Ah hell, at least this is a better painting than that.
UPDATE: ABC News weighs in (sorry, I just figured out how to do screenshots, and it's soooo addicting).
Not to morally legitimize wasting $95 million on a painting (at least it's probably a good financial investment), but it's funny how they don't ask these kinds of questions when our government spends over $278 BILLION (and counting) on an illegal war.
First soften em up with a carpet bombing of paintings by emerging artists, some smart mid-career paintings for the heavily cultural areas, then, wham, 3000 precision targeted Picassos to bring them to democracy.
ReplyDeleteArt is not a mirror, it is a hammer (!)
Better to have such a Picasso, than 95.000.000 printed on paper.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't it appear that the Picasso sale news and the depiction of the terrorist by the anonymous court artist are somehow related to each other? But how exactly -- I cannot understand. .. Art in context .. Did Picasso foresee it?
ReplyDeleteI blogged 640 pieces one could buy for that one paiting, with money left over, on my blog, www.pinkmoose.blogspot.com
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