Voodoo Billy wrote:fat cherry wrote:Psychedelicfur wrote: The art also won’t hold its value in later years for a bunch of reasons so this was the perfect time to get rid of it. I have some paintings that can go at a later date as well.
Lucky you're saying that on a forum with only four people on it :-) I bought the set of postcards when they came out which are somewhere in a drawer. Mrs FC doesn't blink at paying loads for bits of art (I'm a bit 'how bloody much?) but none of this stuff was her bag. Don't mind a few stripes myself.
I bought Will's original 'Caligula' and 'Chocolate Orange' from the first Penny Lane exhibition. Like Psychedelicfur mentioned, I doubt they're worth any more now than when I bought them but I like them as paintings not just that they were painted by Will. I do like the odd bit of art but having worked in a gallery / museum for over a decade am well aware of the bullshit, arse-licking and pretentiousness involved on all sides, that plus the fact that a very large proportion of the work exhibited was absolute bollocks, but there were a few (and probably unsurprisingly, from the least pretentious and self-obsessed of the 'artists') very talented individuals which stood out a bloody mile from the rest of the dirge.
Tend to agree there on the absolute bollocks. There was something in Manchester Art Gallery a year of so ago. For some reason a piece was removed and or people were leaving comments on Post It notes. Probably as some sort of Art in itself. Mrs T Penny noticed one that we both agreed on said something along the lines of "Art is to comfort the discomforted and discomfort the comforted" You could also quote Wilde that All Art Is Useless. I think I have those right but being an old Bunnyfan I could be wrong