Sala, an artist from Zürich, Switzerland, is selling 1000 paintings of the first 1000 numbers. The selling price of each painting is calculated like so:
Value = 1000 – number.
Initial discount: 90%.
Current discount: 80%.
The discount will decrease by an absolute 10% for every 100 paintings sold.
Min. price: $40.
So far, Zala has sold 128 paintings. What a fun idea! Link
Reader comment: fbz says:
I really enjoyed the post about the 1000 paintings of the first one
thousand numbers. I noticed a strange thing: a disproportionate number
of prime numbers have been purchased. Perhaps there are prime number
collectors out there like me?Here are the prime numbers less than 1000:
2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29
31 37 41 43 47 53 59 61 67 71
73 79 83 89 97 101 103 107 109 113
127 131 137 139 149 151 157 163 167 173
179 181 191 193 197 199 211 223 227 229
233 239 241 251 257 263 269 271 277 281
283 293 307 311 313 317 331 337 347 349
353 359 367 373 379 383 389 397 401 409
419 421 431 433 439 443 449 457 461 463
467 479 487 491 499 503 509 521 523 541
547 557 563 569 571 577 587 593 599 601
607 613 617 619 631 641 643 647 653 659
661 673 677 683 691 701 709 719 727 733
739 743 751 757 761 769 773 787 797 809
811 821 823 827 829 839 853 857 859 863
877 881 883 887 907 911 919 929 937 941
947 953 967 971 977 983 991 997
Reader comment:
Georgie says:
It's a cool idea.
But not 100% original.
Ed Keinholz is an American artist.
Here's a quote from the Guardian:
"Kienholz made installations before there really was such a thing, and conceptual works before the term became a movement. In the 1960s, he swapped watercolour "Barter" works, whose washy grounds bore only the rubberstamped name of the thing he wanted, for the goods themselves: a set of screwdrivers, a fur coat, a portable saw, a car. He also made watercoloured currency, for cash amounts from $1 to $10,000, which he sold at face value to collectors. These watercolours have something of the lightness of Ed Ruscha."
I got the quote from this blog post.
It's a nice summary of some of his stuff.
(I don't think Sala's and Keinholz's ideas are very similar at all, but I like what Keinholz did, so that's why I posted Georgie's commment — Mark)
