What Will They Say About Your Art?

Hi that is a great fantasy.. but im afraid there will be no antique road show nor antiques or traces of civilization in 100 years or 150 years. Either man will snuff us all out with nuclear,chemical ,or biological weapons or the universe will by inadvertently dumping a major asteroid or meteor from the meteor belt that surrounds the planet.. that accidentally gets bumped like a pool ball iin our direction and vaporizes the earth.. but anyway... great fantasy.. got to love imagination it is a wonderful thing. especially for artist..

Should one of my pieces be discovered by a post apocalyptic primate of some sort, I imagine they will attribute my art as being partially responsible for the demise of such a fantastically destructive species.

It'll be worth 2 empty water bottles. Maybe 3.

Joe Burgess
jb-imagery.com

$150,000 -$200,000 will be like 15 to 20 dollars then, add a zero or two to the fantasy!

Chances are my paintings will be yard sale fodder if that, maybe even before I die. lol. Kind of like the nice original oil painting I bought that was painted in the 1950's I got for $5. I have not been able to find any information about the artist. The frame brand new is probably worth $150-$200, and to be honest that's why I bought it, to restore the frame and use it, I did hang it for a while though.

You're right, Ronald, I neglected to factor in for inflation. Let's try this again.

Can I ask what you paid for this?
Nothing, we found it in a dumpster.
Well you were wise to pick it up. Most of her work has only survived on old phone cases, throw pillows and duvets. We'd suggest having this insured for 2 million dollars.

Yep. That's better.

Hey Raiden, you forgot about the super volcano at Yellowstone.

Yes Karyn, completely forgot that and the 9.1 earth quake expected in the northwest that is long overdue as the 9.1 that is expected to split the continent at the New Madrid...but actually most of that is minor compared to what we can do to ourselves in the original post that I made here not to mention rogue comets and meteors ,asteroids,black holes and antimatter.

Edit, Im not sure that Yellowstone would do it completely but hope that im not around to see any of that..

I'm planning a trip to Yellowstone this summer.
Hoping to get a plein air painting of the explosion...

Joe Burgess
jb-imagery.com

Tell me about your painting.
I found it at a garage sale. I bought a Hello Kitty backpack and they gave me this for free.
This is a painting by Karyn Robinson. It's one of her early figurative works. She was better known for her Southwestern works.
Is it worth simethin'?
I was really excited when I saw you come in. I was talking to the other appraisers and we agree, at auction this would go for 150,000 - 200, if it where original

"Unfortunately this one is a print. It's worth $50 to $150, about the same as the Robert Woods in the corner."

"That's unfortunate, I thought I had something here,"

"That is a nice shawl your'e wearing,"

"Yes, it's made from an old duvet cover I found at a yard sale last year.it's from the same artist but I know it's practically worthless "

"No, no, no, duvet covers didn't survive and are extremely rare, worth more than the original painting!!!"

I paint on vinyl records so my work has one foot in the relic world already...
I guess the question that would be asked about them is, "Why would someone paint on something black that doesn't take paint well at all? Man, they musta been pretty dumb back then..."

I paint everything and anything and also draw..traditional Asian arts primarily Japanese but after whatever happens happens..im afraid there won't be much of anything left ,stone,bone or metal and most of it will be under tons of earth or stone or water..or even worse vaporized never to be known it ever existed..

This is a lovely painting but the market was so over saturated with prints on paper, canvas, acrylic, metal,, tee shirts, pillows, duvets, coffee mugs ,bikinis, handkerchiefs, , tarps, curtains, bull fighter capes, scrubs, aprons, seat covers , jock straps, tablecloths, bird cage bottoms , grocery bags and diapers, I'm afraid it's not worth anything.

Lol Joe, you just had me in hysterics. So funny

You will need to see his last wishes. He left a hologram.

'To the people of Earth, disregard all meaning, all interpretations, all merit.
Save yourself."

Potential buyer: I guess he meant well, but I am not paying for that.

Nothing will change....all will be forgotten and rehashed......like a cow in the field adding to next year's corn crop.

Lol marlene I imagine the people in the future finding jock straps with daisy painted on them trying to figure out why such a lovely hat doesnt fit on their head .
But i know the truth the only thing that will survive is twinkies cock roaches and that big red metal piece of art down town you know the one because you are from tucson too.

"The largest consumers of art from the last century were 'Bots'. They evolved intellectually and learned how to manipulate the financial markets and destroyed all economies. They had a great love of art however. This piece that you brought in today was especially popular with Bots from Kiez, Germany."

I hear Beverly Hills wants that piece.

LOL

Dave

Hey! I had 12 sales from Beverly Hills last week...don't knock that bot!

Omg it's really happening! (Good for you, Marlene.)

"RAIDEN RYUU, you need to buy the property next to mine in Arizona desert. As soon as the big one hits in California, I will have beach front property and be selling off building lots.

Seriously, If Sean does his job right and I do my job right, my FAA account will still be selling well into the future with the proceeds going to a non-profit, scholarship program through a local art association.

