FAMOUS AMERICAN 20th century ARTIST’S quotes; modern American great painters and sculptors on art, life, contemporary paintings and sculpture; biography facts
Here is presented a list of famous American artists names of modern great painters & sculptors, with biography notes and their extended art quotes on this website: just follow the link in the short biography of the artist, down here.
The list of famous American artists and painters names, all with their biography facts and quotes, up to now:
Artist names: Josef Albers, Carl Andre, William Baziotes, Marcel Duchamp, Helen Frankenthaler, Arshile Gorky, Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, Marsden Hartley, Hans Hofmann, Edward Hopper, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Roy Lichtenstein, Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Kenneth Noland, Georgia O’Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Mark Rothko, Mark Tobey, Andy Warhol.
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JOSEF / JOSEPH ALBERS: 32 of his modern art quotes by the American abstract painter artist & art teacher, famous for his color theory and compositions
name: JOSEF ALBERS (Joseph, 1888 – 1976), a German-born American painter who created modern abstract painting art, including a strong impact of his theory on color interaction and compositions of coloured forms in contemporary art history. Moreover Josef Albers was a great art teacher, first at Bauhaus in Germany, later at Black Mountain College in America.
Albers was painter, moreover he was a famous and respected art educator who became young already professor in 1923 at famous Bauhaus in Germany untill the Nazis closed the school. Albers emigrated to America in 1933 where he taught many young artists like Robert Rauschenberg and Cy Twombly; he also invited Willem de Kooning to teach. His influence on the artists in American Abstract Expressionism was huge. Albers emigrated in 1933 to America, as many German artists did because of growing Nazi pressure in Europe; Albers started a second artist life. In 1933 already he joined the faculty of ‘Black Mountain College’, North Carolina in the painting program until 1949. His students included some famous abstract expressionist artists as Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly and Eva Hesse.
Albers’ painting art represents a transition between traditional European abstract art and the new developing modern abstract art in America after World War 2. In his art Albers incorporated European influences from constructivism and Bauhaus. He favored creating with a very disciplined approach to composition of forms following a theory on color, related to a challenging perception by people. In his later work he explored chromatic interactions with flat color squares, concentrically arranged, as he did in his series Hommage to the Square’. That’s why his influence is to recognize in later American artists, for example in the firm forms of the abstract Hard Edge art.
Joseph Albers: click for 32 of his artist’s quotes about color theory in painting and Bauhaus teaching
Carl Andre: 21 of his modern art quotes by the American contemporary minimalist sculptor artist, famous for his minimalism Floor Pieces
name: CARL ANDRE (born in 1935), artist quotes / biography facts of the modern American Minimalism sculptor artist, creating Minimalist sculpture art. Most of Andre’s statements here are taken from Andre’s conversation with the public in 1969 and some interviews. Carl Andre is famous for the many ‘floor pieces’ – flat sculptures on the ground – he made in wood, stone or metals.
Carl Andre is creating modern abstract Minimal Art in basic materials: wood, stone and metal. He studied art at Phillips Academy in Andover and became there friends with Hollis Frampton who would later influence Andre’s radical approach to sculpture through their conversations about art and through introductions to other artists. Andre served in the U.S. Army in North Carolina 1955-56 and moved to New York City in 1956. While in New York, Frampton introduced Andre to Constantin Brâncuşi through whom Andre became re-acquainted with a former classmate from Phillips Academy, Frank Stella, in 1958. Andre shared studio space with Stella from 1958 through 1960.
Andre is a sculptor who neither carves into substances, nor models forms. His work involves the positioning of raw materials – such as bricks, blocks, ingots, or plates. He uses no fixatives to hold them in place. Andre has suggested that his procedure for building up a sculpture from small, regularly-shaped units is based on “the principle of masonry construction” – like stacking up bricks to build a wall. Andre claims that his sculpture is an exploration of the properties of matter, and for this reason he has called himself a “matterist.” Some people have seen his art as “concept based,” as though each piece is merely the realization of an idea. But for Carl Andre, this is mistaken: the characteristics of every unit of material he selects, and the arrangement and position of the sculpture in its environment, forms the substance of his art.
Since the mid-1960s the underlying premises of Andre’s art have remained practically unchanged, inasmuch as the procedure for making the work has not altered.
