How Do "Dumb" Paintings Sell For Millions? 

What form of art are you willing to spend money on? 🤑

Too bad it didn't work out for Squidward "Bold and brash, more like belongs in the trash"

money laundering *has joined the chat*

Pranks that went too far: Modern Art

The buyers are like literature teachers saying the author wanted the door to be blue because he was sad rather than just wanting it to be blue

Because dumb people buy them.

It’s just People fake being classy while looking at paintings that have no real appeal

Those paintings are probably made by _Supreme_

As an artist myself, I get the "deeper meaning" thing. But at the same time it is so insulting to the people who have spent years even decades of their lives perfecting their craft and get paid peanuts when people probably spent ten minutes on that and it sells for that much. The line for me is simply taping a banana to a canvas with duct tape and calling it art and selling it for that price. That's just offensive.

*Better sell my 6 year old drawing*

even graffiti looks better than modern art

Money laundering. If you sale your chair for 1 million dollars you will have a visit from irs but if you say your chair is "art" then it will be ok. Of course, it is an oversimplification but you got the point.

This kind of art is the mumble rap equivalent in the art world.

Because people are *dumb* enough to pay for them

So, what your saying is, if I trip on a paint bucket and splatter pink paint all over a white canvas, I can sell it for a million dollar as long as I never do it again?

A fool and his money I guess.

Imma just spray ketchup on a canvas and sell it for 1 million

You will never convince me that the modern art value isn’t idiotic

Rich people buy this unnecessary painting because of the tax problem They have to spend their money on something to discard the black or unlisted money So they buy these kind of painting for showing the world how much interested they are in art As simple as that

2 words - money laundering

As an artist this makes my blood boil. An idiot can make over 100k for a banana duct-taped to a wall but even some of the best artists I "know" can't even get more than 1k for things I'd pay 100k for (if I had that type of money, at least)

One word : manipulation

Cities without clean water, cities without reliable electrical power, children dying of famine, college students dropping out because they can’t pay the semester even with 3 jobs and a scholarship but yeah, some get to waste 43 millions on a blue square. That’s why humanity will cease to exist.

Looks like I'm going to hand in a blank paper with a line in the middle to my teacher, and tell her, "You can retire now."

The reboot of the tale "Emperor's New Clothes" is titled "The Emperor's Million Dollar Painting"

The saddest thing about this is that only when you die your painting becomes more expensive

*Because it's Art spraying mustard and ketchup all over my plate*

I'm glad someone is taking advantage of these suckers!

im an artist and I don't even know

Art has come from the 'Mona Lisa' and 'A Starry Night' to a blue canvas with a line down the middle smh

I wonder what great artists from the past would think if they saw these are the most valuable art today

Theres someone who sold a blank canvas

One of the most difficult ways to win a million dollars is to (dis)prove the Riemann hypothesis. One of the easiest ways to win a million (or more) dollars is to make a blank painting and call it “abstract art”.

Money laundering.

Right now I am sitting on chair and making some irregular lines n thinking can it be sold for millions

And there are people starving somewhere

You know you're rich and dumb if you buy an artwork that even a toddler can create, and possibly make something better.

If this is art, then I’m the final boss of MS Paint

“ i could get a bunch of cigars and craft it to make the t look like Jesus. I would call it holy smokes” Jake Peralta

Clever way to transfer/launder money

I gonna tell my 5 years sister to paint whatever she wants with the paint, and I'm going to sell that painting for millions.

“You have 43m dollars” *starts a company and starts making more money

i remember it is because you can avoid taxes by that

This motivates me to be an artist. 😂

Did it have the Apple Logo at the back?? 🤔

Im just gonna "accidentally" spill some paint on a canvas, fake my death and voila a masterpiece 😂

After looking at these paintings I have finally decided to let my little brother draw on my books

Me( after watching this video) Well buddy its time to break out the old water colors that haven't been used since school and start making millions

It is insanity, THIS IS MADNESS! Thats why here in the West we get mocked

if i would be millionaire i would buy alot of KFC

That moment when you realize a painting is worth more than your own life.

Outrageous. You cant call these artworks dumb, it is just a slap in the face of art history

_Hey, it's art don't question it_

There once was a monkey who made a painting by just randomly splashing coulor on a canvas. The collectors, unknowing the painter was a monkey, bought it for BIG money. Conclusion: throw paint at a canvas - get rich

Yesterday I dropped tomato sauce on my canvas And Leonardo da Vinci's descendent told me that it was ART. Looks like someone's going to get rich 😂

I learned about many art styles, and artists, drip art, abstract art, etc... I still don't understand how some pieces sell for so much...

