Khi? ve~ tranh...
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kha'c nu*~a a` nghen JoJ)
;-)
Pooh
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Congo the artistic chimp
Art world goes wild for chimpanzee's paintings as Warhol work flops
By Nigel Reynolds, Arts Correspondent
(Filed: 21/06/2005)
The art world, confusing at the best of times, took another
right-angled lurch at Bonhams auction house yesterday.
Amid wild scenes, three paintings by a chimpanzee were sold for
£14,400, more than 20 times their estimate.
The paintings are the first non-human artworks to be auctioned
In the same sale an Andy Warhol painting and a small Renoir sculpture
attracted so little interest that they had to be withdrawn.
The chimp daubings are believed to be the first works of art by a
non-human to go under the hammer. But they were executed by no
ordinary chimp. They were painted in the late 1950s by Congo, a
celebrity chimp resident in London Zoo who was hailed as the Cezanne
of the ape world.
Picasso acquired one of Congo's 400 works, Miro swapped two of his
paintings for one of Congo's, and Salvador Dali was so smitten with
the ape's canvases that he declared: ''The hand of the chimpanzee is
quasihuman; the hand of Jackson Pollock is totally animal!"
Bidding for Congo's three works together started at £1,000 - they had
originally been given an estimated sale price of £600-£800 separately
- and ended with two telephone bidders slogging it out.
Victory went to Howard Hong, a private collector in Los Angeles who
described himself as an enthusiast of modern and contemporary
painting. He immediately issued a statement that could have come from
the Dali phrasebook, saying that Congo's painting "represents the
complete evolution of mankind".
A Bonham's spokesman said: "It was quite an historic moment and it was
fantastically exciting.
"People seem to see these paintings as the truest form of creativity."
Howard Rutkowski, a Bonhams director, said: "I don't think anybody
else has been crazy enough to do this. I'm sure other auction houses
think this is completely mad."
Congo became a television celebrity in the late 1950s as the star of
Zootime, an animal programme presented from London Zoo by Desmond
Morris, the zoologist and anthropologist.
He became even more of a cause célèbre when the Institute of
Contemporary Arts mounted a large exhibition of his work in 1957.
Critics had a field day and debate about the meaning of art raged
furiously.
Morris's experiments with Congo, an exceptionally intelligent chimp,
began when the zoologist offered him a pencil.
He explained recently: "He took it [the pencil] and I placed a piece
of card in front of him. This is how I recorded it at the time,
'Something strange was coming out of the end of the pencil. It was
Congo's first line. It wandered a short way and then stopped. Would it
happen again? Yes, it did, and again and again.' "
The zoologist soon noticed that Congo could draw a circle and had a
basic sense of composition: when Morris drew a shape on one half of a
piece of paper Congo would make marks on the other half to balance the
structure. Later, the chimp took to paints. He never managed to make a
recognisable pictorial image but his favourite design was a sort of
radiating fan pattern.
Morris recorded: "It was truly art for art's sake. Congo became
increasingly obsessed with his regular painting sessions. If I tried
to stop him before he had finished a painting, he would have a
screaming fit.
"And if I tried to persuade him to go on painting after he considered
that he had finished a picture, he would stubbornly refuse."
Congo died in 1964 of tuberculosis at the age of 10.
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wrote:
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::)) wrote:
:> (Co`n truye^.n con khi? cu?a o^ng Picasso ve~ tranh la.i la` chuye^.n
:> kha'c nu*~a a` nghen JoJ)
:>
:
:Tui muo^'n proof la` ca'i "chuye^.n kha'c" -do' co' thie^.t hay la` Mr
:Pooh bi.a ra . And I want it now.
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No'i ddu`a chu*' kho^ng pha?i con khi? cu?a o^ng Picasso ve~ tranh cho
o^?ng dda^u. -- Ho^m qua tui phone no'i chuye^.n vo*'i Picasso thi`
o^?ng kha(?ng ddi.nh la` o^~ng kho^ng co' dde^? cho khi? cu?a o^?ng
la`m. Ma(.c du` o^?ng la` mo^.t ngu*o*`i ra^'t ye^u thu' va^.t.
:))))
Nhu*ng ve^` chuye^.n khi? ve~ tranh loa.i the^? A^'n Tu*o*.ng thi`
dda~ co' con khi? tu*`ng la`m chuye^.n na`y.... va` tranh ve~ ra^'t
ddu*o*.c nhie^`u ngu*o*`i khen ngo*.i ddo' nha !
