I don’t pretend to be an expert on art, but as the saying goes ‘I know what I like’.
Last Thursday a nude photo of French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, standing all schoolgirly coy (well, as coy as you can get with your kit off), her hands over her special purpose, forming the outline of a heart, (or is it a Batman logo?), was sold in New York for $91,000, more than 20 times its expected price.
Meanwhile:
Luvvy of the art world, Lucian Freud has created a masterpiece guaranteed to put you off your extra-strong lager and kebab supper. His 1995 work, Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, is to be sold in New York next month with an expected asking price of 17 million British pounds.
The piece took nine months to create, and the model ‘Big Sue’ Tilley who posed for Freud said that she started off being paid 20 pounds a day, but enjoyed the meals that he treated her to more. By the look of it, they must have been bloody big meals.
So, I know one is a photograph and one is a painting, but my question is which one would you sooner have hanging on your wall?
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Source: China View BBC News
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Offbeat Chronicles
Well if I have to choose I pick the Benefits Supervisor Sleeping as the other one look like she is sickly and in need of her AZT.
Posted by: Debo Hobo | April 15, 2008 at 07:51 PM