The World's Dumbest Art Collector

From "The Mona Lisa Curse" by Robert Hughes.

"In The Mona Lisa Curse, Hughes traces the pernicious rise of the commercial art market back to 1963, when Leonardo da Vincis most famous portrait was exhibited in New York. The Mona Lisa, says Hughes, was treated as thought it were a film star. People came not to look at it, but to say that theyd seen it.

This feeding frenzy over a single painting marked the start of a process by which works of art became celebrities in their own right. And from the 1960s onwards, as Hughes recounts, acquisitive collectors started buying works of art not because they liked them, but because they expected a financial return."

- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/3560841/The-Mona-Lisa-Curse.html

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[JamesBStudios]

An art critic is the most vile creature on Earth.  No one cares about their opinions. They are worthless. An artist appreciates his collectors and thinks nothing of their critic.

[ChrisTube3333]

I still dont get what that joke had to do with a painting?

That would be like me writing something down on a paper and then calling it a drawing. And they call contemporary realism irrelevant?

Modern art is just getting stupider and stupider, and i honestly dont think they have the right to call them self painters.

[rageatm4life]

its just supply and demand. People want the latest and greatest so they get it.

[lamentfly]

Mr. Mugrabi you seem to be a nice guy but you are totally brainwashed, these guys who have sold you this bs have robbed you more than Bernard Madoff could of ever have, but the pity is these guys will never go to jail. They did a number on you it reminds me of heavensgate. Try to get your money back they're laughing at you all the way to the bank. I'll hook you up with some real art, if you think this shit is great you'll be flabbergasted with what I have for you

[lamentfly]

Mr. Mugrabi you seem to be a nice guy but you are totally brainwashed, these guys who have sold you this bs have robbed you more than Bernard Madoff could of ever have, but the pity is these guys will never go to jail. They did a number on you it reminds me of heavensgate. Try to get your money back they're laughing at you all the way to the bank. I'll hook you up with some real art, if you this shit is great you'll be flabbergasted with what I have for you

[lamentfly]

@oliverwasow Hughes regonizes all the crackheads like yourself and calls them out on it. Hughes is simply brilliant bringing truth to a matter of crackheads wealthy or not in denial.

[gushplop]

the thing is that Mugrabi does not have the knowledge to defend contemporary art

[MrOwasow]

@junfanjkjd , It's 'you're', not 'your'.

[junfanjkjd]

@oliverwasow and your the worlds dumbest youtube poster you jack ass.

[MrOwasow]

Hughes clearly has no understanding of Richard Prince's work. He doesn't even address Prince's most important work, his photographs. Hughes is engaged in the classic and age old game of mocking contemporary art without establishing that he has any understanding at all of the issues the artists are dealing with.  He is mocking, engaged in essentially the same practice that Hitler did when he made fun of "degenerate art". To suggets that Warhol had "nothing to say" is simply absurd.