figure drawing
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People may copy others for a variety of reasons, including:
- Lack of identity: They may copy others to be recognized.
- Jealousy: They may copy others because they want what you have.
- Insecurity: They may copy others to elevate themselves.
- Threatened: They may copy others because they feel threatened by your success.
- Obsession: They may copy others.
- Laziness: They may copy others.
- Mental health issues: They may copy others.
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Irving Penn
The Poor Lovers
1979
Platinum-palladium print
18 ½ x 11 3/8 in.
Price realised
EUR 25,000
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Andy Warhol: An American Prophet (Art History Documentary) | Perspective
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Ian Burn began investigating the act of looking in the mid 1960s. In this work, text across a standard framed mirror quotes from the 18th-century Scottish philosopher David Hume. The original quote continues, ‘if we consider these objects in themselves, and never look beyond the ideas which we form of them’.
The viewer is asked to consider this specific work of art without considering his or her accumulated knowledge and assumptions about either ‘mirrors’ or ‘works of art’ (or the person ‘in’ the mirror). The impossibility of isolating any one thing from all others is emphasised in this conceptual artwork by our reflection in the mirror and that of the space in which it hangs and other art nearby.
Ian Burn
Two glass/Mirror piece
1968
mirror, glass, wood
93.7 × 63.2 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
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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