Pay artists who are still alive! Why should an artist struggle their entire lives to make a living then sell their work for millions of dollars only after they’re dead, when the collectors and galleries get to reap all the benefits of their work? The art world is a scam.
@@michael-k. art especially this kind of modern art contributes very very little to the productive world. I agree with the OP, if you dont like the pay you're making as an artist then go get a real job
You left out the best part of the story -- when an art professor who was hired to authenticate the paintings instead wrote a report questioning their authenticity and asking for her name to be removed from the exhibition, the museum's director and CEO sent her hostile and threatening messages trying to bully her into silence. When his crude messages came out, he got fired.
The thing is, there's absolutely no motivation by these art galleries to actually verify the authenticity of their art so yeah who knows if half the paintings we see in any museum and that you paid a ticket to see, are actually fake.
Its not an art gallery, its a museum. And both typically do exhaustive research, by specialists who take their work seriously. Not in this case, but why are you commenting on what galleries or museums do, if you don't know?
Actually there’s every motivation to verify everything. It’s the opposite of what you’ve said. Reputations are on the line and the history of ownership and verification of provenance is taken very serious
You have literally no idea what you’re talking about. Everything is on the line if either an art gallery or a museum knowingly shows a fake in its midsts. Why even bother trying to be an armchair art insider when you literally know nothing about how the art market/ art world functions?
@@texas1949 We need the original artists to verify future art somehow while they are living (yes even if they haven't made it big yet) because other people are just too unknowing to tell if it is real or not.
For the interested in understanding why Basquiat is such a big deal, painter and director Julian Schnabel's first movie was "Basquiat," starring Jeffrey Wright, and with David Bowie as Andy Warhol. Schnabel knew Basquiat, so he gives a poetic account of his life, and why other artists like himself admired him. With Gary Oldman, Dennis Hopper, Courtney Love, Benicio del Toro and many more. Schnabel put all his friends and family to work. He didn't got permission to use Basquiat's originals in the movie, so he made the paintings himself. First thing I thought, those were the suspicious pictures in the news 🤣
For those truly interested there are numerous books and other docs on Jean-Michel Basquiat like BOOM: FOR REAL, THE RADIANT CHILD, A QUICK KILLING IN ART, etc. Schnabel's film was well-executed but flawed fantasy in so many areas.
@@reimourrpower9357 Of course it was. That's why I called it "poetic." But it's interesting that a painter makes such an effort as to become a filmmaker just to tell the story of someone he could have seen as a rival.
Basquiat one of the most over rated artists of all time lol. He just made up a cool name and white people used his art to make money. His art is trash and everyone are suckers.
Since none of the artworks were offered for sale, its actually unusual for them to get involved. Unless the Feds are claiming that ticket or merch sales based on the idea the paintings are authentic constitutes fraud, which is possible.
Geez, do museums not do their due diligent research anymore? There should be a certificate of authenticity signed, have a reputable auction house verify it for you, have multiple experts look at the painting as well. This museum must have known something was up and still displayed the paintings. Brings down the entire reputation of the museum to have one of your curators do this.
"reputable auction house" Auctions houses are businesses there to make money. If a piece was fake and the knew it but knew no one would ever know, most would sell it and take their commission.
@@hyperiondragon No jay z lame ass has professional photography pix of him dressed exactly like jean-michel and grew his dreads out the same way. He also owns some of his pieces. That couple is so out of touch. Can't stand them. No coincidence.
Basquiat has been used even when he was alive. I hope they find the culprits.This is why Artists have to put their works under careful management so when they die ,they won't be discrepancies.
This isn’t the first time..and it won’t be the last. That’s why they have a forgery department in the FBI. There been at least twenty different artists that have been successfully forged and sold to major galleries/ museums in the last ten years. It’s too lucrative a business for someone not to try. In quite a few cases there’s been experts who have been fooled; People who knew the artist personally or studied them for their whole lives.
And the other thing is that so many artists as they’re working give away works or use them as literal currency to survive and it’s almost impossible to know distinctly work that hasn’t been shown per se but was given as a gift or as a payment that only might’ve been seen by the artist themselves. I don’t envy the task of proving or disproving these “discoveries”.
