Buyer: Truly a masterpiece...the artist must have thought long on this...I can feel their thoughts touching me spiritually. Artist: haha paint go sploosh
The most wealthy living artists are called "art fabricators" they don't actually make it. The biggest art dealer in the world is called the PT Barnum of the art world.
I remember having spent about two weeks on a painting that would go towards me college gallery. I wasn't expecting to win anything but I was just happy it got shown. It was a very emotional piece that I spent much time and thought towards. Only for my work to not just win anything, but not even make it in the gallery. Instead this guy walked in with 50 or so paintings of simple lines and colors and he would explain his "thought process" on it. None of it made any sense, just giberish. And of course he received pats on the back and money out of it. It was extemely discouraging. Unless you have connections, money, or power, your dream as an artist will die with you.
There is truth to this, an artist's work can be promoted like a product and invested in so as to create a marketplace for investment purposes. But the artist's work has to grow over time. Don't let a college situation hold you back or make. you believe this is the total truth because it is not. Perhaps you need to find your. niche, there are art collectors out there who aren't necessarily millionaires but see the value in your work. Talk about the meaning behind your paintings, create a connection with the viewer based upon this. How to find collectors? I'm praying about this myself. I do believe in the power of prayer. However, you may not believe in that and that's okay. There is information out there that can teach you, or at least lead you to find your niche and your own collectors. All the best.
@@davidhetherman8127 imagined if you spent two weeks putting your all into something only for a scribble to win. that's not jealousy, it just feels awful.
@@davidhetherman8127ok? So he have all the right to be jealous angry and sad like why would he the one the approximately spent half-hour drawing lines to win that is absurd
You need to learn to sell your art. That guy knew how to sell his work, you clearly didn’t. If you want to be a working artist that has their pieces in galleries then you need to craft stories around your work, create mythology, charm curators, collectors. Simply making good art is not enough, sad but true. You’re venturing into the business side of things which is a skill set of its own. You have to sharpen your social skills and build those networks that will get you through the door.
Except most Modern Artist are dead, and the one that are selling high are dead. Also Modern art is not all cubism, Minimalism, Impressionism, Expressionism, and Abstract, they are many styles each with their own set of rules and philosophy.
Marcio Couto so Botticelli and his la Nascita di Venere, the David of Michelangelo? That actually are standard of beauty, and you can find hundreds of pieces, that are an example of astonishing beauty. Just think at the sculptures, with ripped muscles during different action like fighting, or just staring. Aren’t them beauty?
My art teacher told me this quite a while ago and i still remember it until now for how great it was. "Modern art isn't about art, it's about the artist. First, you have to make yourself known and apreciated by actually making good paintings and then you can make modern art because people will buy it because it was painted by you, not because of how it looks. " Amen
Yes, this is what people are missing. They think an artist just makes one of these paintings and sells it for over a million. No they have to have a whole history of artwork.
@@praytherosaryforpeace1204 yes . Same opinion. It all bullshit. They make you feel it strange so you believe it above your understanding. The truth it all bullshit. Litterally bullshit. Throw piss and shit in the wall. Wah lah... an art
This is what I was expecting."It's controlled by a bunch of rich CEO psychopaths/sociopaths." But your answer is probably very true as well. So they don't discuss this in the video then? Then I suppose I already know the answer. Moving on...back to reading, I guess.
I remember watching a news report many years ago where they took paintings made by elementary school students and put them in art galleries. It was hilarious to watch the "experts and critics" comment on how much depth, talent, skilled, etc, the artists were.
Most skilled artist suck at modern abstract art. Children can make awesome art. There's artists like Twombly who got their inspiration from children, but added composition, color, and balance. All I see on here are people who have Dunning Kruger that don't know anything about what they're talking about.
@@jonathanmosher72 or maybe being an artist isn’t that impressive like being a scientist or other witty professions and some artists have a sunken cost fallacy.
@@su2spinors There's no record of what the OP said ever happening. You can tell someone who understand weight, composition, color, and balance, vs an average elementary school student. Most great modern artists went through college making classical art. Much of modern art is an idea of art as invention.
this dont consider as an art. such a dumb idea anyone could say this is an art worth of million dollars. such a shame to those people who work for hours days weeks and even months to finish their ART works meanwhile this kind of so called 'art' feels like elementary days and they called it "very difficult" for what? lmao everyone could do that even a 2yrsold could. glad many people wide awake to not consider those frames with dirty paints as an art. lol
@@jonathanmosher72 nobody is saying we need only classical art. But if you need to sort of make ad hominem to the audience to justify the price tag, perhaps its not innovative and more pretentious. We aren’t really angry, we are just saying meh, and perhaps a bit concerned about money laundering to evade taxes. I just personally think in today’s world where scientists or physicists have tapped into fundamentals of our very existence, is creating things that are borderline magical, a lot of continental philosophers/artist feel rather inadequate and not that innovative and that leads to these pretentious things. “Look we are also really abstract just like math people are! Praise be upon my intellect!” Comes across pretty self aggrandizing which rest of the population finds silly. Modern art isn’t abomination nor is it end of civ or something. It’s just silly insecure people doing silly things.
There are countless stories of ‘installation art’ being thrown out by the cleaning staff at museums who mistook it for the garbage it was. If something can’t stand on it’s own merit, without explanation as to why it should be appreciated or admired, it doesn’t deserve to be called ‘art’.
I’m an artists and I do realism, and when I’m drawing realism it takes me time a precision, getting the exact colors right, and making sure all the proportions are correct. Just seeing someone splatter some paint and calling it a day kind of irritates me because artists that are struggling because people don’t find realism as fascinating as contemporary art struggle
Iovanska Berenice Delgadillo Villa yeah my dad does abstract but it’s kinda a mix between that and realism and he draws people and I know most people can’t do it so I hate how people just do a squiggle and call it abstract
I agree. Art isn't about Beauty. It can be grotesque, terrifying, sorrowful, or grating. Art is about feeling something. And when I look at these squiggles and shapes - I feel nothing.
How sad for you. Most of these pieces are amazing. Maybe you'd feel something if you witnessed them up close in person. Abstract art can really brighten up a room in a mysterious and wonderful way. Anybody can learn art/painting techniques over time and learn to master painting realistic portraits or realism. Abstract art on the other hand really can't be taught. It's a self taught journey an artist must go through and despite how simple and un-skilled or lack of talent you may think these abstract pieces showcase, you're wrong. It's actually very hard to produce good abstract art pieces in reality. Some really good artist make it look easy the way they splash their paint around but don't be fooled.
It would be interesting to see an experiment done involving a modern artist’s work vs. 3 random passersby instructed to imitate said artist’s work, and see whether a room full of social elites are able to differentiate the authentic one full of “meaning”. I reckon everyone would just start bidding on the spot.
Someone left glasses in the floor of art gallery on purpose...and many people thought it was a artist who left it... It was just some random person ..who wanted to see others reaction..
I luckily have not reached too deep into this passion I have... after watching this video it’s like destroying something that resembles who I am... now I feel like it is pointless to understand the anatomy of the human body, the techniques of brushes, pen and pencils, etc, because all these will result in a piece “less beautiful” than what museum artists creates.
@@henrywu8500 ik it is disappointing but it is never useless, you should never give up on something you like.. no matter what others think about it.. those pieces that got sold for high prices are the best example that money doesn't truly value your art
Though I can't really call myself a good artist, I enjoy drawing, from each sketch to the lineart. And I can't help but agree with you. . . I can't even fathom wth happened to modern art.
Meanwhile There are many beautiful traditional artwork all around the world which are on the brink of disappearing. Sometimes I just don't understand people.😭
I don’t think they’re on the verge of disappearing? Many old styles/techniques are still very relevant! I’m pretty sure in most art schools they make you try many different techniques like both modern and traditional. There’s nothing wrong with liking different types of art as long as it doesn’t hurt anybody!
There are places in India where they will make some of the most beautiful hand woven design on a piece of cloth, but they're barely earning anything for a living and are forced to find other jobs. On the other hand, splashing paints on a piece of paper are being sold for millions.
I think one of the biggest challenges in fighting the undeniable degeneracy of modern art is that it's really not enough to point out the laziness of the work. To really be effective in your criticism, you need to shift your focus towards modernism itself.
Dmitri Xallo two ways. One by using it as a vehicle to move mass amounts of money back and forth. Two, using losses, transfers or donations as a means of tax deductions.
idk man, my fkin mind blown up and turn into pile of turd. Why do they even call these things art what the heck, it's fkin bright paint slathered by 5 years old child wtf?
It's simply because of too many rich people either launder money through "art", or to show off or to invest their money. In other words, there are 1000s of Billionaires and 100 millions of millionaires who are willing to buy due to the above mentioned reasons or simply to climb the elite social class. Or many buyers, obviously the ones who can afford to buy anything they want worth 100s of million dollars buy it simply because they like it and can afford it. Personally, I feel most of it are a scam. If the ones auctioned for millions were on someones yardsale they wouldn't even fetch a 100 bucks!
Actually this is all about billionaires paint themselves and buy it for their own paint. Garbage painting can cost 100000trillions dollars if the owner paint on it own and buy it.
Not even kidding when I say that I painted better stuff when I was in elementary school. Definitely not into that stuff now but I was at the very least decent compared to this garbage.
I am just going to get a white canvas and some paint and splash it on the canvas. Apparently people would like to buy it for over a million dollars so they won’t have to pay taxes. Fine by me
I mean like, i dont know about this kind of "art", but people need to appreciate more comics artist who literary draw and thinking about their comic story.
“Art isn’t about beauty, it never really was” Definition of art: the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power. Explain this then
@S a) in Caped Baldy's definition, which I responded to, there's the expression "beauty or emotional power". The word "or" implies the validity and independence of both concepts: they are not two conditions which should be met, but two different possibilites art can explore. b) This definition of art is arbitrary, as most are, but at least the concept of "emotional power" encompasses more stuff that is commonly called art. An example would be movies like "Incendies" or "No Country for Old Man". They are incredible, gut wrenching movies. Yet they're not exactly "beautiful", but they do carry emotional power. Of course, it all depends on how you define beauty in the first place.
@@yuturtuyieie5544 I'm trying to understand how to associate what you said to the reason someone calls a plain black Square art, *and* make me want to pay for it Whether is art or not, i don't know, but if is something worth buying? In my opinion, no.
@@m234476ghhma You shouldn't buy it. To me, the likes of Malevich or Pollock are amusing, but I wound't pay millions, not even thousands for their work. The reason why these paintings are so expensive is simple: speculation and money laundering. With that said, there are plenty of contemporary artists which create really astounding art, like Theo Jansen, Ron Mueck, even Ai Wei Wei deserves a lot of merit for his crazy ideas. Is just that money is not a good metric of quality, or of its absence. My original point was just that I agree art is more than beauty, NOT that people should pay millions of dollars for lackluster works or concepts.
i thought my comment on this topic would make me seem uncultured and uncivilised but its good to see that the comment section is filled with comments from people that have common sense !
