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INTRODUCTION 007 EXHIBITORS OIAF14 010 TOP 10 STREET ART 024FEATURED ART GALLERY 026 FEATURED ARTIST 027 GALO ART ARGENTINA 028

008 Oxford International Art FairPaints a picture of success

016 Global Art AwardsThe Winners

018 The reason why francis bacon’s ‘lucian freud’ is worth $142 million

Art News

018 About “Guernica”by Pablo Picasso

022 A Tribute ToAndy Warhol

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008 Oxford International Art FairPaints a picture of success

016 Global Art AwardsThe Winners

018 The reason why francis bacon’s ‘lucian freud’ is worth $142 million

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018 About “Guernica”by Pablo Picasso

022 A Tribute ToAndy Warhol

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IntroductionIssue #005

Welcome to the FIFTH issue of Condign Art Magazine. World Contemporary Art Magazine created for Art lovers, Art enthusiasts, Art collectors, Artists, Galleries, Art organisations and societies.

We are very excited to publish in this fifth issue announcing the latest Best Artist Award winners by Global Art Agency at the great Oxford International Art Fair held at the amazing Oxford Town Hall, which was visited by nearly 4000 people.

With the winter nearly behind us and the spring ahead of us we are looking forward to some contemporary colourful artworks and have listed the top 10 most populair street art pieces.

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NEARLY 4,000 art-lovers packed Oxford Town Hall for a weekend-long show of global talent. Oxford’s first International Art Fair, pictured, featured work from 150 artists – including many from Oxfordshire.

Organisers Joelle Dinnage & Natal Vallvé, inset, said: “It’s the first time Oxford has ever held such an art fair. We were completely overwhelmed by how many people came. It was great.”

The event started with an opening preview on Friday night, featuring music and live painting sessions. The fair drew to a close on Sunday afternoon. All of the artwork shown was available to buy, with some coming from artists based in Japan, Russia and India.

2015 OXFORD INTERNATIONAL ART FAIRThe Global Art Agency is very excited to already announce the second edition of the “Oxford International Art Fair” for 6th, 7th and 8th February 2015, again at the Oxford Town Hall. This second edition will be bigger and even better, with more rooms and spaces, more artworks for sale, and a special Gallery hall. This three day art extravaganza, is a showcase of modern and contemporary art in the beautiful setting of the city’s atmospheric town hall.

Visitors to the event will be able to admire the collections, meet the artists who created them and buy pieces for their home or work place. They will also be able to witness artists at work and add their vote to the Oxford International Art Fair Awards which celebrate the best artists on show at the exhibition.

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exhibitors

Katharine Dovewww.katharinedove.co.uk

“Loved being a part of the Oxford International Art Fair. Thank you for organising it so well. Sold enough paintings to allay financial worries with London studio rent until the end of the year and more too... I feel greatly encouraged after the show, ... invaluable experience.” – Dawn Reader

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Giulio Gomeswww.giuliogomes.com

Marina Jijinawww.marinajijina.com

“Thank you very much for everything. It was a very well organised event, and what a superb setting! I enjoyed taking part, and was lucky enough to sell 6 pictures Congratulations on the success and the feature by The Culture Show!” – Marina Jijina.

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exhibitors

“Six sales for me. Met some fantastic new clients and collectors. I will definitely be wanting to show again the next international event.” – Gareth Lloyd

Gareth Lloydwww.garethlloydart.com

Michelle Elwell Paintingswww.printersfingers.com

Alexiswww.alexisart.co.uk

Sue Hoarwww.suehoar.com

“An enormous and precious gift for the artist...” - Tatiana Loguinova

Michelle Elwell Paintingswww.printersfingers.com

Alexiswww.alexisart.co.uk

Becky Youngwww.beckyyoungartist.com

Dita Omurihttps://www.facebook.com/do.createart

Gianni Cordawww.facebook.com/giannicordaartdesign

Ant Carverwww.antcarver.com

“Thanks for putting on such a good event. I was really impressed with how well organised and advertised it was, the opening night was amazing! I thought it was really good and would love to do it again!” - Ant Carver

Samantha Paynewww.samanthapaynepainting.com

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2nd Prize: “Best Artist Award OIAF 2014”: Hayley Murphy

1st Prize: “Best Artist Award OIAF 2014”: Andy Wilx

3rd Prize: “Best Artist Award OIAF 2014”: Liviu Mihai

The Global Art Awards Ceremony at the Oxford International Art Fair 2014. And the winners are...

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1st Prize: “Best Artist Award OIAF 2014”: Andy Wilx 1st Prize: “Best GAA Artist Award” Lucas Gabellini-Fava

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The GAA Awards Ceremony at the Oxford International Art Fair 2014 was judged by a team of curators, gallery owners, art consultants and art collectors.

