Saturday, May 5, 2007

Warhol now most popular artist !!

Well its official, Andy Warhol has over taken Picasso as THE most popular artist which quite frankly leaves me quite dissapointed. The term "less is more" comes to mind when faced with a Warhol and although some artists have actually managed to create more from less, Warhol has just earned more from less. The only reason that the Warhol has become more popular than Picasso is because a new generation of rich, rebelious art collectors who shun talent, ignore reality and despise rationality have decided that paying enormous amounts of money for a psychadelic image of Chairman Mao is COOL. But why is buying a Warhol considered to be so cool I hear you ask, well, because the two things that these rebelious collectors absolutely hate, rationality and reality, say that Warhol is extremely over priced, poor value. Thats right, Warhol is cool because he isn't, so when a guest enters the New York studio apartment converted from an old box factory of one of these uber cool Warhol afficionados and says to him/her, "how much did that cost", to which the collector can stand tall, pause for a moment and then proudly state $17 million dollars. The guest will keep a straight face and casually remark "nice" because they too want to be seen as cool as well but will secretly be wondering how someone could spend so much money on so little, exactly what the rebelious collector wants...

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