Art For Art's Sake, But Who Is Art?
Click on image to view enlarged.Two bits of art related news: Will Elder, the genius who was one of the founders of Mad Magazine back in 1952 has died. Elder once created a scalpel-sharp satire set in the Playboy mansion . Playboy sued him and won. But Hugh Hefner was such a fan of Elder's work that he turned around and hired him to contribute what would become a long-running feature, Little Annie Fanny.
In an unreleated story, a Lucian Frued canvas of a grotesquely obese nude woman, done in the artist's no-holds-barred realism, has set the world's record price for a living artist, $33.6 million, at auction in New York City. Move over abstracxt expressionism.
posted by John M Crowther @ 7:22 AM
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>> a Lucian Frued canvas of a grotesquely obese nude woman, done in the artist's no-holds-barred realism, has set the world's record price for a living artist, $33.6 million, at auction in New York City. <<
Yes, but how much is that per pound?
LOL. I'll file that under W for "Wish I'd Thought of It."
Just what everyone wants for their living room. roger
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