With Special Thanks to:Kieran Stiles Art Studios.Gareth Lloyd.Joe Thomas.The Queen’s Vice Lord Lieutenant - Mr John Harwood.

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While the world is scratching its head as it tries to digest the $142 million price tag slapped on Francis Bacon’s “Three Studies of Lucian Freud” at Tuesday night’s post-war and contemporary auction in Christie’s New York headquarters, the writing appears to have been on the wall for quite some time. As the ultra-wealthy become even wealthier, the top-end of the art market, along with real estate and other luxury sectors, have experienced an incredible surge as cash is being channeled into alternative investments. Add the rarity of the piece, and the performance of the contemporary art market, and you have the recipe for a global record.

After about six minutes of “fierce” bidding, as a spokesperson for Christie’s put it, several bidders had

taken the value of Bacon’s triptych from approximately $80 million, where it opened, to a final price of $127 million. After auctioneer Juri Pylkkanen hammered down the piece, the art world was left with a new auction record, with Bacon’s piece dethroning Edvard Munch’s “The Scream,” which sold last year at Sotheby’s for $120 million.

The total value of the auction also marked a new record, grossing $691.6 million and leaving in the dust none other than Christie’s’ last blockbuster evening sale held in May which fetched $495 million.

Three pieces sold for more than $50 million, with 11 pricing in north of $20 million, with a Jeff Koons and a

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Warhol going for nearly $60 million each.The figures are astronomical, yet that wasn’t unexpected, according to Thomas Galbraith of online auction house Paddle8. “This is consistent with what we’ve been seeing the market doing,” Galbraith explains. “Three Studies of Lucian Freud” won its place as the world’s most expensive artwork given a confluence of factors, from the intrinsic value of the work itself to the state of the market.

“Bacon has a relatively small body of work, he wasn’t nearly as prolific as someone like Picasso,” Katherine Markley, artnet’s lead market analyst, said. While there were seven pieces by Andy Warhol up for grabs during Tuesday’s auction, “only 10 Bacon lots have come to auction in 2013,” Markley added.

Furthermore, the piece has a sort of intrinsic, yet subjective, value given its importance from an historical perspective. “The subject matter is very important for the Bacon market given the well documented camaraderie and rivalry he had with Lucian Freud,” Galbraith notes. Given the rarity of the piece, the auction house will also feed the PR machine, drawing a crowd of clients and observers that creates a feedback loop that reinforces the importance of the auction and the piece, evidenced by the completely packed room at Christie’s on Tuesday.

Another major factor is the wind that has been blowing behind the contemporary market’s sales over the past decade. From total sales of about $850 million

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at the expense of the impressionist and modern market, as less and less top-tier pieces come to market. Munch’s “Scream” was one of the major works of the modern and impressionist age, allowing it to become the most valuable auction sale last year, despite the rise of the contemporary market.

The final, and possibly most important factor is the rise of the mega-rich. “Since the recession, the wealthy appear to be becoming even wealthier, while middle class wages are more stagnant,” said Galbraith, who notes this is apparent in the art market where the high-end is experiencing more activity. “The ultra high net worth and the newly wealthy are looking to get into the art market,” said Markley, who notes contemporary art is accessible and acts well as a status symbol. If the Forbes 400 is any indication, the wealthy are getting wealthier, with the 400 richest Americans now worth a cumulative $2 trillion, up $300 billion from a year ago and with an average net worth of a record $5 billion, an $800 million increase from a year ago.

The luxury market is firing on all cylinders, as Manhattan real estate brokers can attest to. This is very clear when one looks at global art markets, particularly at the high end in New York and London, and beyond. Bacon’s record piece is but one more example of this “new era” that many are calling a bubble. Yet, as long as the rich continue to get richer, there doesn’t appear to be any indication this trend will reverse itself.

Source: forbes.com / antiquesandartsireland.com

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About “Guernica” by Pablo Picasso

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Guernica is a painting by Pablo Picasso. It was created in response to the bombing of Guernica, a Basque Country village in northern Spain, by German and Italian warplanes at the behest of the Spanish Nationalist forces on 26 April 1937 during the Spanish Civil War.Guernica shows the tragedies of war and the suffering it inflicts upon individuals, particularly innocent civilians. This work has gained a monu-mental status, becoming a perpetual reminder of the tragedies of war, an anti-war symbol, and an embodiment of peace. Upon completion, Guerni-ca was displayed around the world in a brief tour, becoming famous and widely acclaimed. This tour helped bring the Spanish Civil War to the world’s attention.Although mention is frequently made of the pain-ting’s “return” to Spain, this is not in fact correct. Guernica was painted in Paris, where it was first exhibited, before being placed in the care of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), as it was Picas-so’s express desire that the painting should not be

delivered to Spain until liberty and democracy had been re-established in the country. On its arrival in Spain, in September 1981, it was first displayed behind bomb-and bullet-proof glass screens[3] at the Casón del Buen Retiro in Madrid in time to celebrate the centenary of Picasso’s birth, October 24. The exhibition was visited by almost a million people in the first year. Guernica was moved to its current permanent location in a purpose-built ga-llery at the Museo Reina Sofía in 1992.

