What is Carborundum?
Carborundum is the trademark name for silicon carbide crystals used as an abrasive material in sandpaper, cutting tools and grinding wheels. Artists originally used the substance for grinding lithography stones, but collagraph prints use it to create texture and tone gradients.
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Georg Jiri Dokoupil
Goldblau, 2018
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Antoni Clave
La Gloire Des Rols I, 1975
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EUR 1,130
Otto Piene
Zyklop Gelb, 1984
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EUR 1,900
Antoni Clave
Untitled, 1970
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EUR 1,130
Antoni Clave
El guant, 1971
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EUR 1,190
Jasper Johns
Untitled, 1988
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Jasper Johns
Untitled, 1988
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Carborundum
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Futurism was an early twentieth century art movement seeking to capture the energy of the modern world. Italian Filippo Tommaso Marinetti published his Manifesto of Futurism on February 20, 1909, launching the modernist movement. It denounced the past, and embraced technology and industry.
Xiamen Dada was a Chinese artist group from Xiamen city, on China’s southeast coast. The group, coming to prominence in the 1980s, explored the relationship between Chan Buddhism and European dada, embracing the absurd while using chance to determine the artworks made.
Drawings and writing painted, scratched or scribbled on a wall or any other surface mostly in a public place. Graffiti art is wide and ranges from small to elaborate writings or wall paintings. This art has been in existence since the ancient times with some of the commonly used examples dating back to Roman Empire, Ancient Greece and Ancient Egypt.
