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by RexetBlell 3128 days ago
It's considered to be beautiful because it's expensive and valued. The causation is in the other direction than most people think when it comes to gold and beauty.

It's the same with expensive paintings. A painting is considered to be beautiful (some are actually ugly) and have some deep meaning only after it's sold for a lot of money.
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nasredin 3128 days ago
This is an interesting topic.

I too thought most of this "throw paint onto a canvas and charge rich suckers thousands of dollars" is bullshit. But after seeing some Picassos IIRC, I realized, yes there is a method to the madness.

Even if the painting wasn't displayed in a fancy museum, I think I would still have thought it was "special".

But those "artists" that pour paint onto the canvas - complete bullshit.

If a five year old can do it - it's not art except to the parents of those "artists"

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RexetBlell 3128 days ago
This painting sold for millions: https://nypost.com/2013/05/15/43-8-million-for-this/

Reason: it's complicated. But something that's DEFINITELY required for this to be possible is scarcity. The artist is not alive any more. It would never sell for that much if he were still alive.

True digital scarcity is a hard problem to solve (because computers are good at copying things). Bitcoin was the first system that was able to solve this problem.

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