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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNYC gallery unveils new $225K Hunter Biden painting
This Hunter Biden painting is selling for the price of a house.
"The most expensive artwork at the first sons new SoHo show is priced at $225,000 and already has two interested buyers, The Post has learned.
On Saturday, a gallery worker refused to give The Post details on the potential buyers of the untitled, 57×98 inch, mustard-yellow floral painting on Yupo Japanese paper.
Unlike last years debut of Bidens artistic oeuvre, which was by invitation only, the new show, Haiku, is open to the public and features much stronger works, according to Bidens gallerist Georges Berges."
.... Hunter has talent...
https://nypost.com/2022/12/10/nyc-gallery-unveils-new-hunter-biden-paintings-in-public-show/
mcar
(42,372 posts)BlueWaveNeverEnd
(8,044 posts)Wicked Blue
(5,851 posts)Wish I could paint like that!
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SYFROYH
(34,183 posts)SMH
Shermann
(7,428 posts)SYFROYH
(34,183 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,584 posts)bahboo
(16,355 posts)KentuckyWoman
(6,692 posts)Everyone's taste is different. If enough people "feel" the work then it goes commercial.
In my bathroom is a cheapo print of Georgia OKeeffe, Hibiscus with Plumeria, I like it a lot. It makes me smile every morning. The original sold for more than 4 Million a few years ago.
Permanut
(5,637 posts)For me it's the same with MC Escher
Celerity
(43,497 posts)gldstwmn
(4,575 posts)And I like Hunter's work so I guess my taste is pretty pedestrian.
SYFROYH
(34,183 posts)We all like what we like.
Dorian Gray
(13,499 posts)but you're right. It looks like something available from a mass producer. Golden background with a bunch of flowers. $225,000 is a lot for this.
LiberalFighter
(51,084 posts)The orange background indicates there is lots of incriminating data on the MaraLago idiot.
Permanut
(5,637 posts)Jade Fox
(10,030 posts)given the MAGA nut obsession with Biden.
TheBlackAdder
(28,211 posts)jayschool2013
(2,313 posts)George Soros bought it, and then the proceeds immediately were donated to a ping-pong supply store that's really a front for a clinic that does abortions at 39 weeks.
peppertree
(21,664 posts)Goes well with pineapple, I hear.
EarnestPutz
(2,120 posts).....of forensic experts can get to work on it. ("Q" is my cat and the "experts" are my four grade school grand sons", but keep that to yourself).
Kingofalldems
(38,475 posts)Vinca
(50,303 posts)that is assured is the price of his art is going to skyrocket.
yorkster
(1,506 posts)shows great sense of color and composition - imaginative with a soupcon of whimsy.
In short, I like it.
msfiddlestix
(7,286 posts)"soupcon of whimsy"
great descriptor!
yorkster
(1,506 posts)It was an attempt at pompous critic-speak, but I do like the painting.
Just A Box Of Rain
(5,104 posts)sell for $225,000.
I wonder if they have checked the prices of homes lately?
This Hunter Biden painting is selling for the price of a house.
dsc
(52,166 posts)but I am in a small town in NC not the big city or even close to the big city.
gldstwmn
(4,575 posts)msfiddlestix
(7,286 posts)our gas prices are generally over twice as much at the pump than it is for many other areas in the coungry.
I remember when an average sixed 3 to 4 bedroom home on a good sized lot sold for $50-$60 k.. when the average went up to a quarter million it was shocking, unless of course it was on beach front property.
GoCubsGo
(32,088 posts)I have seen some of his other paintings that I like a whole lot more. I ain't a big fan of mustard yellow. Still, it's better than anything I could produce.
brush
(53,843 posts)I find it stilted and somehow disturbing. I hold an MFA (from a gazillion years ago) and agree that it's something one would purchase at Pier 1. Does Hunter have a statement about his work? I do have to admit that I'm kind of fussy about what I like in works of art and have strong opinions about the commercial aspect of fine art.
BTW, at this point in time Kandinsky is my favorite painter and Russian Constructivism my favorite movement.
brush
(53,843 posts)Fran Hals, Caravaggio, the Mexican muralists, and Picasso and Braque's cubism.
That's what I call painting.
panader0
(25,816 posts)It does do anything for me. Besides, I have no wall space left--too many paintings and prints up already.
wolfie001
(2,265 posts)Should piss off the repube neo-Nazis ......
Bo Zarts
(25,403 posts)I know very few landscape photographers who can make a decent living at it.
PatSeg
(47,586 posts)This one included.
In fairness, I actually like quite a few of George W. Bush's paintings. I wish he'd taken the artistic route instead of the political one.
gldstwmn
(4,575 posts)and the color palette is reminiscent of Klimt.
Mustellus
(328 posts)... the revelations keep coming... .OMG !!!!!
highplainsdem
(49,034 posts)always get more for their paintings, I don't think the price is particularly outrageous.
iluvtennis
(19,871 posts)halfulglas
(1,654 posts)After living in the last 3 years, it reminds me of viruses floating among the trees.
mahina
(17,696 posts)The problem is not brushwork or the colors, all fine. Its the composition. Boring, static, predictable, formulaic.
But hey, good luck to him
brush
(53,843 posts)Hekate
(90,788 posts)Altho mustard-yellow isnt my preference for wall art, I have to say Hunter Biden has talent. His first batch really impressed me.
As for the price of his paintings: the right price for original art is whatever a buyer is willing and able to pay. The fact that none of us here at DU can do it is beside the point. Also, and more sadly, where I live that money cant get you any kind of house at all, except a tear-down.
brush
(53,843 posts)Last edited Mon Dec 12, 2022, 03:44 AM - Edit history (2)
I'm more in line with post 33.
Hekate
(90,788 posts)IcyPeas
(21,904 posts)I neither like or dislike this painting.
some of those flowers remind me of this technique:
Ms. Toad
(34,087 posts)Solly Mack
(90,785 posts)edhopper
(33,615 posts)Obviously his name is garnering the high cost. But that is not uncommon in the art world.
The right connections and galleries get higher prices.
But it is a painting that is not out of place in a gallery.
mopinko
(70,208 posts)know this from experience. can pretty much promise that it is very diff in person.
what u see is about 10% of that painting.
Tickle
(2,540 posts)I wouldn't pay 225k for it but it is colorful
msfiddlestix
(7,286 posts)I wonder if it's sort of like "rag" paper used for watercolor? But this piece is too large for a water color isn't it?
Must be acrylic. I imagine.
It has great appeal to my eyes. nearly 5 ft by over 8 ft is rather large. It would dp nicely in a large conference room, office or corridor or hotel lobby or other similar spaces.
I'd hang a smaller version in my home. I love the colors and the initial emotions the painting evokes Especially these days.
I wonder if images of his other work is available on line?