http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_Art_Car

saw #4 today.

wow nice !

never understood "art"

i never understood andy warhol "art". car is nice. paintjob is bad.

Warhol (as were most artists associated with The Factory, Warhol's art collective) was pretty much out to put a thumb in the eye of the art community of the day.

Think about it. Nothing says "idgaf" like painting a BWM all crazy-like.

Wikipedia has a pretty decent article on him, if you'd like to test the waters.

just haphazardly slinging paint at something is not art imo. im not some big art freak that can dissect the meaning of what artists are trying to say through their paintings (thats probably obvious), but i do expect something that makes some kind of sense. what he done was dumb to me.

i guess grats to him for convincing people that what he done was interesting and worth paying lots of money for

dunno if he just threw paint at it. the paint smears are from it being used in races. I wasn't amazed about it either. But it was something new i learned about. Also saw a Lexus LFA up there on display also.

i can appreciate the car and that it was actually raced its just the shitty paint job im not amazed by. other art cars were a lot better to me. my daughter could slap random colors around like warhol

From what I've gathered about the man, that's not too far off the mark.

Toward the later part of his career, when he started moving away from painting / print to film, he was once asked in interview why he started moving towards film.

He started explaining the process of using a camera, and, in so many words, basically told the interviewer that he got into film because a camera was easier to operate than painting a picture.

Remember, this is the guy that successfully convinced the art scene that a picture of Campbell's soup was art:




No joke: that image is literally WORLD famous. SOUP. Hah.