Picasso, who had last visited Spain in 1934 and would never return, was living in Paris, where he had been named Honorary Director-in-Exile of the Prado Museum in 1936.

Guernica is grey, black and white, 3.5 meters high and 7.8 meters wide, a mural-size canvas painted in oil. Picasso’s purpose in painting it was to bring the world’s attention to the bombing of the Bas-que town of Guernica by German bombers, who were supporting the Nationalist forces of Gene-

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ral Franco during the Spanish Civil War. Picasso completed the painting by mid-June 1937. Picasso exhibited his mural-size painting at the Spanish display at the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (Paris Interna-tional Exposition) in the 1937 World’s Fair in Paris and then at other venues around the world.

Interpretations of Guernica vary widely and con-tradict one another. This extends, for example, to the mural’s two dominant elements: the bull and the horse. Art historian Patricia Failing said, “The bull and the horse are important characters in Spa-nish culture. Picasso himself certainly used these characters to play many different roles over time. This has made the task of interpreting the speci-fic meaning of the bull and the horse very tough. Their relationship is a kind of ballet that was con-ceived in a variety of ways throughout Picasso’s career.”When pressed to explain them in Guernica, Picas-so said,...this bull is a bull and this horse is a horse... If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but instinctively, unconscious-ly. I make the painting for the painting. I paint the objects for what they are.

Guernica is a town in the province of Biscay in Basque Country. During the Spanish Civil War, it was regarded as the northern bastion of the Re-publican resistance movement and the epicenter of Basque culture, adding to its significance as a target.The Republican forces were made up of assorted factions (Communists, Socialists, Anarchists, to name a few) with wildly differing approaches to government and eventual aims, but a common op-position to the Nationalists. The Nationalists, led by General Francisco Franco, were also factionali-zed but to a lesser extent. They sought a return to the golden days of Spain, based on law, order, and traditional Catholic family values.At about 16:30 on Monday, 26 April 1937, war-planes of the German Condor Legion, comman-ded by Colonel Wolfram von Richthofen, bombed Guernica for about two hours. Germany, at this time led by Hitler, had lent material support to the

“...this bull is a bull and this horse is a horse... If you give a meaning to certain

things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this

meaning”.

Nationalists and allowed for the evolution of Ger-man fighter and bomber doctrines. Later, intense aerial bombardment became a crucial preliminary step in the Blitzkrieg tactic.

After the bombing, it was through the work of the Basque and Republican sympathizer and The Times journalist George Steer that propelled this event onto the international scene and brought it to Pablo Picasso’s attention. Steer, who rushed to town, compiled his observations into an article that was published on 28 April in both The Times and The New York Times, and which on the 29th, appeared in L’Humanité, a French Communist daily.

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A TRIBUTE TO

ANDY WARHOL

Andy Warhol, August 6, 1928 February 22, 1987) American

artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known

as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement that flourished by

the 1960s.

Andy Warhol was born on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was the fourth child of Andrej Varhola and Júlia, whose first child was born in their homeland and died before their move to the U.S. Andy had two older brothers, Paul (born June 26, 1922) and John Warhola (May 31, 1925 – De-cember 24, 2010).

As a teenager, Warhol graduated from Schenley High School in 1945. After graduating from high school, his inten-tions were to study art education at the

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University of Pittsburgh in the hope of becoming an art teacher, but his plans changed and he enrolled in the Carne-gie Institute of Technology in Pittsbur-gh, where he studied commercial art. In 1949, he moved to New York City and began a career in magazine illustration and advertising. In 1949, he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in pictorial design.

During the 1950s, Warhol gained fame for his whimsical ink drawings of shoe advertisements. These were done in a loose, blotted-ink style, and figured in some of his earliest showings at the Bodley Gallery in New York. RCA Re-cords hired Warhol, along with another freelance artist, Sid Maurer, to design al-bum covers and promotional materials.Warhol was an early adopter of the silk screen printmaking process as a tech-nique for making paintings. His ear-liest silkscreening in painting involved hand-drawn images though this soon progressed to the use of photographi-cally derived silkscreening in paintings. Prior to entering the field of fine art,

When rendering commercial objects for advertising Warhol devised a technique that resulted in a characteristic image. His imagery used in advertising was of-ten executed by means of applying ink to paper and then blotting the ink while still wet. This was akin to a printmaking process on the most rudimentary scale.