It's not just the FedEx label that makes them impossible...there's just something that feels "wrong" about most of them. Some look plausible (forgers don't end up being consistent when they're straining to create a credulous knock-off), but most look like somebody doing a "cover version", that is "in the vein of JM Basquiat". It's kinda a no-brainer that the former owner of the pieces, who had no right (financially) to be owning so many Basquiats in the first place, stated that he didn't actually own any original Basquiats. As a side-story, there's a thriving business of legitimate reproduction painting "in the style of so and so" which employs many talented painters, the product of which end up as background art in your favorite movie or television series. Think that's a Rothko in the background? Think again! These pieces were either out and out criminal forgery to fool galleries, or they were the product of some legitimate art direction enterprise as I described. The Orlando Museum is operated by buffoons who twisted themselves in knots trying to buy into and maintain the conviction that they'd scored a major coup, in spite of their status as an unremarkable gallery-style podunk museum in the middle of pop culture Florida. What's that thing called...?...oh, yeah, gaslighting yourself. Exhibitor beware.
I saw The Odyssey: A Retelling by Lisa Bachman Jones exhibit in the Nashville Parthenon and I was like…WTF!?? Just look it up for yourself man, indeed bullshit. You’re telling me these kindergarten art projects have something to do with The Odyssey?
I found my son's painting in a folder I saved...wanted him to see what he did in Elementary School. I wonder could I get a showing of his best work. I really need to get on this, find an Art Gallery for a showing. No need to verify authenticity...I'm the Mama, it's been done.
Ironically, both Basquiat and Warhol would likely be tickled that establishment galleries, experts and patrons were fooled. (As long as they got a hefty cut of the gate.)
Hopefully JMB would be appalled at how little effort went into studying his technique by whomever produced these works, but would probably dig the irony. And that of his family charging $60 a ticket to their NYC show. What struggling artist can afford THAT?
I’ve been to a dozen shows on the last 10 years or more and just on my knowledge as an admirer can tell you what is shown here is OBVIOUSLY wrong. Some are just RIDICULOUSLY. I could’ve taken you to the NYC show and then the Florida show and trust any first timers would pick up that those are OBVIOUSLY fakeS.
The 25 paintings are worth collectively 100 million I think, and do some research and Basquiat and his life because while his work is very abstract and even crude looking, it is packed with symbolism and messages that no kindergartener can express or pick up on lol.
He also shows a really good understanding of color and composition, and he's also very capable of making traditional art and drawing/painting realistically, but it's not his preferred way of expressing himself, it doesn't feel as meaningful to him.
I'm an art historian, and I think they looked like Basquiat. I've seen a lot of his work. I've also seen some fakes, and they were clearly not him. These look very good, and I saw nothing that made me think they were fake by the look of them alone.
@@shariwelch8760 Well, of course they "look *like* Basquiat". But give me a few minutes sitting down together and viewing and talking about them. There are many particularities that are just plain goofy. Figuration, line, color-that feels like they were done by someone who was trying too hard...or not hard enough, ironically...JMB was very sophisticated, and *consistent* in what he put down, as you should well know. Could they be from a very early stage of his development? The kind of things mature artists try to destroy as they realize their voice? Possibly. But I don't even buy that. These seem to be emulating his mature style, and just getting it wrong. Not so wrong it didn't fool a lot of eager to believe folks though.
@@shariwelch8760 No!!! If you think these look like Basquiat's, sorry but you're as good at telling Basquiat's apart from fakes as that ceo was. I'm also an artist and i could tell from a mile away they were fakes. They look absolutely nothing like his work.
They know there is alot of fakes of Basquiat. A bunch of his friends spent time in prison for faking them and the art world knows which ones are fake and not because there is so much documentation especially photos of him with the pieces. I swear they wont let this man rest with the sneak dissing saying his works are easy to make.
So predictable, especially when you consider so many dissed his work from the get-go as some kind of naïf's raw, primitive accidents. This is the lens I think so many today still look through when they see his work.
There's always a reason this happens. Someone is desperate to prove their credentials. That was the case at Knoedler, with the woman who is still in denial about it all. Bizarrely, she opened another gallery and is still in business, although not with the woman who was feeding her the fakes. The Orlando Museum fellow(s?) were probably desperate to get put on the map as a happening place. I'm guessing it will hurt them big time now, but the public is also desperate so who knows?
Why is this considered art? It’s absolutely revolting to look at. Our world is clearly plagued with mental disease when this is given attention. We ought to be ashamed of ourselves.
I'm no Art expert, But can tell this is not his work. I have admired his work as a artist for a long time and know also as a artist that these are not his work. I myself have been compared or have been told my work looks like his.
Their are a count less than 1,100 Paintings by JM, excluding.......ones he made for friends and folks who don’t know they have one. Meaning he drew more times than not but the works aren’t this clean.
So then don’t buy any of his art. Y’all still believe stories from the Bible about people getting pregnant but they never had sex and we don’t try to take that away from you. Shut up and let people enjoy things.
