The Triumph of Painting: The Steven & Ann Ames Collection
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 พ.ย. 2016
- For more than 25 years, two deeply connected people searched for the best art of their time. Together, Steven and Ann Ames assembled masterpieces by Robert Ryman, Georg Baselitz, Willem de Kooning, Anselm Kiefer, Gerhard Richter and others with a keen and critical eye. Watch as Lisa Dennison, Chairman, North and South America, Amy Cappellazzo, Chairman, Global Fine Arts and Allan Schwartzman, Chairman, Global Fine Arts, discuss this remarkable collection of paintings, which leads Sotheby’s Contemporary Art auction on 17 - 18 November in New York.
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Great insight to the variety of art and collecting. Thank you for sharing the journey
A very fine collection with lots of great german paintings as well...very rare!
What a breathtaking collection.
Nice collection, beautiful pieces.
I share the same passion for painting - it can somehow talk to our felt sense of being alive, breathing, moving, looking,,, feeling, wondering, dreaming, celebrating life -
What a magnificent collection .Hope someday i can set up my collection of artworks.
The creative process that accompanies Compmaturism, based on intuition and expression, is completely in line with the neurovisual needs of contemporary art audiences. Compmaturism invites the viewer to an endless adventure in which nothing is obvious, and it is fascinating in this new direction of art.
Great collection 👌
I love the art...the thoughts of the people in this video are vapid and full of platitudes.
Visually Promiscuous what a perfect term answers every question
Very funny
I love it
Great comment
pretentious 🎉
Pretty effects in oil paint ,is that enough .
Great collection love.
at 1:50 ~~ " a fantastic landscape painting unlike ANY OTHER that I know,
it has a compositional presence and a kind of interfacing of representation & abstraction
which I think distinguishes it from ALL the other landscape paintings of the 80's & 90's" . . . really . . .
Jeff Hindman he was literally talking out of his ass
Hahahaha
Right? Holy moly.
Look, I'm a huge fan of art. I studied it in college. I've followed it my entire adult life. I'm a hobbyist painter, myself. I can enjoy some abstract paintings if they are actually trying to tell a story, or if they have a particular take, or exhibit some form of legitimate skill. That said, I think 80%-90% of it is complete and utter horse shit. As evidenced by how much word vomit that dude had to spew to make it sound like there was something valid there. I know everyone has their own opinions, and art is subjective, but Pollack, Richter, De Kooning, Rothko... I think they're all garbage.
I don't know much a about art but when he said landscape I said Huh ??? Wtf is he talking about 😭
@@comicjon82have you seen a richter masterpiece in person? I’m a casual but seeing one in person in la was a spiritual experience. I swear it was like a hum when I looked at it now in I’m obsessed with abstract Pat steir richter etc fiending for that feeling again 😂. If I was a billionaire I’d love a gerhard richter I think he’s genius
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Fantastic! 🧿💙
Each artist mentioned in this advertisement aimed at making Sotheby's more money was creating each painting to live on its own. No artist is trying to create while wondering what the piece will look like next to another artist's work in some billionaire's living room. Find a painter who doesn't strive for recognition who paints for the sake of creation and ask them what each piece represents. Treating such a wide variety of works which were each TIME CONSUMING and emotionally INTENSE to create for the individual artists (across how many decades also?) as some collective grab-bag of dollar signs is disgusting.
Telling people who don't make any fucking art at all that other super rich people have a better, more intelligent, more educated way of arranging a collection because the Ames were just sooooo art savvy and better than others at curating a collection is horseshit too. See, a "collection" is not a diamond ring with new jewels added to make IT better and more expensive. A collection isn't a singular "thing" somebody has. You can have an outsider artist's work in the same collection as a well known artist and it's still just a group of paintings. A "collection" is only seen as a shinier diamond than another when a group like Sotheby's sees "it" as one huge thing to break up and sell. In the opposite way a Ferrari is an assemblage of parts to make a whole, a collection of art isn't less if a piece appears or disappears. A collection of art could be cheap outsider work, of which a person owns a couple pieces. Taste in art does not depend on a better education or a keener eye. You guys are just pimps whoring out individual creations which never were meant to speak in any other way than on their own.
