ART versus BEAUTY
NEW IN YOUR BOOKSHOP We live in an era that constantly exposes us to contemporary art, a greater range of which is on offer than ever before. New art museums and galleries display an abundance of recent works, which are increasingly being traded online. All the same, contemporary art can be confusing and controversial. Adrian […]
SH*T SHOCK ART
SHIT SHOCK ART – Art criticism for connoisseurs Today’s art market appears to be interested only in a world of likes-robots. The artistic values have ceased to be relevant. The art lover has stopped ‘looking’, but is feathering his nest by ear, ‘eyes wide shut’! In this world, where the art trade is eclipsing the […]
The Brain Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol made art with machines and became the hip visionary of a new age of art. From his Factory he replaced eight hundred years of brush painting with silkscreen printing. The ‘happy flower power’ period of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll also made Warhol’s flower the symbol of ‘his own pop culture’. The […]
SH*T SHOCK ART
Adrian David is an internationally known art collector. He analyses art with his sharp expertise and rejects the excess of what is being called ‘art’. As an art expert, he proves how SH*T festers and SHOCK reigns throughout the centuries. His astounding art analysis teaches us to understand and love modern art. With Art criticism […]
Hans Fohan – Amor Vacui
Hans Fohan’s paintings distance themselves with great silence from the excess with which society today is saturated. His instinct for purity leads the viewer into the aesthetic experience of the unspeakable, like poetry that avoids all superfluous words. Fohan paints what he feels. He embraces the emptiness and chooses the Amor Vacui. In his existentialist philosophy […]
Homo Arte
Art collector and expert Adrian David, passionate about modern art from an early age, has built up a top collection of modern art, from 1880 to the present day, in a highly individual and critical way. In doing so, he focuses on both the West and the East: École de Paris, American School and the […]