What's the worst/ most overrated piece of art?

Saw this article in the independent this morning:http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/queen-perplexed-by-painting-from-german-president-is-that-supposed-to-be-my-father-10342064.html
Apparently the Queen wasn't impressed with this painting. It's supposed to depict her and her father:

Got me thinking: what's the worst/ most overrated piece of art? I'm gonna start off controversial and say the Mona Lisa. Its just a boring picture of a woman. I don't get it.

Its even worse in real life: tiny little painting in a massive room. You have to queue for hours to see it. Very underwhelming.

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Reply 1

TimeWalker

The popular opinion of the art world is its own entity, a fickle, inimical and alien creature. It operates by rules of its own arbitrary making, and which includes many strange criteria, but which excludes most strongly the more reliable ones such as objectivity, technicality, normality, aesthetics, and similar things.

Reply 2

tengentoppa

Tracey Enim's bed. How that sold for 2.5 million I'll never know

Reply 3

Drewski

Anything Damien Hirst has ever done.

Reply 4

Paladian

Anything that sells for over say a million but more importantly ends up in a private collection.

Reply 5

Josb

Pollock's n°5:

$140,000,000
:-|

Gauguin's When Will You Marry?:

$300,000,000
:eek:

Reply 6

Prince_fancybum

It's all **** and over-priced

Reply 7

driftawaay

i literally cannot deal with all those overpriced paintings, some people in my art class back in middle school were way better than some of these 'artists' with their ****ty 'art'

Reply 8

the bear

anything by these "artists":

http://the-artists.org/artistsbymovement/britart

Reply 9

Pwyll

Original post by the bear

anything by these "artists":

http://the-artists.org/artistsbymovement/britart

It can't be emphasised enough how overrated Damian Hirst is.

Reply 10

blackened_sky

Original post by tengentoppa

Tracey Enim's bed. How that sold for 2.5 million I'll never know

Loool legit came to say "Tracey Emin's weird condom thing". The bed, that's the one.

Reply 11

Chicken.M.

ye its a pretty crap painting tbh. I could do better ngl lmao.

Reply 12

username1837067

Original post by tengentoppa

Tracey Enim's bed. How that sold for 2.5 million I'll never know

I'm an artist, can paint and draw well, and I genuinely disagree with you, for several reasons.
If you've ever seen the thing in the flesh you'll know that it's got atmosphere. I know so many young women whose bedrooms look like that, and all the objects in it are part of their lives. It definitely means something to some people - it did to me when I saw it. It was also created with aesthetic consideration, and has the capacity to have a profound emotional impact on people, so I'd say it definitely is a piece of art.
She was also incredibly imaginative and daring to do that.
What Tracey Emin did for art more than anything else was to make it a means of personal expression and liberation from the dark things in life that hold you down and that has been inspirational for many.

Reply 13

username1837067

Original post by Josb

Pollock's n°5:

$140,000,000
:-|

Gauguin's When Will You Marry?:

$300,000,000
:eek:

Well we've found our first philistine. Those are both great paintings and they mean a lot to a lot of people.
Besides, the pricing of artwork shouldn't be taken into account when considering best/worst art. Pricing is fleeting and based around trends, it's a combination of aesthetics, the maturity, the meaning and the emotional effect of the artwork that counts.

Reply 14

RobML

Original post by banoffeee

Besides, the pricing of artwork shouldn't be taken into account when considering best/worst art. Pricing is fleeting and based around trends, it's a combination of aesthetics, the maturity, the meaning and the emotional effect of the artwork that counts.

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Reply 15

pagorai

Orange, red, yellow by Mark Rothko
sold for 86.9 million dollars :colonhash:

Reply 16

username1837067

Original post by pagorai

Orange, red, yellow by Mark Rothko
sold for 86.9 million dollars :colonhash:

What do you know about this artwork/artist?

Reply 17

RobML

Why is price relevant? Gold is super expensive but it's just lumps of metal no one has put any effort into. Totes overrated.

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Reply 18

pagorai

Original post by banoffeee

What do you know about this artwork/artist?

This painting is suppose to produce an impression under correct conditions i guess.

Reply 19

Captain Josh

All modern art. I once saw an exhibition where a guy basically massacred animals and made them come back to life. He dressed ants and **** up as soldier and made them fight. He had to robins eating each other's intestines. Personally I'd have him sectioned but I forget his name now. Anyway, he earned a lot of money for basically being a hillbilly with a lot of glue.