In 1965 Andre had his first public exhibition of work in the “Shape and Structure” show curated by Henry Geldzahler at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery. Andre’s ‘controversial’ “Lever” was included in the seminal 1966 show at the Jewish Museum in New York entitled Primary Structures. In 1969 Andre helped organize the Art Workers Coalition.
In 1970 Andre had a one man exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and has had one man exhibitions and participated in group shows in major museums, galleries, and art halls throughout America and Europe. In 1972, Britain’s Tate Gallery acquired Andre’s Equivalent VIII, an arrangement of fireplace bricks. The piece became the centre of controversy in 1976 after being featured in an article in The Sunday Times and later being defaced with paint. The “Bricks controversy” became one of the most famous public debates in Britain about contemporary art.
Carl Andre: click for 21 of his sculptor quotes on art in society and minimalism sculpture in wood and stone
William Baziotes: 31 of his modern painting quotes by the American contemporary abstract surrealism painter, famous art teacher
name: WILLIAM BAZIOTES (1912 – 1963), artist in modern American Abstract Expressionism, creating rather abstract paintings with a personal touch of Surrealism in his art, admired uns promoted by Surrealism leader Andre Breton. Baziotes developed highly surrealistic personal symbolic images in his paintings; moreover he was a meaningful art teacher in New York School art scene..
Surrealism and primitive art both influenced his art fundamentally. Baziotes also assimilated Synthetic Cubist techniques, in a very personal and specific way of painting. He was familiar with the art of Miro and Picasso. His understanding of Cubism and Surrealism he articulated in a highly personal and sensitive pictorial language.
In the latter part of his artistic life, Baziotes taught extensively. Together with Robert Rauschenberg and Mark Rothko he was an inspirational founding member of the New York ‘Artist School’ in 1948. Later he taught at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, Peoples Art Center, and at the Museum of Modern Art. He also participated intensively in discussions, debates and exhibitions of the so called ‘New York School’ around 1947 and later.
William Baziotes: click for 31 of his painter’s quotes
Marcel Duchamp: 34 of his modern surrealism art quotes by the French / American modern artist, famous for his ready-mades and deep art silence
name: MARCEL DUCHAMP (1887 – 1968) as a French young Dada artist got soon involved in Surrealism. Duchamp became famous for his invention and concept of ‘ready made’, like ‘Fountain’, ‘Bicycle Wheel’, Bottle Rack, Urinal and ‘Fresh Widow’. His most famous and most complicated art work is ‘The Large Glass’ (discussed in his quotes), which he re-worked for almost 10 years. Duchamp had great influence on the younger American artists like Pop art artists Rauschenberg, Warhol and Jasper Johns.
Although Duchamp was no longer considered to be an active artist since 1923 he continued to consult with artists, art dealers and collectors. From 1925 he often travelled between France and the United States, and made New York’s Greenwich Village his home in 1942. He also occasionally worked on art projects for a long time like the 1926 Anemic Cinema, Box in a Valise (1935–41), Self Portrait in Profile (1958) and the larger work Etant Donnés (1946–66).
From the mid-1930s onwards, Duchamp collaborated with the French Surrealists, however, he did not join the movement despite the coaxing of Andre Breton. From then until 1944, together with Max Ernst, Breton a. o. Duchamp edited the Surrealist periodical VVV, and also served as an advisory editor for the magazine ‘View’, which featured him in its March 1945 edition, thus introducing him to a broader American audience. In 1954, he and Alexina Sattler married, and they remained together until his death. Duchamp became an American citizen in 1955.
Duchamp’s final major art work surprised the American art world; they believed he had given up art for chess 25 years earlier. Entitled ‘Etant Donnés’: 1° la chute d’eau / 2° le gaz d’éclairage (“Given: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas”), this complete artwork is a tableau, visible only through a peep hole in a wooden door. A nude woman can be seen lying on her back with her face hidden, legs spread, and one hand holding a gas lamp in the air against a landscape backdrop.
Duchamp had worked secretly on the piece from 1946 to 1966 in his studio in Greenwich studio, while even his closest friends thought he had abandoned art for ever.
