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Added Dimensions: Fine Art Prints and more at VFA
December 13, 2021 It’s been wonderful to get back to seeing artworks up close and in person again. The ability to view fine... Read more -
Vertu Fine Art at Miami Art Fair 2021
November 22, 2021 We are pleased to announce that Vertu Fine Art will be exhibiting at the 31st Edition of Art Miami at... Read more -
The works of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Derrick Adams at VFA
November 9, 2021 Jean-Michel Basquiat 1960-1988 In 1983, a painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat , titled Equals Pi, was featured in GQ magazine. Basquiat... Read more
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ELLSWORTH KELLY’S FINE ART PRINTS AT VFA
November 3, 2021 Ellsworth Kelly 1923-2015 I'm interested in the space between the viewer and the surface of the painting - the forms... Read more -
Works by Ugo Rondinone, KAWS and Keith Haring at VFA
October 11, 2021 Ugo Rondinone - 1964 New York-based Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone is best known for his enormous sculptures and his brightly... Read more -
Hockney at Basel, Wood Connecting Dots
October 4, 2021 One of the highlights of this year’s Art Basel in Basel was the Unlimited exhibit, that displayed works that are too large to be shown in an average size gallery. The works are, instead, shown in the massive Hall 1. David Hockney’s Pictures at an Exhibition, 50 feet long by nearly 16 feet high, was one of the works featured in Hall 1. In a recent article in The Art Newspaper, titled Abstraction in art has run its course, Hockney looks at the importance of understanding the history of art and how it is created. His 2006 book, Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters explored the way in which Caravaggio, Vermeer, da Vinci, and other hyperrealists actually used optics and lenses to create their masterpieces. Read more
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Yoshitomo Nara: Peace of Mind
August 17, 2021 Nara was born in 1959 in Aomori Prefecture in northern Japan. He was a lonely latchkey kid, who read comics and listened to the music broadcast from a nearby American military base. The music, and the album covers, had a profound effect on his work. “As for records,” he said, “I bought a lot of imported records because they were inexpensive even for someone my age. But, you know, I couldn’t read the jacket cover of the thing I’d just purchased! Yet I pulled the record out of the cover and started listening with the cover in my hand. It got my imagination moving a lot and gradually I started picking up words. Little by little, I constructed the world of the record using imagination. I think I trained my imagination through the picture books and records, without knowing I was doing so.” Read more -
The Surprising Inspirations of Julian Opie and Andy Warhol
July 27, 2021 The influence of Michael Craig-Martin, one of Julian Opie's instructors at London's Goldsmiths School of Art, is apparent. Read more -
Andy Warhol Exhibits in China and Russia; Jean-Michel Basquiat Exhibit in Chelsea
July 6, 2021 In the early 1980s, Jean-Michel Basquiat was at the height of his career. Andy Warhol was experiencing a renewed burst... Read more
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Keith Haring’s Pop Shop Fine Art Prints at VFA
May 25, 2021 In 1986, Keith Haring opened the Pop Shop in New York to make his art more accessible to the public. The small space, at 292 Lafayette Street in Soho, was a small boutique that sold t-shirts, pins and other novelty items adorned with Haring’s images. The entire shop, walls, floor and ceiling, were painted with Haring motifs. Read more -
David Hockney, Andy Warhol, Julian Opie and Derrick Adams at VFA
May 10, 2021 As part of a £7 million Let’s Do London campaign, the mayor of London commissioned David Hockney to create a sign for the Picadilly Circus tube station. Hockney reimagined the original red, white and blue sign with a whimsical, typical Hockney-eske iPad purple and yellow design. Social Media users went wild, making fun of the iPad drawing…and saying that they could do better. Read more -
The Optimism of David Hockney
April 27, 2021 I’m pretty deaf. I don’t really like listening that much any more. I prefer just working, so it’s fine for... Read more
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Basquiat & Haring: Art + Music
March 9, 2021 The Art and Music of Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) “Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time.”... Read more -
KAWS and David Hockney: Featured Works at VFA
February 17, 2021 The Brooklyn Museum is hosting the first major New York survey of the twenty-five year career of Brian Donnelly, the artists known as KAWS. KAWS is one of the world’s most beloved artists (with 3.2 million Instagram followers) whose works resonate with people around the globe.His Kimpsons Album painting sold to an anonymous bidder for $14.8m at a Sotheby’s auction in 2019. Paintings from the Kimpsons Series are available at VFA. Read more -
The Clean Lines and Bold Colors of Jonas Wood and Alex Katz
January 27, 2021 Jonas Wood 1977 – Present The clean lines and bold colors in the paintings and prints of Jonas Wood have... Read more
