Would you pay $2.1 million for this?

[jjjack]

Anyone here like purple? LOL

I do.

Violet Ice (Kama Sutra), 1991
by Jeff Koons



This glass sculpture sold recently for $2.1 million.

What would you pay for it?

If it were gay instead of str8, I might shell out a couple hundred dollars. Might make a nice contrast with the blue-gray marble in my master bath.

Just kidding.

 

[brmstn69]

Murakami’s “my lonesome cowboy” = $15 million.



Further proof that art patrons are fucking nuts...

 

[noiraud]

And so we have proof that some people have more money than brains...:thinking:

 

[jjjack]

Here's another view:



I'm the biggest fan of jerking there is, but somehow this makes me urp. Not sure why. Maybe it's the pencil boner.

I guess viewers are supposed to ask what it is he's trying to "rope" with his lariat of .

But where ya gonna display it so your bullionaire-head homies can see you just scrapped 15 Really Big ones to pay for it? The alcove in the banquet room reserved for holidays?

 

[dargelos]

No thanks, we have enough junk in our house already.
It shows why the 1% need to evade their taxes, so they can show off their exquisite taste by wasting money on tat like this.

 

[brmstn69]

Here's another view:




But where ya gonna display it so your bullionaire-head homies can see you just scrapped 15 Really Big ones to pay for it? The alcove in the banquet room reserved for holidays?

Considering that it's 9 1/2 feet tall, the only place I could think to display it in my house is the entry hall. So it would be the very first thing all those cute little Mormon missionaries will see when they come knocking on my door...:devil:

***Note to self***
If I ever win the lottery, I must get some local artist to produce a knockoff for $10k...

 

[HotDougBunz]

***Note to self***
If I ever win the lottery, I must get some local artist to produce a knockoff for $10k...

More like a LOCO artist that would put their name on such trash:rofl:

 

[dargelos]

If you won the lottery you could afford a real boy to stand in your lobby and jack off all day

 

[zeropolis79]

I wouldn't buy it myself but I DO like the colours...

 

[HustleMe15]

Here's another view:



I'm the biggest fan of jerking there is, but somehow this makes me urp. Not sure why. Maybe it's the pencil boner.

I guess viewers are supposed to ask what it is he's trying to "rope" with his lariat of .

But where ya gonna display it so your bullionaire-head homies can see you just scrapped 15 Really Big ones to pay for it? The alcove in the banquet room reserved for holidays?

Would be an interesting thing for friends to see when they came over if that was in our living room. LOL

 

[jjjack]

And so we have proof that some people have more money than brains...:thinking:

Uh, are we talking weight for weight? Or some abstract, unquantifiable value?

Somehow this thread got hijacked by a super trashy painting. The Koons is actually quite attractive. And as art glass goes, it ain't exactly hay. Looks like it took considerable skill to make. I just wish the subject matter could have been a little less creepy-crawly. Something along the lines of Phosphorus and Hesperus (1881) by Evelyn Pickering de Morgan would have been nice. Look it up. That has a touching homoerotic suggestiveness to it plus an interesting narrative grounded in Greek astronomy and mythology.

 

[trencherman]

And so we have proof that some people have more money than brains...:thinking:

Brings to mind the old saw "a fool and his money are soon parted." But that's okay, the top 1% is lawful prey for any old racket.

 

[trencherman]

Somehow this thread got hijacked by a super trashy painting.

A totally subjective opinion IMHO. I don't like the purple glass knick-knack at any price either but you see, one man's meat is another man's emetic.

 

[jjjack]

A totally subjective opinion IMHO. I don't like the purple glass knick-knack at any price either but you see, one man's meat is another man's emetic.

I'll be the first to admit every opinion on this site is subjective, especially mine. Even the frickin' Supremes are pretty far from objective these days. Probably never were. I'm talking about the Court, not the pop group. lol

One factor not mentioned on this page so far is that these acquisitions are not just the whims of starry-eyed art lovers (or art worshippers). They're also investments. A one-percenter would be a fool to park his lucre in a work with any likelihood of depreciating in value. That's the big diff I see tween the Koons and the Murakami. If the latter rises any higher in value, I would be surprised. But I could be wrong. Whatever fool bought it probably won't miss his $15 mil even slightly. Boo hoo. If he was dumb enuff to buy trash in the first place, who cares?

I don't see the Koons as a mere knickknack. Too well-crafted for that. On the other hand, I do see it as way overpriced. But then most of the offerings at Christie's and Sotheby's usually are. If you can find a safe place to store such a work, then it's a relatively safe place to park money you don't want to see pissed away by destabilizing governments.

That being said, I'm all for taxing the 1% at much higher rates. even though they'll squawk about how much they're already paying. I don't care how "oppressed" they think they are.

What's the latest economic atrocity I read about? Something like 85 of the world's richest people own more wealth than the bottom half of the world's population combined? That's almost 3.5 billion people. Let them eat shots?

 

[trencherman]

An earnest peroration on investing in art in a porn site forum, I guess, is the internet equivalent of the serious discussion of art and antiques one occasionally overhears in a leather bar. What I wanted to point out though is the pathetic self-assurance of certain people in showing no hesitation in publicly making a distinction between a depiction of copulation in purple crystal on one hand and a plastic porn manga figure on another. The open and anonymous nature of the www, I suspect, invites otherwise cirspect people to throw caution to the wind.

 

[Otage]

Many art pieces are like stocks, the value is made by the buying price. And what comes to objective opinnions, I think many of the 'masters' paintings are overpriced, but that's just because the people collecting them have more money than many even wants to own. Like Van Goghs paintings, I understand why they are valued and admired, and I understand the impact of his paintings, but personally I don't care about them. They are rich peoples collactables, not for everyone.

 

[dancap48066]

Interesting stuff, but I can think of many better ways to spend THAT kind of money