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A 1million dollar painting by a nobody wtf?

Madness

Well she has or best offer, so I see what's she's aiming for, she doesn't want to sell it for less than she might make so she doesn't want to set the Buy It Now too low, however 1,000,000 is way to high, I know art is subjective, so this means nothing, but to me it looks like crap.

She should have just left the Buy it now option blank.

I strongly suspect that the artist grew up hearing all of those 'you're a very special person' self-esteem pep talks.

Honestly, that kind of stuff makes me laugh. Here are people, on this very site, who are *amazing* artists and such, who do their stuff *for free* just to maybe (MAAAAYBE) get a compliment post-reply. And then there are people who have so much ego that everything they touch is worth a million dollars--so they think?

Flannery O'Connor said, "Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them." Ahhh for a clear perspective like hers again.

HK, we should count ourselves 'lucky' we get to see a picture of the 'art' without having to pay for it.

Madness?

THIS

IS

SPARTAMUS!!!



Star Saber and Rodimus too.

I think it's a cool watercolour painting of OP.

I wouldn't pay a million dollars for it but it's nice work.

hellkitty wrote:I strongly suspect that the artist grew up hearing all of those 'you're a very special person' self-esteem pep talks.

Honestly, that kind of stuff makes me laugh. Here are people, on this very site, who are *amazing* artists and such, who do their stuff *for free* just to maybe (MAAAAYBE) get a compliment post-reply. And then there are people who have so much ego that everything they touch is worth a million dollars--so they think?

Flannery O'Connor said, "Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them." Ahhh for a clear perspective like hers again.

HK, we should count ourselves 'lucky' we get to see a picture of the 'art' without having to pay for it.

That's a pretty good analysis. I for one wouldn't pay anything for an artpiece, I'll go to museums or art galleries to look at them but I don't want to own them.

hellkitty wrote:I strongly suspect that the artist grew up hearing all of those 'you're a very special person' self-esteem pep talks.

I can understand the idea that some people are given a lot of ego boosting compliments when they are budding artists. It seems like most groups of people growing up have at least a few creative members and normally all they hear are positive remarks. It can continue if these people attend art schools that have instructors who teach art but aren't or haven't been professional artists.

One of the things I benefited greatly from in my art education so far is experiencing proper criticism of work. I attended Sheridan College and every class of mine involved critique sessions that involved all the students. Basically, you take your work for the week and put it up for everyone to look at. Then everyone participates in a group critique. One of the things that was common was no one wanted to say anything "bad" about someone else's work during the first critique session. Our instructors reminded us that without constructive criticism, we would get nowhere and that constructive criticism isn't a bad thing. However, for people who have rarely had criticism, constructive or not, hearing it for the first time can be demoralizing. To be an artist, you have to develop tough skin.

I remember my painting instructor for acrylics, who had a rep for being the worst teacher because he marks hard. His "pep talk" to us during the first class basically amounted to him telling us that no matter how we were treated in our primary school years, we weren't special here, that there are several hundred artists at the school and 99% of them were better than us. Also, he said that we shouldn't expect to get a higher mark than a C for our first few assignments because if we can get even a B, we didn't need to be in his class because he had nothing to teach us if we were doing that well from the get-go.

Now, he was a teacher who everyone hated in my class but I really enjoyed what he offered. He was my favourite instructor, he still is years later. I improved so much in my year under his tutelage. He was the kind of teacher every serious artist needs at the beginning of their educational journey because if you can make it through his class and learn what he has to teach, then you have the right attitude in order to continue improving, which is something all artists must do. You'll also know you're going to be in art for the long run because if you can take his critique, you can take anyone's!

Maybe she just put the million price tag on to draw attention to it.

Evil_the_Nub wrote:Maybe she just put the million price tag on to draw attention to it.

I wonder what would happen if a mad rich people actually uses buy-it-now for the fun of it.

shonenfan4 wrote:

Evil_the_Nub wrote:Maybe she just put the million price tag on to draw attention to it.

I wonder what would happen if a mad rich people actually uses buy-it-now for the fun of it.

We'd then see a lot more art being listed on eBay for $1,000,000.

Convotron wrote:

shonenfan4 wrote:

Evil_the_Nub wrote:Maybe she just put the million price tag on to draw attention to it.

I wonder what would happen if a mad rich people actually uses buy-it-now for the fun of it.

We'd then see a lot more art being listed on eBay for $1,000,000.

Makes me wonder why eBay allows stuff like this, then penalizes sellers that don't have 4 or more stars in each rating category.

So she copied Pat Lee's lines and colours them in with water colours and then wants 1,000,000 for it?
Wow as much as I dislike Patg Lee or his art, I think he should sue her for the same amount.

shonenfan4 wrote:Makes me wonder why eBay allows stuff like this, then penalizes sellers that don't have 4 or more stars in each rating category.

Yeah, that seems very odd that one could set such a high price without difficulty. I would have thought there'd be a system in place to keep things like this in check to prevent rampant silly auctions from going up.

Dead Metal wrote:So she copied Pat Lee's lines and colours them in with water colours and then wants 1,000,000 for it?
Wow as much as I dislike Patg Lee or his art, I think he should sue her for the same amount.

Wow, she copied a former prolific Transformers artist's work and tries to sell it on eBay? Crazy!

Sorry, we don't really allow for "omg lol eBay" threads.