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Andy Warhol’s paintings of death & disaster

Painting / 5 minutes of reading

Andy Warhol created a series of artwork with a distinctive act of discrepancy, which he named Death and Disaster. Death and Disaster show images in one color, a reproduction of the same images, or the same images with no color entirely. Andy Warhol majorly used repetition to communicate his ideas. He successfully employed this …

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Why is Yayoi Kusama obsessed with Pumpkins?

Painting, Installation, Sculpture / 8 minutes of reading

A life without art would be soundless, tasteless, and shapeless; essentially, an abyss. A life without art would be dull because art is beneath the structure of everything and anything that matters, and no one recognizes its fundamental need to society and to audiences more than artist Yayoi Kusama does. The global success of …

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David Hockney’s Pool with Two Figures broke an important record

Painting / 5 minutes of reading

David Hockney & pools David Hockney’s Roosevelt Hotel pool mural David Hockney is one of Britain’s most influential artists of the 20th century. Hockney is well known in other parts of the world as well, thanks to his internationally recognized works. For instance, the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, which has long been the meeting spot for …

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Andy Warhol’s Mao portraits – The story behind

Painting / 8 minutes of reading

It is a well-established fact that Andy Warhol achieved celebrity and was recognized by a vast majority of artists as being one of the pioneers of the pop art movement. Not only was he celebrated for his unique ability to transform day to day objects such as Campbell soup cans into works of art, …

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Who is Roy Lichtenstein’s Crying Girl?

Painting / 3 minutes of reading

Crying Girl is a painting by Roy Lichtenstein that was created first in 1963 as offset lithograph on lightweight, off-white woven paper and a second version in 1964 as porcelain enamel on steel. The 46 square inch painting depicts a girl with tears falling from her eyes. The painting is a representation of the …

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Keith Haring’s subversive Berlin Wall mural – The story behind

Mural, Painting / 2 minutes of reading

51 sec As an outspoken social rights activist, Keith Haring was not one to shy away from controversy. His Berlin Wall Mural is just that – controversial and provocative. In fact, Haring himself told The New York Times that the mural was a “subversive” act that was meant to …

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Why did Andy Warhol paint Marilyn Monroe?

Painting / 3 minutes of reading

During his lifetime, Andy Warhol was always allied with the notion of celebrity. It is often said that Andy Warhol understood the allure of global celebrity and its effects on contemporary society long before gossip blogs were even a thing. Even more pointedly was his fascination with starlets, it-girls, and famous actresses of that …

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Roy Lichtensteins largest & most impressive paintings

Mural, Painting / 11 minutes of reading

As far as famous pop artists go, it truly does not get any better than Roy Lichtenstein. His style of comic art use made him one of the most well known and respected pop artists. His work has helped to inspire thousands of artists to hone their craft. His incredible pieces such as the …

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Yayoi Kusama’s most outstanding sculptures – Pumpkins & Flowers

Sculpture / 7 minutes of reading

About Yayoi Kusama Celebrating her 90th birthday in 2019, Yayoi Kusama is a leading Japanese artist and legend as far as art is concerned. While she deliberately makes unique pieces that can withstand the wear and tear of the outdoors, she is renowned for reproducing her art in monumental scale when need be. Her career …

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At 78 years old, Ed Ruscha has perfected his artistic skills

Painting / 2 minutes of reading

At 78 years old, Ed Ruscha has perfected his artistic skills to the extent that he can express the noises of everyday life on a canvas. When he began his art in 1961, no one would have thought that the works that had words written over them would translate into such epic levels of …

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Keith Haring’s Crack is Wack mural – From illegal to protected

Mural, Painting / 9 minutes of reading

Crack is Wack is regarded as the Keith Haring’s most important painting and the most iconic mural in the New York neighborhoods. When former art student Alejandro Bonilla Sr. first saw the Crack is Wack mural, he said: I saw it, and I thought: that must be a Keith Haring! That shows just how …

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Keith Haring painted on all of these cars

Painting / 2 minutes of reading

Keith Haring’s bio Keith Haring’s teenage years Keith Haring was born in Reading Pennsylvania on May 4, 1958 and grew up in nearby Kutztown, Pennsylvania. His passion for art began at a young age and following high school graduation, he enrolled at the Ivy School of Professional Art in Pittsburgh for two semesters. Moving to …

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Yoshitomo Nara’s paintings & drawings: Cute or dark and frightening?

Ceramics, Painting / 5 minutes of reading

Yoshitomo Nara’s biography Yoshitomo Nara was born in Hirosaki, Japan, in 1959 and is a Japanese artist whose work has been exhibited around the world. He lives and works in Tokyo, and Japanese popular culture plays an influential role in his world. Nara studied at the Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, where …

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Richard Jackson’s Bad Dog pees on prestigious Californian art collection

Sculpture / 1 minute of reading

1 min 54 sec Bad Dog As part of his retrospective at the Orange County Museum of Art, Richard Jackson has installed Bad Dog, a giant temporary sculpture of a black labrador “urinating” yellow paint onto the side of the museum. It was an immediate hit. Crowds flocked to see …

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Christian Marclay: 7 stained glass windows you won’t see in any cathedral

Installation / 2 minutes of reading

Christian Marclay’s installation at Palais de Tokyo As part of the reopening of Palais De Tokyo, Christian Marclay has designed a series of glass windows overlooking the Avenue du Président-Wilson. The Swiss and American artist, whose work explores the connections between sound and visual art, uses onomatopoeias taken from comic books as graphic expressions of …

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Yoshitomo Nara’s shining dog sculptures

Sculpture / 6 minutes of reading

Yoshitomo Nara is a well-known and influential Japanese contemporary artist who lives and works in Nasushiobara. He grew up in the post-Pacific War Japan. For some reason, throughout his work, he usually channels memory of his lonely childhood into his sculptures and paintings, evoking the viewers to revisit their own childhood memories. His projects …

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This is why Keith Haring got arrested numerous times

Graffiti, Painting / 5 minutes of reading

3 min 21 sec Keith Haring’s subway art In the early 1980s Keith Haring created hundreds of drawings in the New York subway system. He used chalk to paint on unused advertising space, which was covered with black sheets of paper. Haring was caught and fined numerous times. Graffiti & …

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Yayoi Kusama covers whole museum with her dots

Installation / 2 minutes of reading

Dots for love and peace Dots for Love and Peace (2009) was one of only three temporary public art projects worldwide designed by iconic Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. It was installed on the exterior architecture of City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand. Dots for Love and Peace is an intense and unexpected public artwork and reflects …

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Yayoi Kusama’s Yellow Trees covers entire buildings in New York

Installation / 1 minute of reading

Yellow Trees wrapped around building In celebration of Yayoi Kusama’s past retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art earlier in 2012, two off-site projects took place. In one of them, Kusama’s rhythmic dotted “Yellow Tree motif transformed a construction site in the Meatpacking District in Manhattan into a giant canvas. A detail of the …

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