Cammo's Corner - Volcanoes of the World - Tiki Carving

C Cammo Member San Diego Joined: May 18, 2006 Posts: 2041	C Cammo Posted posted on Mon, Mar 31, 2008 6:18 PM Hey Paipo - Exactly. Seems like ANYTHING from the 50's and 60's is so cool. Ya also have to keep in mind that all these big deal artists in the late 1900's to the 1920s were crummy scummy outcast geeks. Now their stuff is worth millions, but then they couldn't (literally!) give it away. Dude, check this out - these two artist guys were wandering through a Paris aviation show, the hot-rod shows of 1922, digging on how cool the motors, etc looked. One guy threw up his hands and said "Painting is crap! It's all over! Look at that propeller, it looks better than any painting I've ever seen!" He turned to the other guy, who was a sculptor, and said, "Could you make anything as good as that?!" So the sculptor guy made this. Marble - And it just went for 27.5 million in 2005. "Bird in Space" by Constantin Brancusi.

Hey Paipo -

Exactly. Seems like ANYTHING from the 50's and 60's is so cool.

Ya also have to keep in mind that all these big deal artists in the late 1900's to the 1920s were crummy scummy outcast geeks. Now their stuff is worth millions, but then they couldn't (literally!) give it away.

Dude, check this out - these two artist guys were wandering through a Paris aviation show, the hot-rod shows of 1922, digging on how cool the motors, etc looked. One guy threw up his hands and said "Painting is crap! It's all over! Look at that propeller, it looks better than any painting I've ever seen!"

He turned to the other guy, who was a sculptor, and said, "Could you make anything as good as that?!"

So the sculptor guy made this. Marble -

And it just went for 27.5 million in 2005.

"Bird in Space" by Constantin Brancusi.

Post #370532 by Cammo on Mon, Mar 31, 2008 6:18 PM