Saturday, June 26, 2010

The Craigslist Gallery

For most artists, the ideal situation would be to show their work in "Blue-chip" galleries where incredibly rich people buy their work for thousands of dollars. But alas, the highly competitive nature of the art world means that most artists have to find an alternative venue to sell their masterpieces. Craigslist is that alternative.
This wonderful painting was listed for $200. My first thoughts were, "Wow, this is not worth $200" Then I read the description and saw that they owner of this painting had bought it from a street artist in New York for $400. Then I knew the situation. This person was afraid that they would get robbed from said street artist, and they gave into the pressure and bought this painting, and are now trying to sell it so they can forget the horrible experience.


This is a giraffe. That's all.


The thing I found funny about this artist was that he was very, VERY adamant that this painting was painted in the United States, and NOT in China.

This is a unicorn standing on a cliff looking at a rainbow. This is painted on a mirror, by the way. Maybe it gives you warm, fuzzy feelings, but it makes me want to puke.

This painting doesn't look so bad, does it? I didn't think so. This painting was BY FAR the best painting I saw on Craigslist today. Guess who painted it? You'll never guess. It was painted by Paul Stanley from the band Kiss. At first I didn't believe it. But if you go to his website, he has a section dedicated to his paintings. Who woulda thunk it? It's $4,500 by the way. Just in case you are a huge fan and you want one of his paintings.

This painting was marked at $350. I thought maybe it was by an artist that I should know... the buyer made it sound like that. Doing a quick google search showed nothing. I noticed the "S" was backwards in the signature. I believe that's common for young children?

Lastly, this is a painting of Micheal Jackson being raised to heaven. I'm not sure if Micheal Jackson is raising his arm towards Jesus or if he's doing a disco move. Either way, this painting is hilarious!

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