Britain's Richest Artist.

[Andrej]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,595421,00.html

http://www.bwwsociety.org/gallery/andrewvicari.htm

Thoughts?

[madster]

Fascinating article. Great retrospective of images. Some work, some don't, but his reputation and success make his every stroke worthy of note.

Thank you for sharing this.

~M

[loomer]

wow...he kinda sucks

[Brand_X]

It does the heart good to see a modern artist making money on something other than grotesque installations or bizarre preformence pieces.
Perhaps the Avant guards strangle hold on the art world is beginning to slip.

[NoSeRider]

Per loomer
wow...he kinda sucks

And I agree too.

http://www.bwwsociety.org/gallery/andrewvicari.htm

I'm sorry, but I've seen better...why is he the richest?

I think all you gotta do is act a little crazy, tormented and boastful and you can fool anybody into thinking you're a genius. Intimidating people seems to be the key to success.

Lots of nipples and clevage equals good art, and money.....

I'd rather look at Syd Mead stuff......

[Pixeldragoon]

Well- I think Avant garde should only be highly respected when you can use that skill with... Well, skill. When you do something differently to create crap, I say fuck you. If you can do something remotley interesting, then sure, I'll say you're Avant-Garde. Now why the heck did I just say that?

[Magic Man]

During the Gulf war we had a fabulous time.

...this guy is a fucking idiot.

I don't hate him for making lots of money though, but I find it amusing that there are people out there who are willing to pay rediculous amounts for relatively low technical skill.

[Magic Man]

btw...anyone else find it hilarious that this guy has his official web presence on geocities?

[Rascar Capac]

This guy and Thomas Kinkaid should be teaching business classes at art schools...

[figure2]

Just goes to show you the power of effective self-promotion.

[Blahm]

"I stay at this club when I'm in London. You know why? Because it's guarded. It's not guarded by guards but by the fact that you have to put a tie on, and any sort of assassin isn't going to do that."

............omg

[Pixeldragoon]

Haha, good qoute. Obviously he's never played Hitman or seen a Mafia flick or anything.












EDIT:.....Hey.... Why is he worried about assasains?

[Snowsfall]

I don't hate him, I hate the people paying him.
spread the wealth :(

[daqu]

i got excited when i clicked the gallery site...for me, dissapointing....
not hatin

[Blue]

Wow.. Popularity goes a really long way in the fine art's scene.

[Magic Man]

Haha, good qoute. Obviously he's never played Hitman or seen a Mafia flick or anything.












EDIT:.....Hey.... Why is he worried about assasains?

Because he thinks he's on par with Ruebens, Leonardo DaVinci, Rembrandt and is the last in line of the great artists and he has no next of kin...

UNLESS!...one of our wonderful giving generous females here would kindly bear his seed? Anyone?

[JoshuaTheJames]

Sweet. Entry Level College Art.

Ahhh... The World Makes sense.

-JtJ

[Imp Head]

Thoughts?

Yeah. I need to start selling my paintings to Saudi princes.

[centripetal]

wait a second........wtf?!....is he serious, someone email him a link to this site so he can see how shitty he really is,

[Magic Man]

http://geocities.com/andrew_vicari/Gallery.htm

[bat]

This is why fluoride in drinking water is a bad idea.

Simon Bisley needs to put on a tie, go to this club and show the guy how to paint while kicking his ass.

[CaptainInsano]

Per loomer


And I agree too.

http://www.bwwsociety.org/gallery/andrewvicari.htm

I'm sorry, but I've seen better...why is he the richest?

I think all you gotta do is act a little crazy, tormented and boastful and you can fool anybody into thinking you're a genius. Intimidating people seems to be the key to success.

Lots of nipples and clevage equals good art, and money.....

I'd rather look at Syd Mead stuff......

I agree with you 100%...

...I mean...

*flies into a rage*
I'm NOT CRAZY! I'm not! Oh, I'm so tormented! I think I'll go cut off my ear! Why? Because I'm the greatest artist who ever lived! buy my art! 1 million dollars!!! Because I am fucking INSANE MAN!

hahahahahahahahaha!

[Steinmetz]

what's all this talk about the avant guarde? there is no such thing anymore.

[AngryScientist]

So so unimpressed.
This guy really needs an email with a link to this site. :nohope:
I mean you'd think that someone his age'd have the technical skill... this gallery is just bloody scary.

[asoir]

I agree with you 100%...

...I mean...

*flies into a rage*
I'm NOT CRAZY! I'm not! Oh, I'm so tormented! I think I'll go cut off my ear! Why? Because I'm the greatest artist who ever lived! buy my art! 1 million dollars!!! Because I am fucking INSANE MAN!

hahahahahahahahaha!

I represent the Saatchi gallery, and you sound like a genius! ;)

Argh, haven't heard of this guy before, but he's clever. In a sense of working his way to millions with no skill. I don't think i'll take that path though.

[Art_Addict]

omg!!! This article gets me mad. Someone REALLY should link this website to him, together with an ebay link to a decent anatomy book....

[Gloominati]

okay now the time has come to shoot myself...........oh dude what an fucking idiot!

[Flake]

Emm, I'm going to go against the flow here and suggest that compared with much of the crap that passes for modern British art , this guy is not actually that bad.

If you don't believe me, google Tracey Emin or Damien Hirst.

[Sinix]

He knows where the big money is. Basically any of the pro artists here could be instant-millionaires if you can promote yourself among some wealthy saudis. They have way more money than they know what to do with.

