Gil Bruvel. "Visage." Wooden Sticks. France.
The face is made entirely of wooden sticks 10 inches long.
Gil Bruvel. "Visage." France.
Fernand Leger. "Four Men." French.
Georges Mathieu. "Arabesques." French.
Mathieu painted many of his canvases while on a stage before an audience and
using long brushes which he swept around like swords.
David Hockney. "Punch and Judy." British.
Damien Hirst. "Spin Butterfly." British
Hirst prepares a spinning table and then drips paint on it as it spins.
The above is one result.
Yayoi Kusama. "Green Pumpkin." Japan.
The artist is a Japanese lady approaching 90 years of age. She paints a multitude of
dots in many configurations. She is very popular, and this small drawing sold for
$58,000.
Andy Warhol. "Sitting Bull." American Pop Art.
The print is from the series "Cowboys and Indians."
Enrico Castellani. "Red Surface." Italian.
The artist prepares a board with a number of nails at various
heights and in different patterns. He then pulls a piece of canvas
over the top of the nails and creates light and shadow patterns.
Toots Zynsky. "Red Crown Amazon." From "Endangered Species Series." Glass.
Toots is one of the most famous American glass artists. She uses a technique of fusing
glass rods of various colors at high temperatures so they fuse.
Toots Zynsky. "Blue Flycatcher." From "Endangered Species Series." Fused Glass.
Victor Vasarely. Op Art. Hungarian/French.
Alberto Cavalieri. "Divine Fire." Stainless Steel. Italian.
Eric Fischl. "Tumbling Woman." Glass - Lie-sized."
Carlos Rolon. "Decadence of Decadence." Cuban.
The highly realistic flowers are painted on a sheet of aluminum.
Shepard Fairey. "Welcome Visitor." American Graffiti Artist.
Shepard is one of the most famous Graffiti artists in the world, with huge murals in
many countries. he also does small paintings and prints, which frequently have a
social or political message. This is a print.
Fernando Botero. "Last Day of Carnival." Colombia.
Paul Rousso. "Magazine Covers with Jackie Robinson." U.S.
Rousso prints papers or magazines on sheets of acrylic. He then heats the acrylic
to that he can bend and shape it. This is a large work, eight feet long, made of
several dozen sheets of shaped acrylic.
Tom Wesselmann. "Nude in Bedroom." U.S. Pop Art.
This is a steel cut-out, made by laser, and is a new type of drawing, not pencil nor
brush, but steel.
John Chamberlain. "Schadenfreude." U.S.
Chamberlain chose to make sculpture not of wood or marble or bronze, but of
the steel, which he could find and buy cheaply in auto graveyards. This is a bunch
of fenders, painted and bent into shape.
Adolph Gottlieb. "Asterisk on Brown." U.S.
Robert Indiana. "LOVE." Aluminum.
Joana Vasconcelos. "Karenina." Cuban.
The artist makes animals of fiberglass, in this case a lizard, and then
crochets a "skin" which can be pulled over the figure like a stocking.
Kikuo Saito. "La Tras." Japanese/American.
Kikuo's works sing with a lyrical quality.
John Chamberlain. "Suede Dog Peas." U.S.
The sculpture stands four feet high and is made of bent
and painted auto fenders.
Mel Bochner. "Blah - Blah - Blah." U.S.
Handmade embossed paper, which is then painted.
Mira Lehr. "Reflections."
Alexander Calder. "Eight Balls." U.S.
Olga de Amaral. "Tunic." Colombia.
Olga is an 86 year old lady, who just retired, and used textiles
is new ways. She hired the women of her village to help make
these elegant hanging pieces. They are made of linen, painted,
cut into small pieces, and sewn or glued to a linen background.
They look like a garment for an Inca emperor.
Olga de Amaral. Close-up. She closed her studio this year and will be making
no more textile art works.
Paul Jenkins. "Phenomeon - Rays." U.S.
The paint is poured on the canvas and then moved around with
sticks and spatulas.
Donald Sultan. "One Red Flower." U.S. Aluminum. 36 in high.
Pablo Atchugarry. "Column." Carrara Marble.
Pablo's sculptures look like they are soft and pliable, whereas in reality they are
of hard stone and marble.
Alexander Calder. "Mobile."
Roy Lichtenstein. "Portrait in Brushstrokes." Aluminum. U.S. Pop.
Sculptures by Roy Lichtenstein and John Chamberlain.
Manolo Valdes. "Infanta Mariana." Spanish.
The three figures are carved of wood and coated with eopxy. The two portraits are
collages; and the black aluminum head has hair which fans out.
Jesus Rafael Soto. Victor Vasarely. Three Op Art pieces.
Sri Lankan Artist. "Butterflies."
Paul Rousso. "Magazine Covers." Shaped acrylic sheets.
Ibram Lassaw. Bronze Sculpture.
Qin Feng. "Desire, Landscape." Chinese.
The opportunity to view art by Chinese and Japanese artists is a special treat
of the fair. They often combine ancient themes and techniques with
modern subject matter.
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