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Veteran NYC art dealer William Acquavella often told his clients, “You can remake your<br />

money, but you can’t remake the painting, meaning: you can earn the cost back, but if you<br />

miss the opportunity to buy the work when it is available, it is likely gone forever”.<br />

The spectacular auction price of Basquiat’s Untitled (1982) on 18 May 2017 illustrates the enormous<br />

financial potential of Contemporary Art. Untitled was acquired on May 8, 1984 for $20,900 and 33<br />

years later it fetched $110.5 million. The initial investment yielded an average annual growth rate<br />

of +29.6% for a third of a century, whereas the S&P 500 posted only +6.5% annual growth.<br />

This magazine deals with Jack Armstrong the founder of Cosmic X art form and we believe that his<br />

paintings now appraised in the low millions are set for a meteoric rise this year because of their<br />

scarcity and the expected media blitz. Featured on the front cover are Armstrong’s boots. “Van<br />

Gogh painted pictures of Boots, but did not paint on his own boots. These pristine 1968 Tony Lama<br />

Boots, purchased at Sears, in 1968 by my father, and were only worn a few times by him, and once<br />

by me.“ Shame his uncle, astronaut Neil Armstrong, didn’t borrow them to take the first step for<br />

mankind on the moon! The price tag of $6M may be cheap for an artist who produced only 100<br />

paintings and vowed never to paint another canvas. These boots whilst useless to walk on the<br />

moon will make you unique on earth. These boots are really meant for “talking” not walking!<br />

Armstrong’s fame spread worldwide with the launch of his Cosmic Harley Davidson in 2010 with a<br />

reported sale of over $3M and now offered at $12M by it’s current owner. It is still being written<br />

about today. He launched his ARTbike at Dubai’s Big Boys Toys in 2014 with a price tag of $3M and<br />

created great concern from exhibitors such as Mercedes Benz, as he attracted a major share of the<br />

publicity from both TV and Press. Armstrong returned to his home in Mexico where and has not<br />

been seen in public since. Serious illness prevented him from appearing at a Court Hearing in<br />

California to answer a rape allegation which he vehemently denied and which experts in law have<br />

decried as a setup. All sorts of rumors abound as to his whereabouts and there have even been<br />

reports of his death. However his “boots” are alive and well! Given the price of his cosmic<br />

paintings and with savvy collectors such as Alice Walton, the Walmart Billionaire, and world class<br />

architect Narenda Patel, I’m sure many people would like to be in his financial boots.<br />

About half of his art pieces are in private hands and with the contemporary art market red hot and<br />

no eager sellers, the value of his Cosmic X art will explode on the first public sale announcement.<br />

Prices of $20M upwards could be achieved in the next few years because of the scarcity factor. You<br />

may want to buy someone a unique present or just add a hedge to your portfolio!<br />

Only 100 people in the world can ever own an Armstrong painting!<br />

STAR GLOBAL INTERNATIONAL INC.<br />

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BLACK STAR SAPPHIRE<br />

OWNER JACK ARMSTRONG<br />

COSMIC HARLEY DAVIDSON<br />

This magazine catalogues some 46 of the amazing 100 paintings of cosmic artist and art rebel Jack Armstrong whom I’ve<br />

known for 12 years. Letters by the artist himself regarding 3 of his seminal pieces, his Triptych, have been included.<br />

Jack now in his sixties and in declining health is still flamboyant, out spoken and even arrogant at times. However,<br />

underneath this mask, he is a very caring and sensitive man with a deep passion for the millions of forgotten artists who<br />

could never break through the wall of the “art cartel”, his name for the major art galleries and auction houses. These<br />

establishments alone decide who is to be or not to be the celebrated and wealthiest artists. Jack has shown another<br />

way with his new style of modern art, “Cosmic Extensionalism” and self-promotion, making it possible for an artist to<br />

jump the wall. With help from Star Global International he launched the Million Dollar Cosmic Harley in 2010. It is the<br />

most famous and expensive motorcycle in the world. He has never participated in an auction, yet he has made direct<br />

high-value sales to very wealthy buyers.<br />

As a young boy on a visit to the Smithsonian Museum with his mother, Jack was fixated by a unique and precious stone,<br />

a 733-carat sapphire, the Black Star Sapphire of Queensland. He promised his mother that one day he would buy the<br />

stone and he did. The stone spoke to him and told him he would be a famous artist and to paint exactly 100 paintings<br />

and never another. As a young model and artist in the 1980s in New York, Jack ran with such iconic artists as Andy<br />