Then long after I am dead, Marion Rose's art and my art and the OPA that I sell will be haunting "some member(s)" well into eternity. But my guess is she will still be higher in the search rankings than I am. Is there no justice???? lmao

That is your plan too, right Sean? My question is, will we have those T-Shirts ready to sell by then? Just kidding!

Ya gotta listen to the mods when they tell you that at least one cellular phone company is routing via BH

you would first have to make a name for yourself. then it would have to be worth something now, and then maybe later on people will know about it. like if you became the president, chances are anything you make now, will be known later. but its usually not worth anything unless you sign it, and authenticate it, and people know what your signature looks like.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Right Mike! I forgot about the 'provenance' the appraisers always speak of. Let's roll that into the dialogue...


It's an unusual painting. I see you've brought some other items from the artist...
Yes, this one is the divorce filing that states he's leaving her because all she wanted to do was paint and, you see it says right here, he "never wants to see that crap again."
What's that paper?
This is a receipt from a retirement home for her collection. She left everything to the home and they painted over the canvases in an art therapy class. It's surprising this piece survived.
And that book...
It's autographed by the artist, it was discovered in a large warehouse, next to a sled with the word 'Rosebud' handwritten on it. It's titled 'How to Get on the First Page of Every Search". Probably worthless...

They'll say "Mark who?"

Don't know what they would say. But they'd be in for a shock, that I can tell.

They'll say - What the f... is this ?

I had some geometric rug designs I made with one of the earliest versions of paint programs, and stored them on floppy disks. Nobody will ever see them again, even if they find the floppy disks in the landfill, because the computers that can read floppy disks are almost extinct.

It would amaze me if the archeologists of future civilizations find things like floppy disks in our land fills and succeed in finding the data on them.

I occasionally imagine some of my paintings, 300 or 400 years in the future, decorating the interior of a spacecraft like the Enterprise on Star Trek.

Or in an antique store on Mars long after the Red Planet has been terraformed into an earthlike planet with breathable air. It could happen.:-)


Bill Tomsa

http://billtomsa.blogspot.com/

I have to say that although I'm a bit of a newbie here, I have loved reading through each and every comment, esp. Joe Burgess, Wayne Enslow, Marlene Burns, Karyn Robinson and probably so many more! I don't know why, but totally new discussion threads are showing up tonight. Wish you all well . . . you've brought me a huge smile tonight.

Karyn Robinson, special thanks to you for it. Man oh man. Sure did need this one! Thanks.

Only too happy to oblige, Sabrina ! We all need to laugh a whole lot more.

Karyn, thanks for posting this amazing thread..it was so interesting and fun.. I love the antique roadshow to and you have the dialog down perfect.Thanks so very interesting.

@Cheryl .. when things go south and they will ,Don't get me wrong..im not a doom slayer or prepper or any of that ,It doesn't take a genius to see where things could and will go but as I was saying Cheryl, when things so the way they will.. im pretty sure there won't be any floppy disk or any trace we ever existed and if there is ,I don't think the creatures of the future ,probably not human, but maybe, I don't think they will be much concerned with something like a floppy disk or data..I think it will pretty obvious what happened..

lol with all the bot jokes.
Really, Marlene - BH bot making purchases. How about the Germany, China and New York bots?

They will say they love my pics but they are worthless. The story of my life......

Another record breaking auction took place at Christie's this morning as the work of yet one more artist who belonged to the fabled FAA guild (no one is sure what that acronym stood for) gets snapped up by savvy investors. Although today his work is worth a fortune, he died penniless and under appreciated. How unlike artists today who are recognized as the height of society. Strangely enough, during his lifetime, the lower caste professions such as lawyers....

LOL, Karyn!!! What a funny thread. Your interviews are great! I am having a terrible week, and this made me laugh.

@Kim, Look at Tesla, died in a cramped apartment penniless and now all his patents and inventions are in government hands and individuals that got them and used them for their benefit and no one that he was related to benefited by any of it..although they waited till long after his death to finally say that marconi did not in fact invent the radio that tesla did . They gave him credit after he was dead.. that did him a lot of good ..huh..and also the guy that he worked for that stole all his inventions and used stole his patents and took credit for his work. What was his name..ummm Edison.. yeah. real.. horse pa toot..Read the whole story of when Tesla worked for him and where Edison got many of "HIS" inventions and so on.. real crap deal.. but life is a witch and then you burn.. lol.

100 years from now? Perhaps cave paintings will still be around. I think the graffiti artists of today have the edge. Their work, if not removed, will survive, providing their canvas still exists.
If there are appraisals 100 years from now, the piece will be scanned into a computer and the results will be spit out like a lottery ticket. Winner or loser.

"...all in all,Whalen was a remnant of the 20th century, an out of fashion abstractionist painter (albeit, a good one) in an era of digital dominance and experimentation."

"This is a nice painting, but I've never heard of this artist and he doesn't show up in any of the reference books, he must of just been a hobbiest."