@@prdamico you’re both real sad for not keeping things to yourselves. At least this man made something of his life and has made art that people love even after he’s passed. It’s a lot more than you can say you’ve achieved.
What had the curators & painter believing they could get away w/that weak AF fraud? Edit: changed artist to painter. No legitimate artist would do that!👿
I kind of like the fake paintings idea.. thanks to those fakers, I really feel inspired to make my own and just have my own museum in my house. No one will see it and no one will care about them. And it’s my own little art museum full of things I like to look at. Think I’ll start doing that now! :)
Art sure is subjective, isn't it? Sometimes it blows my mind what some people are drawn to, and the money it can rake in. Guess we're each allowed our cups of tea...
Basquiat's art was terrible. It was bought and paid for by the elite who once bought the art on speculation in hopes of being investments. They realized early that they over paid for the art. As a result they doubled down in their investments because of the amount they were posed to lose. This work exists as an example of how art is treated as a commodity and not for it's artistic validity.
@@vbm2119 You don't understand the Art World and art as investment commodities. They will continue to go up in price, as each person sells it. No one sells art for less than they paid for it. But it's not valued for the artistic nature of the piece, it's valued based on the money spent (invested) on it. His art has never been amazing. But in the world of Art Rhetoric, it's dressed up like the Emperor. No one with a stake in the market can call it for what it is, without looking uncultured (as the story goes). Sounds like you need to take some Art History Classes.
@@jazznickel No, YOU don't understand the art world nor art as an investment. Continuing to state that his art "has never been amazing" proves that you are clueless. Art is subjective but the value of it is based on attribution, provenance, historical significance, thrill of auction, social status, and authenticity. Van Gogh art is as mediocre as it comes but his exhibits continue to be promoted. Basquiat is popular and highly valued because his art derives from his cultural experience, integrated figures from a medical book called Gray's Anatomy (which is why alot of his art has skulls) along with the controversy surrounding topics like blackness, low income housing, etc. Basquiat was mentored by Andy Warhol, and the paintings are purposefully drawn as child like. In terms of art as an investment - popularity & exclusivity are the main factors, has NOTHING to do with selling lower than what you purchased. A Raoul Dufy sold for $350K last month versus the $460K it was purchased for in 2009. It lost 30% of its value. Art isn't a liquid investment- it's an alternative asset class, it's value is based on perception and Basquiat is highly perceived as being a great artist. Get over it.
Wait a min….. y’all mean to tell me my niece’s paintings from kindergarten are worth millions? Where can I sell them? I can’t believe what passes for art these days.
@@DavidLS1 it’s cus it’s exactly what it looks like some people actually think for there self instead being amazed by garbage art because the artist is famous for some unknown reason
@@truthordare197 What can one say to a person who posts the tired old comment that their nine year old could have created a Picasso or Jackson Pollock?
So sad the high tech replaced real art . There are no real artists anymore . You can try to say there is . But the last artists i remember is the guy who did all the Christmas paintings in the 80s and 90s . But no artists today .... ...
it bothers me when talented artists waste more time trying to copy works of art for cash instead of just, making the art. i'm sure if the original artist who made these fakes was able to get them exhibitted under their own name, they would get praise. these are good works of art. technology has advanced to a point where fakes are easily detectable. there is computer programs that use fluid simulations and ai technology to determine the validity of paintings allegedly made by pollock. so it just seems to be a waste of talent in the long-run. if you're an artist, don't do this. just make your own art.
That's not how the art industry works. You can be the greatest painter alive, but if you aren't given an in by the establishment, your paintings will never be more than garage sale fillers. If you're the worst trash artist but a famous gallery owner gives you a show, you're suddenly the hot, new artist who's selling their works for millions. The actual art itself isn't important, only whether the name on it is.
Dude, they’re all real. But the box they came in wasn’t art and they thought it was. “Discrepancy between number of paintings” yeah, cause that other painting is the box. 🤦🏻♀️
@@joesimon2029 there’s so many different artists you could call a scam and yet you pick Basquiat, whatever dude. At least he made a name for himself to last long past his own life. I doubt that anyone in these comments here will come close to that.
I always get a kick out of the Jean Michel haters. They have no idea what real art is and will always retort , "my kindergartener could have done that". Really? If that's the case, why aren't you a millionaire?
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Pay artists who are still alive! Why should an artist struggle their entire lives to make a living then sell their work for millions of dollars only after they’re dead, when the collectors and galleries get to reap all the benefits of their work?
The art world is a scam.
So they can draw like a 5 year old child instead of getting a real job and make a living sign me up.
