Every now and then, The Creators Project comes across an artwork that surprises and delights us every bit as much as it confuses us and otherwise has us begging for answers. This is art that defies conventions, challenges sensibilities, and breaks down barriers between comprehension and critique. You might like it—you might not "get it." But we do. Take a deep breath, and before you read this, remember: it's art.
Beautiful, isn't it? At least, that's what we hope the unnamed buyer of Kevin Abosch's above portrait, "Potato #345," said before forking over €1,000,000 for it sometime last year. Abosch, whose work, Business Insider reports, "begins at $150,000 and can rise as high as $500,000 if commercial licensing comes into play," came to prominence for a similarly-lit photo of Johnny Depp. "Art and science is just the means to an end," Abosch explains, but we have to wonder how much psychology comes into play when appraising his work. As Petapixel reports, the sale price of "Potato #345," nearly matches that of Edward Weston’s seminal “Nautilus (1927).” Is it the work that fetches a high price? Or vice versa?
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