"Don’t think about making art just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art."   – Andy Warhol




Love him or hate him, Andy Warhol was one of the most influential artists of our time; most famous for creating the avant-garde Pop Art movement.  Before Warhol's time, the visual arts movement was repressed in the feeling that it ignored modern and consumerism principles.  Pop Art is now one of the most recognized forms of art today. Thanks in part to Warhol's exploitation of celebrity culture and advertisement.

visit http://www.warholfoundation.org/  to find out more about Andy Warhol and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Happy Birthday, Jean Arp (Hans Arp)!

Jean Arp (also known as Hans Arp) was a German-born French sculptor, painter, collagist, printmaker and poet. Born in September 16, 1886, he studied at Kunstschule in Weimar and the Académie Julian in Paris. Arp was best known as a founding member of the Dada movement in Zurich. He was also a member of the surrealist group starting in 1925 and later founded the Abstraction-Création style.
via http://arthistory.about.com/cs/namesaa/p/arp.htm

Shirt Front and Fork, painted wood, 1922, National Gallery of Art

Hans Jean Arp, Torse-nombril, 1915, bois naturel, 25 x 17 x 4 cm, Fondation Arp, Clamart, photo : J. P. Constantini. © ADAGP Paris 2008