It is a scam it’s how Uber rich and insurance companies to money launder and commit insurance fraud! That’s why it’s always dead guys art
@@bigbadchevy why can’t art be a “real” job?
@@michael-k. art especially this kind of modern art contributes very very little to the productive world. I agree with the OP, if you dont like the pay you're making as an artist then go get a real job
These mouth breathers didn't even comprehend what the op posted and went on some weird tantrums... Interesting.. maybe it's the lead chips they ate
You left out the best part of the story -- when an art professor who was hired to authenticate the paintings instead wrote a report questioning their authenticity and asking for her name to be removed from the exhibition, the museum's director and CEO sent her hostile and threatening messages trying to bully her into silence. When his crude messages came out, he got fired.
Never knew the backstory thank you!
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Omg that’s crazy
Wtf
The thing is, there's absolutely no motivation by these art galleries to actually verify the authenticity of their art so yeah who knows if half the paintings we see in any museum and that you paid a ticket to see, are actually fake.
Its not an art gallery, its a museum. And both typically do exhaustive research, by specialists who take their work seriously. Not in this case, but why are you commenting on what galleries or museums do, if you don't know?
Actually there’s every motivation to verify everything. It’s the opposite of what you’ve said. Reputations are on the line and the history of ownership and verification of provenance is taken very serious
You have literally no idea what you’re talking about. Everything is on the line if either an art gallery or a museum knowingly shows a fake in its midsts. Why even bother trying to be an armchair art insider when you literally know nothing about how the art market/ art world functions?
You’re kidding, right? No dealer, museum or gallery will accept any art piece without an exhaustive search of it’s provenance
@@texas1949 We need the original artists to verify future art somehow while they are living (yes even if they haven't made it big yet) because other people are just too unknowing to tell if it is real or not.
For the interested in understanding why Basquiat is such a big deal, painter and director Julian Schnabel's first movie was "Basquiat," starring Jeffrey Wright, and with David Bowie as Andy Warhol. Schnabel knew Basquiat, so he gives a poetic account of his life, and why other artists like himself admired him.
With Gary Oldman, Dennis Hopper, Courtney Love, Benicio del Toro and many more. Schnabel put all his friends and family to work.
He didn't got permission to use Basquiat's originals in the movie, so he made the paintings himself. First thing I thought, those were the suspicious pictures in the news 🤣
For those truly interested there are numerous books and other docs on Jean-Michel Basquiat like BOOM: FOR REAL, THE RADIANT CHILD, A QUICK KILLING IN ART, etc. Schnabel's film was well-executed but flawed fantasy in so many areas.
@@reimourrpower9357 Of course it was. That's why I called it "poetic." But it's interesting that a painter makes such an effort as to become a filmmaker just to tell the story of someone he could have seen as a rival.
Basquiat one of the most over rated artists of all time lol. He just made up a cool name and white people used his art to make money. His art is trash and everyone are suckers.
And he wasn't his friend..they were foes n I definitely don't think he would approve of him telling his life story 💯
@@vickyeburton1133 Watch the movie first.
I too just found 54 Basquiat paintings buried underneath my garage. With a handwritten note from Basquiat himself verifying authenticity…
I just love how this is FBI worthy. When that kind of money is involved the feds are ON It!
Right? (Why can't they focus more on those packs of stolen "Snickers" crossing state lines instead?)
Since none of the artworks were offered for sale, its actually unusual for them to get involved. Unless the Feds are claiming that ticket or merch sales based on the idea the paintings are authentic constitutes fraud, which is possible.
Meanwhile black folks getting killed can’t see them with a telescope 👀👁
Geez, do museums not do their due diligent research anymore? There should be a certificate of authenticity signed, have a reputable auction house verify it for you, have multiple experts look at the painting as well. This museum must have known something was up and still displayed the paintings. Brings down the entire reputation of the museum to have one of your curators do this.
They have always been scammers and thieves.
"reputable auction house" Auctions houses are businesses there to make money. If a piece was fake and the knew it but knew no one would ever know, most would sell it and take their commission.
Jay-Z finally got the validation he was seeking as a old man Basquiat impersonator. So artful.
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yo. this was really funny.
Or are they just freeform and happen to look Basquiat-esque?
@@hyperiondragon deeper than the roots they share and the roots they share
@@hyperiondragon No jay z lame ass has professional photography pix of him dressed exactly like jean-michel and grew his dreads out the same way. He also owns some of his pieces. That couple is so out of touch. Can't stand them. No coincidence.
Basquiat has been used even when he was alive. I hope they find the culprits.This is why Artists have to put their works under careful management so when they die ,they won't be discrepancies.
