Are there any artists that you feel are over-rated?

[asu11]

I know we all have our favorite artists, but I was wondering if there is anyone you can think of who you feel is over-rated. I'm interested to see what you think because one person's all time favorite artist can be that exact opposite for someone else! Does any artist (past or present) just not 'connect' with you?

[Lindsay523]

John Cage.

[Success]

I think Andy Warhol is deffinately over-rated, his paintings at the auction houses are bringing hundreds of millions of dollars, so he became highest price selling artists of all times- all times?!!! His paintings are appraised higher than Rembrandt? What do you think?

[Lindsay523]

I think Andy accomplished exactly what he wanted.

[asu11]

To me, Damien Hersch is today's Andy Warhol. I think they both create very commercial pieces, and as a result both made a good deal of money while doing it. I'm glad to see that artists can make a good living but I have a hard time understanding the work of either, esp. Hersch though. Covering a human skull with $50 million worth of diamonds just doen't hit home with me haha

[asu11]

wow! Haha sorry, I meant to say Damien HIRST-- whoops

[Lindsay523]

One of my instructors had a friend who was commissioned by the city of Amsterdam to produce two pieces and the deal was he got to keep all the materials and the pieces. He hung a 5 carrot diamond from a string and cast a solid gold statue of Napoleon. I suspect Hirst of similar acts.....

[chtoon]

Jeff Koons. Oh man, that guy is a piece of work. I hesitate to call him an artist because his "art" is constructed in workshops by hundreds of people. There was a recent piece on him in The New York Times and he was so pretentious, elitist, and contradictory. Now, his new moniker is art collector and museum director. However, an exhibition that he is planning has no connection whatsoever--but he's claiming it's postmodern, which lets him off the hook. There is a reason why supermodels and moguls who make millions of dollars a year love his art. It's accessible to naive people with a lot of money.

[BeckyRabb]

freakin' Anne Geddes! Omgosh.

[BeckyRabb]

Oh oh!! and Thomas Kinkade.

[soltis27852]

Oh oh!! and Thomas Kinkade.

Becky, I could not agree with you more! His work is in galleries in the mall, on postcards, coffee mugs, pens, mouse pads, you name it! I was trying to think of an artist that I thought truly fit this category, and you hit the target spot! Great job!

[Staci]

freakin' Anne Geddes! Omgosh.

I couldn't agree more! Babies are cute, but the popularity of her pictures is ridiculous!

[ajolguin]

I would have to agree with ALL OF THE ABOVE! Seriously it's kind of ridiculous what people try to pass off as art. What ever happened to trying to say something and putting feeling into your work?

[Bruneau]

Maybe you don't know this artist but he's very famous and I think he's an over rated artist A Belgian guy - Luc Tuymans

[artpaintings]

Tablking about over-rated artists,I think Gregor Schneider maybe is one of them. Schneider became embroiled in controversy after saying he wanted to create a space in a museum in which people could die.
His argument was that society's horror of death was so acute that we prefer to ignore it, leaving people to die in the clinical impersonality of a hospital rather than somewhere beautiful.
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