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This original painting displayed on the back cover is acrylic on canvas and measures 24”x36” and was painted in<br />
2001. "WARHOL NAKED" is my seminal piece in the creation of Cosmic Extensionalism a technique of art which I<br />
founded in 1999, and is individually exclusive to myself.<br />
This work was shown internationally in the media and on the internet in the promotion of the "Cosmic Starship<br />
Harley Davidson", the world's most valuable Art Motorcycle. The painting is a tribute and a celebration of my<br />
friendship with Andy Warhol who called me "The last wizard of art" in 1985, shortly before his death.<br />
Mr. Warhol taught me that individuality can overcome all opposition in life and in art. When you create something<br />
so unique and different from the norm, it takes years for the critics and the art world to catch up with proper<br />
recognition and pricing, and embrace the new concept. But as with all great artists as Van Gogh, Gauguin,<br />
Modigliani and Warhol, the pricing rises with the rarity and uniqueness, of the process used. This is what makes the<br />
creation of a masterpiece possible. The boldness to paint a vision that has never been painted before of something<br />
so different and rare, that it becomes iconic, and represents the essence of the artist; and his work.<br />
"Warhol Naked" is my vision of a man who created "soup-cans" as art, and was laughed at by the critics of his time,<br />
until he transformed himself into the most iconic-figure in the art world. Most of the soup cans did not sell when<br />
they were first exhibited in 1962 at 100 dollars each. The lack of sales did not deter Warhol, in 1962, as it did not<br />
deter Van Gogh or Modigliani earlier. Visionaries are free from the false concept of acceptance or non-acceptance<br />
of themselves, in their ideas, or in their creations, which limits all non visionaries into accepting conventional<br />
thinking instead of creating revolutionary ideas and artistic invention.<br />
By the time of his death in 1987 Warhol was the most famous artist in the world. The bright, bold, deeply shaped<br />
red, shining surface of the painting over the blue graffiti cosmic art written with the word “Warhol”, in<br />
"bright-white" acrylic paint, symbolizes Warhol's triumph over the art system of his time.<br />
Now everything is considered art, and everyone an artist, because of Andy's work, in art and film. Now everyone is<br />
a film maker. The freedom to be human, and try everything is the most basic human right in the world. Warhol was<br />
the liberator, of the human artistic experience. He was my friend, and this painting symbolizes my breakthrough in<br />
my own process of becoming the best individually unique artist of my time, and shunning all art systems. Cosmic<br />
Extensionalism Art is a direct result of the freedom I experienced when discussing art and technique, with the most<br />
famous pop artist in the world, Andy Warhol.<br />
WARHOL NAKED IS MY FINEST WORK, AND IN THE FUTURE WILL BE A LASTING ICON OF THIS CENTURY'S MOST<br />
APPRECIATED, NEW ART. EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE FOR THE VISIONARY WHO BELIEVES IN THEIR OWN WORK,<br />
AND THEIR OWN VISION. MOST PEOPLE AND ARTISTS IN THE WORLD ARE TAUGHT TO BELIEVE IN THE VISION OF<br />
OTHERS. THE ORIGINAL PAINTING "WARHOL NAKED" IS MY FINEST VISION.<br />
ARTIST JACK ARMSTRONG, September 14, 2017<br />
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