Pretending to know something...

@crossbones27 Bailing? That is money...since when are we paying money to others...it has to be true pirate style..shoot the lock...doesn't matter if you take time to do it...practice will make you perfect sometime.

@vandana7 Very Serious, Let me come bail you out of jail.

@vandana7 Oh geez, want me to get all John Wayne for you. Does you no good if I am locked up. Oh, I get it now, that's what you want. Women.

If 90 percent don't understand, or see anything beautiful in it, and can't get much pleasure in it, then there cannot be any demand for it. And if there is no demand, how can there be a price for it unless it is a con artiste job? Simple logic.

@vandana7 You have a point. I would prefer to have paintings not from famous ones. I don't want to spend money if not knowing what's the real worth of a particular painting.

If you understand them, it is ok, you can also keep duplicate. If they are as abstract as the ones in the list I have attached, you would realize that the price is not justified, considering the limited demand.

@LadyDuck Oh ok...does it not get dust?

@vandana7 I do not like abstract art and I do not like "duplicates". I have some nice paintings that we bought in France from a young French Artist. We do not hang many paintings in the house. My husband had some of my photo printed on canvas and he hang them.

Ha ha...I could create some and may be somebody would pay me?

@vandana7 Give it a go! There has been some frankly bizarre stuff on display in various art galleries. Case in point:-

@WorDazza As I mentioned in a box here art should be a. Visual delight ..beautiful b. Have emotional dividends make a person happy based on content c. Keep artist away from unhappiness while creating it I can't believe those paintings qualify.

@kepweng Yeah..somebody got to con somebody big time..LOL

Come on ..look at the list there, and tell me if you liked those untitled works..

@kepweng hehehe!!! Nice definition of art.

Sigh...I have to concede.."common sense is not so common".

I think that is where we go wrong. We have to accept that we are good. We might infact be better than that tornado type of expensive picture in the list I uploaded.

Old masters were really painstakingly developed paintings. If you look at the list I have uploaded, I wouldn't want to pay more than 10 dollars for any of them.

Me too...if I paint something, I will naturally like it, and so will my parent, and well, my kids paintings would also make sense there. Some beautiful work that is striking too. But abstract work...grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

I like Australian aborigine art..it is also abstract quite often, but it gives me pleasure to see it. Likewise, there are traditional Indian artists...village artists, willing to do the job at less than 10 dollars..why on earth would I give to somebody whose work I do not understand..which work I cannot sell easily ..because there has to be another fool to buy it....no demand how can it have value? Beats me. Why would I buy something as expensive as

@vandana7 You have your point, my friend. Sometimes, we have to consider the marketability of the artwork. A lot of people are talented but not all are selling.