Marcel Duchamp: click for 34 of his artist’s quotes on many of his ready-mades and about modern art in America
HELEN FRANKENTHALER: 27 art & life quotes; American woman painter artist, famous for her soak technique
name: HELEN FRANKENTHALER (1928 – 2011) was one of the most famous American modern woman artists in Abstract Expressionism. Her art quotes tell us a lot about painting in her typical soak method and her relations with contemporary painters like the both Pollock’s and Greenberg; her quotes give moreover essential biography facts about her life as woman painter in New York. Frankenthaler was a woman painter in American Abstract Expressionism / New York School of the 2nd generation and attributed by art critic Greenberg to early Color Field painting because of her flat way of painting technique. Most famous painting of her is ‘Mountains and sea’.
Frankenthaler begun studying painting in 1946; she studied at Bennington college Vt., the Art Students League in New York and later at the famous Hans Hofmann’s School. In 1946 she took part in a group exhibition where she was invited to by the art-critic Greenberg; they became later close friends. She had her first important solo-exhibition in Nag Gallery in 1951.
In 1952 Frankenthaler painted her most famous painting ‘Mountains and Sea’, in which she used her ‘soak-stain’ technique (painting on not primed canvas, so the canvas soaks the liquid paint, fh) she had developed herself; a method by which she could paint very flat and thin on the canvas.
Frankenthaler was friend of the Pollock’s (Jackson and his wife, the American woman painter Lee Krasner; she admired them and visited the Pollock’s frequently, so she became very familiar with their art. Frankenthaler tells in her quotes the overall approach of Jackson Pollock inspired her a lot, see her quotes. She on her turn influenced new young painters as Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland; both Color Field painters who have reported the impact of Frankenthaler’s painting art themselves in their quotes. In her art Frankenthaler used very frequently impressions of nature and landscape as an inspiration for her paintings; as many of her titles illustrate like her most famous painting: ‘Mountains and Sea’.
Helen Frankenthaler: click for 27 of her woman artist quotes about painting in her soak method and the place of nature in her art
ARSHILE GORKY: 28 art & life quotes; American painter artist, famous for his modern surrealist paintings
name: ARSHILE GORKY (1900 – 1948) was born in Armenia; he lived and created as painter artist and died in America. As young artist Gorky was strongly influenced by painters of Cubism, in particular Picasso, as Gorky’s quotes will illustrate. A close artist friend of Arshile Gorky in New York city became the younger artist Willem de Kooning, later a leading artist in Abstract Expressionism. Gorky however got more and more involved with New York like the painter Matta, and the Surrealism leader Andre Breton, who labelled Gorky as a ‘real Surrealist’.
The painter artist Arshile Gorky was born in an Armenian province in the Eastern border of Ottoman Turkey. As teenager he witnessed the massacres of his people by the Turkish troops in 1915. After the tragic starvation death of his mother in 1918 Gorky and his sister Vartush – his younger sister – emigrated to the U.S in 1920. He settled around 1924 in New York City and enrolled at the National Academy of Design. But Gorky taught himself modern art, by visiting the museums and reading the modern art magazines. His most notably inspirations became Cezanne, Picasso and Miro.
Till about 1938 Gorky and Kooning were close friends. From 1940 Gorky engaged himself more and more with New York American Surrealism art scene. When Gorky showed his new work to André Breton in the 1940s, after seeing the new paintings and in particular ‘The Liver is the Cock’s Comb’, Breton declared the painting to be “one of the most important paintings made in America” The painting was shown in the Surrealists’ final show at the Galerie Maeght in Paris in 1947 and Gorky became close connected with the leader of the Surrealist group in New York, Andre Breton. It was the young painter Roberto Matta who encouraged Gorky to improvise and experiment with biomorphic forms and with automatic painting; a surrealism technique. Also many memories of his youth in Armenia – the gardens, the rural land, the orchards and the wheat fields – returned in his art, combined with his abstract developed pictorial vocabulary.
Gorky’s last years were tragic. A fire in his studio, a car-accident, a painful operation for rectal cancer combined with marriage problems led him into severe depressions and resulted in his suicide in July 1948.
