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Post by jennifercyr on Feb 14, 2012 1:03:49 GMT -5
For collectors, death is the best career move an artist can make. It limits supply, driving prices up. And being dead, the artist is not able to diminish his legacy by making unacceptable art. Animal Oil Painting Of course, things can go the other way. The artist can fall into oblivion, and if he is not already famous, the likelihood of attaining posthumous success is small. Building Oil Painting Andy Warhol once complained to the art curator and critic Henry Geldzahler, "It will take my death for the Museum of Modern Art to recognize my work." Warhol would continue using silk-screening, garish colors, and multiple images in his paintings throughout his career. Cusine Oil Painting He emphasized a mechanized crafts approach to making art by working with assistants in a series of large studios dubbed the Factory. Cottages Oil Painting It was hardly the slapdash effort he made it out to be. To make a portrait, he would take many photographs of his subject, and have the high-contrast image enlarged to the size of the painting before the silk-screen was made. Sunflower oil Painting
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