Hey, his company was selling $32 million per quarter before it went private. It may have been shit, but it was popular, and for as little as 1% of those sales you could look down on anything I've created. Regards, Bob S.
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> So, the "Painter of Light" (tm) has passed at the early age of 54 >> >> years. The Kenny G of painting is gone... >> >> >> > >> > He may not have been too fast to live, but 54 is too young to die. >> I'm >> > 54. I shall be mightily pissed off if I don't live well well beyond >> 90. >> > >> > I love this phrase from the article someone linked to "it has become >> > fashionable for art critics to dismiss his pieces." >> > >> > "It has become fashionable" - as if it was a mere passing fad among >> > the ignoranti, and the true artistic value of this oeuvre will come >> to >> > be understood with the passing of the years. >> > >> >> Hi work was conceptually trite and formulaic in execution, but he was >> not without talent. Of course his main talent was marketing: he >> discovered a way to turn painting into a very lucrative enterprise. For >> that, he is to be commended. >> > > sure, if you think making money out of shit is the be-all and end-all, but > his work is still shit and it will always be dismissed as shit by people who > know shit from shinola. > > B > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