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Prior to his diagnosis and operation, Warhol delayed having his recurring gallbladder pro-blems checked, as he was afraid to enter hospitals and see doctors.

after asking for the return of a script she had given to Warhol. The script had ap-parently been misplaced.

Warhol had a re-emergence of criti-cal and financial success in the 1980s, partially due to his affiliation and friendships with a number of prolific younger artists, who were dominating the “bull market” of 1980s New York art: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Julian Sch-nabel, David Salle and other so-called Neo-Expressionists, as well as members of the Transavantgarde movement in Europe, including Francesco Clemente and Enzo Cucchi.

Warhol died in New York City at 6:32 am on February 22, 1987. According to news reports, he had been making good recovery from a routine gallbladder sur-gery at New York Hospital before dying in his sleep from a sudden post-operati-ve cardiac arrhythmia.

Source: wikipedia / wikipaintings

It was during the 1960s that War-hol began to make paintings of iconic American objects such as dollar bills, mushroom clouds, electric chairs, Cam-pbell’s Soup Cans, Coca-Cola bottles, celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Marlon Brando, Troy Do-nahue, Muhammad Ali, and Elizabeth Taylor, as well as newspaper headlines or photographs of police dogs attacking civil rights protesters.

During these years, he founded his stu-dio, “The Factory” and gathered about him a wide range of artists, writers, mu-sicians, and underground celebrities. His work became popular and contro-versial.

On June 3, 1968, radical feminist writer Valerie Solanas shot Warhol and Mario Amaya, art critic and curator, at War-hol’s studio.

Before the shooting, Solanas had been a marginal figure in the Factory scene. Earlier on the day of the attack, Solanas had been turned away from the Factory

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The Most Popular StreeT Art Pieces

Source: streetartnews.net

1. Banksy. USA 2. JR. Germany

With the beginning of 2014, its time to unveil the 10 most popular pieces of the year (based on unique page-views) on StreetArtNews.

2013’s most notorious event has been Banksy’s month long show in New York City, “Better Out Than In” and to no surprise he ranks #1 this year. So that we are able to feature a variety of artists we’ve grouped the whole of Banksy’s epic October exhibition under the above stencil which was used to announce the 31 pieces that followed, and subsequently became the most viewed piece of the whole year.

Another trend is the explosion of Festival commissioned walls and murals created for special events, and the rapid decline of illegal works. To our knowledge, the only illegal piece from this top 10 is coming from Banksy, in contrast to over half of the pieces you’ll see below which were commissioned. However each piece came about, it’s safe to say that 2013 has provided us with some amazing art, and this top 10 certainly makes us look forward to next year. We’ll no doubt see some exciting developments in the continued evolution of the Street Art world.

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The Most Popular StreeT Art Pieces

9. Alexis Diaz. UK

7. Seth. France

3. Natalia Rak. Poland

5. Smug. Ireland

10. Zacharevic. Singapore

8. Suso33. Spain

4. Felice Varini. France

6. Etam Cru. USA

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Kieran Stiles - trained at Falmouth School of Art, and since then has had over 20 solo exhibitions and 30 selec-

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internationally.His exuberant and evocative abstrac-

tions of rugged coastland, are expres-sions of his sense of place.

Kieran also owns an art gallery ‘Kieran Stiles Art Studios’ in central Oxford,

where he is also known as a passionate and energetic tutor of painting, print-

making and drawing.

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Anita Kovacevicwww.fineartbyanita.com“My art reflects me; my thoughts, my emotions, my life experience; and is

essentially centered and inspired by my fascination with past.I try to stimulate the

viewers imagination by touching them through dramatic and poetic creations. I believe that all creative work is essentially

autobiographical; everything that we are, feel, our heritage, curiosity, imagination, longing

merge into our artwork.”

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“This is Love”

Under the pen name “Gallo”, works in paintings and fine arts. His labor reveals a strong personal impression, due to his self-taught technic and the energetic origin of his activity. Liberty and creativity are overwhelmingly proved in his drawings. Born and lives in Buenos Aires. From a working class italian family, he needed to choose and define his own future at early age, and did it by linking his strong emotions. At 16 years old (1986) created “Nosepick”, one of the first skater t-shirts brands in Argentina. Designed and produced by himself, he managed to open his own skateshop 2 years later and reached a well known possition since in the actual scene. Established in the textile industry, and after overcoming an important financial crisis, Gallo takes the art path since

2007. Versatile, finds his own way to the crative process, and does so by creating new characters and illustrating possible relations between them. Rey ki the dog, Bocota (big mouth), El gallo or Pez (fish), are some of the recurrent identities that emphasize his personal style. Nature inspiration, heavy black strokes, a bright and genuine color palette, stand out in his work. This unique story that blends art and industry, is traveled firmly by Gallo with no prejudments. His paintings and objects join together with joy into different boundaries, shining with great vitality.

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