I went to school for an art degree- traditional figurative stuff mainly. Love me some quality figure paintings. I had to take several art history classes for my degree, one of which was "20th Century Art." My professor split us up into groups the first day and gave us examples of Modern Art to discuss as a class and also discuss our opinions on Modern Art. I gave my honest opinion, that no matter how hard I try, when I look at Modern Art I feel nothing. It looks absolutely pointless to me. There was this rich older retired lady taking the class for giggles and to kill some time, and she got after me berating and belittling me for my opinion, and how I just didn't understand Modern Art, especially because I haven't traveled much (I don't have the money to travel). So she proceeded to tell me about a Jackson Pollock exhibit she went to in Rome one time. I guess there was one of his paintings that had a bee that had gotten stuck in the paint and died, and now its body is a permanent part of the painting. She said it was the "dichotomy of life and death." I just think it's really gross that it's an ugly painting with a dead bug stuck to it. But that's just me. I guess I'll never learn.
She is a perfect example of the people with too much time and money that can stare at a couple lines and make up some bullshit to satisfy her pretentious mind.
You were definitely not in the wrong, that disgusting woman was. How dare she berate your personal opinion (which also happens to be the less pretentious opinion)
**If this is art , then we are all perfect artists** , No , nobody can be a perfect artist , because such does not exist , and nobody would give you the respect of an artist if you don't learn the basics first , anybody could draw a black square , but it wouldn't have a certain weight to it , it would be a meaningless art piece of bad taste
Van gogh died thinking he was never good enough with no recognition yet these people literally just splash paint on the canvas and get famous. It's honestly sad.
Worst thing is that after his death, greedy art dealers took advantage and (no offense to him; he was still unique and worthy of success during his time on earth) over-exaggerated his name, adding way more value to the art than the contents of the paintings themselves. I grow tired of artists being popular by their stories over the quality of their artwork. I don’t care if someone had a difficult life, what I care about is that their art is skillfully and well composed.
As a lifelong artist and someone who has studied the contemporary art market in depth, I am convinced that it is complete bullshit. If I had to sum up my conclusions, I would say this: Owning contemporary art is the modern equivalent of medieval lords having lawns. It doesn't have any inherent value. It doesn't serve a purpose. It is simply a means of showing off how much wealth you can essentially "waste".
As an artist I feel so hurt. We spend hours upon hours working on a piece, trying our level best to create a beautiful artwork that people would look at with awe and wonder, then there are these fake ass imposters who shit all over a canvas and have the audacity to call it art n say things like art isn't about beauty. Don't give me bs. People like these and the ones who buy their 2 cents worth shits are the reason why real artists are struggling today.
Same I just changed my minor to art. I decided to change for reasons 1. I needed an outlet to channel my strees and emotions to 2. I love hands on skills 3. I love painting sure my paintings take at least 4 to 5 hours but with each new painting I get better 4. An excuse to buy all the paints and canvases and materials I want
Art is about expression and not only about beauty - an expression of pain may not be beautiful but it is art. But, that said, modern art is mostly nonsense foisted on us for complicated, evil reasons. It is highly priced because it is used for money laundering,
My opinion about some of these Modern art, in a nutshell; Is it Art? Yes, it is. Is it Good Art? No, it is not. Art is subjective, beauty is too, but I for one am unable to see the beauty of a canvas with a black painted box on it. I don't think that the experience of a painter makes up for it either. It's not fair to look at the box and say "It's amazing!" just because the artist is well known, while artists with genuine beauty are left struggling.
same. sure everything is art, but not everything is good art. and definitely not every art is worth 459438 billions of dollars. if art is so expensive why pay it for the crap and completely ignore the works that has been worked on with intense actual labour?
So you're telling me artists like Van Gogh, Monet, Manet, Munch... produce "not good" art? Because they're are extension of the modernist category as Expressionism and Impressionism are often categorised under "Modern". Please use the terms carefully. What you dislike is Minimalist art. Not Modern art.
The black square painting is the equivalent of revising draft after draft of an essay and then deleting all of it and submitting a blank Google doc. A+ work right there.
If you don't mind. The black square is philosophic, existentialist. It has everything you can imagine and at the same time nothing. Isn't that sufficient to make it great ? We go to a concert to hear the music they make,not to tell the artist what and how to play.
@gheddi i post pretty simple artwork on my yt channel since recording is painful, i have to stack a bunch of books and put my phone on them, and then wait a MILLION years to export the video on my phone. Plus Thats one of my older videos, and i can tell you, I've gotten much better at art. Im planing on editing on my pc now since Its easier.
Buyer: "I connect with this piece of art, it touches me spiritually. It's almost as if me and this artwork are one" Artist: "All I did was smear my shit across the canvas"
Give your life to Jesus Christ , repent, pray and read your bible for your self it may be hard but its worth it ask God for understanding , and for him to guide you , give it all to him before its too late🙏❤ Repent , Jesus Christ is coming back, if you have any questions please ask me
@@marguskiis7711 don’t think you’re being cool with this shitty attitude of yours, just leave if you’re that annoyed. And stop coming at random people for no reason.
I think a lot of them can draw and paint well, they just choose not to. By painting random strokes they artists seem to be trying to convey emotions and tell a story through their art. I don’t think art should be limited sketching or painting hyper realistic pictures cause tbh my printer could do that. Btw Im not saying that artist who draw realism aren’t talented, they’re exceptionally talented. But in the end I guess everyone has their preferences, and art shouldn’t be brought down cause it doesn’t fit a definition.
It MUST be some kind of money laundering scheme.. I mean 99% of 'modern art' literally looks like a child did it, and ANYONE could make something that looks either the same, or better with NO skill required whastoever.
The “art” in this video is what I call “Tax art”, in which the rich use to get less taxes. REAL modern art is more about the meaning aspect of the art rather than the appearance. While you don’t have to be obligated to like it I just wanted to tell you and people reading this.
Man, this piece is so deep. I wonder how the artist thought of such a thing. The artist: Crap, deadlines tomorrow. I think a square will work. Just say something that sounds deep and meaningful
@@florencioalexandre7873 tbh I paint for fun only and I have tons of stuff called untitled because legit how many different names for an abstract blob can you make? Untitled usually means 'i wasn't thinking in words when I did this so back off'
@@WilfNelson1 Yeah, I know... I was just being a smartass with a one liner joke... Sorry 😅 But I 100% agree with you, and I personally like abstract paintings I think some pieces are "overrated", in the sense that the art market inflates their monetary value But besides that, for me every piece has an inherent value even if I personally don't like it/ the artist or understand it. I wish I could paint 🎨 abstract, instead of the random splashes and blobs of paint I call my creations 😬 Anyway, thanks for the comment and take care 👋
@@florencioalexandre7873 it's cool no hard feelings, I was also making fun of myself for just being lazy with naming. Tbh I'll also say that art is dead to me once it's done so I normally don't like naming things because at the point of naming I just want to move on
A lot of people saw this video and did not fully understand what they were trying to say. So I’m going to try to say it simple I guess lol? Basically old art was made with so much detail and so much contrast almost picture like because there were no cameras. They had to draw really realistic to capture moments or people. But as the development of the camera progressed people no longer needed to draw realistically. It was basically your own way to discover art. How could artists ever compete with beautiful pictures taken by cameras especially now that we have the development of photoshop and AI. Contemporary art and modern art sell for so much because it’s new. They’re basically spending a lot of money hoping that it will be a good investment in the end. For example, Van Gogh is an icon but, he was at the brink of popularity when he sadly passed away. He had many paintings in exhibits and sold a painting or two or three to some people but his paintings were not worth as much as they are now. But now in this day and age if you have an original Van Gogh painting somewhere in your attic for some off reason you can sell it and probably be a millionaire. They’re all just investments for rich people to become more rich and keep their generational wealth. In the end of the video they said usually artist do it as a labor of love. That’s because usually artists will not be rich or famous until they pass. Unless the have a brand new creative idea, it becomes their signature style, and it changes the way we see art. Until we have something new or find inspiration in the arts we will keep seeing this kind of art. Maybe take it as a sign and try something new. It may be the next art trend. 🤷🏻♀️ If you’re an artist reading this focus on what makes you happy. If making art makes you happy and helps your mental health , why does it matter if it makes you money or not? I know you want to make a living off of you art but we are in a world where it’s very hard to do that. It’s okay to have it as a hobby or an escape and have another job. I had teachers that were just teachers for extra money for their actual careers. There’s no shame in it. It’s just how the world is now unfortunately. Just have fun with it. Happy creating everyone. 💜
Wow! So my years of practicing anatomy, shading, lighting, design, perspective, coloring and environments fundamentals are just a waste, all i need is to buy paint platter and paint random shapes on a canvas and i would be a billionaire.
@@chimkennubbets6899 everyone who has studied art never talk such a crap about art history. All the educated artists understand modern art, all the logic.
@@marguskiis7711 I’m sorry but like when did this person talk about “art history”?? They just meant to say that they learned art and it has all gone to waste cuz of the “modern art standards”
This is a true story, Many years ago there used to be a TV host who had a weekly show that held topics on current affairs. His name was Gilbert Harding. One week he decided to invite several (4) art critics to explain to his audience the concept of abstract art. He exhibited 4 works of art and ask each critic to explain the meaning of each piece of work. Each one, in turn, came out and gave their spiel on what the artists were trying to promote in each of the artwork. Which were in fact not too dissimilar to what Jackson Pollock produced when he was still around. Gilbert asked the critics to take a seat, and he would go into the back of the studio and bring out the artists, so they could congratulate them personally. Gilbert Harding came back on stage holding the hand of a chimpanzee. The audience response was priceless.
At the same time, that kind of proves the point and beauty of modern abstract art - it's all about how you personally perceive it, what emotional and chemical reactions each piece brings to you. It doesn't matter who painted it.
The art is not to paint that overly simple painting, but to have the knowhow how to sell basically worthless items for a large sum of money and make other people think what they bought is very valuable and special.
They said it’s expensive because apparently “drawing realistically” is taken by photographers, so all they do is draw “simplicity”, something a goddamn ONE YEAR OLD can accidentally draw. Art can actually be amazing if people didn’t think drawing shapes is better than drawing like a photograph.
@@henrywu8500 beeing abstract isnt bad in general. many REALLY famous artists did it but theres a big difference between a abstract van gogh wich resembles something you can actually feel and see and someone that violently hits the piece of art with a brush for no goddamn reason other than making monetas. no skills needed whatsoever. you could basically "paint" that shit beforehand and then think about ANY reason why you did it and it would still fit as its only a random piece of crap 😂. you cant see how much thought process is in there. you can say its art but to me sth you need to explain isnt art. simple as that 😂
@@peniskopf653 True that. But from what I've seen in the video, they only sell the bad ones for such uh unreasonable price. I feel like those good abstract arts just went to waste 😔👊
@@karlaanchondo they do buy good ones but they buy those for cheap i dont think that someone with the skill to create a real masterpiece would want to take place in money laundering schemes at the very least it would feel like an insult to the effort put into it
The good ones at track attention. These shit ones transaction is covered up. Also there are tax laws regarding art which have loopholes around them which can be exploited
My dad is an artist, since he was a kid he went through a lot, when I say a lot I mean it. He’s a brilliant artist, he works hard to sell his artworks and participates in exhibitions and galleries..etc , that breaks my heart, I really hate it when I see him up all night and working under pressure and not be able to sell anything.
