Goodwill Painting Bought for $9.99 Auctioned for $27K

[Syt]

 

[Valmy]

It might make it aesthetically appealing or interesting and either quality would disqualify it as art.

[garbon]

You can't honestly tell me that a giant cat head wouldn't improve that painting.

Yes I can. Mondrian-like paintings suffer when combined with cat lady art.

[garbon]

It might make it aesthetically appealing or interesting and either quality would disqualify it as art.

[Malthus]

Clearly you don't want a cat lady painting a big cat head. That would be folk art, which everyone knows is crap, never gets hung in a proper gallery, and isn't worth the price of the canvas.

You want a real cat head squished onto that painting and left to rot. That would be modern art. Would probably win an art award. 

[Valmy]

It might make it aesthetically appealing or interesting and either quality would disqualify it as art.

What?  I thought art was supposed to reject these restraining social constructs and reach out to...whatever it is artists are reaching out to.

[garbon]

What?  I thought art was supposed to reject these restraining social constructs and reach out to...whatever it is artists are reaching out to.

I think works like these can be aesthetically appealing and/or interesting...whereas cat portraiture is rarely either.

[The Brain]

Some posters seem to be stuck in the "man paints = art, woman paints = kitsch" era.

[garbon]

Some posters seem to be stuck in the "man paints = art, woman paints = kitsch" era.

Nope because swap out and have her husband as the cat artist and I'd say the same thing.

Besides, kitsch and art can happily exist in an artwork.

[CountDeMoney]

Cat portraits. 

[garbon]

Cat portraits. 

I rest my case.