Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter - Red-Blue-Yellow - 1972 - Oil on canvas - 59 1/16" x 59 1/16" (150 x 150 cm) - Di Bennardo Collection (click photo for larger image)Gerhard Richter - Paul Valery - (From "48 Portraits") - 1971-72 - Oil on canvas - 27 9/16" x 21 11/16" (70 x 55 cm) - Museum Ludwig, Cologne (click photo for larger image)Gerhard Richter is a pre-eminent post WWII (born 1932) German visual artist, whose youth was marked by the Nazi and Communist regimes in Germany. Richter has simultaneously produced abstract and photorealistic painted works.

Who Owns Street Art?

Banksy - Rat - This rat's graffiti is placed on City Road, London, UK. (click photo for larger image)When famous street artist Banksy “tags a work of art on a slab of concrete or a street corner, he means for it to stay there. That’s not always the case though, because technically, he has no control over what happens to it.” Then we hear that Banksy works sell for over a million bucks. So...we wonder...who owns street art?

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The Great American Nude

Tom Wesselmann - Great American Nude, 2 - 1961 - Synthetic polymer paint, gesso, charcoal, enamel, oil, and collage on plywood - 59 5/8 x 47 1/2" (151.5 x 120.5 cm) - Larry Aldrich Foundation Fund - Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) New York (click photo for larger image)Tom Wesselmann (American, 1931–2004) was a Pop artist best known for his series "The Great American Nude," which includes overtly erotic female nudes in bright, primary colors.

Wangechi Mutu: A Warrior Woman and Her "Warrior Women"

Wangechi Mutu, "Sit squat siamese", 2012, Collage on linoleum, 20" H x 18" W (50.8 cm H x 45.72 cm W), Photo Credit: Robert WedemeyerOne of the most dramatic artists to emerge from Africa in the past decade is Kenyan-born, Brooklyn-based artist Wangechi Mutu (born 1972). Mutu is best known for her elaborate collaged works on paper and Mylar polyester film.

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Through the Lens of Eggleston

This photograph, taken by William Eggleston for WSJ. Magazine, is of some of the master’s Leica and Canon cameras. (click photo for larger image)"The selection of William Eggleston’s photographs, ‘At War with the Obvious,’ currently on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, reminds us why he an American master.” His work was also recently featured in the June issue of the WSJ Magazine. See more of his work and access related articles here.