09-2016 09:54PM

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 · 12-09-2016 09:54PM

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 · 12-09-2016 09:57PM

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 · 12-09-2016 09:58PM

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 .

12-09-2016 09:59PM

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 · 12-09-2016 10:01PM

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

Lackey · 12-09-2016 10:01PM

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 · 12-09-2016 10:01PM

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 · 12-09-2016 10:02PM

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 · 12-09-2016 10:03PM

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 · 12-09-2016 10:06PM

Shush, you're only encouraging them

Rothko · 12-09-2016 10:14PM

I like it.

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

BlaasForRafa · 12-09-2016 10:30PM

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 · 12-09-2016 10:30PM

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.

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

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