$45,000,000 painting is very cool

I must not understand art at all because that looks like something a kid could make just screwing around on a canvas.

And it's worth that kind of coin? Jesus...

I think it has to do with who painted it as well.

I like that the painting is named "red, brown, black, and orange".

Was this artist drunk?

Terrible painting is terrible

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think it has to do with who painted it as well.

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No doubt. Pieces that were on the leading edge of a style or era carry more weight than someone who just tried to create something similar. Original ideas and such.

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I like that the painting is named "red, brown, black, and orange".

Was this artist drunk?

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No, but whoever paid $45M for that crap probably was.

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understand art at all because that looks like something a kid could make just screwing around on a canvas.

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That looks like it would be hard to do recreate period. A lot of this kind of art is hard to see just how technical it is with a simple iPhone photo.

%40 I guess I don't understand art.

I get a message that says
"Sorry!

We're experiencing unexpected technical difficulties. Please wait a moment and refresh the page."


Maybe bc I'm on my phone.

" Pollock's drip paintings, for example (which I'm personally not that fond of), look like something a kid could have done. But at the time, Pollock's work made imaginative sense in the context of what painters had done before him; it shifted the possibilities of painting toward a new direction, and it did so while displaying an awareness of what it was doing"

some of the critic's comments are funnier than the art

the painter 'Regarded as reclusive, he had a volatile personality, and struggled with alcoholism for most of his life' which confirms an earlier poster's opinion.