What a picture

[Prudie]

What a con some 'Art' is. What a waste of money
http://www.dailymail....ly-spot-wizardry.html

[boxtops]

I quite like the picture, but he admits himself that it's computer enhanced - and I like to take photographs, so I find that the joy of taking a really good photo these days is spoiled by others who then fiddle with their own photos until they look good. Cheats!

However - I certainly wouldn't pay £4m for it. £4 - or £40 mounted - yes!

[bibblebub]

there always seem to be mugs with big wallets no matter what the economic climate

[ladybirder]

Well the buyer doesn't think it's a waste of money and that's who matters.

[Frank97]

I quite like the picture, but 4.3 million dollars what an idiot!

[RATTER15]

I dont like it, it look fake, the line between grass and sky is unrealistically straight, it appears to me a little amateurish.

I often manipulate images including improving the photos I have taken, I dont see anything wrong with doing that.

[pastafreak]

Measuring almost 7 by 12 ft,it's rather expensive wallpaper....
But in order for the price to be so high-there had to be several bidders who wanted it very much.

[Prudie]

You can like it but does it really speak to you as ‘a dramatic and profound reflection on human existence and our relationship to nature on the cusp of the 21st century’.
What tosh, if I had it in my holiday snaps no-one would give it a second glance.

[jno]

I wouldn't pay it, but if others want to, why not? Removing someone from a photo by computer is no different from doing it with paint - it's a question of whether the final image works for you or not. It's not dissimilar to these, for instance:

http://www.tate.org.u...thnoland/default.shtm

[emmie]

i have loads of pics like that, could make us a small fortune.

[jno]

but will they work at 12ft across, em? Being good in an album or on a screen isn't the same as being good on a wall.

[DTCwordfan]

It is an expression of the relationship between man and his fellow man, the river reflecting the cold distant sentiments between the two homosexuals, the bank, the obscurity and mis-information between them, the grass being the optimism of the future. The horizontal road represents the fact that they have had a contentious issue that has been vexing them and that they have drawn a line under it.

Finally the rocks on the river bank demonstrate what their relationship is founded on, the Rhine carrying 10000 years of Swiss and German shyte downstream which is what this response is meant to be, in buckets.

Can I have my 10% of the fee paid for writing this review?

[RATTER15]

DT, you really are talking bo11ocks again aren't you :)

[jomifl]

For £4 million you can buy a camera and take your own picture and get change. I imagine most of us have taken better pictures that illustrate desolation without recourse to digital manipulation. Anyone care to post some up?

[DTCwordfan]

Its called being "cynical," ratter

a joke on a similar theme.

http://www.theanswerb.../Question1074368.html

[Brenden]

The buyer has more money than sense - don't even like it.

[jomifl]

Ratter..DT's bo11ux is free...and not £4million

[DTCwordfan]

I'd willingly take the four million if it is going free and leg it out of here.

[Prudie]

See because it's DT we think it's bollux but that's exactly how the art world does describe this kind of stuff, equally so the examples in jno's link which I personally find just a pointless.
Whether the photo had been altered after isn't really relevant. It's a dull snap period.

[Mattk]

For me some art is very much a case of 'The Emperors New Clothes' i.e.only a fool would not say that this is not great art!

[DTCwordfan]

hence my cynicism - though I do not profess to being of "such talent" I do sell my stuff and, once, did study Art....