Is Hunter Biden’s art worth $500,000? Here’s what a curator has to say

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Is Hunter Biden’s art worth $500,000? Here’s what a curator has to say
by Charles Hilu
 | July 04, 2021 07:00 AM

When most professional artists begin their careers, they are often lucky not to starve. This general rule, like most rules, does not apply if you are the son of the president of the United States.

Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, recently started painting and has agreed to put some of his art up for sale in a gallery, some of which may fetch as much as $500,000.

“How much of that value is due to the art itself? That's easy: None of it,” wrote Jeffry Cudlin, professor of art curatorial studies and practice at the Maryland Institute College of Art, in an email to the Washington Examiner. “They're fine decorative amateur work. Hey, everybody needs a hobby!”

Though Biden’s artwork might raise an eyebrow or two, none of his paintings were particularly memorable, Cudlin said. They might fetch between $850-$3,000 for a buyer “to hang over someone’s couch.”

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[Cyber Liberty]

Hunter Biteme's paintings resemble the art Motel 6 buys by the thousands to put in their rooms.

[Wingnut]

Hunter Biteme's paintings resemble the art Motel 6 buys by the thousands to put in their rooms.

Leave the lights off for me.

[catfish1957]

I've seen Renoir and Monet art at Christies and Sotheby's for less than $.5M in the past 5 years.  But this talentless hooker sniffer fetches more?

This is the most blantant in your face money laundering operation in my lifetime.  Why authorites are looking the other way just proves how corrupt much of our fed LEO operations are.

[Cyber Liberty]

I've seen Renoir and Monet art at Christies and Sotheby's for less than $.5M in the past 5 years.  But this talentless hooker sniffer fetches more?

This is the most blantant in your face money laundering operation in my lifetime.  Why authorites are looking the other way just proves how corrupt much of our fed LEO operations are.

It's at least as obvious as Jim Wright's "book deal."

[GtHawk]

They might fetch between $850-$3,000 for a buyer “to hang over someone’s couch.”

If I had $850 - $3000 to spend on something to hang on a wall it would probably be black and in a caliber, it sure as hell wouldn't be anything from a coke head.

[Smokin Joe]

Now, now, it isn't the art, it's the frame, and all that goes with it. (Plus the "Big Guy"s" Ten percent).

[roamer_1]

Art has not been art since the rise of Picasso and the impressionists... 'Artists' that couldn't really 'art', so they sold the concept to the rubes... And it has been ever thus. Now a pickle photographed on a white piece of paper can be a priceless work... But it sure as hell ain't art.

[catfish1957]

Now, now, it isn't the art, it's the frame, and all that goes with it. (Plus the "Big Guy"s" Ten percent).

Pooches playing poker has more artistic value than Hunter Biden's crap

[Smokin Joe]

Art has not been art since the rise of Picasso and the impressionists... 'Artists' that couldn't really 'art', so they sold the concept to the rubes... And it has been ever thus. Now a pickle photographed on a white piece of paper can be a priceless work... But it sure as hell ain't art.

When I was young, leafing through the Britannica we had in our library, I saw reference to Duchamp's artwork "Nude Descending a Staircase". with bated breath, I flipped to the image, only to find...

Thus began my lifelong disappointment with "modern art" at an impressionable age...

[catfish1957]

When I was young, leafing through the Britannica we had in our library, I saw reference to Duchamp's artwork "Nude Descending a Staircase". with bated breath, I flipped to the image, only to find...

Thus began my lifelong disappointment with "modern art" at an impressionable age...

One of my favorite Beverley Hillbillies episode is the one where the snooty art dealer/critic finds a Jackson Pollock like masterpiece at the Clampett mansion only to find out it was painted by Ellie May's chimp.  That to me, put a lot of the Modern Art skillfully in perspective.

I collect art, and I will say there is some redeeming value in modern art, especially the best Impressionist like Monet'. But I agree, I beleive it as a genre' are way overblown as a style.  I much more prefer modern Realists, and I have a few pieces that are so meticulously done, they look like photographs. And the best part, most I bought after the '08 crash, and are worth 5-10X what I paid for at auction.

[roamer_1]

Thus began my lifelong disappointment with "modern art" at an impressionable age...

Yeah... No thanks. I'll take Bob Ross with his 2" house brush. That's just magic.

Actually, art is almost nothing to me. It's part of that stuff a woman does to make a home... Entirely out of my ken. I have been in this cabin for maybe 7 years now, and the only pictures on the wall are ones that various women hung up for me and I left alone. Just ain't my gig.

Not that I don't know beauty when I see it. Lilly just made me a wolf clan beaded patch - And it is extraordinary - small beads in exquisite detail, as near to perfect as any hoomin could do. It is definitely going on my dress leathers, and will probably be on the throat guard, front and center.

