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Ellsworth Kelly’s “Austin” 2018, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas

Modeled after Roman religious architecture and featuring beautiful, colored glass windows over the entrance, it took 30 years after it was originally designed to be completed. The artist never got to see his creation, as he passed just after construction began. Working as always with immersive color, form and light, the finished structure is clean, elegant, filled with the spectrum of pure harmonious hues as the sun rays filter through the windows…a marvelous, breathtaking space. “Austin” is a masterpiece, the only building Ellsworth Kelly ever designed.

Find out more about this brilliant artist in our article, "Ellsworth Kelly - Master Colorist"⁠

12/31/2022

“In a sense, what I’ve tried to capture is the reality of flux, to keep art an open, incomplete situation, to get at the rapture of seeing.” – Ellsworth Kelly

When anyone speaks of legendary artist Ellsworth Kelly, they speak of Color. Painter, sculptor and printmaker extraordinaire, Ellsworth Kelly became one of the most important figures in postwar American art.

He was born in New York in 1923. When he was very young, his mother and grandmother got him interested in ornithology and later, this early fascination with the vivid colors of birds would influence his choice of colors in his art. Kelly later studied painting at the Pratt Institute before serving in WWII for a very unusual battalion...

Find out more about this brilliant artist in our article, "Ellsworth Kelly - Master Colorist"

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Artwork: Ellsworth Kelly - Nine Squares

12/24/2022

Wishing you all the Happiest of Holidays from Henry on Pop Art! ❤️⁠
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Artwork - Andy Warhol - Poinsettias⁠

12/23/2022

Wishing you all the Happiest of Holidays from Henry on Pop Art! ❤️

Artwork - Andy Warhol - Poinsettias

12/09/2022

Celebrating artists young and old...

Though he started painting in the 1940s, he continues to be prolific to the present day. Yet Alex Katz only achieved fame in the 80s, when the public finally caught up to his elegant simplicity and clean sensibility.

As art lovers and collectors, we should keep our minds open, no matter the age of the artist. As we’re seeing, one can be great in all seasons. The passionate art lover and art collector can recognize that taking a vital role in the pleasure and support of great art is an art form itself.

Henry on Pop Art works with artists at every stage in life. If there is one lesson to be taken away from that experience, it’s this: no one is too young or too old to make art. It’s always the right time to express yourself creatively. In the end, it’s how powerful the final art is, no matter the age of the artist.

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Artwork: Alex Katz - Vivien

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12/06/2022

You're never too young or too old to be an artist!

Early Start in Art - Jean-Michel Basquiat

On December 22, 1960, Jean-Michel Basquiat was born in Brooklyn, New York to a Haitian-American father and a Puerto Rican mother. His diverse cultural heritage would serve as one of his deepest sources of inspiration.

He was precocious, able to read and write at the age of 4 and able to speak 3 languages, French, Spanish and English. At the age of 7, one of his earliest memories, Basquiat was badly injured, hit by a car while playing in the streets. He had to have his spleen removed…while recovering, his mother bought him a copy of Gray’s Anatomy. Anatomy would become a recurring theme in his artwork, especially skulls. Self-taught, Basquiat began drawing at an early age on sheets of paper his father brought home from the office. As he delved deeper into his creative side, his mother recognized and strongly encouraged him to pursue his artistic talents. She often took him to museums throughout Manhattan.

Driven by his incessant need to create, he quit high school and hit the streets of New York City, painting and drawing on anything he could find, doors, walls, fridges, TVs…anything and everything was fair game as a canvas. In this rich mix of art, music, danger and poverty, Jean-Michel Basquiat catapulted to stardom in the world of art.

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Artwork: Jean-Michel Basquiat - Rome Pays Off

11/30/2022

Exciting! Opening night with our VIP Guests…

We look forward to seeing you all booth tomorrow! Warhol, Haring, Longo, Katz, Wesselmann… and so many more!

11/24/2022

Art is Ageless

You're never too young or too old to be an artist. There are a lot of preconceived notions in the art world. Probably some of the most damaging are the ageist views many galleries and collectors have. If an artist hasn’t gained recognition and success by a certain age, the odds of the art world taking notice can be challenging. Even if an older artist has just hit their artistic stride, no matter the decade.

But the truth is, artists begin at all ages. Many begin when they are very young and continue long into their golden years.

A quick trip through the topic reveals that some of the greatest artists to ever pick up the brush broke with our expectations of age.

Why you're never too young to become an artist...

The art world always needs young people to join the conversation. The younger generations bring fresh perspectives and don’t carry the same old prejudices. What’s more, the future is the world they will have to live in, so they should have some say in it. So many more mediums are being explored, especially the digital realm, which offers a whole new artistic landscape.

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Artwork: Yayoi Kusama - Dots Obsession

11/21/2022

Artist Donald Sultan has spent the past 20 years focusing on still-lifes and the motifs of poppies, lemons, freesias, trumpet flowers, mimosas, butterflies, dominos, dice, playing cards and tulips. His more dramatic works are the “Smoke Rings,” depicting evanescent rings of white smoke that seem to float on their rich black backgrounds, and his breathtaking, cinematic, industrial landscapes featuring catastrophes, “The Disaster Paintings,” that capture the fragile balance between structure and chaos.

Sultan has exhibited in London, Paris, Rome, New York, Chicago, Tokyo, Barcelona and Berlin, among other cities. His work is in the collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, NY; Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, MA; Ludwig Museum, Budapest; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Museum of Modern Art, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Singapore Museum of Art, Singapore; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY; Tate Gallery, London; Toledo Museum of Art, OH; Walker Art Center, MN; the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY and more…

Donald Sultan is one of those rare artists who is respected by critics and art lovers alike. His focus on exploration—of materials, techniques, perspectives—has resulted in a body of work that is both strikingly beautiful and intriguingly complex. Whether you’re a passionate art collector or someone who just appreciates a powerful image when you see one, there’s no denying that Donald Sultan is an artist whose vision is worth beholding again and again.

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Artwork: Donald Sultan - Gold Flowers
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11/15/2022

Beautiful Blues.

Artist Donald Sultan is also well known for his prints and sculptures, which embrace the same motifs as his paintings. He is a master of multiple mediums, from painting, etching, silkscreen, woodcut, lithography and sculpture among other art techniques and non-traditional industrial media such as plaster, spackle, tar, Masonite, vinyl floor tiles, latex, rubber, PVC and metals.

According to the British art historian and author Ian Dunlop, Sultan’s paintings, “fall into two groups: the first group consists of bold, brightly colored pictures with well-defined shapes and crisp outlines forming a clear silhouette; the second group consists of dark, hard to read pictures full of menace and often inspired by disastrous industrial events such as warehouse fires, airplane crashes, and freight train derailments. In both cases the pictures make a strong, immediate visual statement.”

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Artwork: Donald Sultan - Six Blues

11/13/2022

Donald Sultan - Master of Mediums

“My father was a physical person…I just felt most comfortable making things and moving things. Part of the whole American experience I came out of was the empire building mentality… physical labor. My grandfather was on the assembly lines of Detroit in the Depression. It was the way it was.” – Donald Sultan

The legendary Studio 54’s late co-founder Steve Rubell astutely remarked in 1985, “…artists [were] becoming the stars of the 1980s, like the rock stars of the 1960s or the fashion designers of the 1970s,” and artist Donald Sultan was fully riding this wave as his works were in high demand and commanding high prices...

An unusual project appeared in 1999. Sultan was invited to Budapest, Hungary to create a permanent exhibition of his art in various media at a fabulous new hotel the following year. Eponymously named Art’otel Budapest Donald Sultan, the artist was commissioned to design the hotel experience from the color palette, fountains, wall motifs, guest bathrobes, carpeting, as well as the hotel’s dishes and matchboxes, featuring art from his moody “Smoke Rings” series. “I thought everybody should have a sculpture in their room,” Sultan remembers, “and playful red carpeting with a needle-and-thread motif that supposedly hearkens back to Hungary’s history as a tapestry-making capital.”

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Image: Hungary, Budapest, Art’otel, hotel designed by artist Donald Sultan, restaurant