Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Art Most Popular Artworks of the Aughts: Van Gogh, Van Gogh and Klimt
Posted by Benjamin Sutton on Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:51 PM
David Sasson, CEO of Overstockart.com, tells Artinfo that sales trends have changed very little over the years: “Our numbers indicate that as the years turn and our world evolves some things remain consistent... It will be interesting to see when, if ever, this trend begins to fade.” O RLY?
Well, according to that all-powerful cultural barometer of 90s art, Buffy, when the first episode of the fourth season, The Freshman, aired in 1999, the most popular paintings were actually Klimt's "Kiss," Monet's "Water Lillies" and, I believe, Dali's "Persistence of Memory," based on the posters that the episode's gang of freshmen-eating vampires would steal from newly decorated dorm rooms. So, obviously, van Gogh is the real upstart art star of the aughts.
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