OT - Wow, it would take a blathering I D I O T (pic)

to pay 1 cent for this... much less the $215 plus shipping the "artist" is asking on fleabay.

I was looking for junkyard art, and junkyard photos (am giving just a tiny, TINY bit of contemplation to selling photos), anyway was blown away that someone would think a person would actually pay any amount for that thing!

By the way, it is an "abstract elephant"... wow, I'll say it's abstract all right! Done now.

Well, compared to some abstract art that actually sells for ridiculus prices, this ain't so bad, comparatively speaking. But that's not saying much, though. lol

Some yuppie will pay that for it and think they got a great deal, go figure LOL

I never would have figured it out if you hadn't told me what it "is". 'Pretty neat really. I mean, I could never have thought of that. 'Might be "abstract".....but I can see it!

How about an Origami Boulder?



http://www.origamiboulder.com/

Kind of goes with the idiots at auctions that pay more than new prices. I guess they show uo on Ebay too. I do see the elephant. Wish I had abstracted the idea.

Larry

(quoted from post at 14:22:28 08/24/12) How about an Origami Boulder?

http://www.origamiboulder.com/

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You guys crack me up!

Thanks for the laugh!


Now off to the garage to make some art to pay for this dang ole tractor!

Abstract?!! You got that right. Didn"t have a clue what it was that could be worth $$$. Now that I know, its still not worth $$$.

Let me know if it sells. If so, we"ve got lots of junk laying around that could be slapped together for "abstract art" and maybe make a few $$.

I once heard someone say (tongue in cheek, no doubt): "If someone wants to spend money that badly it's morally wrong to deny them the priviledge"... Mike

last columbus day swmbo and i went up to door county wisconsin to visit some friends. they had a big art fair and stuff going on. some fella there made a bunch of yard animals and birds out of worn cultivator sweeps, vibra shanks, sickle sections ect. people were buying that stuff up like crazy.

I have been to some major art museums, and I have always been amazed at how even the top art establishment have allowed themselves to be bamboozled into accepting as "art" some of the absurdities they shelter in their expensive halls.

Problem is, an artist is anyone who says he is, and art is anything the "artist" produces. A talent in the basic disciplines of art (drawing, painting, sculpting) are unnecessary elements for the modern artist. All he/she must possess are some random spare parts, something to hold them all together, an "artistic vision", and the sheer gall to present the result as an artistic triumph. Next the artist must find some demented patron who desparately wants to be considered an afficionado and who is willing to pay good money for the monstrosity. These are the people who cannot bring themselves to say, "No, that's crap" for fear that their fellow art junkies will shun them for their boorish lack of artistic discernment, which is to be possessed by only the few.

These days "art", especially the "assembled" (e.g., 'elephant') genre has to be more and more over the top so that its uniqueness alone must place it in the realm of wonderful, bold and creative art. And who is willing to admit that they lack that special "art appreciation gene" in the presence of such an awe-inspiring work and cannot plumb its deep inner meanings.

Rant over. That said, there are examples of modernistic art and sculpture that, even though I can't "interpret" it, I find have a certain "Je nais se quoi" as the stooge in the hamburger commercial says.

Jerry S.

Kudos and mega dittos!

glennster,

Some of that stuff I actually like. I think it is the Adirondack Case Guy on YT who makes some pretty neat scrap iron sculptures for his yard.

Mike,

LOL. I like that!

Nancy,

Much along the lines of my thinking! LOL

Fergienewbee,

I can see the elephant too - but I could not part with any money on behalf of it.

overheard,

Now THAT's special! Who'da thunk it?

Oops, that was supposed to be SweetFeet... not SeetFeet. LOL.

No doubt. Would not surprise me at all.

Didn't somebody make millions selling pet rocks?

Friend on mines wife went to an art show. Came back with some art. Framed piece of newspaper with a pocket watch glued to the paper. Called passage of Time. She paid over nine hundred dollars for it

The stewards on most any cruise ship can make a much better elephant out of a couple fresh towels.

Art,

True, true, true! Didn't think of that.

Billy,

WOW!!! Can you give me her name and address... pretty sure I can make up something sell her. LOL.

BigFred,

Never been on a cruise. So, do they lay them out that way in a decorative form... you know, like folding napkins to make them look nice?