Warhol, Jean Michel Basquiat, and Keith Haring. Indeed, Andy Warhol gave him the name “The Last Wizard”. I<br />

developed the concept of the “Million Dollar Harley” as a branding tool similar to Warhol’s soup can. My aim was to<br />

connect with a larger and more current generation and this rocketed Jack to super star status. The Cosmic Harley and<br />

artist even reached the cover of the Pakistani Times. They are now well entrenched in the psyche of many people and<br />

currently 2 books have chapters talking about the Cosmic Harley. Any researcher will see numerous articles in<br />

newspapers, magazines, internet, and on radio & TV. While not quite as famous as his uncle, astronaut Neil Armstrong,<br />

Jack is the subject of “The Last Wizard” a movie, staring Damian Chapa and Eric Roberts, being made soon about his life.<br />

Damian was introduced in the 1980s to Jack at a Warhol Party by Details Magazine’s brilliant writer Stephan Saban.<br />

With only 100 paintings in the entire world these colorful, multilayered, acrylic on canvas paintings, are held closely by<br />

savvy collectors who bought directly from the artist himself or through Star Global International. The art has Jack’s<br />

finger prints, thumb prints, hand prints, and DNA in all of the 100 paintings - a process cleverly devised by the artist to<br />

thwart forgeries. However, Star Global is keeping track and can authenticate all of the paintings. Twenty-five paintings<br />

are destined to form the basis of a museum which the artist will open soon. He aims to help other talented artists<br />

showcase their talents. This means only 75 paintings can ever be available for sale.<br />

About 80 of Jack’s paintings are 24” x 36” before framing and are multi-layered and amazingly vibrant. Starting prices<br />

are currently from $1,950,000 rising steeply to $12,000,000. Two paintings, 36” x 48”, are priced at $4,9500,00 each<br />

and one piece de resistance, “Cosmic Starship Arrival”, 48” x 60”, recently priced at over $6,500,000. Alice Walton,<br />

WalMart billionaire and owner of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, architect Narenda Patel, French superstar<br />

Michel Polnareff, Donny York of iconic pop group Sha Na Na, and Eric Roberts are listed among his famous collectors.<br />

Very recently a 4-page in-depth interview with Jack appeared in “Art & Museum”. This was submitted by Derek Culley,<br />

the artist who discovered Damien Hirst. The magazine is part of The Family Office Elite Magazine which goes to high<br />

net worth individuals usually with assets around $100 million + dollars. Jack’s paintings are destined to be virtually priceless<br />

and a renowned art valuation expert told Star Global that the “sky is the limit” since there are only 100 paintings.<br />

It is most unlikely that any of these paintings will find their way to market soon as most current owners are certain that<br />

the contemporary art market is expanding. Owning an Armstrong is a combination of something exclusive and of<br />

beauty to brag about. It’s also about possessing portable wealth. Jack’s story and art are uniquely based on his<br />

ownership of the Black Star Sapphire of Queensland which he and many believe has magical powers of good fortune!<br />

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Nino barrette is an art dealer, critic and lecturer<br />

with over 20 years of experience curating<br />

international exhibits and museum collections.<br />

The art of Jack Armstrong is fascinating to many and the question commonly asked of all pure abstract<br />

expressionist painters is “what makes this special?”<br />

Well of course, the response to that question is complicated and different for everyone as art is subjective so<br />

there is no right or wrong answer when interpreting the artists’ work.<br />

Jack Armstrong’s “Cosmic Extensionalism” is a new step forward in the evolution of art forms and it is often<br />

compared to the style that many associate with Jackson Pollock or his peers of the day. Is that a fair<br />

comparison?<br />

In my opinion, the two artists share a commonality in that they both are very deliberate in their technique<br />

with nothing random or accidental occurring in their paintings. Furthermore, the works have a rhythmic dance<br />

of intertwining paint and they share an audacity and boldness to break new ground separating themselves<br />

from the masses. Accepting those similarities, one next has to recognize the significant differences between<br />

the artists’ works to gain an understanding and appreciation of the unique art style that Jack Armstrong has<br />

created.<br />

Jacks “Cosmic Art” is driven by a mystical force that emanated from the “Black Sapphire of Queensland.” That<br />

