Why are some artwork sold for millions that look like some child splashed colors at random on a canvas?
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Have you seen the Joe Regan podcast with Neil Degrasse Tyson in which he wore a shirt which had the painting “The Starry Night” printed on it.
In that podcast he said the painting is not what Vincent Van Gogh saw on the night he painted the painting but what he felt on that night.
Then Joe Regan asks how do you know what he felt that night.
Tyson replies anything that goes inside of the human brain and comes out in some medium is art. If you want the photo realistic picture then you can just take a normal picture. But art is when that picture goes from inside the human brain and they change it and produce something which is not exact realistic photocopy but something different and that is art.
This paintings which you see are some imagination. Something which went inside a person’s head, started as an idea and was reproduced with the help of that person’s hand and brought into the real world.
Those paintings are not expensive because how they look or how realistic they are. But what thought process or idea from that painters mind they represent in the real world. It is the idea, the thought, the filtering of the picture, feelings of human brain is what gives the painting value.
The painting itself is just a way or mode to bring that idea from the person’s brain into the real world and communicate it with the world.
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