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The photograph that is being auctioned off is overpriced and is not one of a kind. The best argument that can be made for the purchase of this photograph is to collect and potentially display it. However, the reality is that this is not a one of a kind item, and can be reproduced with modern printers at a lower cost to the buyer. No person could distinguish between an original and a reproduction of the photograph and therefore the absurd price tag combined with the bland photograph(which looks like a stock photograph for some advertisement) should be sabotaged rather than auctioned.

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The photograph seems very empty and lacks emotion. It wouldn't be very versatile as a decoration because the photo invokes a sense of loneliness and isolation and thus wouldn't fit many aesthetics. The photo seems very basic and nothing really stands out about it. The setting of the picture is also not necessarily appealing due to how messy the room is.

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There is no emotion or color, the painting lacks in the pathos spectrum.

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The photograph shows no meaning and the lack of color makes this depressing. Nothing about this image stands out as there is just a girl staring out the window. The painting is common.

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The photograph does not show anything past "midlife crisis." It feels uninspired and uncreative. This has been done many different times in movies, paintings, shows, etc, with many outdoing this representation of it. Any sense of longing the photographer was going for gets erased by the  outside being bleak and the inside is even bleaker. If anything in this image is taken away it would give the same exact story. The only parts that seem to matter is the woman and the window. Put her in that same situation in a million other settings and rough message stays the same.

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The photograph that is being auctioned off is overpriced and is not one of a kind. The best argument that can be made for the purchase of this photograph is to collect and potentially display it. However, the reality is that this is not a one of a kind item, and can be reproduced with modern printers at a lower cost to the buyer. No person could distinguish between an original and a reproduction of the photograph and therefore the absurd price tag combined with the bland photograph(which looks like a stock photograph for some advertisement) should be sabotaged rather than auctioned.

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A 200,000 dollar "artwork" isn't necessary to see the cliche image of a woman blankly staring into the  outdoors, looking out the window in contemplation. All you need is a TV-- I don't think I've ever seen a movie without this common cliche. For any home that values originality, uniqueness, or an engaging aesthetic, this image would be a pointless, and dull addition. The dull grey walls and the bright white snow only create a disturbing contrast that is not only painful on the eyes, but create a depressing scene unworthy of display.

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The liquid in the cup is suspicious and not something I would hang on my wall. The trees in the background are all dead, just like the soul of the painting. The woman looks so depressed and does not create the vibe I would want on a household painting.

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The solitary figure conveys a sense of loneliness and melancholy. The color palette is extremely dull and washed out.

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This photo has no cohesion. It's too unclear what the woman is looking at: is she staring at the snow? the people? The room itself looks like it's trying to accomplish being candid, and yet it still seems staged. The woman looks very out of place in the room, and whether or not it's on purpose it adds nothing to the photo. She looks like she wandered on set and the photographer didn't care enough to make her leave.

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There's nothing really special about this photo, anyone can make a photo of a person staring out a window. There aren't any special effects or any details that makes the photo better than any other standard photo. It gives a boring color scheme, theres no bright colors or exciting colors that interest you. There doesn't look like there's any emotion, it looks very emotionless and no real thought being put in. It really just doesn't have a meaning to it, it's literally just a person staring outside a window.

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The blue and brown color palette convey a depressing feeling that no viewer would want to experience every time they look at the photo. There are hints of horror or a mid-life crisis in the image and being exposed to such a scene would not make viewers feel happy about buying and looking at such a photo. The scene is also unoriginal and common in many horror films and even in real life. When viewers look at the image, they are not surprised and awed but rather reminded of a similar scene that they  may have seen in the past.  People should opt to buy something more original and exciting rather than a boring scene that you could screenshot from a movie or easily recreate at home.

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the three guys ruin the aesthetic. I would not hang this painting in my house to look at. You can buy a house instead of this.

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The painting "Disturbance" by Gregory Crewdson depicts a women inside the house looking at people outside who are either skiing or snowboarding. This piece of art is very bland as it used dull colors such as brown and gray. The house is unpleasing to at and the photo took no effort to create.

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The painting does not prove to be inspiring or have any meaning at all. The image also does not appear to be original. The contrast of the brown colors sets the mood of a somewhat depressing environment. The woman appears to be old and does not add any sense of tranquility in the picture in the midst of a winter biome. Nothing in this picture stands out much other than the whiteness of the snow which is half the painting.

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There is nothing in the picture that evokes a sense of inspiration. A women stares at a snowy landscape with three men. Unappealing and unoriginal. Such a scene could be photographed at any time during a snowy day. It seems as if the photographer had ran out of ideas and half-heartedly took a picture.

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The meaning less image of a woman standing presumably in a home somewhere cold screams of unoriginality and lack of effort. It is almost as if the photographer had to hand in an assignment last minute and snapped a random quick picture hoping for it to hold a truer meaning. Someone can even go as far to say that this picture is practically worthless, and that it should not boast its outrages price tag. The typical setting of the messy couch and ordinary living room does not grab the viewers attention any more than asking where the remote is.  The photographer struck no deeper connection with me as a viewer of his work.

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New York, Beverly Hills, San Francisco, London, Paris, Le Bourget, Geneva, Basel, Rome, Athens, Central, Hong Kong

© Gregory Crewdson. Courtesy Gagosian.

In suburban settings or on elaborately detailed sets of American homes, interiors, and neighborhoods, Gregory Crewdson stages haunting, cinematic photos of alienation and eerie quietude. "I've always been interested in wanting to construct the world in photographs," he has said. Crewdson's work combines the documentary style of William Eggleston and Walker Evans with a dreamlike quality reminiscent of such filmmakers as Stephen Spielberg and David Lynch. Yet unlike those directors, Crewdson is compelled by how the still image freezes time and sets limitations, "like a story that is forever frozen in between moments, before and after, and always left as a kind of unresolved question," he describes. His quietly disturbing American settings, with their immaculately staged lighting and somber, solitary figures, are often seen as functioning in conversation with the works of Edward Hopper.

In suburban settings or on elaborately detailed sets of American homes, interiors, and neighborhoods, Gregory Crewdson stages haunting, cinematic photos of alienation and eerie quietude. "I've always been interested in wanting to construct the world in photographs," he has said. Crewdson's work combines the documentary style of William Eggleston and Walker Evans with a dreamlike quality reminiscent of such filmmakers as Stephen Spielberg and David Lynch. Yet unlike those directors, Crewdson is compelled by how the still image freezes time and sets limitations, "like a story that is forever frozen in between moments, before and after, and always left as a kind of unresolved question," he describes. His quietly disturbing American settings, with their immaculately staged lighting and somber, solitary figures, are often seen as functioning in conversation with the works of Edward Hopper.

New York, Beverly Hills, San Francisco, London, Paris, Le Bourget, Geneva, Basel, Rome, Athens, Central, Hong Kong

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New York, Beverly Hills, San Francisco, London, Paris, Le Bourget, Geneva, Basel, Rome, Athens, Central, Hong Kong © Gregory Crewdson. Courtesy Gagosian. In suburban settings or on elaborately detailed sets of American homes, interiors, and neighborhoods, Gregory Crewdson stages haunting, cinematic photos of alienation and eerie quietude.

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The photo's boring subject is expertly combined with bland colors and a washed out scene to create the type of photo you keep in your phone for a couple years but delete when you run out of storage. Its unoriginality is matched only by a chronic inability to capture the interest of the viewer.