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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;oval_man, post: 2228234, member: 22602&quot;]Well, you were ridiculing, perhaps subtly, by suggesting that you could spring out of bed &quot;tomorrow&quot; and, during &quot;craft time,&quot; whip out a painting worthy of hanging in the world&#039;s best art museums.</p><p><br /></p><p>And you&#039;re ridiculing his work by suggesting that this piece looks &quot;$50 at best&quot; and by putting &quot;painting&quot; in quotes. What exactly are you basing your expert opinion on?</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s how it would actually have to work: you&#039;d have to paint six to eight hours a day for, say, 10 years, preferably after six years of formal education (including very rigorous representational drawing and painting courses and, of course, art history, so you&#039;d have an understanding of cultural context) before you&#039;d begin to develop a body of work that offered some level of cohesion and maturity—i.e, wasn&#039;t just weak mimicry of somebody else&#039;s work. Then, in order to sell, you&#039;d have to compete for gallery attention with thousands of other artists, all with six years of education and 10 years of work under their belt—all of whom would be more than happy to make a painting half as good as a Scully. Keep in mind that galleries take a 50% commission on sales.</p><p><br /></p><p>If this holds no interest for you after all, fine. But it does many people for whom a life of creativity is worth the candle.</p><p><br /></p><p>Personally, I love Scully&#039;s work; have seen probably a dozen in real life and am familiar with two well-known books about him. He&#039;s actually a towering figure in the painting world. On the other hand, it&#039;s fair to say there are many &quot;informed&quot; people who don&#039;t respond to his work. That&#039;s what makes the art world interesting.</p><p><br /></p><p>I already mentioned in a previous post that most &quot;abstract&quot; painters go through rigorous formal training and can draw really well—i.e., the kind of &quot;pictures&quot; you&#039;d deem worthy of 50 bucks. And yet you seem to want to hold on to your prejudices.</p><p><br /></p><p>Btw, even though I admire Scully&#039;s work a great deal, I have no desire (and certainly not the funds) to own any. One doesn&#039;t have to own something to appreciate it. If I had a spare $50K, I&#039;d buy five nice coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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