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New Yorkers are good at finding creative ways to pay the rent. One 20-something couple is painting each thing they want, and selling the painting for the exact price of the item they're hankering for. So a painting of an iPhone will set you back $432.32 and a painted slice of pepperoni will cost you 3 bucks. They even painted their rent...and more optimistically: a million dollar bill (in their work titled Financial Security). The nice thing is that they're also giving others what they want, some of the painting proceeds go to charity (so far one in Africa and one in New Orleans).
Creative panhandling or second job? Maybe a little of both. Also, you may remember the man's name on that big rent check above from last year, when he was selling NYC trash. Check out their wants here, when they set their eye on something they want, they update the site with a new painting.
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wow, daily candy sent this out two months ago...slow news day??
and most of the stuff is taken already
"Big" rent check, hardly :\
for some reason this just pisses me off
so it's more materialism?
this has already been done by Boggs....get an original idea!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._S._G._Boggs
Usually, if I want something expensive I just save up for it or I just do without. I know. Kinda old-fashioned huh?
I wish I was a good enough artist to draw Salma Hayek sucking me.
This is the sort of thing I hear about on NPR that immediately makes me change stations.
$1056?? Where does he live, Toledo??
"This is the sort of thing I hear about on NPR that immediately makes me change stations."
hahah
Money focused artists? Please.
These people have a pretty reasonable rent, how about they get a JOB to pay for it?
What a lame attempt to get attention.
In what world are these "paintings"?
They are just pathetic little squiggle drawings or maybe even clip art.
"Artists" - hardly.
If they actually did a painting of some pizza (think Wayne Thiebaud) I might be impressed, but this is just some sort of emperor’s new clothes thing.
They must be howling with laughter at the attention that you are paying to this.
I think that it's a cute idea. No one is twisting your arm to buy one, and it's nice to see reasonably priced and accessible art. It's also quite different from what Boggs did.
Would you really expect to get a Wayne Thiebaud painting of pizza for $3 though? It seems like half of these cost more for the canvas and paints then what they are selling them for. More about the concept than the money. I give them credit for sticking to the idea.
People need to lighten up and stop taking things so seriously.
Seriously. Those aren't paintings. It could have been interesting. But it's not.