Anybody like art?

Zoot Allures said:

Even though the AGO owns the Rothko painting it is in high demand so AGO loans it out as a source of income

Oddly, another AGO jewel "The massacre of the innocents", by Rubens that has greater value if sold on the open market and is far more famous yet is hung more often than the Rothko

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I find it to be a highly skilled painting with lots of symbolisim but no transcendence like the Rothko

For example, why are the roman soldiers naked as they kill babies because the Magi told Herod one of them
was to be the King Jesus? IMHO Ruebens is saying it is the soldiers innocence that is massacred, not the babies as the babies die innocent. The use of light with the overcast sky allowing only the massacre to receive light is a sign from God , the dying womans hand reaching out to the viewer in the middle of the painting. The symbolism never ends

In July 2002, Rubens’s Massacre of the Innocents, which depicts the Biblical scene of a violent massacre in Bethlehem, fetched a price of £49.5 million ($76.5 million) at Sotheby’s and was donated to Toronto’s Art Gallery of Ontario.

The masscre is considered a biblical myth

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SamanthaJones69 said:

I learned recently that high end art is how the extremely wealthy move money without banks. Makes sense. Personally I need to watch how much I go into the galleries in Yorkville- dangerous!!

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