force compelled him to create a very specific number of paintings in a very specific manner. Each of the 100<br />

works is deliberately constructed with the lines, figures and movements creating the appearance of an<br />

accidental, non-compositional technique. The mysterious messages and words found in the lines of the<br />

painting are purposefully and strategically placed to deliver the cosmic energy within the painting to the<br />

viewer.<br />

The few owners of Jack’s “Cosmic Art” have a common experience in that they all mention an indescribable<br />

energy that seemingly vibrates from the paintings as they get near for viewings. This energy washes over them<br />

and creates a feeling of rejuvenation and vibrancy.<br />

With Pollack, it was likely a motivation to create artwork that separated him from the traditional style of the<br />

day and to that end he created his signature “drip and splash” or “action painting” technique, which was very<br />

avant-garde and revolutionized what was considered “fine art”.<br />

Regardless of opinion on what is and what is not “art”, Jack Armstrong is an exceptionally talented artist that<br />

has developed a unique body of work that is extremely finite and cannot be repeated or duplicated. The fact<br />

that collectors, investors, other artists and critics value the works in the millions speaks volumes to the<br />

current value and future speculative value of the artwork. All past fame and accolades aside, Jack’s art speaks<br />

for itself and much like it’s brash creator… it speaks very loudly to those that can hear its message.<br />

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I’m used to hearing older Sha Na Na<br />

fans say “That was my era” about the early rock n’ roll<br />

years. I’ve understood in a limited way, but now that I’m<br />

old enough to savor my own coming of mature age and<br />

its historical setting, the ripening of post-World War Two<br />

American confidence and our winning the Cold War sit<br />

more solidly as defining elements than the overly<br />

revered Woodstock festival or the classic movie Grease,<br />

both of which I performed in. More than cultural landmarks<br />

like those, the defining impression I have of “my<br />

era” has turned out to be the freewheeling exuberance<br />

of expression that I witnessed in New York City and Los<br />

Angeles as the century ripened. There was never a lack<br />

of remarkable creative characters in either of the towns<br />

where I spent most of my time.<br />

I had bought into the hippy sandals earthiness of the 60s<br />

completely enough to find myself repulsed by the “me<br />

decade” garishness that came prancing in with the disco<br />

glitter of the 70s. Yet the 1970s turned out to be the<br />

decade for television stardom and peak earnings for me<br />

and my rock n’ roll group ShaNaNa. It was also when<br />

the “misery index” worsened for my countrymen so as to<br />

bring their rejecting Jimmy Carter’s presidency and<br />

favoring Ronald Reagan’s claim that big government was<br />

“the problem.” Then followed the “morning in America”<br />

1980s with their economic growth and the disintegration<br />

of Soviet Communism, and it was evident that “the<br />

American century” could turn out to be, despite all the<br />

sporadic heartbreak and disorder, actually a valid<br />

descriptive phrase. Freewheeling ambition, excess, spiritual revivalism, and controversy were so common that<br />

we hardly took notice, and the flamboyance in the art of a young Jack Armstrong (even in the entourage of a<br />

celebrated Andy Warhol) could go un-noticed too. It caught my notice as a compelling embodiment of the<br />

spirit of the unfolding age that is “my era” only here in the new century.<br />

Seems to me, what we collect in art should reflect the frivolous side of ourselves along with the more<br />

pensive. I find both, to my surprise, in Jack Armstrong’s work. His paintings’ stunning richness of hue, before<br />

we knew computer graphics would be able to mimic it ever in our lifetime, typified our late-cold-war-era<br />

brashness. His casually hiding his own name in plain sight, and hiding some little-understood names of other<br />

things in plain site- - it’s a playful permissiveness that’s just bulls-eye on that brashness. And in my painting,<br />

titled “Tulemagic,” I find a glimpse of it that requires a gaze, again and yet again. I enjoy how it always<br />

provokes friends’ reactions, and for my own part, I’ve even recorded a song about it.<br />

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TULE<strong>MAG</strong>IC<br />

