Donkeys sell. What does that mean? it can mean two things.

1. That, donkeys are good at selling

2. That, donkeys are easy to sell.

Both in a way are applicable to the Indian Art Market. The donkeys who do not know how to make a donkey have in the past made abstracts and sold them well. Examples are many. Harshavardhan, the son of ex-artist Swaminathan. Then there is Manish pushkale. Then Manoj Kachangal. Then GR Iranna. Ask these artists to make a clear sketch of a man or woman. Possibilites are that they will produce good quality dung.

But they made abstracts and these abstracts sold for good sum. Why people could not understand how they mixed colours so well. Well for all those donkeys who bought the works of these artists, here are some links in Youtube that tells one how to make a nonsense abstract.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Quugl0hOCQI

While good artists were taking time to make paintings, since such works needed good amount of brain time and then good skills, the abstract artist like the one mentioned above, made works in lots. Manish Pushkale and GR Iranna and Iranna’s wife Pooja made sometime more than 30 works in a month. But they had ready buyers.

Now in the time of recession, the donkeys who bought these stuff are suffering the most. But then why did these people, err donkeys bought them at the first place.

Because they say in India that :if you want Lakshmi (the goddess of wealth, then you must not follow Saraswati (the goddess of knowledge)” So Lakshmi followers in India ignore Saraswati easily and land up buying donkeys. The practice continues because these donkeys somehow always made money.

That is what we call “Ssssssmart Ass”.