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In the late 1960s, on the heels of the New York Pop Art Movement, a renegade group of Venice Beach and Santa Monica-based painters, sculptors and photographers began to implement advancing technology and unusual materials in their gutsy artistic creations. The maverick attitudes and formidable skills of the artists combined with Southern California's free expressionism and "hang loose vibe" to give birth to the LA School of Art. Also known as the Light and Space Movement, the local art experiment exploded and grabbed headlines around the world.
The bold paintings, pioneering sculpture and inventive photography of the prestigious Azzurra Art Collection celebrate the LA School of Art. More than 150 pieces-from Andy Warhol and Ed Ruscha to Billy Al Bengston and Roy Lichtenstein-grace Azzurra's lobby, gathering spaces and public areas. Each residential level is dedicated to a different artist; every floor transformed into its own private and intimate gallery.
Dennis Hopper
Jasper Johns, 1964
Photograph
40" x 30"
40" x 30"
Jasper Johns is a true master of contemporary art and one of today’s most brilliant living artists. He is known for subject matter such as flags, targets, letters and numbers, his lush treatment of the painting surface and the incorporation of wax-based paint and plastic relief into his paintings. Johns’ “Gray Numbers” was resold in the secondary market—from one collector to another—for over $40 million: the highest price ever to have been paid for a work by a living artist.