Art Not For Sale

The article was about a Picasso Cubist painting called “Arlequin” which had been withdrawn from the auction at Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern art sale. The audience the author is targeting is for people who have an interest in art. She uses vocabulary that people who know about art would understand. At the end of the article she writes; with a palette of jade, rose and amber, “Arlequin” is a prime example of Picasso’s Analytic Cubist phase. People who already have a good concept of art understand these colors and the famous type of art Picasso did. When I first read it, I was lost because I don’t have a full background in art. Also, a person really has to be interested in art to read the article she wrote. That’s exactly why this article wasn’t written in the news section. On another note, the author doesn’t go much into describing the art itself. The most descriptive section is where she states; the painting depicts a harlequin resting his chin on one hand. Her main focus of the article is why the piece has been withdrawn from the auction. The author also goes into how the art came to be. A man, who just recently died at age 99, bought the piece in the late 1940’s. The author, Carol Vogel, definitely had to do some research just to find out the price of the art. She let her audience know that it was worth $12,000 in the late 1940’s, and is now estimated at more than $30 million. People who like art will like this article.