Whats a decent/fair price on a Kaws 5 year later comp.

Well art and irony are both subjective. To me when I look at Warhol's better work (well reproductions actually) I see irony.

Marilyn Monroe is an icon, Warhol's images of her are iconic as well. The Brillo box, the Campbell's soup can, his death and destruction prints. He had a long career, lots of his work was crap some was great.

Here's a brief quote on Warhol from someone with a far better knowledge of art history than I have:

Think about Andy Warhol and you think about the arch master of irony, coolly satirising the capitalist mass production process, sharing nothing of himself but his own detachment.

Mark Fisher
The Guardian

Anyway certainly don't want to start a fight about irony in pop art but had to stick up for Warhol on the irony issue. Similar things have been written about Lichtenstein's sense of irony by respected art critics.

I didn't notice the Haring influence at all until until Cornbluth brought him up.

To me the repetition and almost complete lifting of others work then adding X eyes or whatever seems extremely derivative of the pop masters. I could be completely wrong though and have np admitting it.

 

Seems like a grand is still a little high for 5yl, even after the china thing. Wait a little while - if the recession deepens, Kaws' stuff will lose some of its luster. Not that I don't like some of Kaws' stuff, far from it, I like a lot of the work, respect him as an artist, he seems a nice person, etc. Just that after watching prices rise for 5 years, there has to be a downturn in the cycle.