Are you kidding me?

[livnxxxl]

I guess that since I am not a real artsy fan per say that I just do not get it when it comes to the amount of money that some "works of art" sell for.

When I first seen this it looked like something that a little kid would have drawn and colored with crayons.

Allow me to introduce you to Edvard Munch's art piece entitled "The Scream".




The Scream sold for a record $120 million at auction on May 2, 2012. The bidding started around $50 million and lasted for over 15 minutes when an unnamed bidder by phone gave the final offer of $119,922,500, including commission. The previous record for the most expensive work of art sold at auction had been held by Picasso's "Nude, green leaves and bust," which went for $106.5 million at Christie's two years ago.

[Bill]

I thought it was stolen two years ago. Weird.

[osker55]

I always liked this picture it says a lot just love it

[toys2cool]

it's actually one of my favorite paintings of all time, i did a project on it for school one time

[Earth 2 Chris]

Looking at it now, The Scream does seem passe and naive. At the time, nothing had ever been done like that. In it's execution, and the mystery of the two figures behind the main figure, and of course why is he/she/it screaming in the first place?

I've always liked it. It's like a classic horror painting.

Chris

[Funkyterrance]

Its a very famous painting, even in popular culture. This perhaps explains the seemingly high bid.

[sauce]

Existential Crisis inside of budding art forms. Important historically but no longer groundbreaking.

[J.B.]

Meh. Someone overpaid.

[babycyclops]

The Scream is a classic, though as others have said it does seem outdated now.
If you had a spare 50 million pounds you could pick up Damian Hirst's diamond skull...
http://kingdiamondinc.wordpress.com/damien-hirst/

[Duncan]

I like The Scream, but the skull - not so much. I guess there were 4 versions of The Scream produced. The Wiki article is a quick read, and covers the thefts. Interesting stuff:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scream

[livnxxxl]

I thought it was stolen two years ago. Weird.

You are correct. It actually was stolen. It was recently found and recovered.

[livnxxxl]

The Scream is a classic, though as others have said it does seem outdated now.
If you had a spare 50 million pounds you could pick up Damian Hirst's diamond skull...
http://kingdiamondinc.wordpress.com/damien-hirst/
http://kingdiamondinc.files.wordpres..._546x80011.jpg

Now this is something that I would be more apt to purchase. Then again though that is just me and to each their own. At least it does not look like it was done by a kid with crayons AND being that it is made with diamonds it will actually have value outside the art market as well.