The Triumph of Painting: The Steven & Ann Ames Collection 

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!

Visually Promiscuous what a perfect term answers every question

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 -

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.

I love the art...the thoughts of the people in this video are vapid and full of platitudes.

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 . . .

if it's such a great collection why sell it

What a breathtaking collection.

What a magnificent collection .Hope someday i can set up my collection of artworks.

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.

Pretty effects in oil paint ,is that enough .

Great collection love.

We need to start sharing Collections other than that of the elitist and the art of blue chip and top tear artists.

Nice collection, beautiful pieces.

Fantastic! 🧿💙

Thanks for explaining the jibberish.

Great collection 👌

very nice

i enjoyed this

A quand la peinture au niveau du nanomètre ,contemplable seulement avec un microscope électronique et portable dans le chas d' une chevalière !

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What's the painting on the right at 3:50?

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.

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Fun and interesting.

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! 🤔

"Visually promiscuous" if you want to sound shallow, use this term

Does anyone know if a link is available for the de Kooning photo at 2:39?

Beatul Art Thank

I am always visually promiscous uhuh

the "Collection" text is so large it is vulgar

Patron saints of Painters....who don't need money. You don't see anything here that isn't represented by the big 5.

They sound just like talking heads. Your mouth is moving but I don't hear a word you are saying.

...great stuff, overall... the Condos are horrible, though...

cute

0:07 Don't talk out of your nose, lady.

Que de belles choses ! ! Yves Frémin, peintre à Plouézec (Côtes d'Armor) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cud81FvMd0Y.html

Familiar wit all excpt Sigmar Polke. colorful exhibition

Reubens vs. Pollack? I would take the former. This is proof of the biggest scourge of the American dominated period:BAD TASTE!!!!!

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...

As soon as you start talking about art you talk nonsense. Hope this helped to understand ART.!,,,

Artmajer Ala Panfiliuk

...I could paint that.

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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. 😮😮😮

I am pretty sure they spend a lot of time on the narration, and then pretend to speak extempore..

That Gerhard Richter book prominently displayed at the start of the video says it all. More money than taste.

i wish they'd stop talking and just show the art------verbiage verbiage---------

BS, not art.

Rich people always collect the same artists. It gets predictable and boring after a while.

Only male artists? really?

Yawn, yawn, snore, what a bore!!!

Next to a de Kooning, Richter looks rubbish, painting devoid of any soul

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.

White people of America, 2018. this video is art.