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Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Art / Death / ??!! Currently Hanging
Posted by Mike Nipper on Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 2:22 PM
This painting is hanging at Life Long Aids Alliance thrift shop.
I have no idea how long it has been up, I just happen to notice it this morning. Um...timely, I suppose, considering all the Nevermind hoopla. It's signed Buening '96, and it's for sale at for $999.99.
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What Nevermind hoopla? Do you mean PM Dawn hoopla? What are we celebrating here? I only have space for one.
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@3 -- no, a polyester blanket being sold from a van at a country gas station, next to the one with the eagle and the one with the lions.
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@6 The 20th-anniversary-of-it's-release hoopla. I think there's a massive re-issue package coming out.
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geez...overpriced bad art - but not bad enough to be "bad" - being sold to raise money for a bloated, self-important, ever-less-relevant organization that's become more about itself than the clients it "serves" - count me in - or not... for that kind of money I was looking a little more realism on the "shotgun pattern" - and the earlier poster is right, the eyes are wrong - more like Michelle Bachmann than Cobain
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According to my friend that worked at Lifelong for a number of years, the reason why the painting is priced at $999.99 is so nobody will buy it, ergo it will never leave and Lifelong and its customers will benefit from its awesome presence for years to come.
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that's a weird painting of Keith Urban. do Australian country stars like guns as much as the American ones do?
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@12, I love that explanation, it's perfect.
I remembered seeing a mention of Buening just recently and googled - the Times had some pics a week or so ago of works some friends of his commissioned for their house, including a wall they're having him come in and do over fresh every now and then, and a collection of blocks of "aerial photographs of Puget Sound that Buening doodled into individual pictures using pen, ink, Sharpies and Wite-Out."
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/z…
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/z…
I remembered seeing a mention of Buening just recently and googled - the Times had some pics a week or so ago of works some friends of his commissioned for their house, including a wall they're having him come in and do over fresh every now and then, and a collection of blocks of "aerial photographs of Puget Sound that Buening doodled into individual pictures using pen, ink, Sharpies and Wite-Out."
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/z…
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/z…
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It looks a bit like an intense David Beckham just before he curves one into the top right hand corner. Doesn't explain the shotguns though.
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Wow. This was an early college assignment. It had to be a portrait, it had to include two elements that described that person, and it had to be done in complimentary colors! Ha ha! I donated it to Lifelong last summer and when I saw how much they were asking for it I said, "If you get a grand for that, I will have a show here!"
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