Виж темата - Art Cars

от **Ivan Petrov** » 16 Окт 2006, 11:53

A. R. Penck BMW Z1

Frank Stella BMW Е9 3.0 CSL

The second Bmw Art Car was created by Frank Stella, an American artist and a passionate motor racing fan, who used a black and white square grid pattern taking inspiration from the technical graph-paper.
In 1976 Frank Stella, an American artist and a passionate motor racing fan was commissioned to create the second Bmw Art Car: a BMW 3.0 CSL coupé.
During his BMW Art Car conception, the American artist switched gears from his usual random style of painting and sought inspiration for the vehicle’s technical aura. The result: a black and white square quid with an evenness and precision reminiscent of oversized graph paper.
Within this grid, pattern-like, dotted lines run across the bodywork, suggesting that Stella may have wished to cut out the car and reassemble it in a new shape.
The grid pattern - a feature of both Stella’s earlier and later creative period - is often used by him as a kind of stage upon which a painted drama takes place. By way of contrast, the paintwork he created specially for the Le Mans race is not a stage, but the action itself.

Frank Stella - The Artist
Stella began studying art at the tender age of fourteen . His much-proclaimed works – “Transitional Paintings” and “Black Paintings,” were produced in Stella’s New York art studio. An exhibition of Stella’s work was held at the Museum of Modern Art, beginning in 1959. During this creative period, the influence of the abstract Expressionists is unmistakable. For the next two decades, Stella exhibited throughout the world, while continuing to work as a teacher.
Born in 1936 in Malden, Massachusetts, Frank Stella began studying art when he was only 14 and went on to study history at Princeton. After graduating he set up a studio in New York in which he created much of his most acclaimed work - the "Transitional Paintings" and the "Black Paintings". He had his work exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art as early as 1959. During this creative period, the abstract Expressionists heavily influenced him.
The large-scale pop art paintings he produced in the 1960's became a seminal part of American art history. Between 1960 and 1980, Stella exhibited throughout the world, while continuing to work as a teacher.
From 1978 to 1980, a traveling exhibition in the U.S. showed a retrospective of his work. Stella’s “post abstractionist,” large-scale pop art paintings are now imbedded in art history.

Roy Lichtenstein BMW Е21 320i

In 1977 Roy Lichtenstein turned a BMW 320i into a piece of his art that was driven by Poulain and Mignot at Le Mans 24-hour race and finished 9th overall and first in class.
When Lichtenstein was drafting his Art Car, he spent a long time thinking about all the things that happen to a car.
The result of this critical examination of the car is an amazing blend of aerodynamic qualities on the one hand and artistic skill on the other.
When Lichtenstein created the third BMW Art Car, he said he used "painted lines as a road, pointing the way for the car. The design also shows the scenery as it passes by. Even the sky and sunlight are to been seen....you could list all the things a car experiences - the only difference is that this car mirrors all these things even before it takes to the road."
Taking a closer look, the car's design casts a picture of passing scenery in which both the car and it's movement are one single entity.
And although Lichtenstein's comic art was already a thing of the past by then, his Art Car is clearly influenced by it: the long-drawn colored strips act as "speedlines" - a feature used in comics to suggest speed.
Even the oversized dots used by Lichtenstein, the "Benday dots", are reminiscent of his famous comic-strip pictures.
The harmony achieved between predetermined aerodynamic features and free composition is pure Lichtenstein. It is an expression of his artistic credo: art must be an element of everyday life - its themes and inspiration must come from the lives of ordinary people.

Roy Lichtenstein - The Artist
Though best known as a painter, American Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein also devoted his artistic career to creating sculptural, three-dimensional objects.
This compelling new exhibition includes 100 sculptures and three-dimensional maquettes or models, the earliest of which are figural carvings and assemblages dating from the mid-1940s and 1950s, and latest of which is his last personally finished sculpture: the monumental House II, seen only at the Venice Biennale in 1997.

Cesar Manrique BMW Е32 730i

David Hockney BMW Е31 850 CSi

Matazo Kayama BMW Е34 535i

Sandro Chia BMW Е36 M3

Andy Warhol BMW Е26 M1

The fourth Bmw Art Car was created in 1977 by the Pop Art legend Andy Warhol who, unlike the previous artists, worked directly on the full-scale vehicle and painted the car himself.
For Andy Warhol to paint an automobile seems a natural. His studio was known as a factory and his greatest fame came from portraying Campbell's Soup cans.
Warhol explained the sweeping strokes of his car, "I tried to portray speed pictorially. If a car is moving really quickly, all the lines and colors are blurred."
All previous Art Car artists created their designs on 1:5 scale models, called maquettes, and had technicians reproduce their designs on the real cars. Warhol insisted on painting the real M1 himself.
He is reported to have spent all of 23 minutes painting the car. He ran his fingers through the paint to leave a personal touch.
When asked if he was pleased with the end result, he replied, "I love the car; it's better than the work of art itself."

Michael Jagamara Nelson Е30 M3

Jenny Holzer BMW V12 LMR

Ken Done BMW E30 M3

Ernst Fuchs BMW E24 635 CSi

In 1982 Austrian painter Ernst Fuchs created the fifth Bmw Art Car, a 635 CSi. He took his inspiration from a dream he had when he was young.
On the subject of his work, he says: "In the painting, I gave expression to various experiences, fears, desires and implorations, but also to free artistic creation. I call this car 'Firefox on Harehunt'.
"It represents a hare racing across a motorway at night and leaping over a burning car the - primeval fear and bold dream of surmounting a dimension in which we live.
" It tells me its colors, I read them in its lines and shape, I hear its speedy call and can already see the handsome hare leaping through flames of love, driving away fears."
Fuchs took his inspiration from a dream he had when he was just 5 years old.

Esther Mahlangu BMW E34 525i

Alexander Calder BMW E9 3.0 CSi

Created by American sculptor Alexander Calder for his friend Herve Poulain, the BMW 3.0 CSL became the first piece of art of an exclusive and unique collection.
Calder’s design of the BMW 3.0 CSL was the first Art Car ever, and one of his last works of art before he died in 1976.
His friend Herve Poulain, a French auctioneer and race driver, asked him to commission a rolling canvas on the BMW 3.0 CSL he would race at Le Mans 24 Hours race.
An engineer and sculptor, Calder’s challenge was creating his own “artistic stamp” on something that he did not produce and sculpt himself.
His rendition of the BMW Art Car boasts powerful colors and attractive curving expanses, which he applied generously to the wings, hood and roof.
Calder saw his art in action when he attended the Le Mans 24-hour race as a guest to witness his work’s premiere.

Technical Data
The BMW 3.0 CSL was powered by a 6 cylinders, 24 valves DOHC engine, with a displacement of 3210 cc and a maximum output of 480 hp. It could reach a top speed of 291 km/h.

Alexander Calder - The Artist
Born in 1898 in Philadelphia, legendary American artist Alexander Calder began his career as an engineer. But art soon won out over engineering (Calder's father and grandfather were both sculptors).
At 28, Calder moved to Paris, where he came into contact with the avant-garde scene. Drawn to both art and technology, he developed a uniquely individual style of sculpture. His often large-scale pieces have a buoyant, whimsical effect, and are painted in cheery primary colors. Often mobile sculptures, they combine Calder's love of art with his knowledge of engineering. His most famous works of abstract art entitled “Mobiles” were viewed as the most innovative sculptures of the 20 th century.

Robert Rauschenberg BMW E24 635 CSi