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    Sid and FinancyAndy Cush
    8/08/16 4:18pm

    As an independent expert, I am willing to stake my professional reputation on my assurance in confirming the following factual scenario: The artist, whoever it was, indeed possessed LSD.

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      Sobchak SecuritySid and Financy
      8/08/16 4:23pm

      Are you sure? Because I’ve done LSD before and if that was what I got out of an LSD trip, I’d be a little upset.

      “Man, I’m fucking rolling balls. I could swear that this bleak desert landscape looks like a douchey painting without contrast or perspective. I should paint it. It would be boring as fuck.”

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      MajorBurnSid and Financy
      8/08/16 4:24pm

      The perspective is making me feel like I have LSD.

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    Hollow_LogAndy Cush
    8/08/16 4:22pm

    The court was originally told it was a Thomas Kinkade painting but became leery when it wasn’t hung in a dentist’s office.

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      boaboaboatengtengtengHollow_Log
      8/08/16 4:33pm

      I’m kinda happy that my dentist was the kind of guy that would rather hang in his office the bad art of Daniel Moore (look him up, especially if you support an SEC football team) over the bad art of Thomas Kinkaid.

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      Cam/ronHollow_Log
      8/08/16 4:36pm

      I grew up near his neck of the woods and his paintings are a common sight around here. May God rest his kitschy soul.

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    KittensInBoxesAndy Cush
    8/08/16 4:15pm

    Christ, the power of money.

    “Whatever a judge says about authenticity is irrelevant,” she said. “The market will follow Doig’s word.”

    So we’re just admitting art is subjective now?

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      Quasar FunkKittensInBoxes
      8/08/16 4:20pm

      I didn’t think that at all. I took it as her saying that art collectors trust Doig more than the judicial system.

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      KittensInBoxesQuasar Funk
      8/08/16 4:24pm

      Except that value is inherently a part of all of this.

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    AFSAndy Cush
    8/08/16 4:18pm

    Such art.

    Many doppleganger.

    So paint.

    Wow.

    Doge.

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      caekislove-caekingitupAFS
      8/08/16 4:24pm

      This is now a classic meme thread.

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      BurnerToSayFuckYouHamiltonAFS
      8/08/16 4:27pm

      Beat me to it

      Much Doige

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    Tom_Has_DoubtsAndy Cush
    8/08/16 4:15pm

    Did someone say Peter Doge...

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      pre-emptive sighTom_Has_Doubts
      8/08/16 4:20pm
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      SrynersonTom_Has_Doubts
      8/08/16 5:05pm

      Or Pete Droge?

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    Flying Squid (I hate me more than you do.)Andy Cush
    8/08/16 4:17pm

    Well if the painting you linked to above is any indication, I can’t believe those two were ever painted by the same person. It’s like trying to pass Grandma Moses off as Picasso.

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      wishfulthinkingFlying Squid (I hate me more than you do.)
      8/08/16 5:57pm

      Even the two artists don’t really look all that similar - unless you believe that all white men look the same, which is a fair point

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      ____pizzaface420Flying Squid (I hate me more than you do.)
      8/09/16 12:52am

      amen how is this still going on

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    id0ntkno88Andy Cush
    8/08/16 4:20pm

    But even if Fletcher wins, he might still be out of luck. Amy Adler, an art law expert at NYU, told the Globe and Mail that regardless of the verdict, the art market would not treat the painting seriously if Doig disavows it. “Whatever a judge says about authenticity is irrelevant,” she said. “The market will follow Doig’s word.”

    Despite this last sentence, this dispute shines a light on the subjectivity of art and the value attracted to art work. Is art valuable because it is a work of art, or is it valuable because it was created by an artist who has previously created works of art.

    IMO (not a professional one at all), the individual art work should be the basis of the value.

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      BostonTerrorid0ntkno88
      8/08/16 4:32pm

      This would assume that no value would be given to celebrity, when people sell worthless tchockes owned by celebs for sizeable sums all the time. Also, assuming authenticity, if it were a historical work of a “relevant” or “good” artist - it would help show a logical progression to some kind of mastery which adds interest.

      The art world is incredibly superficial though. Relatively obscure artists can become highly collected millionaires overnight because some asshat “tastemaker” (e.g., Madonna) bought one of their pieces.

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      Lavarburt1id0ntkno88
      8/08/16 7:31pm

      I think you made a mistake in your rush to pose an interesting question. While what makes art great is subjective, no one thinks that everything a great artist creates will be great. Sometimes that stuff just becomes a collectible, not great art in it’s own right.

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    pre-emptive sighAndy Cush
    8/08/16 4:18pm

    LOL, wtf? The guy is suing because he couldn’t scam someone into buying his fake painting for way more than it was worth?

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      Sparky Polastrypre-emptive sigh
      8/08/16 4:23pm

      He’s obviously opening himself up to a Trump suit for $10 mil

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    Dave Andy Cush
    8/08/16 4:23pm

    Get back to me when we are talking about the sheer class and sophistication of The King on brushed velvet!

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      pre-emptive sighDave
      8/08/16 4:30pm

      Jesus and Elvis on velvet. I believe this was done by Andy Warhol

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      TankMurdockpre-emptive sigh
      8/08/16 6:18pm

      Jesus looking at The King like, “Damn brah. Rough night?”

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    raincoasterAndy Cush
    8/10/16 3:33am

    That is an ugly painting, and if I’d done it, I’d try to hush it up, but I’m gonna say I’m Team Doig on this. For one thing, Lakehead University, which sounds big and impressive, has a student body of less than four thousand. For someone to be both a Lakehead alum AND a particular Seafarer Union member (and Lakehead is nowhere near the sea) is stretching credulity beyond the breaking point.

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      BurnThemAllLostHerKeyraincoaster
      8/10/16 9:01am

      Lakehead is on Lake Superior, which is plied by large ships, so that is a link: mariners wouldn’t have a separate union for freshwater shipworkers.

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      raincoasterBurnThemAllLostHerKey
      8/10/16 7:50pm

      Fair point. Still, Lakehead is a humanities and arts school. Not a lot of people go from there to working on the big boats.

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