[VirusArtist]

DUDES!!!

this guy seriously has an attitude problem... but then again.. I'd evolve into a total idiotic asshole and egomaniac too if I'd recieve the same amount of money for such middle quality art... :nohope:

damn.. i think i need to paint some portraits of the leaders of dubai, go down there, boast into whatever building they live in and scream:

:perv: "I DID THESE IN A MENTAL HOSPITAL WITH MY FEET WHILE WEARING A STRAIGHJACKET AND WHISTELING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM OF URUGUAI! GIVE ME TEN MILLION AND I SHALL CHANGE THE HISTORY OF ART IN THE ARABIAN WORLD WHILE JUMPING ON A POGO STICK AND QUOTING WILLIAM BLAKE!!!" :perv:

seriously.. sometimes I just think someone needs to push the red button and leave the world to the cockroaches...

this article just killed my sense of logic...

[l.e.b]

Why is there so much hate for the man?
Hes alright as an artist, i doubt this has got him his money
If you read it all you see he makes his money through a new market which noone has done cos theyre scared.
Anatomy studies im sure he doesnt care about

[asoir]

Emm, I'm going to go against the flow here and suggest that compared with much of the crap that passes for modern British art , this guy is not actually that bad.

If you don't believe me, google Tracey Emin or Damien Hirst.
Tracy Emin = GRRRRRRRRRRRR, I hate that woman.

[MoP]

Hmm, weird. I like some of his pieces, and I don't like some others. On balance, from my viewpoint, I'd say his works are fairly average.

I find it odd that in 40 years of drawing and painting, he doesn't seem to have improved at all.

[Andrej]

No one has really mentioned that perhaps it's not so much the quality [which I personally don't hold in the highest regard, but it isn't the absolute pits, either], rather something else that is responsible for all his money. I think it has more to do with the quantity of work he manages to produce that is what stuffs his accounts full. And given that he does, in fact, have some 'street cred' as far as his schooling goes, tricking the Saudi’s into spending too much on something like this is a reasonable feat [His individual peices go from 25k to a million or so.] I think it's a much more of a right person at the right place at the right time sort of situation. Anyone else wouldn't have the [however falsely attributed] 'star appeal,' the sheer magnitude of product, or that sort of audience with so much excess money to exploit [oil money to be sure, so it's poetic in some way = he's selling the saudi's back their oil and in not too much better of a shape than they last had it.]

Regardless, he still sounds like a prick, and that last tidbit of information given his off time activities made it all worth while. He's by my account and for whatever reasons, a sad man at the end.

[lyon]

Yeah. I need to start selling my paintings to Saudi princes.

I'll be in the seat next to you on the plane ride over. I went to a painting workshop once and the teacher (Frank Covino) said, "if you want to be rich, paint for the rich." :} It doesn't get much richer than Arabian princes.

[Tully]

http://www.bwwsociety.org/images/vicari/lavigonade.jpg Drawing the subject matter and on the level of 16 year old girls. I used to draw things not unlike this when I was 12. And some people call concept art cliche! Some of his stuff isn't bad, but I'd rather be looking at any piece of art produced by a CA artist than this.

[fippypopulosa]

Same cast of characters: griping about the success of someone else.

Well, folks, i looked at this guy's site and I found many of his paintings gorgeous. His colors and the dynamic look of his style was amazing. Again, art is not about the rating of absolute technical skill you have. It's about how you move your viewers, how you tickle their imaginations. I saved back this guy's paintings and I will closely study how he achieved his effects: the color choices, the value comparisions and juxtapositions. This guy is excellent. Funny, every time I drop in this place I see the same smarmy group whining. Same people even.
I don't know how you all have been entertaining yourselves but I have been enjoying every millisecond and millimeter of New York City. What a delightful town. Chelsea is an art overload. There are sections of town where you can't even catch your breath from the number of galleries. Although I live on the West side within a few blocks of Central Park, I am looking into buying an apartment in Chelsea. That Elvis Costello song was wrong: I DO want to live in Chelsea.
My advice to you all? Η τοποθέτηση δεν είναι μια δικαιολογία για την πρωτοτυπία.

Regards,
F.

[Idiot Apathy]

Funny, that you are whining about whiners who were whining over a year ago.

[blanquish]

"I don't know why they say I'm unknown. I'm very gregarious. I know everybody. When I was a student at the Slade [the school of fine art in London], Francis Bacon was my mentor. He would try to seduce me because I was very handsome in those days. Every time I used to see him he couldn't resist a little touch on the knee. I used to laugh him off.

lol!!!

[Craig D]

Fippy
Why the hell would you dredge up a post from over a year ago to talk about yourself. Oh, that's why.

[GriNGo]

The future lies in Arabia princes!... Nice read anyways, and that artist is too full of himself. His stuff looks awful.

[Blahm]

Dear Flippy.

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/kripto666/helmet20ulqx1.jpg

[Flake]

Ignore lists are a good thing.

[asoir]

Dude, we read through the whole post and your advice is in another language.
Way to go cliffhanger on us!

[blacky]

Sad thing is, there are artists way more popular and way more shitty than this one.
Even if you drove to sybiria, you'd find a better artist at any corner up there.

[NoSeRider]

Is it really about art or how you socialize and make contacts?

Merit don't seem to make a difference.

People seem to be picking on Thomas Kinkade and Rob Liefeld, but somebody liked their stuff. Life ain't fair I tell ya.

[Mitchell]

Wow this is old... some one has been holding a grudge.

I also second the "sucks" comment about this painter. But congrats to him for wiping his ass on canvas and selling it for millions.

[Shamagim]

fippi, fippi, fippi......Take your pills.:)

[Noë]

Ah well, a lot of people who don't deserve it that are rich.
But let's just not care :P and do our own stuff.

(by the way.. I see my peers do better than this (http://geocities.com/andrew_vicari/images/picGallery99-22.jpg) every week in our high school drawing class.. :S hihi. But let's not worry :P)