Happy New Year ! :-))
Pooh
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:OK va^.y la` Mr Pooh thu' nha^.n -da~ bi.a ra chuye^.n con khi? cu?a
:Picasso. That's what I want to hear.
:
:Btw Congo the Chimp was described as "exceptionally intelligent". When
:I compared your posts to a monkey's color splatterings I had an
:ordinary one in mind :-)))
:
:Now if you have a problem with that let's have it before the year ends.
:I'm in a particularly foul, belligerent mood today :-))
:
:JoJ
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My mind is "exceptionally intelligent" for a human being as Congo for
Chimp's.
I'm warning you that it wouldl be a waste of time and efforts for you
if you keep using your particular and ordinary mind to play foul with
me my friend JoJ.
:-))
Ha ha ha hah :)))). Let's move on to more healthy and new discussion
NOW, would you please !!!
Pooh
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wrote:
:> Ha ha ha hah :)))). Let's move on to more healthy and new discussion
:> NOW, would you please !!!
:
:OK let's discuss intelligence and intellectual honesty. I stipulate
:that an honest intelligent human being does not invent fibs on dead
:celebrities and spread them around cyberspace to poison unsuspicious
:minds.
:
:Your ball, Mr Pooh :-))
:
:JoJ
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Read my old post again JoJ !!! ;-)
It was my own opinion about Picasso's paintings on his canvas and
about the people who tried to find some significance in abstract
paintings such as you, JoJ !
Ha ha ha ha ha ! Gosh, you don't want to give up eh, do you ?
Pooh
oo0oo
Old posts:
:You're not on the same plane of reason as mine, Mr Pooh. Reading your
:posts is like watching a monkey splash colors all over a canvas and
:trying to make sense of the "painting" :-))
:
:JoJ
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Picasso did the same thing and his paintings are worthed million
dollars each...
:-))
How about thattttttttttttttt my dear JoJ !!! ;-)
Pooh
:))
::OK let's discuss intelligence and intellectual honesty. I stipulate
::that an honest intelligent human being does not invent fibs on dead
::celebrities and spread them around cyberspace to poison unsuspicious
::minds.
::
::Your ball, Mr Pooh :-))
::
::JoJ
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:Read my old post again JoJ !!! ;-)
:
:It was my own opinion about Picasso's paintings on his canvas and
:about the people who tried to find some significance in abstract
:paintings such as you, JoJ !
:
:Ha ha ha ha ha ! Gosh, you don't want to give up eh, do you ?
:
:
:Pooh
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emendation = There was no such thing as "invent fibs on dead
celebrities" from my old post, Mr. JoJ.
* You have made an assumption (an ass out of you...) out of it and
tried to accuse me for being a liar. You owe me an apology Mr. ;-))
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:Oh no, not another color splattering by an ordinary monkey!
:
:You countered my statement by citing Picasso, but it turned out that
:your Picasso anecdote was a fib, which immediately invalidated your
:argument.
:
:Alas, what can you do about a mechanical mouth which yaps on batteries
:and not on brains :-))
:
:Heheheh...
:
:Love,
:
:JoJ
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Unfortunately, your battery is dead because of the cold weather from
where you live in, JoJ !
And therefore your mechanical mouth pieces ain't do no good in this
particular condition !
Ha ha ha ! Okie peace, peace...alright Jupiter ???
Kisses & Love, :-))
Pooh
Tho^'i mo^`m
This is a KISS ASS show :)))) hahahah
Smell stink, isn't it :))))))))) HAHAHAHHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHHA Mr. Poo De Kiss
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:No no not so fast. I'm just starting to draw the worst out of you, and
:that's where the fun is :-))
:
:Hey Mr Pooh don't recycle my metaphors. For once, use something
:original, something from your own feeble mind.
:
:Heheheh...
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Your metaphors were all nonsense and the best thing I would do is just
to throw them back at you !
Ha ha ha ha.
You're really an annoyance and a helpless and hopeless thing (yes
thing) on earth ! ;-))
I wish you a Happy New Year, anyway. Heh heh heh heh.
(You're missing your papa NgocChung or what ? Tell me about it !)
:-)
Pooh