I just hate that somone can do a splat and sell it fo 1000000dollars like I can litterly do the same thing before if it was abstract I could see building the horizon or so thing but now I do not count this as art
What normies see: a worthless digital coin - seems like a great idea to dump my life savings into it. What rich people see: the normies are going crazy for worthless digital coins, let's make some money off those morons.
Imagine going to art school, studying and practicing hard to be the next Leonardo Da Vinci. Then imagine making a painting you put your heart and soul into it for 46 years, only to be bested by some squiggles because some dude had a heart attack and the “artist” stole it.
I don't think we devolved i just think the art in the museum devolved. Most of the public hates modern art. They still like still art of fruit and art Renaissance Art and art with beauty and expression
Picasso said the same. From the cavermen paitning of Atapuerca to contemporary art, it's decay. You may laugh at his cubism work, but checkout the paintings he did at 14 y.old, he won a realistic painting contest
I paint for my self, i build my own frames and my home is my gallery. I dont feel like sellling or showing anything, they bring me joy. My wife loves them so they will never be sold. So with each painting my happiness grows.
@@rrsharizam it's maybe the most controversial statement ever by one of the most well known artist. It was ment to ask the question of what art exactly is. It did exactly that, and does still. So yeah, one of the most important art pieces of the 20th century :)
@@fatoeki art comes in different forms as u may know from sound like music or visual like movies or paintings .since painting is visual art i dont need the story behind what is meant for the artist nor his journey to paint it ,if u watch an universally bad movie with bad cuts or mediocre dialogue but u knew the director intentions or his struggle of shooting it will u like the movie more ? Im an amateur artist work mostly digitally doing some on fivrre i cant help but to think it is a joke played on realist artists . there was an experiment on 3 year old child they gave her paint brush and load of canvases ,then she got to work,and they rented a venue for her jumble. you can imagine how pretentious those art critic sound like some of them refused to make there face appear on the documentary after learning that the artist is 3 yo child . modern art in my opinion is a lazy art ,full of mishaps that should be corrected.
Art culture is ruled by eccentric, snob people that thinks they know better thats why they are pulling away from mainstream so they could look like elites and cool.
never did i look at a piece of modern art and say “wow so much painstaking work must have been put into this art and it’s definitely worth the over 10 million dollars it costed”
@Olivier Merheb I mean, I agree with golden, but realistic painters and other more representational artists do have a lot more effort to put in in things like design perspective, and proportions, they have to get things to look right, while modern artists are more free. I prefer limited mediums tbh, they encourage more creativity, you'd have to find clever solutions to get around things or need to face challenges, and that satisfaction when you solve a challenge is simply delightful.
No offense but pretty much how people idolizing Picasso's lastest art. I mean there are some of his *old* arts that definitely worth. But now.. I failed to understand the meaning behind it.
Depends on what you look in for art. Art is communication, and the less specific a painting is (like abstract), the more meanings people can give it. Although it is true that it costs a lot of money simply because of money laundering. If you just want to see something pretty, then abstract is usually awful
The problem with this is that its virtually impossible to decifer if a painting has a message or is just predatory advantage taking of the audience by the artist.
@@Shawn-md2lr lol i found some painting i did on art school when i was 6 now after 18 years. I though i'll just keep them as memory...find this video...my brain...we are rich!
thank you. I am so so careful with my strokes, I do everything with love and caution. seeing people violently rub brushes on a canvas makes me incredibly uncomfortable
This makes me think that when I go dump, I should put it on the canvas and call it "art" and nobody should fight me over it. Poop on the canvas = Million dollar art. It has a story. Periodt.
The truth is that most artists starve. Most of the comments say artists are scammers but 90% of them work really hard and don't get any money for their art. I'm an artist myself, I work hard and don't sell anything. Works only sell for millions after the artist is dead. So stop saying it's a scam, art don't do you any harm, on the contrary.
*homeless man has diarrhea on a slab of concrete* art connoisseur- “The depth of this work is immeasurable. The pain in the brush strokes is beyond visceral and yet subtle. A true magnum opus.”
But this is bs like people who make actual art like years of hard work are just being replaced by stupid dabs of paint over a white canvas and moreover they get millions of it
I've seen an artist paints amazing landscape, one drew with ballpoint pen, I have also seen a guy smash a mirror to make portraits and they are underrated. Now I'm seeing what looks like a child's artwork being sold for millions. Just why?
It's about identity. That's why they value "novelty" above all. People often want to feel unique and elite, and buying beautiful or good art is tainted by the poorer people's association with it. Its a lot like how "high" fashion ("brand" names with expensive logos) has changed to become ridiculous since clothing manufacturing had become so cheap. This is as opposed to pre industrial times, where beautiful art was highly valued by the wealthy (still is sometimes of course; not all wealthy people have no taste). And of course there's money laundering and all those shenanigans.
the whole point of art for buyers is to hang on your wall. people want beautiful things to look at, like flowers or a portrait- not a stupid black square. if you’re selling art I think it would help an awful lot to paint something beautiful
.....their complete argument is that "it's about evoking a responce". Even back in the day when religious art dominated. The purpose was not to show how beautiful jesus or the virgin Mary were but how holy they were. Them being beautiful was just a means to convey that
@Marcus Dietachmair well, maybe those people could set their wallpaper as a black square maybe and not spend millions? Mate grow up, it's about tax evasion
I can understand the work of Malevich who spent the lifetime going to this simplification while starting in classic complex painting. I can not understand modern "modern" artists who start from childish drawings and stay at childish drawings. where is the journey here?
Exactly! Art (I would think) is about branching out and exploring different mediums, most artists will stick to one primary medium because they have successfully skilled in it and love it but will still try other things. Sadly, a lot of people will stick to this modern art bs just to make quick fast-paced art for the money. I have a really difficult time understanding modern artists if all their work is a monochromatic painting...
No one is paying millions to present day artists that do abstract shit. Malevich is priced because he is a historical figure, not because of what he did. Like gold. It is priced because we all agree it's worth, and because it's rare not because of its actual use. Malevich is rare, only a limited number of paintings in circulation. And he is valuable as historically established.
Exactly, and even his black square wasn’t just a black square, there were strokes, ways of painting which is evidence of his mastery. Now, those idiots paint the way I color my drawings when I was 5
The reason why rich people “buy” shitty art for so much, isn’t because of the uniqueness or the art itself, it’s actually donations to the artist so the rich man can avoid paying taxes (if you donate a certain percentage of your total income you are exempt from income tax, this certain percentage is cheaper then what Uncle Sam would have robbed you for)
Tbh modern art is just about class. I can literally drop a few paint buckets on a canvas and if it’s auctioned in a room full of rich people, someone will buy it for a million dollars. Rich people just want to show off to each other that they can spend that much. But if that same art piece is auctioned in a room full of poor people, someone might buy it for 1 dollar. So the true value of modern art is actually dependent on the audience it’s being auctioned to. That’s literally it. Nothing else matters.
Nope, maybe 130 years ago you could get away with that. Than again 130 years ago you'd go through traditional art school and do that because you're trying to make a point.
You people are Dunning-Kruger and don't understand any of this. Go back 100 years and start doing modern art. If you want to be a relevant artist start by doing something new... should be easy moron. Go do it, make your millions...
I cannot tolerate the child-like paintings in this vid. Art's supposed to be like what van Gogh, Rembrandt, Monet, Raphael, Michelangelo and Frida Kahlo had created.
Leonardo and the Austrian painter would have same reaction as we are. Creativity and talent art is always first, but nowadays marketing techniques and easy money laundering is a problem.
@@flinbin I think what Aayan Abu Sifayet is getting at is not about beauty in the way we normally think, but how we perceive art on an emotional and visual level - that art should be about how it looks and feels, not about if it's "rare" or "valuable" which was the point of the quote from the video
@@flinbin Beauty doesn't necessarily mean actual beautiful stuff, the ugly and dark at still has to have some kind of beauty to it. Even "Saturn devouring his son" is beautiful art. So you could agree on that.
I don't think art necessarily needs to look realistic, but it should look pleasant, interesting, beautiful, or trigger some emotion other than "bruh". It should also take skill/talent to create. Anyone can draw some lines, not anyone can create art.
@@bulgslel that's your interpretation of what happened "spill paint", no art educated person would view it that way. Let me help you understand with a very simple equation: if the person has mastered art and can paint and draw like masters THEN if he decides to "throw" paint at the canvas you have to ask yourself how is his masterful knowledge of art applied in this case, why did he choose this medium, why this colour, were the strokes aggressive etc. I see alot of non- artist viewing art with this naive lense, understand that it's not just a guy that decided to throw paint but an art master that decided to experiment
@@mr.k6728 yeah but that wasn't your original point. You said that this art takes decades to master, so, logically, I thought you meant that spilling paint over a canvas takes decades to master which, in my opinion, isn't true. I was wrong about the fact that this wasn't art, because it is,since art is subjective. My problem is that these paintings sell for millions, when they look like they were made by a 3-year old in 2 minutes. Personally, when I look at these paintings, I feel barely anything at all. It is only after I look at the price tag, that makes me angry. There are hundreds, thousands of talented and hard-working artists out there that produce much better art than this and get almost nothing in return. In my opinion if anybody can make this art, it isn't worth millions and it is not a masterpiece.
Photography hasn’t replaced art, not at all, realistic art can still stand out from photography, from just the uniqueness of the artwork, and an element in the artwork that photographers can’t recreate in just a click,I’m surprised so many people just overlooked that
Yes but she meant at the time that photography was invented in particular, that’s when “realistic” and “beautiful” art was considered boring. Then art became more conceptual. Hence born modern art.
The thing is that the invention of photography only killed the "Drawing people body and face"Type of art thingy. It didn't killed the idea of imagery,emotion,feel and fantasy of an art. When Everyone start experimenting. it lead to a lot of things we like today such as animation. Glowy art and every shit you can find on social media platform such as anime drawing or a atmospheric an art. The reason why every modern art that is put on the museum is shit is its for greedy people to take advantage on rich people tax evasion scheme
@@widowswail888 That's a bullshit argument that I keep hearing. Most photography during the Modern Art era was still in black and white, pretty low in resolution, and grainy. And you couldn't photograph things that don't exist in real life. Even in the present day with the ubiquity of cell phone cameras, people are painting more artworks than any other point in history - except that it's all done in digital medium
Lol I always laugh with that stupid argument. People claim all the time that they can do it but still none of them ever did it. Why is that? Maybe because none of them actually know a shit about art in general? I wonder. (Before starting to attack me I’m no art person, I just hate smartass people that have an opinion about EVERYTHING, without having the slightest idea about what they’re talking about.)
