This painting by Gustav Klimt has yesterday been sold for no less than 150 million USD, that is, about 105 million Euro.
Part of it is made of pure gold, which in part explains the price.
I have previously posted my admiration for a Frida Kahlo's "Raices" price of 5,6 million USD in an auction a month ago..but this is 30 times more!
It's fair to ask: is this painting more beautiful or artistically perfect because of the price it was sold for? It is for sure worth that money, because things are worth as much as the market (the buyers vs. the sellers) values them; but the question is: is the painting's beauty or the painter's geniality proportional to the value that the market attributes to the painting?
Is this painting 30 times better than Kahlo's "Raices"?
By the way, this is a portrait of a lady, married to a millionaire and lover to the painter Gustav Klimt. The painter was payed by the millionaire for this job. So while the millionaire thought he was paying for a paiting, the truth is he was opening the door of his house to the man that would sleep with his wife and, dramatically, paying him for that.
At least, all that is now worth a lot of money to the heirs.
150 million for Klimt
..na atitude tão clara e tão óbvia, de quem anda a engan(t)ar..
Adoro o campo, as árvores e as flores
Jarros e perpétuos amores
Que fiquem perto da esplanada de um bar
Pássaros estúpidos a esvoaçar
Adoro as pulgas dos cães
Todos os bichos do mato
O riso das crianças dos outros
Cágados de pernas para o ar
Efectivamente, escuto as conversas
Importantes ou ambíguas
Aparentemente sem moralizar
Adoro as pêgas e os padrastos que passam
Finjo nem reparar
Na atitude tão clara e tão óbvia
De quem anda a engan(t)ar
Adoro esses ratos de esgoto
Que disfarçam ao pilar
Como se fossem mafiosos convictos
Habituados a controlar
Efectivamente gosto de aparência
Imponente ou inequívoca
Aparentemente sem moralizar
Efectivamente gosto de aparência
Aparentemente sem moralizar
Aparentemente escuto as conversas
Efectivamente sem moralizar
Efectivamente…sem moralizar
Aparentemente…sem moralizar
Efectivamente
GNR - Laranja Amarga [até o título é bom!]
Wild beaches and fireflies
Cordoama is a wild beach in southern Portugal. Wild beaches in the portugese coast are murderly being sold to the frenetic frenzy of the creation of value. But Cordoama's rawness is worth more than 1000 tourists.
"We're constructing tourist facilities.." - they say - "..with quality."
What is quality?, I ask. What building or fancy restaurant can pay off a cheese sandwich on Cordoama's silent sands?
That's what I call quality.
Quality is to be able to choose between being alone or not.
Let's keep our beaches as they are.
No artificial constructions. No "quality" tourism. No appartments. No villas.
Genuinity. Seagulls. A reggae song as the sun goes down.
