Total s**t you wouldn't catch me buying this. I just dont get why people fork out for this?

Another cash grab. Took his workers 15 min to make on photoshop. You cant give the MLK and Pele prints he recently released away lol. Last 3 releases he did (not counting valentines print), they didn't sell out right away. I got 3 emails each release that they were still available. Seems the dude doesn't actually care anymore. Its another quick $375k when it sells out. The much bigger size is to make sure it actually sells out the first time around. Too many images of these iconic celebs.

Yikes. Can someone on here who actually collectors brainwash tell me why?

I think the psychology is the same as so many 'uniformed' individuals. Celebrities are seen as successful no matter what. And his understanding is that by just including something successful than he will be successful. Sad thing is that it works as people eat up the obsession that is celebrities.

I think it's similar to street artists using historical art images in street art. Banksys Vermeer, bleks madonna. However I do find those a lot more successful than an image of a celebrity.

The guy is a clown making fools of celebrities who are so stupid that they almost need to be relieved of their ca$h.
I cant wait for the backla$$h.
Worthless garbage.

Can this just be the boilerplate response to all Mr. Brainwash releases?

Thats sums that place up to a T.

Why is TENN? on his forehead?

I guess Banksy was spot on when he said about morons buying s-hit.

    One could buy a Brandwash from nothing more than a parasite.

Or one for the same money could buy an original painting from an artist in their local area.

I guess it's just people with disposable income and flippers buying this stuff  who have not realise dthat the novelty wore off a long time ago.

If it was an original drawing done of Elvis by one of Brainfarts assistants it wouldn't be so bad but it's some sort of photo shop re jig of a photo of Elvis and he even fucked that up.

   Support Brainwash and buy his crap so he can buy more property in LA.

Or support a real artist in LA and buy this for $10.



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 Yes i've hijacked this thread. Fuck Brainwash and all he stands for. Hollywood shill.

You might well be right about Elvis' popularity in Tennessee but how many people there know about brainwash and this release? 
Brainwash's Elvis release from 8 years ago sells for top of the mark, 2k now. That's a long wait. From what I imagine they are all in art galleries drawers

I don't think it's psychology (he is too simple for that).
He just saw Warhol do it and then Banksy do it, etc (maybe just Banksy, he is too simple and art history iliterate to think of Warhol; he just saw celebrity iconography as a road to success. He just follows a most simple formula.

Depends on the kid and what they are into, and what we give them as parents. Some popular culture transcends time, and if the kid gets it and shows an interest in art then who knows. My son is 12, of course loves Star Wars. I took him to see Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin movies from an early age, dug them. Saw Rauschenberg's Combines at the Met at age 3, was very animated. I think the great pop art would be no different than reading Animal Farm, which is now age appropriate for him. He dug the original Planet of the Apes movies, and what kid worth his salt doesn't dig Godzilla? We were in Copenhagen last August went to Louisiana which has a permanent Kusama room he loved, and he made me take his picture standing next to a Warhol Mao.

One can never guess what a smart and curious kid might be into.

I thought that talk of MBW was informally banned on this site.