Foo - Casino Magnate pokes hole in a Picasso

U.S. casino magnate gives Picasso's dream the elbow

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Picasso's famed "Dream" painting turned into a nightmare for Las Vegas casino magnate Steve Wynn when he accidentally gave the multimillion dollar canvas an elbow.

Wynn had just finalized a $139 million sale to another collector of his painting, called "Le Reve" (The Dream), when he poked a finger-sized hole in the artwork while showing it to friends at his Las Vegas office a couple of weeks ago.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061018/od_nm/picasso1_dc

Big Deal, I used the lost Monet as a drop cloth last week.

Good. That painting sucked anyway. Looks like a giant purple woman feeling herself. I can draw better crap than that, and I'll sell mine for a lot less!

Good. That painting sucked anyway. Looks like a giant purple woman feeling herself. I can draw better crap than that, and I'll sell mine for a lot less!
I'm with ya....in terms of talent, I never thought Picasso was nearly as great as many other "masters". I think he's just famous because his "style" (cubism) was fresh and original at the time.

I'm with ya....in terms of talent, I never thought Picasso was nearly as great as many other "masters". I think he's just famous because his "style" (cubism) was fresh and original at the time.

You have obviously only seen a fraction of his work, and then only in reproduction.

http://images.evalu8.org/images/picasso2.jpg

You have obviously only seen a fraction of his work, and then only in reproduction.
I haven't seen it in real life if that's what you mean. I'm sure I've seen a lot of his work at one time or another....I've just been far more impressed by other artists. I guess cubism just doesn't impress me that much...I like other artists much better.

http://images.evalu8.org/images/picasso2.jpg
Well....I'll admit...that is a very fine piece of art.

http://images.evalu8.org/images/picasso2.jpg

:eek: The astounding "White Box with Red X"! I would DIE to have that one!

edit: damn, as soon as i submit, the link is fixed

edit2: still pretty stupid though, imo

It's a portrait.

A portrait can be unflattering, unrecognizable, poorly rendered, unfinished, and a host of other bad adjectives.

But a portrait can be neither "stupid" nor endowed with any intelligence not already present in the subject.

Hate to be cliche',
but there is no such thing as bad art !

I'm surprised Reuters allowed a writer to call a work of art "artwork."

Ya know before he became famous, Picasso was a sketch artist for the Metropolitan Police in Paris. Once a woman came in to describe her assailant and he translated her description into a sketch which caused the police to arrest an abandoned washing machine.

Cubist paintings were only a small fraction of Picasso's prodigeous output. If you had ever studied Picasso's work at all, you would know that he was an excellent and very talented realist painter before he ever started painting abstracts.

Cubist paintings were only a small fraction of Picasso's prodigeous output. If you had ever studied Picasso's work at all, you would know that he was an excellent and very talented realist painter before he ever started painting abstracts.

I have and I do but if you can't pretend you haven't (studied) and don't (know) then you can't enjoy the joke.

You have obviously only seen a fraction of his work, and then only in reproduction.

You've obviously been brainwashed.

I'm with ya....in terms of talent, I never thought Picasso was nearly as great as many other "masters". I think he's just famous because his "style" (cubism) was fresh and original at the time.
Actually, he was heavily influenced by Heironymus Bosh!

Actually, he was heavily influenced by Heironymus Bosh!

Same with Michael Connelly.

Same with Michael Connelly.
OOOOOO, Someone else knows early Rennaisance influence on Surrealism? Cool!:D

Gimme some Jennifer Connelly...

You've obviously been brainwashed.

No.

I can poke fun at the art world myself. For example:

"So Steve Wynn poked his elbow through a priceless Picasso painting, eh? How could anyone tell there was a hole in it?"

~Serendipper

I elbowed all my paintings long before Wynn ever did... that copycat! Picasso rocks. but he was an *******, from all accounts.

You've obviously been brainwashed.

Actually, as Serendipper accurately points out, there is a big difference between seeing the original of a work and seeing reproductions or prints. I really didn't appreciate that until I was in college and heard as much from a photography professor from whom I was taking a class. The following summer, I saw an exhibition of Ansel Adams's photographs, all of them originals by Adams, himself. The difference between the depth of the work and what you see printed on paper elsewhere is really pretty astonishing. I've noted the same thing with paintings.

I saw quite a bit of original Picasso pieces in London last year. I have to say that none of them looked much better than the stuff painted by the third graders my girlfriend teaches.

I saw quite a bit of original Picasso pieces in London last year. I have to say that none of them looked much better than the stuff painted by the third graders my girlfriend teaches.

I know.

Aren't children wonderfully gifted and expressive?

I'm with ya....in terms of talent, I never thought Picasso was nearly as great as many other "masters". I think he's just famous because his "style" (cubism) was fresh and original at the time.

If you take a look at some of Picasso's earliest works, it is undeniable that he was a very talented artist in the classic sense. Why he devolved to the kind of crap that he produced after he went "cubist" is anyone's guess, but he certainly was successful at getting suckers to pay top dollar for his "works". I think he was bright enough to see a way to get more, for less effort and ran with it.

Cubist paintings were only a small fraction of Picasso's prodigeous output. If you had ever studied Picasso's work at all, you would know that he was an excellent and very talented realist painter before he ever started painting abstracts.

+1

I know.

Aren't children wonderfully gifted and expressive?


:lol: yah, especially the one's that threaten to stab the teacher with a pencil... than carry it out. :eek: