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
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“Art for the most part, is about concentration, solitude and determination. It’s really not about other people’s needs and assumptions. I’m not interested in the notion that art serves something. Art is useless, not useful.” — Richard Serra
Richard Serra
TTI London
2007
two torqued tori of weatherproof steel
each 14 x 35″
installation view
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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
Tate Collections
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“I believe that who we are, and consequently the work that we make, whether we’re visual artists or writers or journalists or filmmakers, is a projection of where we were born, what’s been withheld or lavished upon us, our color, our sex, our class. And everything we do in life to some degree is a reflection of that context.” — Barbara Kruger
Barbara Kruger
Untitled (How come only the unborn have the right to life?)
1986
photograph and type on paper.
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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 Heads
1959
oil on canvas
24 x 26 in.
Price realised
USD 1,022,500
732711139030564864
“I made something that I wanted to make and then people wanted it. That was always important to me because, when I was doing the Warhol stuff, I wondered, ‘Am I making something that I want to make, or because people want to buy?’ Now, I’m in the phase where I can make what I want to make.” — Ryan Wilson
Ryan Wilson, a.k.a. ThankYouX
Meet Me in the Mystery
2019
Spray Paint, Oil, Acrylic on Canvas
36 × 60 in
Price realized: $20,500
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“The angel, a transcendent being, has become powerless, unable to carry out God’s will, or to help those who believe in its existence.” — Sun Yuan and Peng Yu
Sun Yuan and Peng Yu
Angel
2008
Silica Gel, Fiberglass, Stainless Steel, Woven Mesh
180 × 220 cm