There is Andy Warhol’s banana, a mythical work of the art of contestation. The New Yorker’s various bets accelerated a wild break with the established, eventually becoming a painter of expensive work, one of the respected ones. He broke the artistic convictions of a city that he himself, with his sense of spectacle, changed in a few years. The magic of Warhol lay in the fact that, through a sustained provocation in art, he modified the tastes of the big city and in the process discovered the immense painter Basquiat. He planned everything, everything was detailed in his workshop, called La Fabrica. Warhol had the keys, the arrests and a univocal vision about the fate of his proposal, so Warhol made capital art. Continuing with the banana as an art object, these days a supposed artist, Cattelan, has stuck a banana with duct tape on a wall, and has auctioned it at Sothebys. The artist says that he tells the concept, eating the banana, taking another banana and sticking it to the wall again with duct tape. Furthermore, an Andalusian art director affirms that the process itself is also art, as is the concept. Related News Standard controversial auction No The famous banana stuck to a wall sells for almost six million. It has been bought by a young Chinese collector, the Mr. Sun, cryptocurrency owner. We have already seen the Chinese eat the banana and replace it with a fresher one, of course, stuck to the wall with duct tape. You have bought a concept, or you create it and advertise it, since concepts do not trade. The act is crude and will not create a school. The banana has cost the artist a few cents, plus the cents of the duct tape. The Chinese has released six million euros; The deluded think that paying for the pasture grants artistic veracity to the banana of the nose. Trickster and trickster play their part. It is good that art has no limits, but that, like everything, it is measured by a certain common sense. They have been very stupid about bananas. I prefer to remember the stab wounds that Monet and Manet gave each other, who by the way also painted bananas, as well as water lilies, and were, like Warhol, giant artists, of whom we will remember.
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