“Seems to me, what we collect in<br />

art should reflect the frivolous<br />

side of ourselves along with the<br />

more pensive. I find both, to my<br />

surprise, in Jack Armstrong’s<br />

work. His Paintings’ stunning<br />

richness of hue, before we knew<br />

computer graphics would be able<br />

to mimic it ever in our lifetime,<br />

typified our late-cold-war-era<br />

brashness. His casually hiding his<br />

own name in plain sight, and hiding<br />

some little-understood names of<br />

other things in plain sight - - it’s<br />

a playful permissiveness that’s<br />

just bulls-eye on that brashness.<br />

And in my painting, titled<br />

“Tulemagic,” I find a glimpse of it<br />

that requires a gaze, again and<br />

yet again. I enjoy how it always<br />

provokes friends’ reactions and<br />

for my own part, I even recorded<br />

a song about it.<br />

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The biopic about the modern cosmic artist is entitled “The Last Wizard” (A nickname given to Jack by his close<br />

friend the world renowned artist Andy Warhol). Chapa said Details Magazine's brilliant writer Stephan Saban<br />

introduced him to Warhol in New York during the 80’s. "It was there I also met a young up-and-coming model,<br />

Jack Armstrong."<br />

Jack Armstrong later became a very wealthy and controversial artist.<br />

Chapa also stated, “When I heard of the recent tragic but compelling story of Jack Armstrong’s controversial<br />

life, and my memories of Warhol/Armstrong in the 80’s, I began to get impassioned by the project.”<br />

Controversial filmmaker Damian Chapa also produced 'El Padrino' in which Chapa directed Academy Award<br />

winners Faye Dunaway, Jennifer Tilly, and Gary Busey, along with Academy Award nominee Brad Dourif. Chapa<br />

is no stranger to biopics; Chapa is the only filmmaker in the world who has produced and directed films on the<br />

life of Marlon Brando and Roman Polanski.<br />

Chapa won the best director and best drama awards for "Brando Unauthorized" at the New York International<br />

Film/Video Fest 2010. He also won the Best Production Award for his "Polanski Unauthorized" at Indy Fest.<br />

Recently, he was nominated for two NAFCA awards for his film "The DSK Story".<br />

In an interview, Chapa said, "Alleged felon/artist Jack Armstrong is right up my biopic alley."<br />

Star Global International, who was the creative force behind the “Million Dollar Harley” (painted by Armstrong),<br />

has been hired as a consultant for the movie.<br />

Many people don’t know that Jack Armstrong was the nephew of the famous astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first<br />

man to walk on the moon.<br />

Chapa said, "The film will be surreal at moments surrounding the strange story of how Jack Armstrong as a child<br />

spoke to the "Black Star of Queensland," a black, sapphire jewel that was in the Smithsonian Museum for years.<br />

The Black Star spoke back to Jack Armstrong telling him he was going to be the most famous cosmic artist ever."<br />

Chapa said he, "won’t shy away from the rape allegations that led to the arrest of the artist Jack Armstrong."<br />

The production begins on November 22nd, 2016, in New York City.<br />

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JACK OWNER OF ‘THE BLACK STAR SAPPHIRE OF QUEENSLAND’ REPUTED TO BE WORTH $100 MILLION.<br />

LAST SEEN BY THE PUBLIC AT THE ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM IN 2007. THE STONE GAVE HIM BOTH THE<br />

