Three-Six-Five

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So, I live nowhere near the Rhine, have yet to sell an image of mine as a singular piece of art, and have never printed anything larger than 36×54 inches.  There is an artist, Andreas Gursky, who, expressing himself in the medium of photography recently sold a very simple yet profound image of the Rhine river on a cloudy day for, get this, $4,338,500.  The piece is titled Rhein II (Hey, I’m a link to the aforementioned image.  Please click me.) and will leave you bewildered as to why some one would drop this amount of coin on such an image.  It is printed at the massive size of 6×11 feet and does not come with a Ferrari.  Anyway, here’s my highest form of flattery, in a Wisconsin fall interpretation, to such an astonishing feat of photographic, artistic capitalism to date.

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3 thoughts on “Three-Six-Five”

  1. I would have to say I prefer your image to that one… most artists would agree that a composition shouldn’t be cut in half as “Rhein II” has been done, and we don’t know all the factors that drove the price to that level either…

  2. Hey CLOSE but no cigar…Gursky has the composition just right..So your prices are going to be a bit higher than a hundred bucks huh?? hahaha, making price tags today. Tell me if our rage exceeds the $100 mark. Bargains, Bargains, Bargains we will be swamped with people forcing us to take their cold hard cash for our art.

  3. I have to disagree about not cutting in half. Any work has its own balance. The rule of thirds is nothing more than a general guideline. Some works – like Rhein II – need not follow these rules.

    For one it is a work of art, not a scenic photo. Here it is an abstract and therefore need not follow conventional rules.

    As for the price, I think that is about right. The highest price for a painting is $156.8 million. And if we consider living artists the price is $33m for a Lucien Freud in 2008. So $4.3m is reasonable, relatively.

    It is a one off (like a painting) of six on the same theme. The negative or digital image still may be available but the postprocessing and printing is wholy Gursky, which makes it a unique piece.

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