Likewise, a deuce coupe with the rear fenders widened and fat , putting an almost female shape to that car, much the same as a well made hawg... Or a regal skyjacked Chevy coming around the corner or hoggin through a mudhole... Beautiful.

Or climbing on an outside book edge 500 ft off the ground - The fear and exposure heightening the experience - and the magnificent view, so glorious, and so rare - You cannot know it without climbing that edge.

So I get beauty... I do. Hanging it on the wall is what I don't get. Never did. But women do and that's good on em. I can't hardly tell what it is that they do, and would be hard pressed to point it out... But it's the thing that makes a house a home.

[mountaineer]

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[mountaineer]

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[mountaineer]

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Why are people always dissing Hunter’s artwork?
I think it’s pretty good!
dk

[andy58-in-nh]

One of my favorite Beverley Hillbillies episode is the one where the snooty art dealer/critic finds a Jackson Pollock like masterpiece at the Clampett mansion only to find out it was painted by Ellie May's chimp.  That to me, put a lot of the Modern Art skillfully in perspective.

I collect art, and I will say there is some redeeming value in modern art, especially the best Impressionist like Monet'. But I agree, I believe it as a genre' are way overblown as a style.  I much more prefer modern Realists, and I have a few pieces that are so meticulously done, they look like photographs. And the best part, most I bought after the '08 crash, and are worth 5-10X what I paid for at auction.

Good post. I'm right there with you.

Most modern art is ugly, amorphous and emotionally barren.

As a younger man, I spent a great deal of time admiring and collecting copies of the works of Impressionists of the late 19th century, especially the French masters of the genre - Renoir, Matisse, Degas, Cézanne‎, Monet, and others. 

As I grew older, I became increasingly drawn to and admiring of the American Realists: Edward Hopper, Winslow Homer, George Bellows and Robert Henri. Many of them grew out of the early influence of the Impressionist school, and instead found beauty in more directly replicating the character and qualities of real, often gritty human life.

[catfish1957]

Good post. I'm right there with you.

Most modern art is ugly, amorphous and emotionally barren.

As a younger man, I spent a great deal of time admiring and collecting copies of the works of Impressionists of the late 19th century, especially the French masters of the genre - Renoir, Matisse, Degas, Cézanne‎, Monet, and others. 

As I grew older, I became increasingly drawn to and admiring of the American Realists: Edward Hopper, Winslow Homer, George Bellows and Robert Henri. Many of them grew out of the early influence of the Impressionist school, and instead found beauty in more directly replicating the character and qualities of real, often gritty human life.

Very good points.  The advent of the photograph late the 1800's is said to kill realism, and most of the Impressionist, and subsequent Abstract is garbage.  Art snobs who think this is takes great talent, is clueless.    Your list of artist is spectacular.  To that list, I'd like to add Bierstadt, and a few other of the Hudson River Painters.  I was finally able to win a Bierstadt Landscape  at auction a few years ago.  I became an art lover/collector about 20 years ago when I stood in front of a 10' X 10' Western Landscape Museum Bierstadt masterpiece.

[andy58-in-nh]

Very good points.  The advent of the photograph late the 1800's is said to kill realism, and most of the Impressionist, and subsequent Abstract is garbage.  Art snobs who think this is takes great talent, is clueless.    Your list of artist is spectacular.  To that list, I'd like to add Bierstadt, and a few other of the Hudson River Painters.  I was finally able to win a Bierstadt Landscape  at auction a few years ago.  I became an art lover/collector about 20 years ago when I stood in front of a 10' X 10' Western Landscape Museum Bierstadt masterpiece.

@catfish1957

I certainly did not mean to leave out Bierstadt, one of the older members of the school, having been born in the early years of the 19th century. He excelled at landscapes, but also did real life:

[Smokin Joe]

C'mon, man! Everyone knows Hunter is an artist. His style is con.

[libertybele]

Is that paint on his shoes??  Hey, those shoes may be worth a few grand. 

[Smokin Joe]

Is that paint on his shoes??  Hey, those shoes may be worth a few grand. 

I saw pictures of him blowing paint through a straw...makes me wonder if he ever gets that backward...

[libertybele]

I saw pictures of him blowing paint through a straw...makes me wonder if he ever gets that backward...

 

[Cyber Liberty]

I saw pictures of him blowing paint through a straw...makes me wonder if he ever gets that backward...

As a bonus, the buyer gets a nice DNA sample from all the spittle he blows through the straw, along with the air.  A smarter fellow would probably use heavily regulated compressed air through some 1/8" tubing.

[Elderberry]

He's too cheap to buy an air brush I see.

[Smokin Joe]

He's too cheap to buy an air brush I see.

Maybe all the money is going directly to the big guy...after commissions, of course.