LOS ANGELES — Police in Los Angeles are offering a $1 million reward for information leading to the recovery of a multimillion dollar collection of original Andy Warhol artwork stolen from a West Los Angeles home. The family’s longtime nanny arrived at the home Sept. 3 to find the color screenprints missing from the walls. She immediately went to a neighbor’s house and called police.
Eleven artworks, each 40 inches square, were stolen. Among the stolen items were images of O.J. Simpson, Muhammad Ali, soccer star Pele and tennis champion Chris Evert. A portrait of Weisman was also taken.
It’s not known exactly how much the collection is worth, but Weisman tried to sell it in 2002 for $3 million.
Meh…I’ll give ‘em five bucks for the lot.
#15 That’s just a can-o-crap
Soup cans, as an idea created at the time of pop art consumerism is art. It might seem blazé to you nowadays, but that doesn’t diminish it’s value in the evolution of visual arts. In it’s day it had emotional value rather than beauty… still art… unless you don’t understand the meaning… then it’s just stuff, or awful stuff. Do you like Jazz?
Your very narrow definition is just one way of looking at art… although extensive in your demands, a simple abstract that instills emotion or even in a very direct way is simply beautiful is enough for many to enjoy as art.
The definition of art is much simpler than you imagine. If so little visually affects you in a positive way, or gives you pleasure, I imagine that your walls are bare (metaphorically).
I like to read as well.
#22–Jim==excellent response. Yes, emotion has value. I grit my teeth saying “even emotions from a soup can” but Marilyn worked for me. My walls are completely covered with books and poster sized photographs I took myself. One of my favorite photo’s is of a single tree on a hill taken once a month for a year. Can’t deny it was Warhol that inspired that. Art? No. But emotive for me.
Warhols fits a few exception a few times to the general rule that art is overestimated for its worth. The exceptions even reinforce that view. Thanks for going until you hit paydirt.
Re: #23 “excellent response.”
I must be hallucinating.
(G’night)
Art is in the eye of the beholder, as is beauty, but, “Is it soup yet?” As someone who saw Warhol’s “Frankenstein” movie, I think it answered the question “If we paid money to see this movie, did we get screwed?” in the affirmative.
However, as someone who is engaged in commercial screen printing on daily basis, I have a bit more sympathy for his soup cans and celebrity portraits.
If by some chance I’d ever owned them I’d have sold them.
Okay I might have thrown them out with the trash. I can’t always tell which crappy looking junk is worth a lot of money and which is just trash.
#25 That movie was meant to be seen in 3d after eating a tab of LSD, preferably the night of halloween, it’ll change your life! HAR!
Well, flies like crap.
I’d bet a quarter that today thousands of art collectors are being approached (psst! wanna buy some hot art?) by con men.