@@Pantsu51 you have a point. Slapping paint on a canvas is easy, selling it is hard. Tbh a circle on a canvas gets more attention from the public (good or bad) than art that is praise worthy due to outrage etc. It is like shitty merch with a small logo on something from a big celeb.
It’s valued like that because people will pay that much you may think you can create something like this and I am sure you can but you are mr nobody for now so it won’t be as valued
Couldn't agree more. It's also kinda sad that these millionaires and billionaires spend millions on this rubbish when there are millions around the globe starving to death.
@heimer donger If you make an income of 100 mil from that 37% of it goes to federal taxes alone. So 37 million dollars just taken from the government. Let's say you buy an art piece from an auction house for 10 million dollars. And you store it in a free port anonymously so taxes doesnt count on your art piece. Your art piece stays in the free port for 5 years. Auction houses always keep exclusive partnerships with artists and make sure the demand for their art goes up and keep marking the price up as time goes on. You can get an appraisal for your art piece, and because its from a famous auction house and a famous artist, its worth 50 mil now. You can donate this art piece to a museum and get a tax write off of 50 million from your 37 million taxes. The other 13 million can be evenly split for the next 5 years.
@heimer donger they can evade taxes for a lot cheaper. The art is generally bad because auction houses dont really care about the product quality because the buyers dont care if it looks nice or not.
2:24 can actually be considered an art as it looks beautiful, although not the most complex stuff I've seen so far. But what in the name of seventh shit is the thing that comes after this?
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Before, I do not understand why modern art is very expensive. But after watching this, I still do not understand why modern art is so expensive.
Oddly, me too.
Yea this video tells nothing lmao
Modern art is expensive because it is one of the easiest ways to launder money.
Same
@@celesteinfantino1409 Marty Byrde moment
Buyer: Truly a masterpiece...the artist must have thought long on this...I can feel their thoughts touching me spiritually.
Artist: haha paint go sploosh
WisteriaRotting kindergarten teachers are having the top paying jobs. Just gotta sell their 5 year old students’ art for tens of millions of dollars
Don't say that.
Lol
LMFAo yeah pretty much
Eshal A Hey, we have the same name!!!
I feel bad for all the artists with actual skills and creativity being unnoticed out there
When it comes to art and business it isn't about talent or skill but more about who you know
I think they are aware you can't do it for the money.
The most wealthy living artists are called "art fabricators" they don't actually make it. The biggest art dealer in the world is called the PT Barnum of the art world.
People with actual talents and skills are plenty. Beauty is abundant and plentiful, therefore cheap. Scarcity is what costs.
C O I’m sure all the kindergarten kids could produce all these pieces of modern contemporary shits.
I remember having spent about two weeks on a painting that would go towards me college gallery. I wasn't expecting to win anything but I was just happy it got shown. It was a very emotional piece that I spent much time and thought towards. Only for my work to not just win anything, but not even make it in the gallery. Instead this guy walked in with 50 or so paintings of simple lines and colors and he would explain his "thought process" on it. None of it made any sense, just giberish. And of course he received pats on the back and money out of it. It was extemely discouraging. Unless you have connections, money, or power, your dream as an artist will die with you.
There is truth to this, an artist's work can be promoted like a product and invested in so as to create a marketplace for investment purposes. But the artist's work has to grow over time. Don't let a college situation hold you back or make. you believe this is the total truth because it is not. Perhaps you need to find your. niche, there are art collectors out there who aren't necessarily millionaires but see the value in your work. Talk about the meaning behind your paintings, create a connection with the viewer based upon this. How to find collectors? I'm praying about this myself. I do believe in the power of prayer. However, you may not believe in that and that's okay. There is information out there that can teach you, or at least lead you to find your niche and your own collectors. All the best.
@@davidhetherman8127 imagined if you spent two weeks putting your all into something only for a scribble to win. that's not jealousy, it just feels awful.
@@davidhetherman8127ok? So he have all the right to be jealous angry and sad like why would he the one the approximately spent half-hour drawing lines to win that is absurd
@@davidhetherman8127
Ur probably just a modern "artist“...
You need to learn to sell your art. That guy knew how to sell his work, you clearly didn’t. If you want to be a working artist that has their pieces in galleries then you need to craft stories around your work, create mythology, charm curators, collectors. Simply making good art is not enough, sad but true. You’re venturing into the business side of things which is a skill set of its own. You have to sharpen your social skills and build those networks that will get you through the door.
Feels like the secret of modern art is not the art skill itself, but the skill about how good are you at persuading people into something
It's money laundering and tax frauds.
Most artists dont create to make a fortune. Jeff Koons and Diamen Hirst are exceptions.
@@emperorthylord You can't launder money through art and it be the dumbest way.
Except most Modern Artist are dead, and the one that are selling high are dead. Also Modern art is not all cubism, Minimalism, Impressionism, Expressionism, and Abstract, they are many styles each with their own set of rules and philosophy.
@@hughmiller7127 you obviously don't know how auctions work, bub.
I have a painting to sell. Its a white canvas that wasnt even touched by paint. I call it nothingness. Starting bid is 5 million.
H B 🤣🤣🤣
☝️ 5.5 million in nothing dollars lol
@@ffrebello sorry, somebody dm'ed me 9.8million before ur bid
@Marcel put a bid on it, or are you all talk?
60 million take it or leave it
“Art isn’t about beauty, it never really was”
Italian Renaissance: Am i joke to you?
Well, Italian Renaissance wasn't exactly about beauty, you know?
Marcio Couto so Botticelli and his la Nascita di Venere, the David of Michelangelo? That actually are standard of beauty, and you can find hundreds of pieces, that are an example of astonishing beauty. Just think at the sculptures, with ripped muscles during different action like fighting, or just staring. Aren’t them beauty?
I think only a blind won’t see beauty looking at La Pietà, or Mosè.
@@Human_Pizza It is not that they are not beautiful, but rather that beauty comes in all forms and shapes.
@@Human_Pizza they are beautiful, obviously, but Renaissance was about much more also.
My art teacher told me this quite a while ago and i still remember it until now for how great it was.
"Modern art isn't about art, it's about the artist. First, you have to make yourself known and apreciated by actually making good paintings and then you can make modern art because people will buy it because it was painted by you, not because of how it looks. "
Amen
Yes, this is what people are missing. They think an artist just makes one of these paintings and sells it for over a million. No they have to have a whole history of artwork.
Actually it all bullshit.
@@praytherosaryforpeace1204 yes . Same opinion. It all bullshit. They make you feel it strange so you believe it above your understanding. The truth it all bullshit. Litterally bullshit. Throw piss and shit in the wall. Wah lah... an art
Not all ways true.
Kim Kardashian's poop is still poop
I used to be a modern artist back when i was 3-4 years old and eating paint and dirt
Lol
😂ik
@John Carter So true 😂😭
@@euphoricepitome66 ah yes *truer*
A little more of eating glue and booger your value will rise drastically
Basically rich people spend millions on random art to launder their money, so they don’t have to pay taxes since it counts as a donation/charity.
Aaaand BINGO..here we have the actual answer.
Wow that's actually very true
You have the right idea my friend
This is what I was expecting."It's controlled by a bunch of rich CEO psychopaths/sociopaths." But your answer is probably very true as well.
So they don't discuss this in the video then? Then I suppose I already know the answer. Moving on...back to reading, I guess.
Wait that’s how it works?
In short: the art doesn't has value, the artist has the value!
Beautifully put
this is brilliant
Present form instead of past form, change "has" to "have"
@@junokyael 🤓
PK playz
if its a pice of s*it on canvas doesn't matter who made it it's still a piece of s*it
The back of my notebook: finally, a worthy opponent
Me: *looks at notebook*
Me to myself: so how much would people pay for a 10 second drawn penis with pubic hair?
Hmmm
Me: Looks into my baby sisters diaper while changer her, I'm a millionaire.
@@ok4297 😂😂
@@marinaaguas9219 20 mil . Going around once , going around twice.......
I am 22. I can proudly say that I am modern artist since 20 years.
Winner - Comment of the Day.
So, your name is 22 and you said that you r a modern artist 2 decades ago so now are you in your 40s?
That was clever.....
@@techwithmaadhesh6622 eat almonds bro
maybe, but can you produce the same kind of completely free creativity today? no, because the past 20 years had an influence on you.
I remember watching a news report many years ago where they took paintings made by elementary school students and put them in art galleries. It was hilarious to watch the "experts and critics" comment on how much depth, talent, skilled, etc, the artists were.
Most skilled artist suck at modern abstract art. Children can make awesome art. There's artists like Twombly who got their inspiration from children, but added composition, color, and balance. All I see on here are people who have Dunning Kruger that don't know anything about what they're talking about.
@@jonathanmosher72 or maybe being an artist isn’t that impressive like being a scientist or other witty professions and some artists have a sunken cost fallacy.
@@su2spinors There's no record of what the OP said ever happening. You can tell someone who understand weight, composition, color, and balance, vs an average elementary school student. Most great modern artists went through college making classical art. Much of modern art is an idea of art as invention.
this dont consider as an art. such a dumb idea anyone could say this is an art worth of million dollars. such a shame to those people who work for hours days weeks and even months to finish their ART works meanwhile this kind of so called 'art' feels like elementary days and they called it "very difficult" for what? lmao everyone could do that even a 2yrsold could. glad many people wide awake to not consider those frames with dirty paints as an art. lol
@@jonathanmosher72 nobody is saying we need only classical art. But if you need to sort of make ad hominem to the audience to justify the price tag, perhaps its not innovative and more pretentious. We aren’t really angry, we are just saying meh, and perhaps a bit concerned about money laundering to evade taxes.
I just personally think in today’s world where scientists or physicists have tapped into fundamentals of our very existence, is creating things that are borderline magical, a lot of continental philosophers/artist feel rather inadequate and not that innovative and that leads to these pretentious things.
“Look we are also really abstract just like math people are! Praise be upon my intellect!”
Comes across pretty self aggrandizing which rest of the population finds silly.
Modern art isn’t abomination nor is it end of civ or something. It’s just silly insecure people doing silly things.
There are countless stories of ‘installation art’ being thrown out by the cleaning staff at museums who mistook it for the garbage it was. If something can’t stand on it’s own merit, without explanation as to why it should be appreciated or admired, it doesn’t deserve to be called ‘art’.
THIS
I’m an artists and I do realism, and when I’m drawing realism it takes me time a precision, getting the exact colors right, and making sure all the proportions are correct. Just seeing someone splatter some paint and calling it a day kind of irritates me because artists that are struggling because people don’t find realism as fascinating as contemporary art struggle
Omg that hurts!!😢😢😢😢😢😭😭
Julius Mendoza ikr it might have thought or whatever but it takes literally no skill
Agreed
@@shom924 I can do that random splatter shit that most of the artist in the video do
Iovanska Berenice Delgadillo Villa yeah my dad does abstract but it’s kinda a mix between that and realism and he draws people and I know most people can’t do it so I hate how people just do a squiggle and call it abstract
I agree. Art isn't about Beauty. It can be grotesque, terrifying, sorrowful, or grating. Art is about feeling something.
