How to tell good art from bad art thread

[Thinktank]

There's a lot of art out there. Some is great. Some is crap.
You might want to know how to tell the good fro the crap so you don't waste your money and
get ripped off.

Basically, if the art looks good, it's good. and if it looks like crap, it's not good. That's the easiest way to tell.



redlin



kinkade



Landry



Suljakov



charles white



darrel bush



june carey

And here's some art that looks bad. You can clearly see the artists have no talent.















see the difference?

now don't go buy bad art and get ripped off. If it looks good - it's good.
If it looks like crap, it's no good.



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[oneh2obabe]

How would you classify these paintings?

[Thinktank]

^ crap.


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[GordonH]

Me thinks you are comparing between to many different styles of painters. Stick to 1 style & find good and bad within that 1.

[oneh2obabe]

^ crap.


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And the art world would disagree with you.

First painting is the 2nd most expensive piece of artwork around the world.
Title: Woman III, painted by Willem de Kooning in 1953.
Adjusted price: $145.4 Million | Original price: $137.5 Million
David Geffen sold this painting to Steven A. Cohen in 2006.

Second painting is the most expensive piece of artwork around the world.
Title: No. 5, 1948, painted by Jackson Pollock in 1948.
Adjusted price: $148.1 Million | Original price: $140 Million
Most expensive painting around the world
David Geffen sold this painting to David Martinez in 2006.

[Bsuds]

I think I need to keep more of my grandkids drawings cause they look pretty close to those.

[Thinktank]

David Geffen sold this painting to Steven A. Cohen in 2006.

Sounds like a couple of Jews.

[Thinktank]

anyway, some crappy paintings sell for $millions - doesn't mean a thing.

[oneh2obabe]

Sounds like a couple of Jews.

What the hell does their religion have to do with art?

[Thinktank]

What the hell does their religion have to do with art?

who said it had anything to do with it.

but the fact is - when one guy sells something to another guy for $millions,
it means nothing to me.

[Thinktank]

What the hell does their religion have to do with art?

people on this forum need to learn to lighten up.

[Thinktank]

mark rothko - $72 million

^ when paintings like this one sell for $millions, it's probably just super rich people
getting enjoyment making the poor people feel bad, than the painting actually being worth that amount of money.

[Bsuds]

I hate to admit agreeing with the OP but some of this stuff they call art and sell for millions of dollars just doesn't make sense to me.
There is no talent involved in splattering a bit of paint on a canvas so why encourage it with a ridiculous amount of money.

[Lady tehMa]

If I like it, it is good art.

If I don't like it, I don't consider it good art. Someone else may, but that is their taste, not mine.

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."

[Thinktank]

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."

no it isn't.

beauty is in the talent of the artist.