Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 29, 2019

Oh, I have confidence Bob will find his way through the conflict. Provided, of course, he’s actually capable of creating a million-dollar painting.

Actually, I’m not sure that it’s a problem. The ultra-rich people who buy it will assume that it’s ridiculing other ultra-rich people.

Well, Banksy did it.

There are quite a few artists he could just copy.

Did anyone watch NCIS: Los Angeles Sunday?

I dunno, Bob. Maybe go with a full-gloss weather resistant enamel and a roller.

You know what the difference is between a million dollars and a billion dollars is?

About a billion dollars!

Come on, how many million-dollar paintings done over the last hundred years don’t secretly function to ridicule the ultra-rich that buy them?

I created a million dollar painting. Now I just have too find someone to buy it. Any suckere out there?

The trick is to be a good enough painter that they don’t even realize they’re being ridiculed.

Roger Waters got rich by recording “Money”, which did just that.

Must be a Democrat.

Bob’s true bliss would be going Zen and create wash-away beach art.

You should do a portrait of Trump and family before and after impeachment.

His biggest problem is that he will have to die first and produce no more works for it to really gain value to collectors. Maybe time for a Plan B?

A million dollar painting is an opinion not a value!

Paint a picture of Bernie. Sell it to Bernie for a million dollars. Bernie writes it off on his taxes.

It’s not what you paint, it’s the nonsense you talk about it that makes it “art”.

Million? How is that ULTRA rich?It would be a down payment on a nice house here in Silicon Valley.

Ultra rich means private jet, yacht, firm of lawyers….

Sell it to an art museum instead of a rich guy.

How about a painting of our beloved leader walking on water? /$ I’m sure 40% will run and buy it….

It’s all show biz.

Channel Warhol. Do a repro of a pumpkin spice latte.

Artist creations are not worth a million dollars until they pass on in life.

Just because you become ultra rich doesn’t automatically make you a greedy asshole. You can choose not to be.

So how’s that working out for you, Wiley?

No problem. A million dollars is definitely not ultra-rich.

“If you can afford this painting, you’re part of the problem.”

Bob… He is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO bummed.

An artist can just paint it; the buyers are who make it a $1M painting (which has nothing to do with the quality of it).

Have you ever wondered where the next President of the United States is going to hang the presidential portrait of Trump?

Does this apply to cartoonists also?

Looks like Bob Ross got a hair cut.

He’s got a billion good ideas for one dollar paintings though.

Start with revealing thinly gauzed and naked young women. That’s always a best seller.

That is so typical, hate Millionaires and then want to be one. Really when you get right down to it is nothing but pure jealousy when you envy the rich.

Just do a Jackson Pollock knock-off. Since arts and the humanities have been de-emphasized (basically eliminated) from education, most people (including the very rich) have no idea what art is. As the late George Carlin once observed, “if you nail together to things that have never been nailed together before, some schmuck will buy it from you.”

Go ahead and ridicule. Then stop when you get there.

No problem there. People get rich and famous making fun of the rich and famous. It is sort of part of the fun.

“Don’t criticize society. Only people who can’t get into it do that.”

What’s the point? Ultra-rich people get ridiculed all the time – doesn’t stop them from being ultra-rich, though.

A Million Dollars wouldn’t get him anywhere Near the Ultra Rich.

These days, it might not even get him close the the “Moderately Wealthy”.

Ridicule now, while you’re poor. Get a new goal when/if you become rich.

My favorite painting was the one by Banksey that he told them not to put up for auction. It shredded itself the minute it sold. Well, he told them.

Conflict of interest? Rich art-buyers are usually self-haters aren’t they?

Alternative plan: become a cartoonist! Get paid to make fun of all kinds of people!

And, therein, lies the rub.Actually, touring a few Scottish castles this spring, there was definitely a painting in Glamis Castle where the artist was definitely emasculating his subject, but he assured his subject that it was a style that was all the rage. And yes, the wealthy lord bought it.

hypocrisy