figurative painting

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“The modern artist is working with space and time and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.”

— Jackson Pollock

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“We now call it the community industry. The history of the web went as follows: at first it was military, then education and now commerce oriented. What are the possibilities of artists in the confrontation with these three systems? All of the time you can notice the anti-authoritarian spirit that changes flavour. At one stage it is simply pacifist. At another time, when it comes to education, it deals with intellectual independence. As Twain once said: “I’ve never let my school interfere with my education”.

Right now, we live in a corporate atmosphere. The dominant frame in the artistic field is decorative art, but I cannot waste my time discussing it. In new media art, the radical and experimental artists always confront the dominant frame. And right now, it is the community industry that provides the most useful grip that the corporate world can possibly have on the online population. You have all these various dimensions of self-‐disclosure, and when you disclose things about yourself you share parts of your privacy that feed the system. And I think this is a good topic for artists. I am currently working on a project with Heath Bunting. I think this is a good topic because people are blind, they behave as sheep.” — Vuk Ćosić

Vuk Ćosić
Deep ASCII​
2021
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Estimate
£40,000 – 50,000

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“The work always starts with a digital core, which relates to a communist ideology of starting with an abstract vision.” — Miao Ying

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“I have found that in accepting and immersing myself in subject matter I paint with more intensity and that the ‘hows’ of painting are more inevitably determined by the ‘whats’.” — David Park

David Park (1911-1960)
Two People in White
1957
oil on canvas
24 x 32 in.
Price realised
USD 378,000

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“Why do people think artists are special? It’s just another job.”— Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
Colored Mona Lisa
1963
silkscreen inks and graphite on canvas
125 7/8 x 82 1/8 in.
Price realised 
USD 56,165,000

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“What is truth? Truth doesn’t really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.” — Tracey Emin

Tracey Emin
Sad Shower in New York
1995
Monoprint on paper
420 × 593 mm
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