INSPIRATION AND ENERGY TO PAINT 100 COSMIC CANVASSES. HIS BELIEF IN THE <strong>MAG</strong>ICAL POWERS OF<br />

THIS WORLD FAMOUS 733-CARET GEMSTONE HAS MADE HIM VOW NEVER TO PAINT ANOTHER CANVAS.<br />

THE STONE, THE STORY AND THE STARS ARE WELL ALIGNED FOR A METIORIC PRICE RISE!<br />

JACK ARMSTRONG’S WORLD FAMOUS COSMIC HARLEY DAVIDSON - THE<br />

MOST EXPENSIVE MOTORCYCLE IN THE WORLD ! - LAUNCHED 2010. IT<br />

IS ON THE MARKET THIS YEAR AT $10 MILLION.<br />

JACK ARMSTRONG’S WORLD FAMOUS COSMICSTAR CRUISER<br />

ARTBike– LAUNCHED IN DUBAI 2014 AT $3 MILLION.<br />

Jack Armstrong, has been<br />

painting since he was 5<br />

years old. After arriving in<br />

NYC in 1979, he became<br />

friends with Andy Warhol,<br />

Jean-Michel Basquiat and<br />

Keith Haring. In 1984 after<br />

turning down a solo<br />

exhibition with the Leo<br />

Castelli Gallery in NYC, Mr.<br />

Armstrong has maintained<br />

his revolutionary antidealer<br />

stance and has<br />

never been represented by<br />

a dealer.<br />

JACK ARMSTRONG HOLDING HIS BLACK STAR SAPPHIRE, Mr. Armstrong founded<br />

THE LARGEST STONE OF ITS KIND IN THE WORLD.<br />

“Cosmic Extensionalism”<br />

revolutionizing modern art. Armstrong’s use of extreme<br />

color, texture and light with words magically appearing at<br />

different angles in the paint, allow viewers to experience<br />

universal cosmic energy, coexisting with his belief in<br />

inter-planetary and multi-dimensional extensionalism.<br />

Current prices and values range between $1.5M—$10M.<br />

Alice Walton, Michel Polnareff, Narendra Patel, Donny<br />

York, and Eric Roberts are listed amongst the wealth<br />

owners of his work.<br />

ANCIENT UNIVERSAL ROYAL CHILD<strong>MAG</strong>IC_COSMIC COSMIC DREAMSTAR FUTURE<strong>MAG</strong>IC 1 STAR KEY #733<br />

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Welcome to the summer issue of<br />

Art & Museum Magazine. This<br />

publication is a supplement of<br />

Family Office Magazine, the only<br />

dedicated Family Office<br />

publication with a readership of<br />

over 46,000 comprising some of<br />

the wealthiest people in the<br />

world and their advisors. Many<br />

have a keen interest in the arts,<br />

some are connoisseurs and other<br />

are investors.<br />

Many people do not understand<br />

the role of a Family Office.<br />

This is traditionally a private<br />

wealth management office that<br />

handles the investments, governance<br />

and legal regulation for a<br />

wealthy family, typically those<br />

with over £100m+ assets.<br />

Art & Museum is distributed with Family Office Magazine and will also appear at many of the largest finance,<br />

banking and Family Office Events around the World.<br />

Media Kit. - www.ourmediakit.co.uk<br />

We recently formed several strategic partnerships with organisations including The British Art Fair and<br />

Russian Art Week.<br />

Prior to this we have attended and covered many other international art fairs and exhibitions for our other<br />

publications.<br />

We are very receptive to new ideas for stories and editorials. We understand that one person’s art is<br />

another person’s poison, and this is one of the many ideas we will explore in the upcoming issues of ‘Art &<br />

Museum’.<br />

www.familyofficemag.com<br />

www.art-museum.com<br />

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INTERVIEW WITH JACK ARMSTRONG submitted by<br />

DEREK CULLEY printed in Family Office magazine<br />

ART & MUSEUM summer 2017 edition. Derek Culley<br />

discovered world famous artist ‘DAMIEN HIRST’.<br />

by Derek Culley<br />

Jack Armstrong has been painting since<br />

he was five years old. After arriving in<br />

NYC in 1979,he became friends with<br />

Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat &<br />

Keith Haring. In 1984, after turning<br />

down a solo exhibition with Castelli<br />

Gallery in NYC, Armstrong has<br />

maintained his revolutionary anti-dealer<br />

stance and has never been represented<br />

by a dealer. Between 1994 & 1997;<br />

Armstrong repurchased his early work<br />

and destroyed all paintings, vowing to<br />

create a new style for Modern /<br />

Contemporary Art. The years 1900 &<br />

2000 witnessed Armstrong founding<br />

“cosmic Extensionalism” revolutionizing<br />

Modern / Contemporary Art.<br />

Armstrong’s use of extreme colour,<br />

texture and light with words magically<br />

appearing at different angles in the<br />

paint, allow viewers to experience the<br />

universal cosmic energy, coexisting with<br />

Armstrong’s belief In inter-planetary<br />

and multi-dimensional Extensionalism.<br />

This is the foundation of Armstrong’s<br />

revolutionary work. Armstrong’s total<br />

output to date features 100 Cosmic<br />

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Extensionalism Paintings coupled with<br />

