Thai artist is selling this drawing for THB88 million

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Thai artist is selling this drawing for THB88 million
By Coconuts Bangkok


Photo: National News Bureau of Thailand

BANGKOK: -- 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

[edwinchester]

Alai wah?

[samsensam]

non story. it would be a story if it sold it for 88 million. but it wont.

[thesetat2013]

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!

[Puyai]

Be lucky to get 88 baht!

[Bung]

89 baht!

[nikmar]

89 baht and 5 satang. I ll pay 100 baht if its super absorbant.

[shirtless]

This boy has got to be dreaming, he should reduce the price by 20 million for quick sale 555

[daveAustin]

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!

[Eligius]

Self-delusion is extraordinarily rife in Thailand. This is just another example of it!

Edited June 10, 2016 by Eligius

[Ceruhe]

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.

[theguyfromanotherforum]

It doesn't look bad. I would offer 2000 baht.

[Nepsydaz]

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

[mvdf]

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.

[happy chappie]

I'll have 2 if you give me special price.

[Winniedapu]

I'll give him 88THB, it's worth at least that, maybe 100THB.

Oh. 88 MLLION THB !! Nah, my estimate is better,

Winnie

[Rayk]

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

[JeremyBowskill]

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......

[Misterwhisper]

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.

[CantSpell]

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

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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

[arunsakda]

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.

[elgordo38]

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.

[ChidlomDweller]

Shall we pool the money together to buy it?

[bikerlou47]

I like it ...I'll pay 2000 baht!

[kannot]

I'll have 2 if you give me special price.

177 million

[greenchair]

Before I read, I thought, this looks like the doodle art of a kid. Then I see in the story,

It is. Lol

[Ulic]

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.

[soalbundy]

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

[Ulic]

He might get 88 million Zimbabwe dollars, the old ones, not the new ones.

[rtco]

At least they have colour