Arshile Gorky: click for 28 of the American famous painter quotes
Adolph Gottlieb: 22 art & life quotes; American painter artist, famous for his modern abstract symbolist paintings
name: ADOLPH GOTTLIEB (1903- 1974) was a German-born famous American painter artist and sculptor. The exiled European Surrealists living in New York strengthened his own theory on the necessity of using visual symbols in art. Gottlieb acted a lot together with his painter colleagues Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman in public comments, developing art theory in debates, as one of the Color field painters in New York. Gottlieb was an artist with critical left-political comments and statements.
From 1937-1939, Gottlieb lived in the Arizona desert, and taking the cue from his environment he painted cacti and barren scenery. He transitioned from this into more Surrealist works like the Sea Chest which displays mysterious incongruities on an otherwise normal landscape. He expresses space most fully in his mature works. It is then that he conveys to the viewer the expansiveness he must have felt looking at Arizona desert sky, although he distillates this expansiveness into a more basic abstract form.
During World War 2, Gottlieb encountered exiled Surrealists in New York; they added to and reaffirmed Gottlieb’s belief in the subconscious as the well for evocative and universal art. This belief led to visual experimenting with basic and elemental symbols. The results of his experiments manifested themselves in his famous series ‘Pictographs’ which he made during 1941-1950. His symbols reflect those of indigenous populations of North-American areas and the Ancient Near East. However, once he found out one of his symbols was not original, he no longer used it. He wanted his symbols to have the same impact on all his viewers, striking a chord not because they had seen it before, but because it was so basic and elemental that it resounded within them.
In the 1950s Gottlieb began his new series ‘Imaginary Landscapes’ he retained his usage of a ‘pseudo-language,’ but added the new element of space. He was not painting landscapes in the traditional sense, rather he modified that genre to match his own style of painting. He painted simple figures in the foreground, and simple figures in the background, and the viewer can read the depth during this period. In his last series ‘Burst’ (read his quotes on this series, fh) which started in 1957, he simplified his representation down to two shapes discs and several winding masses. His Burst paintings are variations with these elements arranged in different ways.
Adolph Gottlieb: click for 22 of his famous American painter quotes
Philip Guston: 22 art & life quotes; American painter artist, famous for his modern Klansmen paintings
name: PHILIP GUSTON (1903- 1974), the painter from Canadian origin, was at first a famous artist in American Abstract Expressionism. After some years abstract gestural painting Guston made his final step into a very personal, representational painting style with the characteristic ‘Guston’ symbols and objects as his ‘Klansmen’, light bulbs, shoes, cigarettes, faces and clocks. Just a few of the American Abstract expressionist artists like Willem de Kooning could appreciate his shift from abstract into representation. A powerful influence which Guston experienced as an inspiration throughout his career, was the art of the painter Giorgio de Chirico
In the 1950s, Guston achieved success as a first-generation American abstract expressionist painter. During this period his paintings often consisted of blocks and masses of gestural strokes and marks of colour floating within the picture plane. These works, with marks often grouped toward the centre of the compositions, recall the “plus and minus” compositions by the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian who lived in New York after 1946 or the late Nymphea canvases by the French painter Claude Monet. Guston used a relatively limited palette favouring whites, blacks, greys, rose and reds in these works. This palette remains evident in his later – representational paintings.
As a result of the poor reception of his new figurative paintings, Guston left New York City and settled in Woodstock, far from the art world which had so utterly misunderstood his art. His contract with the Marlborough gallery was not renewed and, after a short period without any dealer, he joined the recently opened David McKee Gallery (he had known McKee at Marlborough) to which he would remain faithful until the end of his life. When criticized widely about the impurity of these later paintings, he criticized the ‘myth of purity’ by abstract art who saw the painting as ‘autonomous, pure and for itself’. Guston’s conviction was painting as an ‘impure’ phenomenon: ‘It is the adjustment of ‘impurities’ which forces its continuity. We are image-makers and image-ridden’. (read his quotes on this subject!). In this body of work he created a lexicon of images such as Klansmen, shoes, cigarettes, and clocks. In late 2009, the American McKee gallery in NYC, Guston’s historic art dealer, mounted a show revealing that lexicon in 49 small oils on panel painted between 1969 and 1972 that had never been publicly displayed as a whole. Guston is best known for these late representational paintings, which at the time of his death had reached a wide audience, and found great popular acceptance.
