'None are sold out .... That has to be alarming'

... lol ...

I think it's really cool that Brainwash is partnering with Ikea to make posters.

It means that his art is as valuable as a LACK Bookshelf!

congrats to all who not bought this prints !!
$900 for 8x 90 pieces....OMG !!

This print is fully derivative and represents everything that's wrong with the current urban scene. And yet I still bought one, and here's why:

If you want a Marilyn image on your wall and don't have 100k to spare your options are limited to the following: 1) The Castelli mailer/invitation, these are authentic and screenprinted, but very small (7" or 12") and expensive (2k-8k) but with a high investment value; 2. An exhibition poster, these are authentic but the quality is minimal (lithos on poster stock) but relatively inexpensive (250-800) with moderate investment value; 3. Sunday B Moring reproductions, the quality on these is amazing but they are unauthentic and expensive if you want diamond dust (1kish) with little to no investment value; 4. The brainwash edition, look to be extremely high quality with a fairly high price but high investment value.

My point being that whether or not you love or hate Mr Brainwash (I'm usually in the hater camp) there's no denying that his prints are incredibly well produced and tend to appricate in value due to a strong global secondary market. In my option this edition is the best bang for your buck Marilyn multiple that has a good chance of making you some money if your tastes change in the future. Please feel free to disagree.

Dreck.

It was just a joke in regards to the sheer volume of prints he released.

I wouldn't be opposed to an artist partnering like that though.  totally different demographic getting exposure.  I think Hua Tunan did a print for them and it sold really well.  Some people can't afford prints/framing/etc but still want something cool to look at.

Gone in 60 seconds

looks like MBW is trying to buy himself a yacht after this weekend.

Less a disagreement here than some commentary.

That first sentence suggests an awareness on your part. You acknowledge both a real problem and one of its main causes — a cause so pervasive as to undermine the credibility of a genre many here are passionate about and consider important.

The remainder of the post is dissonance reduction. It serves to justify your act of condonation, i.e. paying money for one of the prints.

Such a purchase offers financial support and moral encouragement to the very person responsible for releasing work which is "fully derivative and represents everything that's wrong with the current urban scene." It helps to further legitimise that person and their output. You, as facilitator and knowing colluder, are therefore the actual problem, along with the artist himself.

Here's an analogy. It's deliberately hyperbolised and emotive for effect, but still fair in terms of principle. Your act is comparable to somebody who — fully conscious of the unnecessary, inhumane and barbaric practices of the luxury fur industry — buys a fur coat anyway because it's quite warm and comfy, and will hold its value if re-sold at a later date.

It is an amoral, self-serving position which I consider more corrosive than blind ignorance, and maybe even stupidity.

That said, although I detest much of what you've written, its candour is refreshing. Openness is far less tiresome than hypocrisy. Separately, I'm very conscious we're all capable of opportunism and selfishness. And if sidestepping one's values when they start becoming financially inconvenient is dishonourable, these things can happen to the best humans from time to time.

Perhaps what's therefore most off-putting about your text is its public nature and tone. I sense a certain shamelessness in the rationalisation of your purchase decision — which slowly, by increment, brings harm to the integrity of a broader art scene.

Then you should opt for a wcp Kate as ticks all your boxes

Out of the two prefer MBW, but loathed his Ali 'tribute'. Neither of them do much for me artistically but they're both great blokes to talk to in real life.

New to the board here, but not new to seeing this image recycled. It would have been nice to see something adjusted from the original image other than the color and the addition of diamond dust...no thank you.

I've thought about buying an MBW print for a while, but thought better of it as my tastes have changed and there are other artists I like better.

Grabbed a D*Face Pop Tart a few weeks ago and am sure I'll continue to be much happier with that.

I don't like and I would not buy any Whatson nor Chevrier.
Easy and recurrent artworks
Worth is this Brainwash and his Monroe * , Chaplin, why not Bogart and James Dean, all these cliches vulgar posters of the 70/80 for our rooms of teens full of acne and with full balls..

* Monroe, Moss or Madonbaare the same for me, posters for pompon boys and/or girls...
Stop the cliches !
How you can speak about this eBay man Herron a forum that wants to talk about art and not politic , football or Tour de FrNce ... Lol !