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Art. It usually looks a lot like bedding or waste or animal corpses or bare ladies. But not in Bavaria. BMW makes it look like cars. Only jazzier.
To add said jazz, each year it enlists people like Alexander Calder, Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, A.R. Penck, David Hockney, Jenny Holzer and Olafur Eliasson to come and daub stuff on its latest models. And we have it on good authority that they're all very well known.
And just in time to coincide with the 40th anniversary of BMW's annual cultural insertion, they've released this rather lovely video of all 17 Art Cars.
It includes retro race footage and commentary from the artists and some other people that look at art and talk about it for a living.
We've also assembled this brilliant gallery of all the art cars ever created, which should be clicked through as a matter of urgency.
After that, watch the boys do their own art on a BMW 635CSi.
Which is your favourite? And would you let any artists scribble on your car?
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What do you think?
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Gerlich commented on this article
at 03:08 pm on 14 July 2011
I've always dreamt about this, first...
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350zedRoadster commented on this article
at 03:24 pm on 14 July 2011
Pretty sad that your dreams and aspirations are to be the first annoying person to say "first"... without actually having any opinion or interesting remarks. Watching that F1 car shoot paintballs at him is hilarious!
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tarmyg commented on this article
at 05:20 pm on 14 July 2011
The 'art' video is 40 minutes long - f*** that!
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Emmster_TG commented on this article
at 05:23 pm on 14 July 2011
If only they did this type of art at school!
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One-Eyed-Jacks commented on this article
at 07:12 pm on 14 July 2011
I remember seeing pics of BMWs art cars when I was a kid, I think it was Warhols stuff. It would be really terrific if they would take these on tour, showing them off at major musuems accross around the State!
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