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Old 04-26-2010, 11:58 PM   #1
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April 27, 2010: Canadian Record

It appears a new record will be set for a painting by a Canadian artist.

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The record is currently held by 19th-century artist Paul Kane's Scene in the Northwest Portrait, a wintry view of a man and dog team in pioneer-era Canada that sold for nearly $5.1 million at a 2002 auction in Toronto.
But Agnes Martin's image — an extremely subtle grid of light grey pencil lines set against a soft beige background of acrylic paint — is expected to sell for between $4 million and $6 million next month in New York at a Sotheby's auction of contemporary art.


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Like many of Martin's works, the nearly two-metre-wide painting titled The Desert would strike uninitiated viewers as laughably spare or virtually invisible. But others, including top critics and some of the world's leading art collectors, consider Martin's minimalist works to be groundbreaking meditations on colour and pattern, as well as brilliant expressions of her reverence for nature.

Describing The Desert as a "tour de force" that showcases Martin's lightest touch with both brush and pencil, Sotheby's contemporary art specialist Anthony Grant told Canwest News Service that such well-preserved, large-format paintings from the key mid-1960s period of the artist's career are extremely rare.
I understand art critics drink... a lot.

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Old 04-27-2010, 12:10 AM   #2
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I actually do like some minimalist works, and so I looked carefully at this and began to see the faint outlines of a landscape... and then I scrolled down a bit and it all moved and I realised it was muck on my laptop screen. Sooo disappointed! No, I don't get it.
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Old 04-27-2010, 12:12 AM   #3
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If I ever meet the person that pays money for this, I'll slap the shit out of 'em.
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Old 04-27-2010, 12:24 AM   #4
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I actually do like some minimalist works, and so I looked carefully at this and began to see the faint outlines of a landscape... and then I scrolled down a bit and it all moved and I realised it was muck on my laptop screen. Sooo disappointed! No, I don't get it.
Obviously you're among us "uninitiated".
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Old 04-27-2010, 01:43 AM   #5
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If you do a chalk & charcoal filter on it in photoshop, it's pretty clearly a still-life of a mickey-mouse doll (seriously).
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Old 04-27-2010, 04:16 AM   #6
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If you do a chalk & charcoal filter on it in photoshop, it's pretty clearly a still-life of a mickey-mouse doll (seriously).
If you put a douche-bag filter on it, you get this...
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Old 04-27-2010, 05:50 AM   #7
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It's still better than DuChamp.
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Old 04-27-2010, 08:11 AM   #8
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It's still better than DuChamp.
Or Warhol.


To quote from an episode of "The Flintstones", "I don't know what the artist got for this, but he should'a got life.".
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Old 04-27-2010, 10:19 AM   #9
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It reminds me of a beige excel spreadsheet, which in turn makes me think of work, which makes me depressed. This "art" sucks.
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Old 04-27-2010, 10:35 AM   #10
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i see two slightly blue guys standing facing each other..... possibly peeing toward each other.

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Old 04-27-2010, 10:50 AM   #11
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I can't imagine why not much of this guys work survives. I can just see someone boxing up all his stuff, going "All this canvas, you think he would have painted something on here, eah?" Then chucking it out.
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Old 04-27-2010, 11:44 AM   #12
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Hook me up with that buyer quick! I'll do it for them for $2.5 mil and it won't be old and stale!
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Old 04-27-2010, 12:31 PM   #13
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Hillrick, call it The Great Beige North.
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Old 04-27-2010, 12:45 PM   #14
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I may have seen one of this artist's works at MOMA when I was about 10. I remember a wall-sized work, with pencil lines on the wall in three different directions creating a grid pattern.

I remember thinking that it was bullshit. But you know, age 10, you're not going to be able to appreciate art like that.
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Old 04-27-2010, 12:51 PM   #15
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And at age 10, you're liable to get an honest impression rather than being brainwashed by the "initiated".
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