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Kenny Scharf Designs Fabrics for Dior and Dinner Plates for the Homeless Coalition
December 8, 2020 Kenny Scharf Dior is using Kenny Scharf's works from the '80s, as well as recent works, to create psychedelic, sci-fi... Read more -
The Works of Alex Katz, Jonas Woods and Robert Motherwell at VFA
September 22, 2020 The New York Guggenheim is set to reopen in a few weeks, with many of the same requirements that MoMA,... Read more -
The Works of Takashi Murakami, Sam Francis and Yoshitomo Nara at VFA
August 28, 2020 Takashi Murakami Takashi Murakami knows how to have a good time and he knows how to share the cheer. He’s... Read more
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Katherine Bernhardt's Slime, Alex Katz in Shanghai
July 21, 2020 Katherine Bernhardt spent part of the quarantine stranded (happily) in Guatemala. She is back at the home and studio in... Read more -
Julian Opie: Walking in Melbourne
June 5, 2020 The simplicity and clean lines of Julian Opie's work gives them a universal appeal. His paintings and sculptures can be found in major museums and public venues around the world. Read more -
Remembering Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring
February 2, 2020 The works of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring gave credibility to graffiti artists and took their works from the street into fine art galleries and museums. The frenetic energy of the New York art scene in the 1980s was a perfect time for both Basquiat and Haring to work, play and get the attention they desired and deserved. Both Basquiat and Haring died young, each in a tragic way, yet, decades later, their art still has the ability to impact and inspire young artists and art lovers. Read more
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Supernatural Art at VFA
January 22, 2020 The Art Gallery of New South Wales recently commissioned Takashi Murakami to create a work for its permanent collection. Murakami... Read more -
Helen Frankenthaler: An AbEx Heroine
November 7, 2019 Helen Frankenthaler was just 23 years old in 1952 when she painted Mountains and Sea. It wasn’t well received when... Read more -
Takashi Murakami: Happy! in Fort Lauderdale
October 2, 2019 Takashi Murakami is Japan's most well known contemporary artist. Murakami is known as The Warhol of Japan because of his... Read more
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Wayne Thiebaud Likes Chocolate with Water
September 23, 2019 Wayne Thiebaud wakes up early every day, works in his Sacramento studio until noon, takes time out for a game... Read more -
Joan Miro: In Perspective
September 17, 2019 When I was painting the Constellations I had the genuine feeling that I was working in secret. But it was... Read more -
Salvador Dali: Selfies, Symbols and Elephants
August 13, 2019 If someday I may die, though it is unlikely, I hope the people in the cafés will say, 'Dalí has... Read more
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Arman: Production, Consumption, and Destruction
August 5, 2019 While Pop Art was taking hold in 1960s America, artists in France responded with the Nouveau Realisme (New Realism) movement, which questioned the idea of elevating or idealizing subject matter in art works. Arman was born in Nice, France in 1928. His father was an antiques dealer and collector and dabbled in painting, photography, poetry and played the cello. Arman completed Bachelors Degrees in philosophy and mathematics in 1946, and then he began to study art and judo. Arman’s work bridged the gap between American and European mid-century art. Read more -
Equitable Building Crash
June 11, 2019 Last Monday’s calamitous helicopter crash, into the roof of the 54-story Equitable Building on Seventh Avenue in Manhattan, killed the... Read more -
Alex Katz and His Muse: “To Paint What’s in Front of You”
May 24, 2019 Ada was working as a research biologist at Sloan Kettering in the fall of 1957. She had recently returned from studying tumor genetics in Milan on a Fulbright when she walked into the Tanager Gallery for the opening night of an art exhibit. Alex Katz’s art was on the walls. The two met. She still maintains she was shy about visiting galleries. He’s adamant she was already a legend in the New York City art-world. Read more
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Robert Motherwell Prints at VFA
May 14, 2019 What could be more interesting, or in the end, more ecstatic, than in those rare moments when you see another... Read more -
The Influence of Victor Vasarely
May 7, 2019 The Pompidou Centre in Paris recently celebrated the life and work of Victor Vasarely, the Grandfather of Op-Art, with an exhibit than spanned the more than five decades of his work. Born in Hungary in 1906, Vasarely dropped out of medical school, at age 23, to study with avant-garde artist, Sándor Bortnyik. Bortnyik was a proponent of the Bahuas philosophy, which emphasized the relationship between art, society, and technology. Read more -
Roy Lichtenstein: Drawing in the Dark
April 17, 2019 In 1962, New York gallery owner, Leo Castelli, chose to represent Roy Lichtenstein. He had seen the works of Andy Warhol and James Rosenquist, and considered representing one of them, but it was Lichtenstein who made the cut. The gallery show, which ran from February 10 to March 3, was the first exhibit of Lichtenstein’s comic book paintings, a big change from the Abstract Expressionist paintings, filled with emotional content, that gallery goers had gotten used to seeing. The comic book paintings sold out and made Lichtenstein, at age 39, a legend in the art world. Read more
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The Masters Behind the Matrix: Fine Art Prints at VFA
April 16, 2019 At Vertu, we are dedicated to the acquisition of, and education about, fine art prints. Fine art printmaking is both an art and a science. Over the centuries, artists have created masterful artworks on wood, copper and other matrixes to turn into high quality prints. The collaboration between artists and master printers often determines the quality of the work and, at times, the trajectory of an artist’s career. Read more -
David Hockney Goes Viral
March 11, 2019 David Hockney’s latest solo exhibition Something New in Painting (and Photography) [and even Printing] … Continued opened at the L.A.... Read more -
Jim Dine: Prints of Hearts
March 5, 2019 Jim Dine's work, in every medium he uses, is very physical; it has texture, form and a flow of energy that it difficult to achieve, especially with prints. "I like what you get" Dine said. "I like cutting wood. I like drawing with acid on copper. I like drawing with the grease crayon on litho stones, so there is a sensuous physical pleasure from it." It has been printmakers who have helped Dine find techniques that he has used for decades. When Dine wanted to find a way of making etchings that look like charcoal drawings, he asked Austrian printmaker, Kurt Zein, if such a thing was even possible. It took Zein a few months, but he actually came up with a solution. Read more
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Rene Magritte: Missing Piece of Painting Found
February 8, 2019 Rene Magritte died in 1967, at age 68, and left an unfinished painting sitting on his easel. The fascination with... Read more -
Julian Schnabel Does Van Gogh
January 21, 2019 Julian Schnabel’s latest film At Eternity’s Gate chronicles the last two years of the life of Vincent Van Gogh, a time when the artist lived in the south of France, was most prolific and most depressed. Van Gogh is played by Willem Dafoe, who was nominated for Best Actor in a drama at this years’ Golden Globe Awards. The role has also gotten Dafoe an Oscar nomination. He’s had three previous Oscar nominations, but this is his first in the lead actor category. Read more -
Chiho Aoshima Lithographs at VFA
January 15, 2019 I’m not very proficient in thinking of things in 3D and how they look in the real world. By drawing... Read more
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Sol LeWitt: Cube Without a Corner and Cube Without a Cube at VFA
January 8, 2019 If you’re a Sol LeWitt fan, and haven’t had a chance to see the Wall Drawing Retrospective at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCA), there’s still plenty of time. Thanks to the Yale University Art Gallery and other donors, the exhibit will be on display until 2043. Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective, opened to the public on November 16, 2008, a year and a half after LeWitt’s death. Beginning in 2004, LeWitt helped to design and plan the retrospective, which covers about an acre of wall space. On exhibit are 105 drawings by LeWitt, made over a 38 year period. Read more -
Andy Warhol For the Holidays
Celebrating Andy Warhol at VFA December 17, 2018 I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading... Read more -
Roy Lichtenstein’s Continued Legacy
December 12, 2018 Last summer, the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation announced that it was going to shut down and give the remainder of its... Read more
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Tom Wesselmann: In Perspective
November 23, 2018 A recent show of Tom Wesselmann's work, at the Musee National de Monaco , looked at Wesselmann's use of the... Read more -
Robert Motherwell: Bought and Found
November 12, 2018 Robert Motherwell Sets Record at Auction Robert Motherwell’s At Five in the Afternoon set an auction record for the artist... Read more -
The Continuing Evolution of Frank Stella’s Prints
September 19, 2018 Frank Stella changed the art world in so many ways. His Black Painting series launched the minimalism movement in the... Read more
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Jeff Koons and the Kardashians
August 28, 2018 In 2013, Jeff Koons’ Balloon Dog sold for $58.4 million at Christie’s, making it the most expensive work by a living artist sold at auction. Koons work, and the artist himself, are iconic America, so it’s no surprise that he would be on the Kardashian radar. What’s also no surprise is that they could get it so wrong. Read more -
Chuck Close: Battle for Artists’ Royalties is Over
August 7, 2018 The works of Chuck Close have garnered historically high prices at auction. Close and other artists would like a percentage... Read more -
Shepard Fairey: Salad Days, Robert Plant & Beyond
July 2, 2018 Shepard Fairey said that Punk Rock and skateboarding saved his life. That sounds very dramatic, but the influence of music and skateboarding led Fairey to become one of the world’s most recognizable street artists. Read more
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Hidden Keith Haring Mural Uncovered and Preserved in Amsterdam
June 25, 2018 In 1986, Haring painted a large mural on the wall of a building that had served as a warehouse for the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Two years after he painted the mural, which depicts a white, thick-lined sea creature, the wall was covered with aluminum siding for climate control within the building. Read more -
Celestial Elephants in Salvador Dali Land
May 21, 2018 Salvador Dali's life and work continues to enthrall and captivate art lovers and historians. He was larger than life and was not just a painter, but also a printmaker, sculptor, writer, filmmaker, jewelry and fashion designer, photographer and unabashed self promoter. With Dali, it was always best to expect the unexpected, like this Alka Seltzer commercial .... Read more -
Jeff Koons: Hot in Manila, Smashed in Amsterdam
April 9, 2018 Jeff Koons is one of the world's most controversial and coveted artists. His 11-foot tall aluminum Play-Doh sculpture was the... Read more
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Frank Stella: Jasper’s Dilemma and other Stella Works at VFA
April 4, 2018 Frank Stella helped to move American art through the tides of abstract expressionism by creating paintings that were not meant to represent pictorial or graphic image. In a 1964 interview he said, “My painting is based on the fact that only what can be seen there is there. It really is an object. Any painting is an object and anyone who gets involved enough in this finally has to face up to the objectness of whatever it is that he’s doing. He is making a thing … all I want anyone to get out of my paintings, and all I ever get out of them, is the fact that you can see the whole idea without any confusion …What you see is what you see.” Read more -
Alex Katz Prints and Paintings in Boca Raton, Florida
March 6, 2018 Still Time to See Alex Katz: Small Paintings at the Boca Museum Alex Katz didn’t begin to do the large... Read more -
Victor Vasarely and the Chess Board
February 26, 2018 Victor Vasarely studied medicine before he studied art. His initial art education, in Budapest, was very traditional, but his scientific mind led him to experiment with colors and optics. Vasarely moved to Paris in 1930, and worked as a talented and successful graphic designer. He credited the intense light of southern France, and the way it affected his vision, with his development of Op Art. Read more
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Richard Anuszkiewicz: Annual Editions
February 13, 2018 I sometimes refer to my painting as architectural, because I work out my plan, I work out my idea, and... Read more -
Andy Warhol’s Santa Claus: Naughty and Nice
December 4, 2017 The holidays were pretty meager for Warhol when he was a child, sometimes getting just an orange for Christmas. As Byzantine Catholics, the family celebrated Christmas on January 6, after all the hoopla had died down. As an adult, Warhol really got into the spirit of the holiday—which is all things Warhol relished; it's kitsch, commercial and personified by a Pop idol—Santa. Read more -
Jasper Johns: Creating a Legacy
October 5, 2017 CREATING A LEGACY Jasper Johns turned 87 years old this year. He is thinking about his legacy. Besides his fascinating... Read more
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Robert Indiana: In Miami, Selling MECCA
September 7, 2017 The works of Robert Indiana , and many other great mid-twentieth century artists, will be on display at the University... Read more -
Helen Frankenthaler: Tough and Transparent
August 24, 2017 Transparent on Canvas Helen Frankenthaler’s unique innovations with paint and canvas bridged the gap between Abstract Expressionism and Color Field... Read more -
Max Bill: Simple Design, Complex Ideas
August 6, 2017 Max Bill’s clarity of design had a profound influence on the architecture, painting, sculpture, typography, graphic and industrial design of... Read more
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Richard Anuszkiewicz: Op Art, Science and Psychology
July 5, 2017 The works of Richard Anuszkiewicz have exceeded, and in some cases almost doubled, the high end expected asking price at auction. Anuszkiewicz’s works are owned by about one hundred public institutions and many private and corporate collections in the United States and around the world. Read more -
Donald Baechler Woodcuts
June 3, 2017 Donald Baechler often works in layers: layers of fabric, followed by layers of paint, then placing images upon images on the built up surface. His paintings are playful and whimsical, which belies their very complex and thoughtful technique. The images he uses come from the hundreds, probably thousands, of doodles, drawings, signs, photographs and objects that he collects. His admitted obsession about certain objects and images leads him to use them over and over again, in differing compositions and media. Read more -
Damien Hirst: The Bad Boy is Back
May 23, 2017 Damien Hirst’s show at this year’s Venice Biennale has, once again, created a storm of love-it-or-hate-it critiques. There was much... Read more
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Fine Artists and Master Printers