Philip Guston: click for 22 of his famous American painter quotes about his personal representational painting style after his period of American abstract-expressionism
Marsden Hartley: 26 art & life quotes; American painter artist, famous for his American wide landscapes
name: MARSDEN HARTLEY: artist quotes by the painter on his paintings, art, poems, spirituality & life in American Modernism; + short biography facts
MARSDEN HARTLEY (1877 – 1943) was a famous painter artist in American Modernism. Hartley – a hard laboring, spiritual painter who travelled a lot through Europe to learn European avantgarde; he became closely connected with the artists and the art of Cézanne and the Blue Rider artists (Kandinsky and Franz Marc). Many of his quotes here are taken from his letters and essays. Hartley created abstract as well as representational paintings, like portraits of fishermen and paintings of American landscapes; he was a deeply spiritual artist who was attracted by writings and poems of mystical American poets like Whitman and Emerson; he wrote also spiritual poems himself, as well as essays and diary notes. Marsden Hartley was an painter who – as an American exception- raveled and painted a lot as empathic painter in Europe; mainly in Germany and France. So he became very familiar with Cézanne and the Blue Rider artists (Kandinsky and Franz Marc). He strongly admired Kandinsky’s spiritual ideas on art and also Cezanne’s landscape paintings; Hartley stayed quite a while on the locations in France where Cezanne had painted his landscapes. American and European mysticism was an important inspiration source for Hartley’s painting art and life. Back in America Marsden Hartley became the painter of the huge and rough American – almost modern Romantic – landscapes, brushed in a very firm and expressive way. During his last years he stayed with fishermen and made very expressive, simple and strong portraits of these people. Religion kept always very present in his painting art and thoughts. Marsden Hartley had a friendly relation with the photographer Stieglitz who organized many exhibitions for the American Modernism painters like Hartley and Stieglitz’s own – much younger – wife, the famous American woman painter of huge landscapesGeorgia O’Keeffe.Marsden Hartley: click for 24 of Marsden’s painter’s quotes on the American landscape and spirituality in art
HANS HOFMANN: 33 art & life quotes; German-born American painter artist, famous for his push-pull art concept
name: HANS HOFMANN (1880 – 1966) was an artist of German origin; later in his artistic life he became a leading painter in American Abstract Expressionism in New York, famous for his expressive, energetic art and his innovative ideas for creating modern painting like his concept of ‘Push Pull’. A famous Color Field painting is his work ‘The Gate’, he painted circa 1959. Hofmann as senior artist was an important art teacher for Abstract Expressionist painters like Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, Helen Frankenthaler and Larry Rivers..
Hans Hofmann was a painter of German origin and became later an important and leading senior artist in American Abstract Expressionism. He was admired by other artists for the expressiveness he tried to achieve in his art and for his very personal, but nevertheless still conscious approach to his art. His emphasis on the spiritual power of color influenced the younger painters of Color Field painting. Of course Hofmann was very familiar with European modern abstract painting; so he became a bridge between traditional European art and the young, wild, modern artists in America. He engaged a lot in art discussions in New York art scene on Abstract Expressionism. Hofmann wrote many art essays which influenced the modern art scene in New York undoubtedly.
Famous and radical was Hofmann’s art concept of ‘push pull’ (read his quotes) which influenced many of the young American painters. Hofmann developed his own philosophy of art which he expressed in his famous art essays – an essential part of the most engaging discussions of painting in the twentieth century, ‘The color problem in Pure Painting –Its Creative Origine’.
Hans Hofmann: click for 33 of Hofmann’s painter’s quotes on the American abstract painting and his dynamic art concept of push-pull
EDWARD HOPPER: 21 art & life quotes; painter artist, famous for his paintings of modern American life in realism art
name: EDWARD HOPPER (1882 – 1967) was the famous painter of ‘American life’ and probably the most famous modern Realism painter in America. In his artist quotes Hopper tells his biography facts about life, art style, his personal philosophy and ideas on painting Realism. Hopper made several long stays in Paris and it was Paris the artist city which influenced him so strongly, Impressionism the most, In 1962 he called himself ‘still an Impressionist’! Hoppers most famous painting is probably Nighthawks.