Woe ! ... Now that's telling "it" like "it" is ! Thanks for posting such an eloquent response....Very well put ! Culture is like being an artist...you either have it or you don't. Those that don't usally are the ones flapping their lips or buying things just for show and not for enjoyment. {..oh, what hollowed lives they lead.}
I know you wrote this comment a year ago but I really appreciate your thoughts. I am an artist, I create costume jewelry and work with my hands a lot. I am just a nobody who happens to enjoy making costume jewelry and I do it for many reasons. I have given my pieces away because I would rather they enjoy my jewelry for nothing then for me to hold onto them waiting for someone to buy them. I create out of love, passion and to show my tiny world how I see objects and how I choose to make them beautiful. Most of these people who go to college to learn about art could never possess the needed mind, heart or passion to create such beautiful pieces that they study and spend millions on. Because true creativity and vision is instinctual and can't be bought. Also, please know that I have tremendous admiration for other artists and craftsman and always take the Needed time to appreciate their work and if I can, I tell them how much I enjoy it.
Wow! The politics of Art... Funny how I have never allowed the sale of any of my works and my Artwork is almost completely in tact... I live far below the poverty level but yet so many knock on my door in the Projects and ask if they may peek inside, "The Artist's Apartment"...
I agree with much you say and must admit it is very difficult for me to look at a canvas of one color thrown at it with critical acclaim as some masterpiece with a novel long narrative telling me what I'm looking at...
Once my work it finished, it's the viewer who determines what they see and don't see and I find a long narrative about what you're looking at corrupting the viewer's imaging, that I find better left alone... After all, most in fact almost all viewers of artwork aren't experts in some long drawn out editorial of what they are seeing with their own eyes...
I think you have a point there; maybe that is perhaps the reason we haven’t had a Van Gogh or a Picasso in a very long time. However, being a piece of advertisement or not from Sotheby’s doesn’t change mind. I Still think it it is a breathtaking collection.
I turned the sound down. Bingo. Much better.
i enjoyed this
Does anyone know if a link is available for the de Kooning photo at 2:39?
If it helps, the painting on the left is called "Ruth's Zowie" finished in 1957. :)
www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/portrait-of-dutch-born-american-artist-willem-de-kooning-news-photo/53466557#portrait-of-dutchborn-american-artist-willem-de-kooning-with-two-of-picture-id53466557
Fun and interesting.
very nice
Thanks for explaining the jibberish.
What's the painting on the right at 3:50?
That's my kid's finger painting project, how did that get in there?
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We need to start sharing Collections other than that of the elitist and the art of blue chip and top tear artists.
A quand la peinture au niveau du nanomètre ,contemplable seulement avec un microscope électronique et portable dans le chas d' une chevalière !
Let me clap my hands 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Que de belles choses ! ! Yves Frémin, peintre à Plouézec (Côtes d'Armor)
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Familiar wit all excpt Sigmar Polke. colorful exhibition
I am always visually promiscous uhuh
if it's such a great collection why sell it
"Visually promiscuous" if you want to sound shallow, use this term
One of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard. (Her quote, not what you said.)
Haha these videos just make me feel weird because I don't know if I should laugh or cry at their pretentiousness, and how expensive their pretentiousness gets...
btw I would love to hear if "visually promiscuous" actually means anything. Because i don't have a clue what it could mean...
Kasper Leinonen It means her subject matter consists mainly of vaginas, and vaginal shaped...shapes.
I still don't understand wtf these artists are trying to convey, in very simple terms, not "highbrow artspeak"!
I've had art history classes in college, have visited galleries and museums in SF, LA and NYC, and all I ever see is large "brushstrokes and splashes of color" on a canvas... and somehow it's
WORTH $10-50+ MILLION?! Really?
