Sol Lewitt, a great American artist whose work covered minimal and conceptual abstract expressionism, died Sunday morning in New York City at 78. “LeWitt is one of the key artists of the 1960s. His work bridges Minimal and Conceptual art, movements that abandoned the emphasis on psychological content and gestural form typifying Abstract Expressionism in… Read more »
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A Picasso for 1$
Whenever I see yard sales I see a lot of old kids toys and clothes, next time I’ll look closer, perhaps there’s a Picasso in the lot for cheap. “Pete Bivens and his fiancé had the painting analyzed last week by art historians. They think the painting could be an original piece. Now they have… Read more »
Dead children playing – Stanley Donwood
While the artist Stanley Donwood might not be a household name, his artwork is immediately recognizable. As the former art-school friend of Thom Yorke, he has been Radiohead’s resident cover artist, having designed all of the band’s record art since 1994’s My Iron Lung EP. Most recently he created the frontispiece of Tom Yorke’s solo… Read more »
A Picasso sells for $95M
The second highest price ever paid for a painting occurred earlier this week, a portrait by Pablo Picasso of his longtime companion Dora Maar sold for $95.2 Million. ”Picasso painted Maar many times during their nine-year affair, which began in 1936 when she was making a name for herself as a surrealist photographer. The pair… Read more »
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