Artist ????
lol, my kid with crayons could produce better artwork then this clown...
facts
This isn’t the first time..and it won’t be the last. That’s why they have a forgery department in the FBI. There been at least twenty different artists that have been successfully forged and sold to major galleries/ museums in the last ten years. It’s too lucrative a business for someone not to try. In quite a few cases there’s been experts who have been fooled; People who knew the artist personally or studied them for their whole lives.
And the other thing is that so many artists as they’re working give away works or use them as literal currency to survive and it’s almost impossible to know distinctly work that hasn’t been shown per se but was given as a gift or as a payment that only might’ve been seen by the artist themselves. I don’t envy the task of proving or disproving these “discoveries”.
It's not just the FedEx label that makes them impossible...there's just something that feels "wrong" about most of them. Some look plausible (forgers don't end up being consistent when they're straining to create a credulous knock-off), but most look like somebody doing a "cover version", that is "in the vein of JM Basquiat". It's kinda a no-brainer that the former owner of the pieces, who had no right (financially) to be owning so many Basquiats in the first place, stated that he didn't actually own any original Basquiats.
As a side-story, there's a thriving business of legitimate reproduction painting "in the style of so and so" which employs many talented painters, the product of which end up as background art in your favorite movie or television series. Think that's a Rothko in the background? Think again!
These pieces were either out and out criminal forgery to fool galleries, or they were the product of some legitimate art direction enterprise as I described. The Orlando Museum is operated by buffoons who twisted themselves in knots trying to buy into and maintain the conviction that they'd scored a major coup, in spite of their status as an unremarkable gallery-style podunk museum in the middle of pop culture Florida. What's that thing called...?...oh, yeah, gaslighting yourself. Exhibitor beware.
The Dali museum is in Florida.
Great comment.👍🏼
Yeah they don't look real
they definitely don't look like the real thing.
"In the manner of" (not "in the vein of").
This just shows that there is so much BS in the world of Art .
People are bullshit
In the art world, yes there is. But don't let that stop you from enjoying art.
With subject in question, yes he is a waste of time.
I saw The Odyssey: A Retelling by Lisa Bachman Jones exhibit in the Nashville Parthenon and I was like…WTF!?? Just look it up for yourself man, indeed bullshit. You’re telling me these kindergarten art projects have something to do with The Odyssey?
@@21stCenturySpaceOdyssey his work is a waste of time? We're discussing them so....?💜
I found my son's painting in a folder I saved...wanted him to see what he did in Elementary School. I wonder could I get a showing of his best work. I really need to get on this, find an Art Gallery for a showing. No need to verify authenticity...I'm the Mama, it's been done.
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The forger is clearly a master in his own right... he shouldn't hide behind a fellow artist. It's in bad form - and just RUDE!
Sadly he likely went money hungry and will do whatever he can to make the most money. It’s really sad
@@Thornton019hockey Doubt it. The forger likely was recompensed well.
No actually he's terrible at basquiat copies. WHy do you think no one believed they were basquiats.
@@jeanmichelbasquiat4444 Literally everyone believed it until one person questioned it.
@@cade8715 You mean you did. I started commenting on other posts as soon as i saw it that they were fake.
Ironically, both Basquiat and Warhol would likely be tickled that establishment galleries, experts and patrons were fooled. (As long as they got a hefty cut of the gate.)
Hopefully JMB would be appalled at how little effort went into studying his technique by whomever produced these works, but would probably dig the irony. And that of his family charging $60 a ticket to their NYC show. What struggling artist can afford THAT?
I’ve been to a dozen shows on the last 10 years or more and just on my knowledge as an admirer can tell you what is shown here is OBVIOUSLY wrong. Some are just RIDICULOUSLY. I could’ve taken you to the NYC show and then the Florida show and trust any first timers would pick up that those are OBVIOUSLY fakeS.
The New York show was not like that
I can’t be the only person confused how this was worth 100 million? 😂 with all due respect the museum looked like a kindergarten classroom.
The 25 paintings are worth collectively 100 million I think, and do some research and Basquiat and his life because while his work is very abstract and even crude looking, it is packed with symbolism and messages that no kindergartener can express or pick up on lol.
He also shows a really good understanding of color and composition, and he's also very capable of making traditional art and drawing/painting realistically, but it's not his preferred way of expressing himself, it doesn't feel as meaningful to him.
All modern art is money laundering
It's money laundering
MY THOUGHTS EXACTY...MAYBE I DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS KIND OF ART BUT IT DOES LOOK LIKE SOMETHING DONE IN KINDERGARDEN..I WOULDN'T PAY $5 FOR IT
Art valuation and authentication is the biggest scam.
