Anderson Art Collection to Open at Stanford 

Plus I remember reading something Pocasso did with his Art that brings a Great thought to meditate and Focus on Humm oh Yes

Shame not everyone who isn't fabulously wealthy doesn't have the same opportunity.

wonder if they worried about home invasion

There’s nothing nuts about being around beautiful artwork that you love.. I’m sure it filled their spirit 🎉❤

And who’s gonna pay for the touring fees? The insurance? The shipping fees? The conservators? It isn’t a feasible endeavor to try and do a moving exhibition.

@@henrylivingstone2971she meant it well, but it is such a naive idea indeed. People around the world can visit Stanford to watch the exhibition.

Donating it is just as profitable as selling it. Please don't think it is an act of charity. This is how the art world works.

I think theres a Sam Francis at @4:04 and a Joan Mitchell @5:08. They did say at the beginning when they began collecting, their focus was on building a collection of American artists, so Yayoi and Vassily wouldn't fit their portfolio.

monkeygraborange Very classy couple 😎

@@Zzzzaaaakkkk The smell of money was coming out of my screen!

I think you nailed it when you said "collect them as status symbols". Outside of that they're annoying to most people because they look like kindergarten projects.

It is rubbish, a bunch of slop. But some art critics amongst the GLBT crowd decided they were masterpieces, lol.

@@austindarrenor I actually made that statement as a bit of a joke. I had had a few drinks too many. Yet, I can't help thinking that these people are deluding themselves.These "artists"may come up with an interesting concept or two but does that make it art?And, is it really worth so much money?

@@glenncambray626 An art critic that has his college degrees and all that calls paintings like these great art in order to demoralize artists that actually do produce great art. A critic knows himself that he could never produce anything of any value artistically or he wouldn't be a critic. But whether it's actually art or not is near totally subjective person to person.

@@austindarrenor what do you call great art?

@@gregdahlen4375 Claude Monet, Grant Wood, John Singer Sargent, Wayne Thiebaud . . . I could go on and on. But whether it's great art or not is subjective and "in the eye of the beholder". On the plus side for paintings that people complain about as being slop and a ten yr old could do are worthwhile for interior decor especially in an office bldg. They can bring life and color to an otherwise dull office space or sometimes a home.

I mean I sold a Cubist Art and Deep Abstract Painting for 200 Dollars to David Anderson Art Gallery I'm Doing mines with Deep poetry on stuff I can hide from thieves till I get things in order no one's ever heard of my kind of Art it's a part of the Deepness to peep this word up

Collect what you love.... and as he said any mistakes are their own. Its much more interesting to see what they truly liked rather than looking at a curated collection of what they were TOLD was valuable.

Charles/Ray Eames chairs.

Ignorant see you NT.

hahahaha - yes! Let the artist starve!

You dont.

I just hope they got state of the art security beefing these up...

anne sinclair

People who truly love art seek out and support unknown artists . An authentic collector would prefer to walk to work than drive and use that money to buy art instead . Everything else is a name dropping status symbol by people who've never seen a work of art with their own eyes and everything they say about it is someone else's words.

Thick fcuk.

Says an ignorant see you NT.

You have to buy contemporary art now from young artists, just like some of these collectors did when they where young. If you focus on what you like you will never be disappointed even if "your" artist won't be a future superstar in the art market.

I only collect baseball cards and to a lesser degree stamps. I enjoy the smallness of it... That said, I have a few prints of Joseph Pennell. Early 20th century prolific printer and artist. His WW1 recruitment poster is amazing. I collect using the motto "Buy what you like. Buy what you can afford"

Uncle Monkey i think you both are missing the point of what I was talking about. I do collect what I love, but the main point of my argument is that 70 years ago, a lowly postal employee named Victor Ganz and his wife Sally were able to buy blue chip works by Picasso, who was the most expensive artist you could purchase. With saving, they were able to amass an enormous collection of art works by established artists, who were in museums already, including nearly 40 picasso works on canvas. My main point is that the art market has inflated so much that even art from students fresh out of their MFA program are going for 25k-100k dollars. This makes it impossible for anyone but the richest people to support and invest in emerging artists, the same way you have seen these collectors do. It is not about staying in budget or collecting what you love, it is about a broken market that is in need of a serious correction if it is going to sustain itself in the long run.

fritz4345 Uncle Monkey i think you both are missing the point of what I was talking about. I do collect what I love, but the main point of my argument is that 70 years ago, a lowly postal employee named Victor Ganz and his wife Sally were able to buy blue chip works by Picasso, who was the most expensive artist you could purchase. With saving, they were able to amass an enormous collection of art works by established blue chip artists, who were in museums already, including nearly 40 picasso works on canvas, on a postal workers salary! My main point is that the art market has inflated so much that even art from students fresh out of their MFA program are going for 25k-100k dollars. This makes it impossible for anyone but the richest people to support and invest in emerging artists, the same way you have seen these collectors do. It is not about staying in budget or collecting what you love, it is about a broken market that is in need of a serious correction if it is going to sustain itself in the long run. Your statement about buying contemporary art is ignoring what my point was, you simply cannot invest in the same caliber of work and artists in 2018 as you could even 50-60 years again. The works that these collectors were buying were not all emerging artists, these were mid-career artists who already were having retrospectives at museums and being shown in blue chip galleries that you could buy for $500-$1000 at the HIGH END. At comparison, that would be like buying a christopher wool, a mark bradford or a george condo, at 2018 dollar value for $3500-$7000 when in reality, Those works are going for 1-3 million, depending on size and medium for new work entering the primary market for those artists.

@@TheAcenightcreeper You are absolutely right. This would not be possible today. There is an obscene amount of money around for some these days.