Seriously? Need you ask? We're talking about seriously expensive things. After the Mona Lisa, Johannes Vermeer's painting, The Girl with a Pearl Erring, is possibly the most valuable painting in the world.What does Vermeer have to do with this?
Seriously? Need you ask? We're talking about seriously expensive things. After the Mona Lisa, Johannes Vermeer's painting, The Girl with a Pearl Erring, is possibly the most valuable painting in the world.What does Vermeer have to do with this?
The value of any of those historical treasures is only relative to insurance. They have no value as there is no market for such paints.Seriously? Need you ask? We're talking about seriously expensive things. After the Mona Lisa, Johannes Vermeer's painting, The Girl with a Pearl Erring, is possibly the most valuable painting in the world.
In the immortal words of Indiana Jones: "that belongs in a museum".Ah, Ok. Thanks @Gorgonzola.
Maybe it’s because I don’t know any better, but I have never wondered why a unique masterpiece like this painting has to be as expensive as it is.
Out of the millions of insanely expensive things in the world I would personally not pick this as the perfect illustration to go with the article.
But apparently this is different for TAS and their readers.
So alright: I'll admit I wasn't thinking of buying it myself.The value of any of those historical treasures is only relative to insurance. They have no value as there is no market for such paints.
Good luck convincing the Reina Sofía Museum about buying Picasso´s Guernica or the Rijksmuseum for Rembrandt´s The Night Watch.
That's why art is nifty for money laundering.So alright: I'll admit I wasn't thinking of buying it myself.
Consider though that thinks can have huge value on the black market where insurance isn't available in any case. It's unsettling to think about what, say, drug lords will buy and trade to settle their accounts with each other.
Bob Ross paintings blow that girl away!Seriously? Need you ask? We're talking about seriously expensive things. After the Mona Lisa, Johannes Vermeer's painting, The Girl with a Pearl Erring, is possibly the most valuable painting in the world.
The magnitude is lessened by not having a black light on it.
Every room in in my dorm was a gallery complete with the black light classic "zodiac positions" and multiple bongs to faclitate the art appreciation.The magnitude is lessened by not having a black light on it.
That is funny. I wonder who did that painting of Bob.Right ...
Bob who? Bob Carver?
In the 1980s magazine editorials were always banging on about the 'hobby dying' and here we are almost 40 years later and there's still a hobby.The market is not expanding and inflation push the price up. How many people seriously wanna setup an ideal stereo setup.
Now that's abstruse!I thought Dobalina.
Right?Now that's abstruse!
(and I do mean that as a compliment)
He has! I learned about the two myself the other way around.EDIT: and I now see that Mr. Dobalina has a whole second life in the hiphop domain, of which I never even suspected.