And when I look at these squiggles and shapes - I feel nothing.
A round of applause to this!
Hahahaha. Exactly
How sad for you. Most of these pieces are amazing. Maybe you'd feel something if you witnessed them up close in person. Abstract art can really brighten up a room in a mysterious and wonderful way.
Anybody can learn art/painting techniques over time and learn to master painting realistic portraits or realism. Abstract art on the other hand really can't be taught. It's a self taught journey an artist must go through and despite how simple and un-skilled or lack of talent you may think these abstract pieces showcase, you're wrong. It's actually very hard to produce good abstract art pieces in reality. Some really good artist make it look easy the way they splash their paint around but don't be fooled.
@@smokegasplaynintendo5767 there are different kinds of abstract. So which do you think such art belongs to?
Basically my kindergarten nephew can make my family a fortune if she splatters paint on her paper because we told her no snacks
_splashes paint on canvas_
_sells it for 100 million_
"Why would we buy this?"
"It represents society and life"
_sold_
*piss on canvas*
"Some dumbass will definitely buy this for 1 billion dollars"
Someone could probably get stickers from a store, paint them random colors, then stick it on a canvas and have enough to retire and live a happy life
And yet hitlers art is considered a bad art.
Sounds fair to me
For me: splash paint by my self.
sell it for 99 Million to myself.
instant profit
Short answer on why these things get so expensive
*MONEY LAUNDERING*
It would be interesting to see an experiment done involving a modern artist’s work vs. 3 random passersby instructed to imitate said artist’s work, and see whether a room full of social elites are able to differentiate the authentic one full of “meaning”. I reckon everyone would just start bidding on the spot.
yes
*I would pay someone to make a video like this*
genius... better do this before someone beats u to it... modern artists have the mentality of 'yeah anyone CAN do this but im the one that DID'
Someone left glasses in the floor of art gallery on purpose...and many people thought it was a artist who left it...
It was just some random person ..who wanted to see others reaction..
@@Jojosiwo so it Was art, and that person WAS an artist making a statement that succeded beautifully.
As an artist I find this.. how do I say it, sarcastically irritating.
I luckily have not reached too deep into this passion I have... after watching this video it’s like destroying something that resembles who I am... now I feel like it is pointless to understand the anatomy of the human body, the techniques of brushes, pen and pencils, etc, because all these will result in a piece “less beautiful” than what museum artists creates.
@@henrywu8500 ik it is disappointing but it is never useless, you should never give up on something you like.. no matter what others think about it.. those pieces that got sold for high prices are the best example that money doesn't truly value your art
Me too i hated it in art college .
@@henrywu8500 yeah, it made me feel the same way...
Though I can't really call myself a good artist, I enjoy drawing, from each sketch to the lineart. And I can't help but agree with you. . . I can't even fathom wth happened to modern art.
I really wish I would’ve kept the masterpieces I did in kindergarten. 😔
I bet someone would be like "OMG THIS IS THE BEST ART EVEN THOUGH ITS JUST SCRIBBLES ITS WORTH 70,000,000"
yeaa i hope so too, as they say "the art represent a history in it", kindergartner literally have the most history (imagination) its a looooooot wider
A G your teacher probably kept your scribbles and she’s now a millionaire..
This comment is gold😂
@@nsr5961 stonks
Love the part where they explained why modern art is so expensive
Abstract art is the “I’m not like the other girls” of the art world.
And there are two types of contemporary art
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Jojo or money laundering
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I never seen 2 pretty best friends,,, one of them gotta be ugly
I love this comment
Abstract: Don't *call me out*
Jotaro!!!
“It’s not easy being an artist in London”
....paints messy circle.
what he said is true if you are trash like him.
*Woah* that must be 5 million dollars!
He fave up and started painting with his fingers
I watched him without blinking and dude was doing what my little niece does.i didn't any artistic or smthn.like he was just going randomly
It’s true because there are like 500000 artists in london and only 20 are succesful
Meanwhile There are many beautiful traditional artwork all around the world which are on the brink of disappearing.
Sometimes I just don't understand people.😭
That's what happens with "liberal arts" schools and their curriculum.
So much REAL talent hidden away while people go about buying splatters of paint on canvas for millions
I don’t think they’re on the verge of disappearing? Many old styles/techniques are still very relevant! I’m pretty sure in most art schools they make you try many different techniques like both modern and traditional. There’s nothing wrong with liking different types of art as long as it doesn’t hurt anybody!
There are places in India where they will make some of the most beautiful hand woven design on a piece of cloth, but they're barely earning anything for a living and are forced to find other jobs. On the other hand, splashing paints on a piece of paper are being sold for millions.
Nah most of people are on digital they're switching now though...
I think one of the biggest challenges in fighting the undeniable degeneracy of modern art is that it's really not enough to point out the laziness of the work. To really be effective in your criticism, you need to shift your focus towards modernism itself.
"degeneracy of modern art" careful what you say, that's what the Nazis said about the Modernists.
Money laundering and people who are able to hallucinate random stories from simple daily products
you mean monet laundering...hhh
Indeed
Yes thank u
Yep well described
You can do it with non moder art too
*sneezes* at a canvas
Money launderers: I will pay 20 million!
Money launderers: (art dealers, sellers, agents etc) how much is my cut?
hobo eats paint and shits on canvas "dies" painting valued at 420 million
How exactly would someone launder money from this?
Just made my day 🤣
Dmitri Xallo two ways. One by using it as a vehicle to move mass amounts of money back and forth. Two, using losses, transfers or donations as a means of tax deductions.
DaVinci would have died again seeing this kind of art.
Indeed
Angelo too.
Artist does not make painting for sell
But the painting has value as others want to buy
Thats 100% true
Agree
-Ladies and Gentlemen my now art form!
Blank Paper?
-No, Reverse Origami
It actually pisses me off that there are genuinely talented artists out there but shit like this is what is people are willing to pay millions for.
idk man, my fkin mind blown up and turn into pile of turd. Why do they even call these things art what the heck, it's fkin bright paint slathered by 5 years old child wtf?
It's simply because of too many rich people either launder money through "art", or to show off or to invest their money. In other words, there are 1000s of Billionaires and 100 millions of millionaires who are willing to buy due to the above mentioned reasons or simply to climb the elite social class.
Or many buyers, obviously the ones who can afford to buy anything they want worth 100s of million dollars buy it simply because they like it and can afford it. Personally, I feel most of it are a scam. If the ones auctioned for millions were on someones yardsale they wouldn't even fetch a 100 bucks!
My turd is nicer then these art work
@@Starrrwarrrs6rbluey lol
Actually this is all about billionaires paint themselves and buy it for their own paint. Garbage painting can cost 100000trillions dollars if the owner paint on it own and buy it.
Man this means I was an artist in my early school days.
Not even kidding when I say that I painted better stuff when I was in elementary school. Definitely not into that stuff now but I was at the very least decent compared to this garbage.
I watch this whole video but still don’t get why it’s so expensive
Because it’s a scam.
Rich people buy it so they can launder money and it can be considered as a "donation"
Same
Money laundering platform
I am just going to get a white canvas and some paint and splash it on the canvas. Apparently people would like to buy it for over a million dollars so they won’t have to pay taxes. Fine by me
Art can’t be recreated even by the same artist. And even if it is recreated it’s merely just another creation. All art is one of a kind❤️
I shat 3 days worth of food by holding it in. The canvas was all brown and stuff. I call it “Le merde”
Andy Warhol recreated his own art, Modern art is crap.
I mean like, i dont know about this kind of "art", but people need to appreciate more comics artist who literary draw and thinking about their comic story.
Ikr?? The composition that goes into comics needs to be appreciated
modern comic art is literally shit tho with a few exceptions
manga art is better
@@ZoZo-fh6tq what do you mean?
@@AA-vr8ve u said that comic art and the effort that goes into it should be appreciated but most of them suck balls
@@ZoZo-fh6tq i wouldn't say that but they have to churn out piece after piece of art that tells a story
“Art isn’t about beauty, it never really was”
Definition of art:
the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power.
Explain this then
There it is: "emotional power", which is not the same thing as beauty.
Not defending shitty paintings, just saying she's half right on this one.
Because there's only one definition of "art", sure. 🤦♀️
@S a) in Caped Baldy's definition, which I responded to, there's the expression "beauty or emotional power". The word "or" implies the validity and independence of both concepts: they are not two conditions which should be met, but two different possibilites art can explore.
b) This definition of art is arbitrary, as most are, but at least the concept of "emotional power" encompasses more stuff that is commonly called art. An example would be movies like "Incendies" or "No Country for Old Man". They are incredible, gut wrenching movies. Yet they're not exactly "beautiful", but they do carry emotional power.
Of course, it all depends on how you define beauty in the first place.
@@yuturtuyieie5544 I'm trying to understand how to associate what you said to the reason someone calls a plain black Square art, *and* make me want to pay for it
Whether is art or not, i don't know, but if is something worth buying? In my opinion, no.
@@m234476ghhma You shouldn't buy it. To me, the likes of Malevich or Pollock are amusing, but I wound't pay millions, not even thousands for their work.
The reason why these paintings are so expensive is simple: speculation and money laundering.
With that said, there are plenty of contemporary artists which create really astounding art, like Theo Jansen, Ron Mueck, even Ai Wei Wei deserves a lot of merit for his crazy ideas. Is just that money is not a good metric of quality, or of its absence.
My original point was just that I agree art is more than beauty, NOT that people should pay millions of dollars for lackluster works or concepts.
And they still didn't give a "valid and logical" reason why art is expensive.
money laundering that's why
there is nothing logical about art, its all about feeling
Its just a scribble
Elitism plays a role I reckon
cause it unique and unrepeatable
i thought my comment on this topic would make me seem uncultured and uncivilised but its good to see that the comment section is filled with comments from people that have common sense !
I went to school for an art degree- traditional figurative stuff mainly. Love me some quality figure paintings. I had to take several art history classes for my degree, one of which was "20th Century Art." My professor split us up into groups the first day and gave us examples of Modern Art to discuss as a class and also discuss our opinions on Modern Art. I gave my honest opinion, that no matter how hard I try, when I look at Modern Art I feel nothing. It looks absolutely pointless to me. There was this rich older retired lady taking the class for giggles and to kill some time, and she got after me berating and belittling me for my opinion, and how I just didn't understand Modern Art, especially because I haven't traveled much (I don't have the money to travel). So she proceeded to tell me about a Jackson Pollock exhibit she went to in Rome one time. I guess there was one of his paintings that had a bee that had gotten stuck in the paint and died, and now its body is a permanent part of the painting. She said it was the "dichotomy of life and death." I just think it's really gross that it's an ugly painting with a dead bug stuck to it. But that's just me. I guess I'll never learn.
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Nah your opinions are valid, and shared
We live in a world where random lines on a canvas could cost millions
She is a perfect example of the people with too much time and money that can stare at a couple lines and make up some bullshit to satisfy her pretentious mind.
