Thought For the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Oh! It is MUCH better looking than the usual stuff high-priced, modern artists create. Way to go.
One of my sons said that if the Middle Ages had Monty Python, their skits would look like us.
A true con-artist. Like that Banksy painting which sold at auction for $1.4mill in London Sotheby’s a few years back. As the auction ended, the painting of a girl holding a red heart balloon slid down the frame and shred half way- like it was self-destructing. The painting apparently doubled in value immediately. They wouldn’t name the person who was silly enough to buy it, lucky for them.
The story on this sculpture is that the artist had Joe Biden as his subject. After hours of intense scrutiny the artist was finished.
Looks just like Joe.
This invisible statue is only a tiny bit more stupider than paying $36,000 (it was $60,000 at peak) for a bitcoin or $100,000 for some celebrity’s non-fungible token.
In 1637, a Dutch (Holland was at the peak of its eonomic and political power) tulip bulb sold, on the open market, for 5,200 florins (about 10 years pay for a skilled artisan).
At last the Emperor having no clothes is now literal
If it were a charity event, I could see (no pun intended) the the “painting” as a donation, but the artist is not 501.C3 as far as I know. These wealthy buyers must have some clever tax lawyers/accountants.
Portrait of Joe or Kamala at the southern border.
There was some webcomic I read a while ago where one of the paintings was invisible. For a while it was neck and neck with various other artistic absurdities, but what clinched the victory for the invisible painting was the revelation that its painter also did not exist, and indeed no entry had been made in the first place.