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**Kemapreedasse** · 10-15-2009, 05:33 PM

I know what you are saying, but it still does not matter.

ESPECIALLY in the real of "art", a paintings worth is based on its message and its presentation, not on who got his fingerprint on it. Our values system is s screwed up that a side of beef touched by Elvis would be worth more than another side of beef even when being sold to starving people in, well, Africa.

I can see some historical significance to the piece adding a bit of weight to it, but the fact that this painting, unsigned, was only worth $19K before people knew WHO did it is a testament to our own screwed up system of valuation in just about all things in modern society.

A hammer is a hammer, no matter who held it. You start worshiping things by who made/owned them and not by their own merit or use and "society" loses touch with "reality".

10-15-2009, 05:33 PM	#5
Kemapreedasse Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 478 Senior Member	I know what you are saying, but it still does not matter. ESPECIALLY in the real of "art", a paintings worth is based on its message and its presentation, not on who got his fingerprint on it. Our values system is s screwed up that a side of beef touched by Elvis would be worth more than another side of beef even when being sold to starving people in, well, Africa. I can see some historical significance to the piece adding a bit of weight to it, but the fact that this painting, unsigned, was only worth $19K before people knew WHO did it is a testament to our own screwed up system of valuation in just about all things in modern society. A hammer is a hammer, no matter who held it. You start worshiping things by who made/owned them and not by their own merit or use and "society" loses touch with "reality".
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