{"id":906,"date":"2010-05-07T02:52:47","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T09:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=906"},"modified":"2010-05-07T02:52:47","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T09:52:47","slug":"this-mans-name-is-not-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=906","title":{"rendered":"This Man&#039;s Name is Not &#039;Art&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All you really need to know about Bob and art is this:<\/p>\n<p>Many years ago our family went on a cultural adventure by visiting the world&#8217;s most famous art museum, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.louvre.fr\/llv\/commun\/home.jsp?bmLocale=en\">Le Louvre<\/a> in Paris, and he and the kids were in and out in approximately nine minutes.<br \/>\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-908\" href=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/2010\/05\/this-mans-name-is-not-art\/artshow\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-908 alignleft\" title=\"Artshow\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Artshow.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a>So when we are invited to an Old and Modern Auction, as we were last week on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.celebritycruises.com\/plancruise\/ships\/ship.do;jsessionid=0000oly7mp_dJDYVQ9lDFUL8K-u:12hdebcnj?shipCode=ML\">Celebrity Millennium<\/a>, I have a tough sell. For example, there was a contest at this auction. You were asked to guess the cost of a Picasso that was on display.<\/p>\n<p>Bob&#8217;s response: &#8220;Never mind that they give you a hint, somewhere between $100 and $100,000, imagine if you buy it and have to explain to your grandchildren that those people aren&#8217;t exactly doing high-fives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The list of artists whose works were on display was impressive, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parkwestgallery.com\/\">Park West<\/a> displays always are: Chagali, Rembrandt, Peter Max, Yaacov Agam and Anatole Krasnyansky, plus Pablo Picasso, of course. This made no impact on Bob, although I must admit he has come a long way since that visit to Le Louvre because he does kind of like Monet.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just not sure if it&#8217;s the artist, or if he just likes the sound of what he needs to pay for his next green fee.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it\u2026I&#8217;m done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All you really need to know about Bob and art is this: Many years ago our family went on a cultural adventure by visiting the world&#8217;s most famous art museum, Le Louvre in Paris, and he and the kids were in and out in approximately nine minutes. So when we are invited to an Old&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=906\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This Man&#039;s Name is Not &#039;Art&#039;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,19,15],"tags":[127,128,78,129,35,130,131,132,133,134,135,136],"class_list":["post-906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","category-ships","category-stories","tag-agam","tag-art-shows","tag-celebrity-millennium","tag-chagali","tag-cruises","tag-krsnyansky","tag-le-louvre","tag-monet","tag-park-west","tag-peter-max","tag-picasso","tag-rembrandt","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}