• Flagstaff@programming.dev
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    1 month ago

    What on Earth? Are you serious? If it’s that much, why did the Reddit post about it get 25 upvotes? If it’s that much, what’s the artist’s name? You’re clearly pulling my leg, or else you’d be glad to share more.

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      1 month ago

      That’s Basquiat, all his paintings are of a similar ilk to show the art he would see living on the streets. Why would a generally obscure piece of art in a small community get anything but the upvotes it got? That much seems high actually, seeing how most people would pay no heed to this because even with the close reading (you read that, right? I know my life partner uses a lot of words you get at a 30th grade reading level, but you get the gist of what he’s saying in ten thousand words in the comment section), you deny and are flabbergasted how this could be worth anything.

      Here’s In Italian, which my life partner also did a close reading on: