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As we’ve covered before on our blog, Andy Warhol’s rising star of fame reached its zenith in the 1960s and ‘70s when he turned his artists’ eye—and paintbrush—toward producing multiple-versioned representations of inescapable American icons. Within these years, he’d create paintings of celebrities including Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe, Liza Minelli, and countless others, and his work essentially celebrated the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity and advertisement—suggesting that the...
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Tom Wesselmann once said about his work, “the prime mission of my art, in the beginning, and continuing still, is to make figurative art as exciting as abstract art.” And indeed, the artist did just that with his high-contrast, highly stylized, primary-color nudes and other depictions of the body he set down in paint, sculpture and collage. Tom Wesselmann, Nude, 1968Silkscreen Very Good / Mint Condition$300Buy Now > Wesselmann was...
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Roy Fox Lichtenstein was a leading pop artist of the 1960s whose contemporaries included Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns and others. Known for referencing comic books, including speech bubbles in his works and for his cutting parodies of modern, bourgeois life—especially its more clichéd elements—Lichtenstein’s work stands out due to its highly graphical style and, as with Warhol, characters lifted from American popular culture. You can read more about Lichtenstein’s life...
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Unless you’re an experienced art purchaser or interior designer, finding the best artwork for your home may likely not be an intuitive process. You might be worried about whether or not a particular piece fits your personal style, you may be worried about how canvas and frame sizes will fit your walls or maybe you’ve found that working with color isn’t exactly your forté. You might even find yourself in...
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Linnea Pergola is a contemporary American artist whose work blends vibrant images of scenes from the modern-day hustle-and-bustle of cities with the quaint, nostalgic, home-grown simple realism of American folk artists like Grandma Moses. Pergola was born in Los Angeles in 1953 and has been exhibiting work at galleries including The Ambassador Gallery of New York, Martin Lawrence and others since 1989. Pergola's subject matter is influenced by her time at Cal...