webfact Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 Thai artist is selling this drawing for THB88 millionBy Coconuts BangkokPhoto: National News Bureau of ThailandBANGKOK: -- An artist in Southern province of Yala has become talk of town after he put up his drawing online and is trying to sell it for a whopping price of THB88 million.Pinid Kaewklaeye, 38, said this fountain pen artwork is called "The Eye of Legend,” and he started working on the painting when he was 12 after he was hit with a life-changing lesson."I started searching for the meaning of this painting when I was in Mathayom 1 after because I found a quote that said ‘it is not important what I took with me from this world but rather what I left for it," the artist wrote on Facebook.“I didn’t understand that, at first. So I searched for the meaning. I asked people and did research in the library.Full story: http://bangkok.coconuts.co/2016/06/10/thai-artist-selling-drawing-thb88-million-- Coconuts Bangkok 2016-06-10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edwinchester Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 Alai wah? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samsensam Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 non story. it would be a story if it sold it for 88 million. but it wont. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesetat2013 Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 So a bunch of pen colored squares and circles and shapes that he started doodling with as a little kid is now considered valuable art work. Or is he asking money because he actually opened a book and found a quote that led him to ask people what it meant? I realize I am being critical but jeez! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puyai Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 Be lucky to get 88 baht! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bung Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 89 baht! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikmar Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 89 baht and 5 satang. I ll pay 100 baht if its super absorbant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shirtless Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 This boy has got to be dreaming, he should reduce the price by 20 million for quick sale 555 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveAustin Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 This is not the first time Pinid has tried to sell the painting. In 1996, he sat on the street near Silpakorn University in Bangkok and tried to sell the drawing for THB19 million, according to NNT. Panid said a foreign couple stopped their car to check out the artwork. They offered THB10 million, but he refused I used to do stuff like that in my teens. Why do people have to be so greedy? Best way to get some real money for artwork is to die, though with a name like Pinid Kaewklaeye it's not gonna be easy. You should've taken the 10, you nitwit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eligius Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 (edited) Self-delusion is extraordinarily rife in Thailand. This is just another example of it! Edited June 10, 2016 by Eligius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceruhe Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 I'd rather pay 88 million for that than call modern art "art" when they just put up a blank canvas or whatever stupendous retardation and claim that to be art. In the end it's up to the beholder, for I likewise can see no value in a Picasso myself among others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theguyfromanotherforum Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 It doesn't look bad. I would offer 2000 baht. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nepsydaz Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 Let the guy put whatever price-tag he wants. It is his work - his price... You don't like it ? Don't buy it... it is that simple Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mvdf Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 One can only step back and marvel at this force called the human ego. Invisible and yet it is that one great thing that sets as apart from the rest of the animals on this planet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy chappie Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 I'll have 2 if you give me special price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winniedapu Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 I'll give him 88THB, it's worth at least that, maybe 100THB. Oh. 88 MLLION THB !! Nah, my estimate is better, Winnie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayk Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 (edited) I've got a slightly used stained pair of underwear that I am auctioning of to the highest bidder. The reserve is set at 0b. Pretty much the same article. Edited June 10, 2016 by Rayk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyBowskill Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 I accidentally didn't raise the seat this morning and shat on the lid, 99 million baht a la Chris Ofili if anyone is interested...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misterwhisper Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 Looks like my doodling during a long and boring phone conversation. Maybe I should collect those scraps from now on. They might be worth millions over millions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CantSpell Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 (edited) When asked what his drawing means, he said the meaning is written on the back of it, and the person who buys it will get to find out. There... That guys understand human nature and how many stupid persons can be found on the www at least... Might work ---------- Tho I am afraid he has a very tough competition already because the answer is already well known and has already been given at least twice... The meaning of life.... is somewhere around 42... or 44 Edited June 10, 2016 by CantSpell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arunsakda Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 Know who is reponsible for this hamfisted daubing? And what it may have sold for? Fingerpaint copy of a Google image. Such as the value of "Art" these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elgordo38 Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 So a bunch of pen colored squares and circles and shapes that he started doodling with as a little kid is now considered valuable art work. Or is he asking money because he actually opened a book and found a quote that led him to ask people what it meant? I realize I am being critical but jeez! Have you been to a museum of modern art lately. I think the qualifications for modern art painting are a rubber suit, gallons of paint different colors and a large canvas. Stand back 6 feet and have at it. After it quits flowing give it a name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChidlomDweller Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 Shall we pool the money together to buy it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikerlou47 Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 I like it ...I'll pay 2000 baht! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kannot Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 I'll have 2 if you give me special price. 177 million Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenchair Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 Before I read, I thought, this looks like the doodle art of a kid. Then I see in the story, It is. Lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulic Posted June 11, 2016 Share Posted June 11, 2016 Know who is reponsible for this hamfisted daubing? And what it may have sold for? Fingerpaint copy of a Google image. Such as the value of "Art" these days. That is a George Bush original is it not? At least it is done in his style. So maybe a copy by one of his apprentices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soalbundy Posted June 11, 2016 Share Posted June 11, 2016 He drew it then had to look for the meaning of it.....yeah right, lots of meaning in that. Incidentally Picasso was a very talented artist and painted superb realistic paintings at the age of 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulic Posted June 11, 2016 Share Posted June 11, 2016 He might get 88 million Zimbabwe dollars, the old ones, not the new ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtco Posted June 11, 2016 Share Posted June 11, 2016 At least they have colour Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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