The world is always in a constant change, like our lifes. It´s something natural, biological. In this cicle, time is what makes possible to us see things changing and understand why change happens.
Time isn´t equal to all people, animals and all kind of beings. Each person feels on their own way time passing. Sometimes we don´t see time passing and passing.

But there is a useful tool, History. With History is possible to have this consciousness of time and its passage through the records of temporal forms of life, natural processes, the discoveries in all fields. With all these changes, habits, tastes, shapes and ideologies change too.

With all this conversation I will not talk about clocks, I will show you the change in time of a logo. This logo is from a brand that today don´t exist anymore because another company bought this brand. The logo is one of the bests in all history, the Shell´s logo. Who don´t remember Shell´s logo? Everyone I think.
It´s a shame don´t see this image anymore in my days instead seeing Repsol´s logo.

Going back to the inicial subject, I bring this logo because he suffered various alterations across his history, that make possible to us see the change of taste, form and colour in logo´s design and his ideologies.

shell´s logos

1. JACKSON POLLOCK – $140 million
Number 5, 1948, 1948
Seller: David Geffen. Buyer: David Martínez

number 5

The most expensive painting ever made is from the american artist. It is curious because the USA are the most rich nation at this time. And the art made by Pollock is also contemporary art.

2. WILLEM DE KOONING – $137.5 million
Woman III, 1952-53
Seller: David Geffen. Buyer: Steven Cohen

woman III

This is one of the most famous paintings made by the abstract expressionist from Dutchland. An almost beautiful picture!! Art don´t need to be beautiful to being good art.

3. GUSTAV KLIMT – $135 million
Adele Bloch-Bauer I, 1907
Buyer: Ronald Lauder

adele bloch bauer I

It could be more expensive than others paintings because the painting is composed by paint and gold.

4. PABLO PICASSO – $104.1 million
Garçon a la pipe, 1904
Buyer: Ronald Lauder

Garçon a la pipe

“Garçon a la pipe” is one of the most beautiful paintings made by Picasso, and is from his rose period.

5. DAMIEN HIRST – $100 million
For the Love of God
Buyer: Anonymous investors

for the love of god

Damien Hirst is the most expensive living artist, and probably one of the most controversial. The skull it´s probably the piece on this list that used more money to be done.

6. PABLO PICASSO – $95.2 million
Dora Maar Au Chat, 1941
Buyer: Anonymous

dora maar

Another painting made by Picasso, not so beautiful has the other one, but a very nice artwork too.

7. GUSTAV KLIMT – $87.9 million
Adele Bloch-Bauer II, 1912
Buyer: unknown

adele-bloch-bauer2

The second painting made by Klimt in the list, and the second painting with Adele Bloch-Baur, the only model painted by Klimt twice.

8. FRANCIS BACON – $86.3 million
Tryptich, 1976
Buyer: European private

tryptich

Francis Bacon is an artist that I appreciate, and is a pity he don´t be alive anymore.

9. VINCENT VAN GOGH – $82.5 million
Portrait of Doctor Gachet, 1890
Buyer: Ryoei Saito

portrait of Dr.Gauchet

There are always a place for a crazy one. but a nice artist too.

10. JASPER JOHN – $80 million
False Start, 1959
Buyer: Unknown

false start

Jasper Jonhs, once more an american artist on the list, and from a very good moment in art, pop art. I just don´t know why Jasper Jonhs is most expensive than Warhol

Have you already seen the skull made by damien hirst? If you didn´t saw, you should see.

Why you should see? There are many and various reasons to see his work. Because it´s the most expensive work of art ever sold in all art history. Because it can be an extraordinary art work. Because some people say that Damien is one of the biggest artist in our time, and other people say that his works are not art.

Why some people say that his work is not art? The reason for these accusations being made are the materials used by Damien in his works. He uses some animals and things like that in his works.But if we think about his work, we will see that his subject is about death and vanity.

And the skull that I was talking at the begining it´s all encrusted with diamonds, and in this work he put us thinking about vanity, and how people even when they die, they continue with their vanity.It´s as if we had pride in being alive,it´s like a way to celebrate life.

If what he does is art or not? I don´t want to say no or yes. But the true is that his work puts us to think about death and in vanity, and the most important, in the art market.

Gerard Richter is one of the most expensive artists of our time and he deserve it. Why? He is one of the most important artist for the art of our days.
His works reflected about all subjects in painting in a spectacular way, like Picasso did in his time. His work is immense and has a wide range of variety and imagination.

So, I want to share with you a funny case about richter´s work, about the work that he made to the Cologne cathedral. He was invited to make a stained glass window to substitute the old one that was destroyed in World War II.

He used the same idea of his series of works “colour charts” for the stained glass window, that appear to be abstract paintings but, in reality, they are figurative paintings. The catholic religion don´t accept the abstract images, their ideology defend the figurative images. The muslims believe in the opposite, they don´t have faith in figurative images. They refuse the materialization of their saints.

Under these assumptions, Cardinal Joachim Meisner has been critical of richter´s stained glass window, and reportedly would have preferred a more traditionally figurative subject, he also said that Richter´s work seemed more fit for a mosque.

With these pronounced words, Joachim Meisner shows his few knowledge about art, about art subjects, and the most important, about the art made by the artist hired by the Catholic church to do the stained glass.

Can we talk about abstract painting in our days?

stained glass II