'The Day an Ojisan's Face Floated in the Sky'.

A large balloon  of a face of 'ojisan', a middle-aged man, floats in the sky above the grounds of a school in Utsunomiya, Japan. Members of an art and a museum launched an art installation 'The Day an Ojisan's Face Floated in the Sky'. They wanted to inspire residents to appreciate modern art in a bold new way & come together to explore a fresh talking point :))
 Interesting isn't ?
I'm just glad it's not a geisha, it'll be such a cliché then.

Most expensive Art in 2014 is ......Barnett Newman's Black Fire 1



Black Fire 1

Someone ask me what do I think of "Black Fire I"? Well it’s not important what I think because it was  Sold for: $84.2 million (YES !!!!) last year. It was one of the highest price paid was also the world auction record for artist Barnett Newman, who died in 1970. His previous record-selling painting was "Onement VI," which sold in 2013 at Sotheby's for $43.8 million.

The use of a black palette in this piece is similar to his other work of that time period. "Newman wanted to handle the raw canvas, relative to the black, in such a way that it would 'become color' and possess its own sense of light," according to a profile of the artist by the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Onement VI

 

Who bought it, you must be very curious – well as always, buyers of such expensive art prefer to remain anonymous. One thing for sure it’s not me J