As an artist I know Basquiat style of work so I know just by looking at it that it was fake
Lol no you didn’t.
Lol oh ok 👍
I'm an art historian, and I think they looked like Basquiat. I've seen a lot of his work. I've also seen some fakes, and they were clearly not him. These look very good, and I saw nothing that made me think they were fake by the look of them alone.
@@shariwelch8760 Well, of course they "look *like* Basquiat". But give me a few minutes sitting down together and viewing and talking about them. There are many particularities that are just plain goofy. Figuration, line, color-that feels like they were done by someone who was trying too hard...or not hard enough, ironically...JMB was very sophisticated, and *consistent* in what he put down, as you should well know. Could they be from a very early stage of his development? The kind of things mature artists try to destroy as they realize their voice? Possibly. But I don't even buy that. These seem to be emulating his mature style, and just getting it wrong. Not so wrong it didn't fool a lot of eager to believe folks though.
@@shariwelch8760 No!!! If you think these look like Basquiat's, sorry but you're as good at telling Basquiat's apart from fakes as that ceo was. I'm also an artist and i could tell from a mile away they were fakes. They look absolutely nothing like his work.
The Beyonce and Jay-Z Tiffany add at the beginning was a shameless plug.
They know there is alot of fakes of Basquiat. A bunch of his friends spent time in prison for faking them and the art world knows which ones are fake and not because there is so much documentation especially photos of him with the pieces. I swear they wont let this man rest with the sneak dissing saying his works are easy to make.
You're probably the same type of person to pay $20,000 for a monkey NFT. The world of fine art is a racket.
There are a lot of fakes because the art did not take a lot of talent and was not very complex.
@@jerrynadler2883 The art world killed this man. Its not something I support.
@@JoseVasquez-sp6kc What I am saying is they know they are fakes and just peddle them anyway. Until they get caught then they blame the artist.
@@jimwilliams4408 I understand what you're saying, I wasn't disagreeing I was just making my own point about faking modern art.
Sad to drag the genius of Basquiat through this.So insulting to his rare talent.
So predictable, especially when you consider so many dissed his work from the get-go as some kind of naïf's raw, primitive accidents. This is the lens I think so many today still look through when they see his work.
So weird. And I'm not surprised. I've heard heard whispers here and there about people wondering where did this stuff pop up from...
There is no way those paintings are worth mora than the paper they are on. If that is art then kindergartens kids should be rich as hell
What's your definition of "art"?
@@illume3697 I like anyone who can paint things that look real. Don't care for Picasso or whoever painted the Cambells Tomato Soup can.
I think it's rediculous and silly to put such a large price tag on "artwork" that looks like preschool art.
Nope. I will never understand why.
If you want to understand why for real maybe try learning about because you sound ridiculous.
Famed NY GALLERIST - Knoedler in business for 149 yrs has similar CHARGES & Closed business ?
There's always a reason this happens. Someone is desperate to prove their credentials. That was the case at Knoedler, with the woman who is still in denial about it all. Bizarrely, she opened another gallery and is still in business, although not with the woman who was feeding her the fakes. The Orlando Museum fellow(s?) were probably desperate to get put on the map as a happening place. I'm guessing it will hurt them big time now, but the public is also desperate so who knows?
"They were carrying the paintings out while the paint was still wet."
-Fab Five Freddy.
@Ya te dije holy sh#t
@Ya te dije Bruh, LOL.🤩
That "art" looks exactly like the stuff my kids brought home in 4th and 5th grade. 🤔🤔
Why is this considered art? It’s absolutely revolting to look at. Our world is clearly plagued with mental disease when this is given attention. We ought to be ashamed of ourselves.
You must be white.
Ok boomer
Ok boomer
How fucking soft are boomers that you get offended by a painting? For Christ sake Robert go outside and touch some grass.
Wow! Love you Jean-Michel
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I got to go see basquiat paintings in nyc at the king pleasure exhibit
Beautiful and surreal❤
Me too and it didn't look like what Florida was offering
@@q-onxy7095 not even close😂😬
I'm jealous 😫
I mean… the work is hideous… 😵💫
not the real ones ...
Will the gallery be issuing refunds?
There are museums in florida?
*If you mean old people, the answer is yes.* 😉
Oh, this thread is a goldmine.. guess I'll just let my finger roam for a minute while I'm stuck in traffic.
@@St.Linguini_of_Pesto 🤣
Yes only one small room nothing special
@@michaelle8384 🤣😂
These "art" pieces are a scam even if authentic. so much money for absolute garbage art.
thanks for your opinion Boomer
My nephew drawing looks better. Rich people are crazy, they would pay for poop on a wall if told it was worth millions.
none of that work looks remotely like Basquiat did it himself lolol
Why would that shit be worth anything? Looks like when teenagers spray paint a bunch of garbage on rocks and walls.
