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To celebrate the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci’s death at Amboise in France’s Loire Valley, the Musée de Louvre planned to pay tribute with an exhibition putting together nearly one-third of the artist’s entire body of verified works. However, due to geopolitical tensions between Italy and France, one of the most-awaited shows of the decade may not happen—at least in full—after all. In November, Lucia Borgonzoni, an undersecretary to...
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Charles Bell was a self-taught painter born and raised in Oklahoma whose massive photorealistic canvases depict still-life images of nostaligic, child-friendly items such as vintage action figures and toys, gumball machines, pinball machines and more. Working primarily in oils but actually working from photographs of meticulously arranged objects, Bell sought to magnify and give animated life to mundane objects and to present industrial products made to satisfy children’s markets re-consumable for now-adult...
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A staple artist in Edward Kurstak’s portfolio of art for sale, Andy Warhol is perhaps best-known for his stylized re-workings of popular imagery swiped directly from the American cultural landscape and collective imagination. But Warhol’s artistic practice, as well as his ideas encompassed within it, were not born from a vacuum. He was in fact heavily influenced by artists associated with the Dada movement, particularly Marcel Duchamp, who worked decades before...
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Shepard Fairey’s artwork encompasses graphic design, illustration, pop art and street art, with a heavy emphasis on social activism and societal critique. Fairey is perhaps best known for his “Hope” campaign, a series of posters that portray then-presidential candidate Barack Obama in a portrait setting in an iconic vector-graphic style featuring red, beige and multiple shades of blue, along with the word “HOPE,” “PROGRESS,” “CHANGE.” These posters, inspired by Social...
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Brooklyn-born American painter Robert Cottingham is widely considered a master of photorealism and a major figure in the Americana movement. After a brief stint working as a commercial artist, during which time he dedicated himself to his own painting practice, Cottingham became renowned for his highly detailed depictions of urban American signage. Unpretentious, playful and rooted in a sense of clear-eyed realism, any of these seven chromogenic prints and serigraphs...