*Trump Art Of The Deal*

What is more expensive: A reallistic paint from a famous artist that lived in 1400 AD and took him 2 years to draw or A blue square? HMMMMMMMMMM....

Me: Scribbles on a canvas *Shows it to art gallery* *Gets laughed out of the place* Artist: Scribbles on a canvas *Art Gallery buys the canvas for $900,000,000*

The spongebob meme: "The inner mechanisms of my mind are an inigma" fits perfectly

Oh wow I found out about the blue painting a few days ago before this vid. THANKS HUMANITIES TEACHER

I got it, they buy it call it depreciating value, and get a tax write off then sell it to another rich guy and continue the legal tax evasion!

Well Ive got some 25 year old Masterpiece finger paintings full of tantrums, and emotions beyond adulting capacity I will now be selling for $1.5 million each... y’all better get them while I’m being nice with the price because it’s definitely worth way more....lol

1: a poetry book that has a lot of meaning put into it being sold for 22.99$ 2: a blue and yellow canvas that had no effort being put into it also having a lot of "DEEP" meaning in it being sold for 5M which one would the population buy? the 2nd one. (even as someone who makes poems themselves, the painting means nothing to me.)

A fool and his money are soon parted.

It's time to draw some lines on canvas and who knows how much I will earn?

I’m now taking offer on my painting the “ white paper” let start bid at 1 million

Art is something which awakes peoples imotions,art is something which is understandable , appealing and satisfying to most of the people wheather its visually, through sound, touch, movement,etc. Art is something, when people look at it they are able to see the artist's efforts. Art should make people think "Oh man.. i wish i could do that its so cool", " I wanna do it! " It shows in history that art was never meant to awoke negative feelings,confused and weird feelings among people.

I always think that all these arts are part of a big meme

They don't know on what they'd spend their money. In other words, They're dumb to buy a dumb painting.

The animation in this video is far superior art that the art shown in the video.

My art will be sold for millions one day and all that money will go to the people who never thought help was going to come.

Love your videos. So informational

Your Work Is appreciated!!👍

The things this video forgets to mention is that a lot of those painting, in person, are absolutely *massive*

Still the Renaissance and enlightenment era paintings are actually art

A stickman is better than that blue paint

A picture is a poem without words... 3 Things determine the value.. How old is it.. How many unique associations it has.. How thought provoking or emotionally charged it is..

One time i accidentally printed a weird blank color of blue and i did felt an emotion of sadness, because it was a large waste of ink.

My favourite quote for people who make fun of modern art "'Wow that looks so simple, I could of done it', 'Yeah but you didn't'". I don't care much for art mostly because it doesn't appeal to me.

You forgot money laundry

Because some dumb rich people think they're worth something Aka they don't know about how much people they can save from hunger if they didn't buy them...

The banana duct taped to a canvas will forever fill me with rage.

I'm certainly glad I took *art* now 😂 *Who* knows when someone will be willing to *pay me* for random *childish doodles*

I'll make something that doesnt make sense and sell it for 30 million dollars just to prove that people will buy anything that they think is a masterpiece

Art has always been pretentious.. Mordern art that is

I think i burnt billions of dollars when i burnt my high school notebooks

I like your sense of humor, people with money seem to want to buy artwork that does not make them think. As and artist of contemporary art my work has something to say I have been creating art for many years intentionally I have sold few. The cream always rises to the top even though it take many years

nahh, still dumb. sure people with money can do whatever they want. but that piece definitely not worth that amount of money.

Like people listen to Justin Bieber

to me, I thought there are objects that are inside the painting itself that made it expensive, just like gold bars covered in supermarket plastic bags

Infographic:"these painting give combination of feeling such as shock,confusion,disbelief" Me:ikr

Modern Art is like modern music *Garbage*

*Money Laundering Wants To Know Your Location*

After this i realized I was a artist in Elementary school

If had 43 million to spare on a paint im going to sit in my leather couch looking at it imaging the beauty of life

The expression and the emotion of the artist is what matters. And ppl who judge a work of art by its variation and complexity end up making such videos. These artists put their feelings on canvas and they know what they're trying to say. They are not selling their art, they're selling their name. Ppl buy even the simplest of their works just to own a fragment of the artist's mind. Pls don't confuse selling their name with the quality of their art. Most of these so called simple paintings are sold for an exorbitant amount because it was made by a renowned artist. And if you do not understand the abstraction of an artist's work, either go educate yourself or just don't look at it because the beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.

A popular painter draws a white line on a blue canvas and gets million. If a normal person would do the exact same, would it get that much? No. Thats the reason why those prices are just dumb imo. It depends on who did it and not what it is.

In a Forrest Gump accent...” I may not be a smart man, but buying pictures of squares sounds like a rip off”

There should be laws in place banning people from spending money like that.