You were definitely not in the wrong, that disgusting woman was. How dare she berate your personal opinion (which also happens to be the less pretentious opinion)
If this is an art, then we all are perfect artist.
My art teacher would beat ny ads if I draw a black square in my painting.
Yes
amen
**If this is art , then we are all perfect artists** , No , nobody can be a perfect artist , because such does not exist , and nobody would give you the respect of an artist if you don't learn the basics first , anybody could draw a black square , but it wouldn't have a certain weight to it , it would be a meaningless art piece of bad taste
yep
Van gogh died thinking he was never good enough with no recognition yet these people literally just splash paint on the canvas and get famous. It's honestly sad.
That's not dad thayts smartness of artists
Its just basic money laundering, most of these have no artistic value.
Worst thing is that after his death, greedy art dealers took advantage and (no offense to him; he was still unique and worthy of success during his time on earth) over-exaggerated his name, adding way more value to the art than the contents of the paintings themselves.
I grow tired of artists being popular by their stories over the quality of their artwork. I don’t care if someone had a difficult life, what I care about is that their art is skillfully and well composed.
@@theleafshandsomedevil1552 A lot of van gogh’s work is well composed but I agree
I love a starry night
As a lifelong artist and someone who has studied the contemporary art market in depth, I am convinced that it is complete bullshit.
If I had to sum up my conclusions, I would say this: Owning contemporary art is the modern equivalent of medieval lords having lawns. It doesn't have any inherent value. It doesn't serve a purpose. It is simply a means of showing off how much wealth you can essentially "waste".
As an artist I feel so hurt. We spend hours upon hours working on a piece, trying our level best to create a beautiful artwork that people would look at with awe and wonder, then there are these fake ass imposters who shit all over a canvas and have the audacity to call it art n say things like art isn't about beauty. Don't give me bs.
People like these and the ones who buy their 2 cents worth shits are the reason why real artists are struggling today.
saaaaammmeee here
Same I just changed my minor to art. I decided to change for reasons
1. I needed an outlet to channel my strees and emotions to
2. I love hands on skills
3. I love painting sure my paintings take at least 4 to 5 hours but with each new painting I get better
4. An excuse to buy all the paints and canvases and materials I want
Art is about expression and not only about beauty - an expression of pain may not be beautiful but it is art. But, that said, modern art is mostly nonsense foisted on us for complicated, evil reasons. It is highly priced because it is used for money laundering,
Tom K I love your explanation
REALISM TAKES 1000% MORE TIME AND I WOULD KNOW! ITS JUST STUPID
My opinion about some of these Modern art, in a nutshell;
Is it Art? Yes, it is.
Is it Good Art? No, it is not.
Art is subjective, beauty is too, but I for one am unable to see the beauty of a canvas with a black painted box on it. I don't think that the experience of a painter makes up for it either. It's not fair to look at the box and say "It's amazing!" just because the artist is well known, while artists with genuine beauty are left struggling.
same. sure everything is art, but not everything is good art. and definitely not every art is worth 459438 billions of dollars. if art is so expensive why pay it for the crap and completely ignore the works that has been worked on with intense actual labour?
Beauty is objective.
so TRUE... 😅🤔😭😭😭
empty . com yeah, they said that.
So you're telling me artists like Van Gogh, Monet, Manet, Munch... produce "not good" art? Because they're are extension of the modernist category as Expressionism and Impressionism are often categorised under "Modern". Please use the terms carefully. What you dislike is Minimalist art. Not Modern art.
The black square painting is the equivalent of revising draft after draft of an essay and then deleting all of it and submitting a blank Google doc. A+ work right there.
Cringe
@@gabeh1839 stfu
😂😅
@@gabeh1839 glad that you accepted it. You are truly cringe
If you don't mind. The black square is philosophic, existentialist. It has everything you can imagine and at the same time nothing. Isn't that sufficient to make it great ?
We go to a concert to hear the music they make,not to tell the artist what and how to play.
I now know why aliens don’t visit us . We are not worth their time .
My older brother: goes to art college
Also my older brother: modern art is trash
Me: is a pretty skilled artist
Also me: this is bs
@gheddi i post pretty simple artwork on my yt channel since recording is painful, i have to stack a bunch of books and put my phone on them, and then wait a MILLION years to export the video on my phone. Plus Thats one of my older videos, and i can tell you, I've gotten much better at art. Im planing on editing on my pc now since Its easier.
@@ghostie7776 Yoooo, a fellow Balkan person. Šta ima?
@@thatoneguy9822 e ćao
@gheddi damn why so mean 🤣
Buyer: "I connect with this piece of art, it touches me spiritually. It's almost as if me and this artwork are one"
Artist: "All I did was smear my shit across the canvas"
I bet fbreeze is illegal in his house
Give your life to Jesus Christ , repent, pray and read your bible for your self it may be hard but its worth it ask God for understanding , and for him to guide you , give it all to him before its too late🙏❤ Repent , Jesus Christ is coming back, if you have any questions please ask me
So funny...lol
@@tinajsews2835
Yassss preach for the emptiness of this buyer’s soul sis.
PREACHHHHHHHH
@@tinajsews2835 probably shouldn't bring up religion..
The back of my Notebook has more personality than these.
You don't have any notebook actually.
@@marguskiis7711 don’t think you’re being cool with this shitty attitude of yours, just leave if you’re that annoyed. And stop coming at random people for no reason.
So do I. 😆
@Olivier Merheb My God! How could a peasant like me understand what you said? You must be using language of the gods. Like come on dude, seriously?
@Olivier Merheb 99% of modern artists are gonna be forgotten anyway
The idea that we should be highly rewarded for a small amount of effort has made its way into almost every aspect of life
I wonder if any of these artists will one day actually learn how to paint
"Artists" lol they can't even draw lalisa Manoban
I think a lot of them can draw and paint well, they just choose not to. By painting random strokes they artists seem to be trying to convey emotions and tell a story through their art. I don’t think art should be limited sketching or painting hyper realistic pictures cause tbh my printer could do that. Btw Im not saying that artist who draw realism aren’t talented, they’re exceptionally talented. But in the end I guess everyone has their preferences, and art shouldn’t be brought down cause it doesn’t fit a definition.
@SaKuGa SeNsEi Picasso is scamer
@SaKuGa SeNsEi expert my ass
@@Ak-rb1vj totally agree with you! but...still sounds ridiculous to pay that amount of money on these works...
It MUST be some kind of money laundering scheme.. I mean 99% of 'modern art' literally looks like a child did it, and ANYONE could make something that looks either the same, or better with NO skill required whastoever.
Not 99%. WAY less.
@@O.LEO.N yeah 100%
@@madara6668 No i mean that that's not right at all.
Its a way for rich people as a tax write off
The “art” in this video is what I call “Tax art”, in which the rich use to get less taxes. REAL modern art is more about the meaning aspect of the art rather than the appearance.
While you don’t have to be obligated to like it I just wanted to tell you and people reading this.
Man, this piece is so deep. I wonder how the artist thought of such a thing.
The artist: Crap, deadlines tomorrow. I think a square will work. Just say something that sounds deep and meaningful
Crap, I need a good name if I want it to be famous...
I know!
"Untitled"
...
Perfect masterpiece 👌
@@florencioalexandre7873 tbh I paint for fun only and I have tons of stuff called untitled because legit how many different names for an abstract blob can you make? Untitled usually means 'i wasn't thinking in words when I did this so back off'
@@WilfNelson1
Yeah, I know... I was just being a smartass with a one liner joke...
Sorry 😅
But I 100% agree with you, and I personally like abstract paintings
I think some pieces are "overrated", in the sense that the art market inflates their monetary value
But besides that, for me every piece has an inherent value even if I personally don't like it/ the artist or understand it.
I wish I could paint 🎨 abstract, instead of the random splashes and blobs of paint I call my creations 😬
Anyway, thanks for the comment and take care 👋
@@florencioalexandre7873 it's cool no hard feelings, I was also making fun of myself for just being lazy with naming. Tbh I'll also say that art is dead to me once it's done so I normally don't like naming things because at the point of naming I just want to move on
@@florencioalexandre7873 or the unknown
A lot of people saw this video and did not fully understand what they were trying to say. So I’m going to try to say it simple I guess lol? Basically old art was made with so much detail and so much contrast almost picture like because there were no cameras. They had to draw really realistic to capture moments or people. But as the development of the camera progressed people no longer needed to draw realistically. It was basically your own way to discover art. How could artists ever compete with beautiful pictures taken by cameras especially now that we have the development of photoshop and AI. Contemporary art and modern art sell for so much because it’s new. They’re basically spending a lot of money hoping that it will be a good investment in the end. For example, Van Gogh is an icon but, he was at the brink of popularity when he sadly passed away. He had many paintings in exhibits and sold a painting or two or three to some people but his paintings were not worth as much as they are now. But now in this day and age if you have an original Van Gogh painting somewhere in your attic for some off reason you can sell it and probably be a millionaire. They’re all just investments for rich people to become more rich and keep their generational wealth. In the end of the video they said usually artist do it as a labor of love. That’s because usually artists will not be rich or famous until they pass. Unless the have a brand new creative idea, it becomes their signature style, and it changes the way we see art. Until we have something new or find inspiration in the arts we will keep seeing this kind of art. Maybe take it as a sign and try something new. It may be the next art trend. 🤷🏻♀️
If you’re an artist reading this focus on what makes you happy. If making art makes you happy and helps your mental health , why does it matter if it makes you money or not? I know you want to make a living off of you art but we are in a world where it’s very hard to do that. It’s okay to have it as a hobby or an escape and have another job. I had teachers that were just teachers for extra money for their actual careers. There’s no shame in it. It’s just how the world is now unfortunately. Just have fun with it. Happy creating everyone. 💜
Wow! So my years of practicing anatomy, shading, lighting, design, perspective, coloring and environments fundamentals are just a waste, all i need is to buy paint platter and paint random shapes on a canvas and i would be a billionaire.
You never learned it. So, just go away.
@@marguskiis7711 I bet you can’t even draw a line straight, so YOU go away :)
@@marguskiis7711 well if you are, you don’t gotta be so self-centred and think you’re the best- Cuz your attitude is def not.
@@chimkennubbets6899 everyone who has studied art never talk such a crap about art history. All the educated artists understand modern art, all the logic.
@@marguskiis7711 I’m sorry but like when did this person talk about “art history”?? They just meant to say that they learned art and it has all gone to waste cuz of the “modern art standards”
This is a true story, Many years ago there used to be a TV host who had a weekly show that held topics on current affairs. His name was Gilbert Harding. One week he decided to invite several (4) art critics to explain to his audience the concept of abstract art. He exhibited 4 works of art and ask each critic to explain the meaning of each piece of work. Each one, in turn, came out and gave their spiel on what the artists were trying to promote in each of the artwork. Which were in fact not too dissimilar to what Jackson Pollock produced when he was still around. Gilbert asked the critics to take a seat, and he would go into the back of the studio and bring out the artists, so they could congratulate them personally. Gilbert Harding came back on stage holding the hand of a chimpanzee. The audience response was priceless.
