Rembrandt, Van Gogh and other famous artists would be surprised by contemporary art. The paintings that look like an open smear are sold for millions of dollars. Let's look at these masterpieces.
People have different views on painting: someone admires the works of artists of the Renaissance, and someone loves contemporary art. More often at the auction you can see how strange and incomprehensible canvases go for millions, and all thanks to a beautiful name or an incredible story of creation. After this collection you obviously want to take up the brush and create a "masterpiece".
1. "The Dog"
Many will agree that children paint better, that's just unfair, for their works no one pays $ 2.2 million, and it's a pity.
2. The Cowboy
Author Kelly Elsworth for a long time worked out his style, which consists in most cases of blocks. The man who saw the cowboy here bought a masterpiece for 1.7 million.
3. "Untitled"
Of course, what name can you come up with two rectangles of different colors, or does the author Blinky Palermo give us a chance to fantasize. The price of this work is huge - $ 1.7 million.
4. "The Blue Fool"
Here everything is very clear, the word "fool" in English, written in blue. It is difficult to imagine that Christopher Wool expected to get $ 5 million for the painting.
5. "Spatial Concept, Expectation"
The picture Lucho Fontana, it seems, created like this: painted the canvas in red, changed his mind and cut it with a knife. And someone took it and bought it for $ 1.5 million.
6. "Untitled"
It seems that Sai Twombly painted a pen, so he did not invent a name for his picture. Work done with colored pencils on paper was sold for $ 2.3 million.
7. "The Green Blot"
Who did not draw such rough circles in his childhood? But Elsworth Kelly was able to make a huge amount of $ 1.6 million on it.
8. "The Bloody Red Mirror"
"Why not paint the mirror with red paint with a small gradient," thought Gerhard Richter, and his work was sold for $ 1.1 million.
9. The Rebellion
Another trivial picture of Christopher Wool is an English word written in black, and bought it for a huge sum of $ 29.9 million.
10. "White Fire I"
The name, of course, Barnett Newman came up with a beautiful one, but where the fire is here, apparently, a true connoisseur of art who paid $ 3.8 million for the painting,
11. "Untitled"
Another "masterpiece", which the author Marco Rothko could not name. For two rectangles of orange color, someone paid more than $ 28 million.
12. Onement IV
One can not ignore another work by Barnett Newman - two rectangles separated by a white stripe, which turned out to cost as much as $ 43.8 million.
13. "Orange, Red, Yellow"
Mark Rothko decided not to sweat and just added another rectangle to the previous picture, increasing the cost to $ 86.9 million.