by Stan Phelps | Apr 12, 2022 | Pink Goldfish
A flawed painting of Marilyn Monroe by Andy Warhol may auction for $200 million in May.Flawed? How?The late performance artist Dorothy Podber was visiting “The Factory” in 1964. While in Warhol’s art studio, she asked Andy if she could shoot some of...
by Stan Phelps | Nov 4, 2021 | Pink Goldfish
Monet sucks. That was the consensus of critics. The rapid, sketch-like execution shocked the art world in the 19th century.Yesterday, I visited the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. This was the third amazing museum I’ve had the opportunity to experience in...
by Stan Phelps | Oct 20, 2021 | Pink Goldfish
Three years ago, the enigmatic graffiti artist Banksy stunned the art world. Moments after the gavel was struck for the winning $1.4 million bid at Sotheby’s, the painting “The Girl with the Baloon” began to shred.A shredding device was secretly...
by Stan Phelps | Apr 7, 2021 | Pink Goldfish
“It’s the IMPERFECTIONS that make somethingBEAUTIFUL, that’s what makes it DIFFERENT and UNIQUE from everything else.” This quote is from the late famed artist Bob Ross. Ross helped pioneer a concept called “wet on wet” painting to...
