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For anybody who declares soup cans to be works of art or suggests closing a whole department store and keeping it as a museum, considering a car as a rolling work of art is more typical than
unusual.
Whereas the other artists first of all painted their pattern on a scaled-down model and then had this transferred to the car by assistants, the Pop Art legend Andy Warhol painted the
470 hp BMW M1 himself from start to finish.
On the subject of his sweeping brush and finger strokes, he said: "I tried to portray speed pictorially. If a car is moving really quickly, all the lines and colors are blurred."
Warhol's rolling work of art had its first and only race outing at the 24-hour race at Le Mans in 1979, when it was sixth in the overall ranking.
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Andy Warhol Posters.
As the 20th Century artist associated with pop art and pop culture, there are numerous references to Warhol and his work on the net. Here are a few:
The Andy Warhol Museum website has general museum information, with access to examples of Warhol's work and details of
educational resources, including film and video archives.
At the Andy Warhol Experience you can tour several Warhol galleries and read essays about the various works. Includes a look at Warhol's magazine interview and some
related links.
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts was established in 1987 and provides grants supporting cultural organizations support artists and their work.
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