On 5/19/2010 6:45 PM, John Sessoms wrote:
From: "P. J. Alling"
On 5/19/2010 7:08 AM, Rob Studdert wrote:
> On 19/05/2010, P. J. Alling<webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> Shaker furniture is still crafts, a high level of crafts but
still crafts.
>> To call them art debases them. To display shaker furniture in
glass cases
>> and not use it for their intended purpose misses the point. The
original
>> makers would be appalled.
>>
> I wonder if Picasso would be thrilled or appalled to learn that a
> single painting of his making fetched a cool $A116.2 million,
> approximately 194x the median Sydney house price (which is about 1/10
> of the median NSW household income)?
>
>
I think he'd laugh all the way to the bank. Near the end of his life
he'd scrawl a couple of lines on a napkin, sign it and sell it for a
couple Hundred Thousand Dollars. It may be apocryphal, but I've
heard he always paid with Checks as no one ever cashed them.
I thought that was Salvador Dali?
That Dali did it is well documented.
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