Sorry, there are other artists, such as Picasso, Hopper, Wyeth, O' Keefe, etc. that I could justify spending that much for a piece of art. But not something that looks like a 4 year old did in kindergarten! 🤔
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Artmajer Ala Panfiliuk
Why someone would pay $100 million for some painting is beyond me (or 5 million or 2 million, etc)? I just don't get it at all.
My guess, and it is only that, is that it is for the same reason they would by a car that costs $1M but that they never drive - it's so they can say it is theirs. "Mine, mine, mine!", as a toddler would shriek.
Patron saints of Painters....who don't need money. You don't see anything here that isn't represented by the big 5.
...great stuff, overall... the Condos are horrible, though...
Isn't that Condo's point?
Reubens vs. Pollack? I would take the former. This is proof of the biggest scourge of the American dominated period:BAD TASTE!!!!!
They sound just like talking heads.
Your mouth is moving but I don't hear a word you are saying.
0:07 Don't talk out of your nose, lady.
the "Collection" text is so large it is vulgar
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Actually, if the truth be known, none of the paintings were purchased because of the quality of the Artwork but only as investment to maintain the value paid...
Funny, how the business of art is more about politics than the narrative accompanying the work...
What current modernity of Art has taught us, everything is Art...
invariably, these guys don't buy up coming artists, they race towards horses with a track record of winning. You will never find a Johnny come lately in their catalogue because they don't have an eye for it really. It's almost always peppered with De kooning, Warhol, Pollock. Especially with the American collectors.
@@strictlyyoutube6881 Yes but all these artists created many paintings. There is still a skill in selecting undervalued or more excellent paintings from an already celebrated artist.
...I could paint that.
So why don't you? These works have certainly made more than you do annually. If it's so easy, it would make sense for you to do something similar, wouldn't it?
Yep, me too.
i wish they'd stop talking and just show the art------verbiage verbiage---------
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@@pope400 Yes, it's all sales talk. Whenever an auctioneer describes a piece as "important" what they really mean is that it will fetch big bucks at auction.
As soon as you start talking about art you talk nonsense.
Hope this helped to understand ART.!,,,
That Gerhard Richter book prominently displayed at the start of the video says it all. More money than taste.
What a shitty comment
@@jappiejojo777
What shitty taste...with woefully few exceptions.
Too much talking about the art, it's all speculation and well,I don't know how to say this exactly, but it's a lot of bullcrap. My 4 year old granddaughter has produced quality abstract expressionist art that equals these AE 's and it's on my icebox door. Sorry if I hurt anyone's feelings. 😮😮😮
Only male artists? really?
Julia G. Makes sense lol
Rich people always collect the same artists. It gets predictable and boring after a while.
It's the same with any collectable market. The people with the money drive the market and they know what's out there, who's got it, what's for sale and what they'd like to get their hands on.
I take it you are rich, to know that it gets like that?
White people of America, 2018. this video is art.
@Charming Billy Yes, Conservatives NEVER spend a lot of money on anything questionable. That's why the most Conservative states are the richest, right?
I am pretty sure they spend a lot of time on the narration, and then pretend to speak extempore..
Next to a de Kooning, Richter looks rubbish, painting devoid of any soul
Clearly you should be looking at a Richter next to a de Kooning then, if de Kooning has such a terrible effect.
BS, not art.
A child could create much of this art. Yes some of it is beautiful and love the explosion of color, but the talent just isnt there. It does not take much talent at all to make most of these paintings. Contemporary art is beyond overvalued.
Just cause someone could master the squeegee technique must faster than old master glazing techniques doesn't make less valuable ya foo
Your a fool.
Moon Man I think you have to give some if not a lot of credit to these artists who are questioning their role as painters in their own time. It’s ok to think while painting, to question what it is you are engaging in. And searching for something more meaningful as opposed to what is spewed all over Instagram. Just my opinion :)
So why don't you do it too? These works have certainly made more than you do annually. If it's so easy, it would make sense for you to do something similar, wouldn't it?
A child could not make this or the galleries and museums would be filled with children's artwork. What child could make 50 of these?
Yawn, yawn, snore, what a bore!!!