Ugh. This story hits extremely close to home.
I'm no Art expert, But can tell this is not his work. I have admired his work as a artist for a long time and know also as a artist that these are not his work. I myself have been compared or have been told my work looks like his.
ok. sure, Jan
Not sure that’s a complement😅
It's all about provenance baby, and you ain't got none 😆
Their are a count less than 1,100 Paintings by JM, excluding.......ones he made for friends and folks who don’t know they have one.
Meaning he drew more times than not but the works aren’t this clean.
Smh. Wtf. Everytime I think things are okay. A can of worms
I used to be his limo driver in 1982.
He and Warhol ,I would drive around.
Nice guys.
This reminds me to re-watch the movie/docu "Art & Craft," a "true" - and not so stable - genius in action.
These looks like what a kid would paint
if this is "art", then we live in a sad world.....
So then don’t buy any of his art. Y’all still believe stories from the Bible about people getting pregnant but they never had sex and we don’t try to take that away from you. Shut up and let people enjoy things.
@@prdamico you’re both real sad for not keeping things to yourselves. At least this man made something of his life and has made art that people love even after he’s passed. It’s a lot more than you can say you’ve achieved.
Exactly. FTK
💀 Your comment is just a ridiculously self humiliating statement
Those look like something from a first graders art project.
Who?
Looks like kids drawings and $100 million? How??? Why?!
There are museums in Florida?
JayZ copying his hairstyle is just ridiculous. Get another look besides his.
What had the curators & painter believing they could get away w/that weak AF fraud?
Edit: changed artist to painter. No legitimate artist would do that!👿
It would be easy to counterfeit crap that anybody can paint
Go have the Basquiat sisters, who knows their brother best help authenticate his work.
That was the bougiest opening cut lol
Famous Tiffany ad..? 😆
I could recreate those scribbles too
Bro, these are drawn by kids. This is stupid art
Lmao I just checked and you haven’t posted in 3 years because no one gives a fuck about your content😂 not even little kids FFS
I kind of like the fake paintings idea.. thanks to those fakers, I really feel inspired to make my own and just have my own museum in my house. No one will see it and no one will care about them. And it’s my own little art museum full of things I like to look at.
Think I’ll start doing that now! :)
how's those things worth 100 Million in the first place? it looks like some kids drawings
Art sure is subjective, isn't it? Sometimes it blows my mind what some people are drawn to, and the money it can rake in. Guess we're each allowed our cups of tea...
Uhhh Jean who?
Honestly, some of those paintings look like a kid drew them. I get he did a lot for the culture, but I don't like his work. Art is subjective...
Damn I thought a little kid had paint those
Them shits looked like captain underpants drawings
I seen them and was going to post video of it but held off when i started hearing it was all fakes smh
How tf do you look at those pictures and say “yep that’s a Basquiat”. They look bleak as hell
Basquiat's art was terrible. It was bought and paid for by the elite who once bought the art on speculation in hopes of being investments. They realized early that they over paid for the art. As a result they doubled down in their investments because of the amount they were posed to lose. This work exists as an example of how art is treated as a commodity and not for it's artistic validity.
You have no clue what you're talking about. Lmao A Basquiat painting just sold for $42M. Basquiat's art goes over your head.
@@vbm2119 You don't understand the Art World and art as investment commodities. They will continue to go up in price, as each person sells it. No one sells art for less than they paid for it. But it's not valued for the artistic nature of the piece, it's valued based on the money spent (invested) on it.
His art has never been amazing. But in the world of Art Rhetoric, it's dressed up like the Emperor. No one with a stake in the market can call it for what it is, without looking uncultured (as the story goes).
Sounds like you need to take some Art History Classes.
@@jazznickel No, YOU don't understand the art world nor art as an investment. Continuing to state that his art "has never been amazing" proves that you are clueless. Art is subjective but the value of it is based on attribution, provenance, historical significance, thrill of auction, social status, and authenticity. Van Gogh art is as mediocre as it comes but his exhibits continue to be promoted. Basquiat is popular and highly valued because his art derives from his cultural experience, integrated figures from a medical book called Gray's Anatomy (which is why alot of his art has skulls) along with the controversy surrounding topics like blackness, low income housing, etc. Basquiat was mentored by Andy Warhol, and the paintings are purposefully drawn as child like.
