Muhammad Ali Artwork For Sale

[longknife]

People will pay money for this trash? One could see better in any kindergarten class in this country.



Story @ History, Travel, Arts, Science, People, Places | Smithsonian

 

[irosie91]

People will pay money for this trash? One could see better in any kindergarten class in this country.



Story @ History, Travel, Arts, Science, People, Places | Smithsonian

people will pay

 

[Katzndogz]

Critics point out his natural talent.

It's awful no matter how you cut this garbage.

 

[waltky]

Muhammad Ali honoured at service...

Muhammad Ali memorial begins with Muslim prayer service
Thu, 09 Jun 2016 - Fans of Muhammad Ali and worshippers attend a Muslim prayer service to honour the legendary boxer in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky.

The two-day funeral was planned by Ali in the years before his death, according to a family spokesman. Ali wanted the Muslim prayer service, known as a Jenazah, to be "a teaching moment", according to Imam Zaid Shakir, who is leading the service. Muhammad Ali, "The Greatest", died on Friday aged 74. More than 14,000 people have tickets to the event at the site of Ali's last fight in Louisville in 1961. American Muslims attending the service and watching on TV say they hope that the public prayers will help Americans to become more familiar with Islam and its practices.

Muhammad Ali personally planned his own funeral in the years before his death​

In 1964, Ali famously converted to Islam, changing his name from Cassius Clay, which he called his "slave name". He first joined the Nation of Islam, a controversial black separatist movement, before later converting to mainstream Islam. He travelled the world as a boxer and speaker, and inspired Muslims around the world. Abdul Rafay Basheer, 25, travelled from Chicago for the service and said he saw Ali as an ambassador for Muslims. He said the prayer service would help to demystify his religion. That was a theme taken up by Dawud Walid from the Council on American-Islamic Relations. "In a political climate in which Islamophobia is front and centre, his funeral will counterpunch the ridiculous notion that being a good Muslim and a good American are at odds," he said. Ali "was willing to sacrifice the fame, the lights, the money, the glamour, all of that, for his beliefs and his principles," Imam Shakir said in his address to the packed auditorium after reciting prayers over Ali's coffin.

The funeral will continue on Friday with an interfaith memorial service and procession through Louisville passing key locations such as Ali's childhood home, and a museum dedicated to him. Tickets to attend the Friday service ran out only one hour after they became available. World leaders and celebrities will attend, including former US President Bill Clinton and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. President Barack Obama will not be able to attend due to his eldest daughter's graduation on the same day. Speaking after Jenazah prayers, Dr Sherman Jackson, an Islamic scholar, used a boxing term to describe how "Ali put the question of whether a person can be a Muslim and an American to rest. Indeed, he KO'ed that question."

Muhammad Ali memorial begins with Muslim prayer service - BBC News

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Thousands gather for Muslim funeral honoring Muhammad Ali
Thu Jun 9, 2016 | LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A Muslim funeral for Muhammad Ali on Thursday drew thousands of admirers to the boxer's hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, where mourners prayed over the body of a man who battled in the ring and sought peace outside it.

An estimated 14,000 people, representing many races and creeds, attended the jenazah, or "funeral" in Arabic, where he was repeatedly feted as "the people's champion." Ali, a three-time heavyweight champion known for his showmanship, political activism and devotion to humanitarian causes, died on Friday of septic shock in an Arizona hospital. He was 74. "The passing of Muhammad Ali has made us all feel a little more alone in the world," said Sherman Jackson, a Muslim scholar at the University of Southern California. "Something solid, something big, beautiful and life-affirming has left this world," he said of a man who was forced to give up more than three years of boxing at the height of his career for his refusal to serve in the U.S. military during the Vietnam War.

Worshipers and well-wishers take photographs as the casket with the body of the late boxing champion Muhammad Ali is brought for his jenazah, an Islamic funeral prayer, in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. June 9, 2016.
Reuters/Carlos Barria
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Jackson praised Ali for advancing the cause of black Americans during and after the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Others admired him for making Islam more acceptable and giving U.S. Muslims a hero they could share with the American mainstream.Imam Zaid Shakir, a founder of Muslim liberal arts school Zaytuna College in Berkeley, California, led worshippers in prayers such as "Allahu akbar" ("God is greatest") over Ali's body, which lay in a casket covered with a black and gold cloth. Ali and his family planned his funeral for 10 years, making sure it would honor his Muslim faith while also adapting to the demands of Western media-driven culture.

U.S. President Barack Obama also praised Ali on Thursday in a Facebook live broadcast from the White House, showing off a copy of the book, "GOAT: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali," and a signed pair of boxing gloves gifted to him by Ali. "It's very rare where a figure captures the imagination of the entire world," Obama said. "He was one of a kind and in my book he'll always be the greatest." Ali was due to be buried on Friday, after a funeral procession and before one final goodbye when thousands more will gather for an interfaith service. Luminaries including former U.S. President Bill Clinton, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and comedian Billy Crystal will attend Friday's event, at the KFC Yum Center.

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[JoeMoma]

I bid 5 bucks each.

 

[Katzndogz]

5 cents is too much.

 

[Gracie]

I don't know why people like Picasso art and actually covet it.

 

[Vigilante]

George Zimmerman's is much better and.....

Bids for George Zimmerman artwork top $100,000 - CNN.com
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CNN
Dec 18, 2013 - George Zimmerman can now add "painter" to his resume after the former neighborhood watchman purportedly listed an original painting on ...

