Its a scream

**Icon** · 03-05-12, 07:01 PM

I do appreciate art of all sorts and styles
But that "Scream" is not something that i can actually say yes thats amazing and worth every penny.

**up2nogood** · 03-05-12, 07:03 PM

Originally Posted by Icon

I do appreciate art of all sorts and styles
But that "Scream" is not something that i can actually say yes thats amazing and worth every penny.

brilliant artwork..How many millions did it go for Icon? 100?

**Forest** · 03-05-12, 07:04 PM

whats a scream?

**up2nogood** · 03-05-12, 07:05 PM

painting done by a Norwegian artist..

**up2nogood** · 03-05-12, 07:07 PM

**up2nogood** · 03-05-12, 07:11 PM

It's the stuff of nightmares - and it was sold for $119,922,500 million.

Edvard Munch's impressionist masterpiece, The Scream, was put up for auction at Sotheby's in New York City this evening and was sold for a record-breaking price.

Mr Munch beat out Pablo Picasso for the most expensive artwork ever auctioned.

Norwegian businessman Petter Olsen, whose father Thomas was a friend, neighbor and patron of Mr Munch, sold the 1895 icon to fund a new museum in honor of Mr Munch's life and work.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1tprO7n9y

**Icon** · 03-05-12, 07:13 PM

LOLs look into it thats not the one that sold

Theres 4 different ones
I think it was the pastels one that sold

**Trigger** · 03-05-12, 07:15 PM

some fucka has to be loopy to pay more than £10 for that, the bairn does better in school,

**Grub** · 03-05-12, 07:23 PM

This has to be my favourite 'Scream' picture....

**420Boss** · 03-05-12, 07:27 PM

I could paint better than that,I cant believe it sold for that much its awful.I dont know art mind you but i do know when something looks like anyone with the supplies could paint a pic that good looking.

**Forest** · 03-05-12, 07:33 PM

it fucking rubbish there's no accounting for taste is there !

**up2nogood** · 03-05-12, 07:35 PM

with art you either love it or hate it..I think it's a magnificent piece of art

**Icon** · 03-05-12, 07:51 PM

UP2 did you google that?

LOLs yea thats the beauty of art and why i posted

Im not knocking it i just dont personally see it,
But I have artwork that i have commissioned as a present for my wife and the artist has become quite well known
Its at the menders at the moment but when its back i will get a pic of it up and you can pass judgement
Its also in pastels which is the same medium as the one that sold for $120 mill.

Its very strange because I really do like certain art such as Rolf Harris I never understood why but a good friend who worked as an artist for a sign company who spent all day painting the signs that hang out side pubs explained it to me.... I was looking at a picture he had done of a night time scene and I said it looks really green and not like the real thing...He said if you want the real thing take a photograph but an artist does an interpretation, sometimes they are very accurate sometimes they are abstract thats what the scream is an interpretation.

Im liking it a little more now...but $120 mill its a lot of artistic license.

ATB
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**up2nogood** · 03-05-12, 07:56 PM

UP2 did you google that?
what,the video?

**Icon** · 03-05-12, 07:59 PM

Well you had one pic there in oils then it changed to the video as if by magic

Can you see they are different

**Ganesha** · 03-05-12, 08:00 PM

I think Munch was onto something. I saw an exhibiton of his work at the National many years ago & there were at least four Screams on show. I don't know how many he did in total but they're all worth millions each. He was doing Warhol before Warhol was even born.

**up2nogood** · 03-05-12, 08:03 PM

Originally Posted by Icon

Well you had one pic there in oils then it changed to the video as if by magic

Can you see they are different

oh I just saw a few pics on images so just put up a pic..didn't know it was not the one that was being sold..lol but yeah you can see the difference

**Icon** · 03-05-12, 08:05 PM

Originally Posted by Ganesha

I think Munch was onto something. I saw an exhibiton of his work at the National many years ago & there were at least four Screams on show. I don't know how many he did in total but they're all worth millions each. He was doing Warhol before Warhol was even born.

lols we are pissed and stoned are we not
The clue is in the 7th post ...there was 4 of them I believe

Its not uncommon in artwork for there to be a number of different ones but this takes it to another level.
often artists have a preferred subject or model and poses and they can be replicated in many similar pieces of work to a lesser or greater extent.
Im no expert on art Im like you lot and know what I like but im not afraid to speak my mind as Im as much an expert as any one when it comes to opinion

ATB
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