Edward Hopper was and still is probably the most famous Realism painter of twentieth century American modern art. He stayed in Paris for several times during his starting years as a young painter and made during his stays series of impressionistic little paintings of the houses and streets in Paris, in brown and umber colors. He admired impressionist French painters like Degas, but also older masters as the Dutch painter Vermeer, and more classical realist artists.
Back into American life it was a hard job for Hopper to feel himself at home again. He had to work as an illustrator for several magazines to earn his money. When he was 42 Hopper became successful in selling his own paintings; he could effort to stop his illustrator jobs and to focus completely on panting. His famous characteristic American life paintings of lonely persons in large and rather empty interiors are in fact spare compositions with only a few details and just slight suggestions of symbolic or emotional content. The subconscious was an important area for Hopper as a source for his painting art.. Moreover he painted a lot of American landscapes and city-scenes.
Hopper started already to sign and to date his early drawings as a boy of ten. In 1899 he studied illustrations, and one year later already he enrolled the New York School of Art. He had his first stay in Paris during 1906 – 1907; he would have three important stays in this city and returned definitely in 1911. In 1913 he entered one oil painting in the famous New York ‘Armery Show’, which was over-shadowed by the European avant-garde artist, but nevertheless Hopper sold his work!
In 1920 Hopper had his first one-man show, in the Whitney Studio Club showing primarily his French paintings. It was in 1921 that Hopper began to focus on female figures in domestic interior settings, a theme which would become his most important theme for the rest of his life. His wife Jo was almost always his model and scarcely allowed other women to serve as model. Hopper became very old; he painted till 1963. He managed to finish his last famous painting ‘Two Comedians’ in 1965, despite his illness.
Edward Hopper: click for 21 of Edward Hopper’s painter’s quotes on American life in modern city
JASPER JOHNS: 37 art & life quotes; American painter artist between abstract-expressionism and American Pop-art, famous for his Flags-paintings
name: JASPER JOHNS (1930 – ), the contemporary American artist painter, famous for his ‘Flags, Maps and Number’ paintings, with his quotes on modern art painting; and biography facts. As young starting painter Jasper Johns was close friends with Robert Rauschenberg ; they shared studio for several years and both felt the necessity to react in their art on Abstract Expressionist painting. As main motifs for painting and printmaking Jasper Johns used simple daily life things like flags, maps, targets and beer cans.. what would evolve later in American pop-art flow by other artists like Warhol and Lichtenstein.
John’s art is often described as a Neo-Dada, as opposed to American Pop Art, even though his subject matter often includes images and objects from popular culture. Still, many compilations on pop art include Jasper Johns as a pop artist because of his artistic use of classical iconography.
Early works were composed using simple schema such as flags and maps, letters. Johns’ treatment of the surface is often lush and painterly; he is famous for incorporating such media as encaustic and plaster relief in his paintings. Johns loved to play with and presented opposites, contradictions, paradoxes, and ironies, much like Marcel Duchamps (who was associated with European early Dada)…
Johns’ breakthrough move – which was to inform much later work by others – was to appropriate popular iconography for painting, thus allowing a set of familiar associations to answer the need for subject. The abstract-expressionist painters disdained subject matter, it could be argued that in the end, they had simply changed subjects. Johns neutralized this subject, so that something like a pure painted surface could declare itself.
Famous American abstract expressionist painters like Pollock and Willem de Kooning subscribed to the concept of a macho “artist hero,” and their paintings stand effectively as a personal and existential signature on canvas. In contrast, Johns and his art paw Rauschenberg (who asked De Kooning a drawing to erase this, as an act of art and het got a very good one) seemed preoccupied with a lessening of the reliance of their art on indexical qualities, seeking instead to create meaning solely through the use of conventional symbols and signs. Some have interpreted this as a rejection of the hallowed individualism of the Abstract Expressionists. Their works also imply symbols existing outside of any referential context. Johns’ Flag, for instance, is primarily a visual object, divorced from its symbolic connotations and reduced to something in-itself.
Jasper Johns: click for 37 of Jasper Johns’ American painter’s quotes famous for his Flags, Maps and beer cans paintings
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