Andy Warhole Paints BMW M1 Vivid, with intuitive brushstroke
To celebrate 50th anniversary Like him Art car collectionBMW is taking its famous ‘rolling sculptures’ – the vehicle turned into a world tour – a vivid canvas. The most recent stop of the tour is Art DubaiWhere? BMW One of his most prestigious collaborations with Andy Warhole is unveiled. In 1979, the pop artist first took and translated into the BMW M1 shell. Vehicle Motion and liquidity in the structure of bold, expressive and almost spontaneous gestures. Warhole completed the artwork in just 28 minutes.
The M1 BMW’s now was the fourth commission in the decades-fila art car series, and Warhole’s approach is one of its most radical. Unlike earlier artists including Alexander Calder, Frank Stella and Roy Liechtenstein, who designed their works through an early sketch or scale model, Warhol emphasized the vehicle himself portraying the vehicle. While working directly on the car’s body and by hand, he applied about 13 pounds of paint to speed up, gestational stroke. ‘I have tried to give a vivid depiction of motion. If a car is really sharp, all shapes and colors will be blurred, He said about the project.
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Warhole’s BMW M1 was only the fourth vehicle in a collection, developed to include 20 cars, which has been converted by a diverse group of artists in five decades. Since its establishment in 1975, the BMW Art Car series has invited major data in contemporary art to re -interpret automobiles as a cultural object. The initiative was originally conceived by the French racing driver and Art enthusiast Harve Paulin, who imagined the car as both a high -speed machine and a mobile canvas. He collaborated with BMW and listed Alexander Calder to paint the first model, establishing what a long -standing tradition would be.
The vehicle designed by the famous Italian automotive designer Georgato Ziugiaro was still a relatively recent innovation at that time, as BMW’s first mid-engine sports car and a high-demonstration motor) were an adventure to establish itself. In 1979, Warhole’s intervention also came during a period in which he was experimenting with abstraction, gestational painting and author’s concepts. The departure departing from pop icography defined his earlier work, such as their campbell’s soup cans and silkskrin celebrity portraits, this cooperation bends to a more intestine, spontaneous approach. Polen itself compared the process of building warhole for an act for an act for an act, close to living art or dance than some industrial design.
In 1979, it was painted the same year, Warhole’s art car entered a 24 -hour le mans, operated by the German driver Manfred Vinkelhawk and France’s Marcel Mignot. It finished sixth and second in its class, which is one of some art cars, which was run competitively. After his performance in Le Mans, the M1 retired from the track and became part of the permanent collection of BMW.
