James Rosenquist
James Rosenquist is an American painter who was one of the artists identified with pop art, and is still a working artist. If you suspected that he has a large and legendary body of work, you’d be absolutely correct. They (art…
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Wolfgang Beltracchi – Master Art Forger
La Forêt (1927), Max Ernst. Well, not quite. This forgery by Wolfgang Beltracchi was part of the collection of the Max Ernst Museum in Brühl, Max Ernst’s birthplace. It sold for 7 million euros in 2006. Der Spiegel recently published an…
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Humour in the Work of Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp is probably best known as the artist behind “Fountain”, a urinal signed “R. Mutt” in 1917. It is probably also one of his most misunderstood pieces. For context, Duchamp was already a known artist, having created controversy with…
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Cassius Marcellus Coolidge – A Friend in Need
Cassius Marcellus Coolidge has such a great name that you might imagine he’s a character from a Quentin Tarantino film (theme music: “Fist City” by Loretta Lynn) but you would be wrong. C.M. Coolidge, also known as “Cash” or occasionally…
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Joseph Cornell, Romantic
For those unfamiliar with Joseph Cornell, he is an American artist best known for his incredible assemblages, such as his parrot boxes. He is perhaps less known for being something of a romantic … … you have to admit, making…