In terms of art as an investment - popularity & exclusivity are the main factors, has NOTHING to do with selling lower than what you purchased. A Raoul Dufy sold for $350K last month versus the $460K it was purchased for in 2009. It lost 30% of its value. Art isn't a liquid investment- it's an alternative asset class, it's value is based on perception and Basquiat is highly perceived as being a great artist. Get over it.
Sadly. This will make it more valuable.
hilarious, over rated shit anyway.
Wait a min….. y’all mean to tell me my niece’s paintings from kindergarten are worth millions? Where can I sell them? I can’t believe what passes for art these days.
Gotta be honest..that all looks like kid scribblings at best.
Just another “Florida man…” headline
FINALLY....
That’s art looks like a child scribbled on paper
There's always someone who says that.
@@DavidLS1 it’s cus it’s exactly what it looks like some people actually think for there self instead being amazed by garbage art because the artist is famous for some unknown reason
@@Philthy.mcguyver310 Themselves, not there self. Punctuation is also a handy thing.
@@DavidLS1 you have nothing else to say so you stoop to correcting their grammar
@@truthordare197 What can one say to a person who posts the tired old comment that their nine year old could have created a Picasso or Jackson Pollock?
Hey they still look neat, the real artist needs to be them and put their own stuff out.
Hehe, there's a sucker made every minute especially when it comes to "fine art".
Looks like a five year old painted it 😂 100m! Pfft get tf outta here.
Establishing providence is everything..
provenance, not providence
So sad the high tech replaced real art .
There are no real artists anymore .
You can try to say there is . But the last artists i remember is the guy who did all the Christmas paintings in the 80s and 90s . But no artists today .... ...
it bothers me when talented artists waste more time trying to copy works of art for cash instead of just, making the art. i'm sure if the original artist who made these fakes was able to get them exhibitted under their own name, they would get praise. these are good works of art. technology has advanced to a point where fakes are easily detectable. there is computer programs that use fluid simulations and ai technology to determine the validity of paintings allegedly made by pollock. so it just seems to be a waste of talent in the long-run. if you're an artist, don't do this. just make your own art.
That's not how the art industry works. You can be the greatest painter alive, but if you aren't given an in by the establishment, your paintings will never be more than garage sale fillers. If you're the worst trash artist but a famous gallery owner gives you a show, you're suddenly the hot, new artist who's selling their works for millions. The actual art itself isn't important, only whether the name on it is.
What don't people do research on pronunciation?
Well, I guess that's one way to silently steal a fortune from someone. Just call the ART FAKE, so you can take it.
Modern art just doesn't do anything for me.
What kind of art do you like???
I was there can i get my money back
The forger got some kindergarten students to draw them apparently.
Anybody with a brain and a LITTLE knowledge of Basquiat paintings could see right through this exhibit.
The problem is that the original art and the fake art is all so ugly, its impossible to tell what's authentic.
I’m sorry but I have seen better art on a fridge painted by a 4 year old!
Dude, they’re all real. But the box they came in wasn’t art and they thought it was. “Discrepancy between number of paintings” yeah, cause that other painting is the box. 🤦🏻♀️
🤨... it looks like art works from a 4 year old
Those paintings look like my kids art work. 🤣🤣
This guy's art is THE BIGGEST scam in the history of modern art. All it proves is that Right Place + Right Time + Early Death = success .
Sorry. Your kids can’t create this.
@@DayvonGoddard my kid and a pack of crayons could produce better art then this GARBAGE !!!!
looks like my kid using crayons....lol
@@joesimon2029 there’s so many different artists you could call a scam and yet you pick Basquiat, whatever dude. At least he made a name for himself to last long past his own life. I doubt that anyone in these comments here will come close to that.
I'm going to put my 4-year old's fingerpaintings up on auction for $1M. Frankly they look better than some of this guy's work. Any takers?
Ok but why is this art worth so much ? Idc who’s famous 🙄🙄 it’s all chicken scratch .
Only crazy white peoples who buying that garbage my doctor from Haiti He brought Picasso for he’s home
The freak with an account dedicated to children’s dolls is definitely in a position to critique world class art😂😂😂😂 Fuck outta here.
Selling fake paintings 🖼 is crazy
I was there. #floridawoman #floridagirl
No surprise Floridians wouldn't know authenticity if it landed in their swamps.
I'm no art expert but those are clearly not Basquiat, the paintings aren't even good fakes.
I always get a kick out of the Jean Michel haters. They have no idea what real art is and will always retort , "my kindergartener could have done that". Really? If that's the case, why aren't you a millionaire?
Will somebody explain why these were fought over?
funny the assistant curator's name is actually Betty baker
The crap someone says is art. SMDH