[cwkoss]

I walked away from this thinking the $69M image was much cooler than I expected it to be.

Its like a representation of the artist's whole body of work, ~4000 lower quality sketches progressing into ~1000 in his current style.

I feel like this art critic is not in touch with meme culture. Many of the examples contained were quite striking and interesting, don't find drawings of dicks or naked people particularly shocking or objectionable.

Heck, I'd say his work is more interesting to look at than bowls of fruit and portraits of historical figures.

[birdyrooster]

it's not shocking, it's mediocre renditions of things which were common art during the last 15 years and put together, the sum still really isn't worth more than the parts

people are willing to waste untold sums of money to feel sophisticated

[gala8y]

Exactly. Instagram is literally flooded with art of this kind, very high in quality and creative as hell.

<snark> Maybe, if you don't grasp too much of a chaos of a modern world, you just want one piece of art from one artist to contemplate and discuss with your fellow travelers, behind closed doors of your castles. </snark>

[dash2]

If your idea of traditional art is "bowls of fruit and historical figures", then I'd respectfully suggest that you may not be hugely in touch with art....

[cwkoss]

Yeah, I think 90% of museum art was made for old dead barons and aristocrats to whom I share little similarity.

[the_other]

And 100% of that stuff takes the piss out of the people it was made for in subtle and clever ways. It's deeper than you think, but you have to read around rather than look at the art to get it.

[cwkoss]

Hmm, that sounds interesting.

Could you point me to a good example of art subverting its patron?

[sneak]

What you said may be true, but pop art that just regurgitates the standard cast of evening news characters (US presidents and presidential candidates and the royal family) usually, even if super well executed, comes off as low effort and uncreative. It’s the visual equivalent of a comic making jokes about airline food and the opposite sex.

None of the items highlighted by this article break that stereotype.

You'd have to have some serious Giger-level shit to make a digital painting involving H. Clinton and Trump remotely interesting in 2021. This is... not that.