May 17, 2017 There are artists whose vision can only be achieved by creating fine art prints. Techniques like oils, acrylics, watercolors or... Read more -
Damien Hirst: Making a Myth in Venice
April 7, 2017 Damien Hirst has designed a fictional museum, with works of fantasy, based on a myth that he created. What he... Read more -
Banksy: Spring Cleaning Crew Wipes Away $5 Million of Banksy Art
March 28, 2017 Banksy was a guest at the posh Geejam Hotel in Jamaica before the hotel opened its doors in 2006. In typical Banksy fashion, he left his mark in and around the hotel, which is co-owned by his friend, British music executive Jon Baker. Read more
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Frank Stella: Surprising Influences
January 24, 2017 Rogier van der Weyden’s, Crucifixion Diptych, painted c. 1460, is one of Stella’s favorite paintings. It is effective, emotional and unlike any of the Early Netherlandish paintings of the fifteenth century. It’s clarity, precision and color had a profound influence on Stella’s work. After graduating from Princeton at age 22, Stella moved to New York. His frequent visits to the Frick and the Met led him to a better understanding of the great masters. Read more -
The Takashi Murakami Brand
September 2, 2016 Takashi Murakami barely needs any introduction in Pop art and culture. The artist has worked on projects with many celebrities... Read more -
Christo Wrapped Bottles and Cans
August 26, 2016 The well known artist Christo, often worked with his wife, Jean-Claude in the creation of modern art sculptures. Unfortunately, Jean-Claude... Read more
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Robert Cottingham’s Signs
August 22, 2016 Although Robert Cottingham is known as a painter and printmaker, at first glance one might think he was a photographer.... Read more -
Andy Warhol Art for Sale
August 1, 2016 At Vertu, we aim to promote modern art by collecting a broad range of artworks from modern artists creating artworks... Read more -
Andy Warhol Art for Sale
August 1, 2016 At Vertu, we aim to promote modern art by collecting a broad range of artworks from modern artists creating artworks in various styles. We enjoy seeing new prints by artists that take their inspiration from a wide range of cultural, philosophical and even political influences. But, of course, our gallery would not be complete without prints by the most infamous contributors to modern art, like Andy Warhol. Read more
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Alex Katz Prints
July 1, 2016 I don’t want to paint someone else’s world, I want to paint my world” —Alex Katz Alex Katz has enjoyed... Read more -
Andy Warhol Eating a Hamburger
June 17, 2016 The scene is fascinating: Pop artist Andy Warhol sits at a table. In front of him, there’s a paper bag containing a regular meal from Burger King. Warhol takes the burger from its packaging and starts to eat it. For four minutes we watch him eating a burger, like any ordinary person would. Once Warhol finishes, he sits silently for a moment, as if he were deeply reminiscing what has just taken place, and then he finishes the scene by saying these words, “My name is Andy Warhol and I just finished eating a hamburger”. Read more -
Alex Katz Black Dress and White Flowers at Vertu
April 26, 2016 We are pleased to announce our acquisition of works from Alex Katz’s Black Dress series. These large silkscreens, each 80 X 30 inches, reflect Katz’s powerful sense of style and color. Based on paintings that he did on door panels, each print depicts one of his muses, casually posed in a black dress. Katz minimalist approach to subject is deceptively simple. Each of his Black Dress silkscreens is printed in 25 to 35 colors. Read more
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Frankenthaler, Diebenkorn and Kelly: Prints and Woodcuts for Sale at Vertu
April 22, 2016 Among our new acquisitions are works by the great American artists Helen Frankenthaler, Richard Diebenkorn and Ellsworth Kelly. Each of... Read more -
Keith Haring’s Signs and Symbols
April 15, 2016 While studying at the School of Visual Arts in New York, Haring took classes in semiotics, the study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation. As Haring’s work, and Haring himself, matured, along with the influence of the New York art scene, Haring’s work became more intricate and more political. Read more -
Victor Vasarely’s Alphabet Plastique
March 28, 2016 The French Institute in Budapest is exhibiting the works of Victor Vasarely through June. Born in Hungary, Vasarely moved to Paris in 1930 and became a French citizen in 1959. There was a time, just before and after World War ll, when the work of Vasarely and other abstract artists was banned in Hungary. Vasarely studied medicine before turning his scientific mind to his art. Back in the 1950s, way before the digital age, Vasarely used what he called programmations to create his artwork. Read more
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Jasper Johns Prints for Sale
March 23, 2016 He's painted a flag so you don't have to think of it as a flag but only as a painting'... Read more -
Andy Warhol Could Sell Shoes
March 9, 2016 In 1980, Warhol created his Diamond Dust Shoes series. According to Warhol’s Interview magazine editor, Bob Colacello, the idea began... Read more
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