{"id":248,"date":"2012-06-17T17:00:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-17T17:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.miltonperrin.com\/mpwp\/?p=248"},"modified":"2012-06-17T17:00:24","modified_gmt":"2012-06-17T17:00:24","slug":"irony-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.miltonperrin.com\/mpwp\/2012\/06\/17\/irony-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Irony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent auction at Christie&#8217;s brought in a cool $388 million or so. Art by Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, Alexander Calder etc. Edvard Munch&#8217;s &#8220;The Scream&#8221; recently sold for $120 million &#8211;\u00a0<em>$120 million!\u00a0<\/em>A Rothko for a cool $87 million.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent biography by Sue Prideaux she wrote that in 1895 Munch was at his brother&#8217;s funeral.\u00a0A relative said: &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you paint something people will buy, Edvard? I know perfectly well you can do it. When you think of it, it&#8217;s really inconsiderate of you, especially when you know how poor we all are.&#8221; [Note: I haven&#8217;t actually read nor heard of this book or author but found it referenced on a website &#8211; and it currently has five stars on amazon.com &#8211; another bizarre fact of modern life how we base an opinion of things on how many stars it has. But it <em>must<\/em> be a good book. I apologize ahead of time for inaccuracies.]<\/p>\n<p>Munch, Rothko, Van Gogh, Pollock etc. I&#8217;m sure they had moments of joy and happiness to go along with (possibly) more moments of poverty and despair. I wonder what each would think if they knew the current status of their work. Pride? Disgust? Anger? Apathy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent auction at Christie&#8217;s brought in a cool $388 million or so. Art by Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, Alexander Calder etc. Edvard Munch&#8217;s &#8220;The Scream&#8221; recently sold for $120 million &#8211;\u00a0$120 million!\u00a0A Rothko for a cool $87 million. In a recent biography by Sue Prideaux she wrote that in 1895 Munch was at his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miltonperrin.com\/mpwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miltonperrin.com\/mpwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miltonperrin.com\/mpwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miltonperrin.com\/mpwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miltonperrin.com\/mpwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.miltonperrin.com\/mpwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/www.miltonperrin.com\/mpwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miltonperrin.com\/mpwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miltonperrin.com\/mpwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miltonperrin.com\/mpwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}