"I like this better than our culture. It’s simpler. I love all the blue clothes. Everyone wearing blue."
Warhol on China in 1982
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CARS by Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol's Cars series was commissioned by Mercedes-Benz in 1986 to celebrate the centenary of the invention of the motor car.
The artist was to do a series of 80 car pictures using 20 selected Mercedes models
This was the last series Warhol did, as he passed away the following year, before finishing it.
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Le Chat by Philippe Geluck
Even though Philippe Geluck's destiny seemed all traced for him, being born into an artistic family with an illustrator father, an employee of the house so taken by his drawings that he sends young Philippe's drawings to a local publication which immediately accepts to publish it, .... Philippe starts his career as an actor.
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All you ever wanted to know about Dali's Moustache
“Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dalí, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dalí.”
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"Calling Card" (1967) by Tomi Ungerer
'Calling Card' by Tomi Ungerer
In the late 60’s Tomi Ungerer moves to new offices on 42nd street, Mahattan’s red Light district. As is common then, he sends all his friends and acquaintances a card with his new details. Except, he is Tomi, and true to his style and biting sense of humour he does not send a regular card but a neatly folded poster that opens showing him smiling and happily waving from an opened door situated between a woman’s open legs. A rebirth of sorts and a wink to the women working in his new neighbourhood.
What Tomi probably does not know then is that his heydays in the US are already counted at the time, and his phenomenal success will be matched only by his quick demise.
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