> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > David Parsons > > I've only ever seen his work for sale on cruise ships. It tends to be > a somewhat captive market for people who are on vacation and who buy > art like this partly as a memento, kind of like buying a Wyland print > or painting when you visit Hawaii. >
I think they do it to make their offspring squirm. I have a painting which my parents bought specifically to leave to me when they went to the Great Gallery in the Sky. They liked it, but it's a very kitsch representation of Montmartre. The artist fetches quite a lot of money at auction, but I'd feel too bad if I sold it, and I don't want to put it on my wall, so what's a poor boy to do? > > > > On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Paul Stenquist > <[email protected]> wrote: > buyers are entitled. Beauty and message are subjective, and the art > market isn't subject to censor by the taste police. Yes it is! That censorship consists of people like me getting sniffy about the stuff, and people like Serota not hanging people like Vettriano (or his work) in the Tate. Only it's not called censorship, it's called discernment, or curatorship. <http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2004/jan/11/arts.artsnews> 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.