Love it
At the same time, that kind of proves the point and beauty of modern abstract art - it's all about how you personally perceive it, what emotional and chemical reactions each piece brings to you. It doesn't matter who painted it.
Chimpanzee being trained to paint is a great accomplishment for both the trainer and Chimpanzee.
do you have a link to it? i really want to watch it.
Looooool
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity" - Albert Einstein
"And I'm not sure about the universe"
entropy of universe and human stupidity = ♾
I love your pfp
Both are impermanent... but there are somthing infinite; when we stop being stupid we will know.
@@ilsuocavallopazzo so you realize it was a joke?
The art is not to paint that overly simple painting, but to have the knowhow how to sell basically worthless items for a large sum of money and make other people think what they bought is very valuable and special.
Is it just me or did no one say anything during this video? I didn’t hear a single explanation as to why it’s expensive
They said it’s expensive because apparently “drawing realistically” is taken by photographers, so all they do is draw “simplicity”, something a goddamn ONE YEAR OLD can accidentally draw. Art can actually be amazing if people didn’t think drawing shapes is better than drawing like a photograph.
@@henrywu8500 beeing abstract isnt bad in general. many REALLY famous artists did it but theres a big difference between a abstract van gogh wich resembles something you can actually feel and see and someone that violently hits the piece of art with a brush for no goddamn reason other than making monetas. no skills needed whatsoever. you could basically "paint" that shit beforehand and then think about ANY reason why you did it and it would still fit as its only a random piece of crap 😂. you cant see how much thought process is in there. you can say its art but to me sth you need to explain isnt art. simple as that 😂
@@peniskopf653 True that. But from what I've seen in the video, they only sell the bad ones for such uh unreasonable price. I feel like those good abstract arts just went to waste 😔👊
@@kuwachi8241 Chuck Close?
One of the reasons was "because an artist is dead", which is stupid anyway
Its expensive because someone has to launder a large amount of money.
But why they don't pick actual good paintings to do that?
@@karlaanchondo they do buy good ones but they buy those for cheap i dont think that someone with the skill to create a real masterpiece would want to take place in money laundering schemes at the very least it would feel like an insult to the effort put into it
The good ones at track attention. These shit ones transaction is covered up. Also there are tax laws regarding art which have loopholes around them which can be exploited
@@karlaanchondo laundering requires that the actual transaction is worth less than the money being transferred.
@@MaestroTunes until you're hungry. Ever heard of a starving artist?
My dad is an artist, since he was a kid he went through a lot, when I say a lot I mean it. He’s a brilliant artist, he works hard to sell his artworks and participates in exhibitions and galleries..etc , that breaks my heart, I really hate it when I see him up all night and working under pressure and not be able to sell anything.
Yeah it's annoying to see ppl like that
I just hate that somone can do a splat and sell it fo 1000000dollars like I can litterly do the same thing before if it was abstract I could see building the horizon or so thing but now I do not count this as art
@@kenjianimates this is the game now you can cry or adapt sadly that's your only options
@@thibaudherbert3144 yeah its so dumb
We found Adolf jr.
So, modern art is so expensive because the price keeps going up. Thanks for that BI.
What normies see: shitty art
What rich people see: tax evasion
What normies see: a worthless digital coin - seems like a great idea to dump my life savings into it.
What rich people see: the normies are going crazy for worthless digital coins, let's make some money off those morons.
Tax evasion and money laundering
@@kimfromnorthkorea very real
It’s not tax evasion, it’s avoiding piling taxes to begin with.
@@joeroeinski1107 ...wait, so what's tax evation?
Imagine going to art school, studying and practicing hard to be the next Leonardo Da Vinci. Then imagine making a painting you put your heart and soul into it for 46 years, only to be bested by some squiggles because some dude had a heart attack and the “artist” stole it.
lil memeio LMAO
Honestly
I am an art student at Paris's beaux arts and i knw lot of teachers who lived this
Your not an artist I’m guessing.
@@Pascal5207_ boo hoo you posers who love those squiggly lines are not even artists
Cavemen paintings looked alot better... Shows how much we devolved...
Cavemen paintings are genius!
I don't think we devolved i just think the art in the museum devolved. Most of the public hates modern art. They still like still art of fruit and art Renaissance Art and art with beauty and expression
@@tamerov2387 they can be considered revolutionary at their time
@@stygian8049 And even beautiful today ;)
Picasso said the same. From the cavermen paitning of Atapuerca to contemporary art, it's decay.
You may laugh at his cubism work, but checkout the paintings he did at 14 y.old, he won a realistic painting contest
I paint for my self, i build my own frames and my home is my gallery. I dont feel like sellling or showing anything, they bring me joy. My wife loves them so they will never be sold. So with each painting my happiness grows.
Pretty much the same here
"83% don't consider this to be art"
"still divisive"
doesn't sound that divisive to me.
Anyone with more than 2 brain cells wouldn't consider that to be a piece of art.
@@rrsharizam it's maybe the most controversial statement ever by one of the most well known artist. It was ment to ask the question of what art exactly is. It did exactly that, and does still. So yeah, one of the most important art pieces of the 20th century :)
@@fatoeki art comes in different forms as u may know from sound like music or visual like movies or paintings .since painting is visual art i dont need the story behind what is meant for the artist nor his journey to paint it ,if u watch an universally bad movie with bad cuts or mediocre dialogue but u knew the director intentions or his struggle of shooting it will u like the movie more ? Im an amateur artist work mostly digitally doing some on fivrre i cant help but to think it is a joke played on realist artists . there was an experiment on 3 year old child they gave her paint brush and load of canvases ,then she got to work,and they rented a venue for her jumble. you can imagine how pretentious those art critic sound like some of them refused to make there face appear on the documentary after learning that the artist is 3 yo child . modern art in my opinion is a lazy art ,full of mishaps that should be corrected.
Art culture is ruled by eccentric, snob people that thinks they know better thats why they are pulling away from mainstream so they could look like elites and cool.
in my opinion: a brick,dirty bed, banana glued to a wall is not art. It's just nonsense. 🤷♀
never did i look at a piece of modern art and say “wow so much painstaking work must have been put into this art and it’s definitely worth the over 10 million dollars it costed”
@Olivier Merheb I guess you are the same too, judging someone to be narrow minded solely based on one sentence.
@Olivier Merheb aww modern shit art lover mad 😂
@Olivier Merheb I mean, I agree with golden, but realistic painters and other more representational artists do have a lot more effort to put in in things like design perspective, and proportions, they have to get things to look right, while modern artists are more free. I prefer limited mediums tbh, they encourage more creativity, you'd have to find clever solutions to get around things or need to face challenges, and that satisfaction when you solve a challenge is simply delightful.
@Olivier Merheb you are kinda right
@Olivier Merheb I'm glad crazy people like you exist, it makes the rest of us feel a bit more normal.
Most of us are mad because if we do the same thing it's called trash. But if someone with a fancy name does it, it's considered art
Maybe
I'm mad because it's a front for money laundering. 150$ in materials suddenly equals 9 million?
No offense but pretty much how people idolizing Picasso's lastest art.
I mean there are some of his *old* arts that definitely worth. But now.. I failed to understand the meaning behind it.
If some painter got a name called le cock sucker I'd buy a painting from him
Depends on what you look in for art. Art is communication, and the less specific a painting is (like abstract), the more meanings people can give it. Although it is true that it costs a lot of money simply because of money laundering. If you just want to see something pretty, then abstract is usually awful
The problem with this is that its virtually impossible to decifer if a painting has a message or is just predatory advantage taking of the audience by the artist.
This video could've literally just been 2 minutes of an accountant showing how u right off art on ur taxes.
ayup
EXACTLY
Even the way they paint makes me cringe, it's like they don't even care. Just smearing paint all over
I'd rather buy a fan art of a certain fandom cause at least they look nice than... this
Right! Even a toddler could do it who is in diapers. smearing paint all over it.
@@Shawn-md2lr lol i found some painting i did on art school when i was 6 now after 18 years. I though i'll just keep them as memory...find this video...my brain...we are rich!
thank you. I am so so careful with my strokes, I do everything with love and caution. seeing people violently rub brushes on a canvas makes me incredibly uncomfortable
Because thats how they show their expressions through how they paint
Who else found this video to be completely unconvincing?
I found this video to be entirely bs
Sam Chen Yeah its clearly so shady people can clean their dirty money
This makes me think that when I go dump, I should put it on the canvas and call it "art" and nobody should fight me over it.
Poop on the canvas = Million dollar art.
It has a story. Periodt.
Preaching that we are bullshitting everyone else.
The truth is that most artists starve. Most of the comments say artists are scammers but 90% of them work really hard and don't get any money for their art. I'm an artist myself, I work hard and don't sell anything. Works only sell for millions after the artist is dead. So stop saying it's a scam, art don't do you any harm, on the contrary.
Whats sad is there are actual artist with amazing talent being overshadowed by these 10 minute "abstract" paintings
what does it mean to be a talented artist?
@@anthonyisquirky3510 you are good at art
@@anthonyisquirky3510making an actual art
@@anthonyisquirky3510 you would be interested in art and be able to feel thing when you look at a artwork
@@anthonyisquirky3510 be creative, put effort in your work, be original and most importantly be patient with your art.
If I sold my notebook's last page I would be a millionaire:D
If I were to sell my 3rd grader notebook I would be earning 69 billion Dollars
Its just modern art kids just put shit in it and done lol
Maybe some interesting backstory will put value on it.
👍👍😂
Probably not unless you have I've a million followers on a site
*homeless man has diarrhea on a slab of concrete* art connoisseur- “The depth of this work is immeasurable. The pain in the brush strokes is beyond visceral and yet subtle. A true magnum opus.”
Lmao!!!!!!
The blending of the paint on the canvas is spectacular!
“I love the colors, it truly brings the piece together.”
lol
But this is bs like people who make actual art like years of hard work are just being replaced by stupid dabs of paint over a white canvas and moreover they get millions of it
in the modern days. the more you can confuse your customers, the more you can charge them
Normies: What a waste of money!
Actual Artists: What a waste of paint!
Its not like they are using much anyway, some literally have 2 colours on them
joesr31 haha yeah
I actually hate this video.
Agreed...lol😄
One of them, didn't even have paint. 😂
I've seen an artist paints amazing landscape, one drew with ballpoint pen, I have also seen a guy smash a mirror to make portraits and they are underrated. Now I'm seeing what looks like a child's artwork being sold for millions. Just why?
@Spooky Ghost u good?
Money laundering.
It's about identity. That's why they value "novelty" above all. People often want to feel unique and elite, and buying beautiful or good art is tainted by the poorer people's association with it. Its a lot like how "high" fashion ("brand" names with expensive logos) has changed to become ridiculous since clothing manufacturing had become so cheap. This is as opposed to pre industrial times, where beautiful art was highly valued by the wealthy (still is sometimes of course; not all wealthy people have no taste).