 

[Katzndogz]

Picasso is quite good. There is an artist whose entire career is composed of canvases where half is painted in one color and the other half painted in another color. I never did see any sense in those. Ali's are just childish scribblings.

 

[Snouter]

In Salvador Dali's brilliant book 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship, he points out Picasso ranks with da Vinci, Velasquez, Rafael, and de Delft in terms of genius, not so much in other aspects of the arts, but still. He ranks Mondrian, who specialized in variations of tick tack toe images with the boxes filled with a solid color often found in New York Museums, as having zero genius. Not sure if Mondrian used the Golden Ratio for his images, but I assume he did not since Dali demanded that knowledge of any intelligent artist.

 

[JoeMoma]

Autographs of famous (iconic ) people can be worth a lot of money, especially if the autograph is rare. MA's autograph is not rare because he gave out thousands. If his art work is rare, it will be worth a lot of money. If these are the only two, they may be worth millions.

 

[Katzndogz]

It's still very very bad art.

 

[longknife]

Muhammad Ali honoured at service...

Muhammad Ali memorial begins with Muslim prayer service
Thu, 09 Jun 2016 - Fans of Muhammad Ali and worshippers attend a Muslim prayer service to honour the legendary boxer in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky.

The two-day funeral was planned by Ali in the years before his death, according to a family spokesman. Ali wanted the Muslim prayer service, known as a Jenazah, to be "a teaching moment", according to Imam Zaid Shakir, who is leading the service. Muhammad Ali, "The Greatest", died on Friday aged 74. More than 14,000 people have tickets to the event at the site of Ali's last fight in Louisville in 1961. American Muslims attending the service and watching on TV say they hope that the public prayers will help Americans to become more familiar with Islam and its practices.

Muhammad Ali personally planned his own funeral in the years before his death​

In 1964, Ali famously converted to Islam, changing his name from Cassius Clay, which he called his "slave name". He first joined the Nation of Islam, a controversial black separatist movement, before later converting to mainstream Islam. He travelled the world as a boxer and speaker, and inspired Muslims around the world. Abdul Rafay Basheer, 25, travelled from Chicago for the service and said he saw Ali as an ambassador for Muslims. He said the prayer service would help to demystify his religion. That was a theme taken up by Dawud Walid from the Council on American-Islamic Relations. "In a political climate in which Islamophobia is front and centre, his funeral will counterpunch the ridiculous notion that being a good Muslim and a good American are at odds," he said. Ali "was willing to sacrifice the fame, the lights, the money, the glamour, all of that, for his beliefs and his principles," Imam Shakir said in his address to the packed auditorium after reciting prayers over Ali's coffin.

The funeral will continue on Friday with an interfaith memorial service and procession through Louisville passing key locations such as Ali's childhood home, and a museum dedicated to him. Tickets to attend the Friday service ran out only one hour after they became available. World leaders and celebrities will attend, including former US President Bill Clinton and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. President Barack Obama will not be able to attend due to his eldest daughter's graduation on the same day. Speaking after Jenazah prayers, Dr Sherman Jackson, an Islamic scholar, used a boxing term to describe how "Ali put the question of whether a person can be a Muslim and an American to rest. Indeed, he KO'ed that question."

Muhammad Ali memorial begins with Muslim prayer service - BBC News

See also:

Thousands gather for Muslim funeral honoring Muhammad Ali
Thu Jun 9, 2016 | LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A Muslim funeral for Muhammad Ali on Thursday drew thousands of admirers to the boxer's hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, where mourners prayed over the body of a man who battled in the ring and sought peace outside it.

An estimated 14,000 people, representing many races and creeds, attended the jenazah, or "funeral" in Arabic, where he was repeatedly feted as "the people's champion." Ali, a three-time heavyweight champion known for his showmanship, political activism and devotion to humanitarian causes, died on Friday of septic shock in an Arizona hospital. He was 74. "The passing of Muhammad Ali has made us all feel a little more alone in the world," said Sherman Jackson, a Muslim scholar at the University of Southern California. "Something solid, something big, beautiful and life-affirming has left this world," he said of a man who was forced to give up more than three years of boxing at the height of his career for his refusal to serve in the U.S. military during the Vietnam War.

Worshipers and well-wishers take photographs as the casket with the body of the late boxing champion Muhammad Ali is brought for his jenazah, an Islamic funeral prayer, in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. June 9, 2016.
Reuters/Carlos Barria
​

Jackson praised Ali for advancing the cause of black Americans during and after the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Others admired him for making Islam more acceptable and giving U.S. Muslims a hero they could share with the American mainstream.Imam Zaid Shakir, a founder of Muslim liberal arts school Zaytuna College in Berkeley, California, led worshippers in prayers such as "Allahu akbar" ("God is greatest") over Ali's body, which lay in a casket covered with a black and gold cloth. Ali and his family planned his funeral for 10 years, making sure it would honor his Muslim faith while also adapting to the demands of Western media-driven culture.

U.S. President Barack Obama also praised Ali on Thursday in a Facebook live broadcast from the White House, showing off a copy of the book, "GOAT: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali," and a signed pair of boxing gloves gifted to him by Ali. "It's very rare where a figure captures the imagination of the entire world," Obama said. "He was one of a kind and in my book he'll always be the greatest." Ali was due to be buried on Friday, after a funeral procession and before one final goodbye when thousands more will gather for an interfaith service. Luminaries including former U.S. President Bill Clinton, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and comedian Billy Crystal will attend Friday's event, at the KFC Yum Center.

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And the president of Turkey got dissed and left in a huff. Another win for world relations.