OK, funny, maybe sexy, but $13.5 MILLION?!?!?

[Críostóir]

This sculpture, "My Lonesome Cowboy," by Takashi Murakami, sold for $13.5 million US (a year ago last May). Click the picture for the whole article, which explains why the buyer actually had to pay 15.1, and has more pictures.



I think he made it because he wondered if he could possibly make something silly and obscene enough that no one would buy it. Apparently there's always someone with more money than sense (well, or was, before the financial collapse).

Note that it's life size. Where would you put a thing like that? What would you do when your mom came over?

 

[BINOWGAYLATER]

Okay, I thnk i have SOME level of ART appreciation -but not for this !!!

All i can think of - is that 13M+ would feed an aweful lot of starving children in this and many other countries.......

More money than sense? you got that right big boy !!!

 

[jizzeater]

Anime fans are insane.

 

[justsimon]

The piece has received a lot of attention since it debuted in the 90's. That alone is enough to raise the price of something in the art world.

 

[CGHJ]

I don't know art, but I know what I don't like.

 

[hungrybrownbear]

It could also be a super saiyan.

All anime characters look the same.

Ok, not the ugly ones......

 

[mega]

I love Takashi Murakami. He is so strange. All those smiling flowers. His work commands big prices.

 

[NedNickerson]

Ok, I've seen this before, but I never really paid much attention to it,
and now I've just noticed something I'd not realized before:

Am I looking at an Anime teen-aged boy having a swirling lasso ejaculation...?

 

[operafan]

Ok, I've seen this before, but I never really paid much attention to it,
and now I've just noticed something I'd not realized before:

Am I looking at an Anime teen-aged boy having a swirling lasso ejaculation...?

And all so joyfully - I can dig that!

 

[braex27]

Bizarre...

 

[Swellegant]

I love Murakami's work. I encountered it several years ago on a visit to SFMOMA; there was this absolutely immense painting right at the top of the stairs, full of sinister mushrooms and cheerful yet somehow even more sinister flowers... all bright colors, anime style, so perfectly delineated that it might have been done by computer (but wasn't) and so beautifully lacquered that it looked like a big slab of factory-milled plastic (but it was canvas).

It was a lot more impressive and interesting, for my money, than the Jackson Pollock in the next room.

"My Lonesome Cowboy" was of course not in that collection (a little too risque for American children, even in SF), though it was in the coffee-table companion book I bought. I think it's an amazing piece, even beyond the sexual provocation... a weird dreamlike fantasy, imbued with an odd elegance and a wonderful sense of motion.

And really, $16m isn't that big a deal in the art world. Julian Schnabel's schlockwork routinely goes for that.

 

[CudDULL]

I like it but not for 13mill

 

[RationalLunacy]

Do you know how many head of wildebeest I could buy for $13.5 mil?

 

[hungrybrownbear]

^ 1/2
:]

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

[image]http://www.dailyhaha.com/_pics/cannot_be_unseen.jpg[/image]

 

[Críostóir]

Ok, I've seen this before, but I never really paid much attention to it,
and now I've just noticed something I'd not realized before:

Am I looking at an Anime teen-aged boy having a swirling lasso ejaculation...?

Yeah, that's what got me too. Though I hope this sculpture depicts an anime character first drawn at least 18 years before it posed, or I'll be in trouble for posting it here.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

I hate this sculpture, but I liked his mushrooms.