And of course there's money laundering and all those shenanigans.
Because Skills aren't rare anymore
@@florisdriessen2867 exactly. It's about novelty, though-provoking, authenticity and concepts.
"Art isn't about beauty." Modern art in a nutshell, ugly.
@Marcus Dietachmair yes
the whole point of art for buyers is to hang on your wall. people want beautiful things to look at, like flowers or a portrait- not a stupid black square. if you’re selling art I think it would help an awful lot to paint something beautiful
.....their complete argument is that "it's about evoking a responce". Even back in the day when religious art dominated. The purpose was not to show how beautiful jesus or the virgin Mary were but how holy they were. Them being beautiful was just a means to convey that
@Marcus Dietachmair what is a black square supposed to make you feel? Not racist maybe?
@Marcus Dietachmair well, maybe those people could set their wallpaper as a black square maybe and not spend millions? Mate grow up, it's about tax evasion
"I could do that" + "Yeah but you didn't" = MODERN ART
I can understand the work of Malevich who spent the lifetime going to this simplification while starting in classic complex painting.
I can not understand modern "modern" artists who start from childish drawings and stay at childish drawings. where is the journey here?
Exactly! Art (I would think) is about branching out and exploring different mediums, most artists will stick to one primary medium because they have successfully skilled in it and love it but will still try other things. Sadly, a lot of people will stick to this modern art bs just to make quick fast-paced art for the money. I have a really difficult time understanding modern artists if all their work is a monochromatic painting...
No one is paying millions to present day artists that do abstract shit.
Malevich is priced because he is a historical figure, not because of what he did. Like gold. It is priced because we all agree it's worth, and because it's rare not because of its actual use. Malevich is rare, only a limited number of paintings in circulation. And he is valuable as historically established.
You can't understand banksy?
Exactly, and even his black square wasn’t just a black square, there were strokes, ways of painting which is evidence of his mastery. Now, those idiots paint the way I color my drawings when I was 5
Same tho
Let’s just remember the artwork of a banana taped to a wall.
And let's honour the person who took it off and ate it 👏🏻
There's a reason why it's called "comedian" bruh lmao
@@MohanKumar-sc4jk the person who ate the banana actually respect the art though haha
And the incredible journey the artist took to get there
Lmao I love that yk about this, I seen it on the news with my mom. And some guy ate it
The reason why rich people “buy” shitty art for so much, isn’t because of the uniqueness or the art itself, it’s actually donations to the artist so the rich man can avoid paying taxes (if you donate a certain percentage of your total income you are exempt from income tax, this certain percentage is cheaper then what Uncle Sam would have robbed you for)
thank you for explaining, I didn't know this
That and money laundering and being unnecessarily frivolous with spending
that makes a lot of bro
Ah now that makes sense.Rich ppl obviously can't be dumb so that's what is happening.Then why is government allowing it? Sorry I am a bit stupid.
@@veryconfused9768 Because politicians profit from it, too.
If anything can be an art, then art is nothing.
Tbh modern art is just about class. I can literally drop a few paint buckets on a canvas and if it’s auctioned in a room full of rich people, someone will buy it for a million dollars. Rich people just want to show off to each other that they can spend that much. But if that same art piece is auctioned in a room full of poor people, someone might buy it for 1 dollar. So the true value of modern art is actually dependent on the audience it’s being auctioned to. That’s literally it. Nothing else matters.
Picasso once said that, It took me four years to paint like Raphael but a lifetime to paint like a child
Nope, maybe 130 years ago you could get away with that. Than again 130 years ago you'd go through traditional art school and do that because you're trying to make a point.
You nailed it..
You people are Dunning-Kruger and don't understand any of this. Go back 100 years and start doing modern art. If you want to be a relevant artist start by doing something new... should be easy moron. Go do it, make your millions...
Some likely money laundering
My theory: after what happened with hitler, art schools started accepting anything and everything in order to avoid another world war
XD
Underrated comment
intellectual
Big brain theory up there
That makes more sense than the video.
This what happens when you give every kid a gold medal.
I'd like but I'll leave it at 69 likes
LoL.. throw in some participation award and my facebook flex is complete.
Okay make art and tell me is it easy or hard
Every art has it's meaning
I cannot tolerate the child-like paintings in this vid. Art's supposed to be like what van Gogh, Rembrandt, Monet, Raphael, Michelangelo and Frida Kahlo had created.
Leonardo and the Austrian painter would have same reaction as we are. Creativity and talent art is always first, but nowadays marketing techniques and easy money laundering is a problem.
When the woman said, 'Art was never about beauty, it never has been.' really pissed me off.
i mean, it never was. In some way yes, but artists didn’t show only beautiful things.
@@liannamkoyan9893 it was and still is. It's Not just about beauty if that's what you're saying.
@@flinbin I think what Aayan Abu Sifayet is getting at is not about beauty in the way we normally think, but how we perceive art on an emotional and visual level - that art should be about how it looks and feels, not about if it's "rare" or "valuable" which was the point of the quote from the video
@@flinbin Beauty doesn't necessarily mean actual beautiful stuff, the ugly and dark at still has to have some kind of beauty to it. Even "Saturn devouring his son" is beautiful art. So you could agree on that.
@@flinbin And don't even get me started on some of the really terrifying biblical renderings, yet beautiful, look up biblically accurate Angels.
I don't think art necessarily needs to look realistic, but it should look pleasant, interesting, beautiful, or trigger some emotion other than "bruh". It should also take skill/talent to create. Anyone can draw some lines, not anyone can create art.
Art today: yo i spent $40 on paint cans and bought this huge $80 canvas and spilled all the paint on it, now buy this for $8.5M
@@symmetry6320 it's not about the material your not selling the canvas your selling the art which took decades to master. Hope this helps
@@mr.k6728 you're telling me spilling paint over a canvas takes decades to master? This ain't art.
@@bulgslel that's your interpretation of what happened "spill paint", no art educated person would view it that way. Let me help you understand with a very simple equation: if the person has mastered art and can paint and draw like masters THEN if he decides to "throw" paint at the canvas you have to ask yourself how is his masterful knowledge of art applied in this case, why did he choose this medium, why this colour, were the strokes aggressive etc.
I see alot of non- artist viewing art with this naive lense, understand that it's not just a guy that decided to throw paint but an art master that decided to experiment
@@mr.k6728 yeah but that wasn't your original point. You said that this art takes decades to master, so, logically, I thought you meant that spilling paint over a canvas takes decades to master which, in my opinion, isn't true. I was wrong about the fact that this wasn't art, because it is,since art is subjective. My problem is that these paintings sell for millions, when they look like they were made by a 3-year old in 2 minutes. Personally, when I look at these paintings, I feel barely anything at all. It is only after I look at the price tag, that makes me angry. There are hundreds, thousands of talented and hard-working artists out there that produce much better art than this and get almost nothing in return. In my opinion if anybody can make this art, it isn't worth millions and it is not a masterpiece.
Photography hasn’t replaced art, not at all, realistic art can still stand out from photography, from just the uniqueness of the artwork, and an element in the artwork that photographers can’t recreate in just a click,I’m surprised so many people just overlooked that
Yes but she meant at the time that photography was invented in particular, that’s when “realistic” and “beautiful” art was considered boring. Then art became more conceptual. Hence born modern art.
The thing is that the invention of photography only killed the "Drawing people body and face"Type of art thingy. It didn't killed the idea of imagery,emotion,feel and fantasy of an art. When Everyone start experimenting. it lead to a lot of things we like today such as animation. Glowy art and every shit you can find on social media platform such as anime drawing or a atmospheric an art. The reason why every modern art that is put on the museum is shit is its for greedy people to take advantage on rich people tax evasion scheme
@@widowswail888 actually, modern art is just for money laundering
@@widowswail888 I like cartoon art.
@@widowswail888 That's a bullshit argument that I keep hearing.
Most photography during the Modern Art era was still in black and white, pretty low in resolution, and grainy. And you couldn't photograph things that don't exist in real life.
Even in the present day with the ubiquity of cell phone cameras, people are painting more artworks than any other point in history - except that it's all done in digital medium
I like the Impressionist school. Y'know Monet, Manet.....Tippy Tippy Day Day.
Public: So why is simple art so expensive if I can do it ?
“Experts”: 🤷♂️
Like asking why CardiB crap music example made her a millionaire if anyone can do it.
Because they didn't do it
Lol I always laugh with that stupid argument. People claim all the time that they can do it but still none of them ever did it. Why is that? Maybe because none of them actually know a shit about art in general? I wonder. (Before starting to attack me I’m no art person, I just hate smartass people that have an opinion about EVERYTHING, without having the slightest idea about what they’re talking about.)
@@Pantsu51 you have a point. Slapping paint on a canvas is easy, selling it is hard. Tbh a circle on a canvas gets more attention from the public (good or bad) than art that is praise worthy due to outrage etc. It is like shitty merch with a small logo on something from a big celeb.
It’s valued like that because people will pay that much you may think you can create something like this and I am sure you can but you are mr nobody for now so it won’t be as valued
This makes me so angry... That shitty art is being sold for millions where amazing artists I follow sell artworks for a 100$-500$
Couldn't agree more. It's also kinda sad that these millionaires and billionaires spend millions on this rubbish when there are millions around the globe starving to death.
@ vibe ruiner
True.ive seen people on the street drew their customer really well in under 5m and theiy are getting 50 fpr it
@heimer donger If you make an income of 100 mil from that 37% of it goes to federal taxes alone. So 37 million dollars just taken from the government. Let's say you buy an art piece from an auction house for 10 million dollars. And you store it in a free port anonymously so taxes doesnt count on your art piece. Your art piece stays in the free port for 5 years. Auction houses always keep exclusive partnerships with artists and make sure the demand for their art goes up and keep marking the price up as time goes on. You can get an appraisal for your art piece, and because its from a famous auction house and a famous artist, its worth 50 mil now. You can donate this art piece to a museum and get a tax write off of 50 million from your 37 million taxes. The other 13 million can be evenly split for the next 5 years.
@heimer donger they can evade taxes for a lot cheaper. The art is generally bad because auction houses dont really care about the product quality because the buyers dont care if it looks nice or not.
"you're so ugly you could be a modern art masterpiece!"
Don't mind me I'm just gonna save that one for later
You are soooo funny! Sarcasm
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman.
Ah yes this is "art"
My brain has discombobulated from my drawing of a detailed navy submarine to splashes of paint.. 🤯
"Art isn't about beauty."
Statements like that make modern art even more preposterous than it already is.
Some art is? Some art isn't
@@AA-vr8ve if it's neither pretty nor meaningful then what's the point?
@@vrath2423 i meant that art can be ugly looking if it's meaningful
Like the spongebob close ups? Those look disgusting, and it's amazing.
2:24 can actually be considered an art as it looks beautiful, although not the most complex stuff I've seen so far. But what in the name of seventh shit is the thing that comes after this?
@@AA-vr8ve her argument was that artists don't feel the need to make beautiful paintings because now we have photography.. like wtf?