the most valuable motorcycle and art<br />

bicycle in the world. Plans for 2019<br />

include the introduction of the most<br />

expensive art automobile in the world.<br />

Other projects include the staging of<br />

the “Cosmic Firebird Ballet” Dance<br />

Concert choreographed by Valerie<br />

Mahabio plus 3 limited edition coffee<br />

table art books published by<br />

Armstrong.<br />

A & M:<br />

How did growing up in Midwestern<br />

United States form and inform your<br />

ambitions and dreams?<br />

Jack Armstrong:<br />

Growing up in Omaha in the 1960’s<br />

made you dream. You dreamed of<br />

California, Paris, Rome, Sydney, New<br />

York, London and all the Islands you<br />

saw in travel magazines. Rio to Bali to<br />

Asia.. The dreams took me to the most<br />

beautiful beaches in the world and the<br />

great cities with the finest art<br />

museums. I dreamed to paint what<br />

my hero Van Gogh did not have time<br />

to achieve, in the ten year period in<br />

which he worked. Omaha was a cattle<br />

stockyard town on the Missouri River<br />

with one gem of a museum named<br />

“The Jocelyn” Museum of Art. It was a<br />

pink granite palace that shone in the<br />

sun, given to the city by one famous<br />

local family that changed my life. I saw<br />

the old west masterpieces of Charles<br />

Russell and Frederic Remington and<br />

the treasures of the Pharaoh “King<br />

Tut.” But Van Gogh changed my life<br />

when I viewed his self-portrait and<br />

discovered myself. The golden mask of<br />

the “boy” King of Egypt seen thru the<br />

eyes of a seven-year-old boy was<br />

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magical. Inside a Greek Temple, on the Plains of<br />

Nebraska, this Museum became my center of magic &<br />

wonder, that would inspire my journey to find the<br />

“center” of my own magic, & somewhere, somehow,<br />

inside of myself, create a revolution of light and color<br />

that would shine as brightly in modern art, as Tut’s<br />

golden & turquoise mask, shone in his time.<br />

A&M:<br />

Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat are<br />

modern icons and readily recognised major artists. As<br />

a contemporary and friend of above artists; you have<br />

shunned Galleries and destroyed early works, focusing<br />

on producing the “100 Paintings”. Please discuss.<br />

Jack Armstrong:<br />

Having finished the 100 paintings in 2010 that I<br />

promised myself would be my total output as an artist<br />

after I repurchased my early work in the 1990’s and<br />

burned all of the paintings, I was re-imagining my early<br />

dream of painting a Harley Davidson. My early works<br />

were no different than what had been achieved by<br />

thousands of artists, even though I was the only artist<br />

ever in NYC, that explained to the most important<br />

Modern Art Dealer on the planet : Leo Castelli, that I<br />

was “not” ready for the solo show he offered me, in<br />

his Castelli Gallery in New York (1984). .“My friend<br />

Andy Warhol did not speak to me for months. Only<br />

Larry Rivers & Keith Haring understood. Roy<br />

Lichtenstein and Jean-Michel Basquiat were in their<br />

own world, and I went deeper into my own<br />

non-dealer, non-gallery experience.”<br />

A&M:<br />

Did this route to independence affect your ability for<br />

artistic recognition and successful sales?<br />

Jack Armstrong:<br />

It depends on which yard sticks one uses to measure<br />

success. Nicknamed “The Last Wizard” by Andy<br />

Warhol; who saw my work as more alchemy than art; I<br />

have followed “a true” path in the execution of my<br />

dreams and works. Amongst my peers and critics, I am<br />

respected. Collectors have acknowledged my work. For<br />

example, Walmart’s Alice Walton, Narendra Patel and<br />

Michel Polnareff, are internationally known collectors<br />

of my art works. My work is among the highest and<br />

fastest appreciating artwork in the world. My paintings<br />

have been sold for 700 thousand dollars to Six million<br />

dollars. As I point out above, my no-dealer and<br />

independent approach to collectors and critics have<br />

increased the value and uniqueness’ of my “100<br />

Paintings”. Cosmic Extensionalism is my religion.<br />

A &M:<br />

I am intrigued as to what inspires you and what<br />

“Cosmic Extensionalism” is about.<br />

Jack Armstrong:<br />

My goal and my muse, which is really the child still lost<br />

in wonder among paintings: in the “Muse”- ums of my<br />

youth, was to create something that people had never<br />

experienced before. “Cosmic Extensionalism” (founded<br />

1999 – 2000) which I named the style I paint in, is<br />

more than a new school of art. It is everything I<br />

dreamed possible long ago. Art dealers, gallery<br />

personnel, curators and art history experts today<br />

speak in gibberish. This is what they have been taught.<br />

Vincent Van Gogh taught us thru his life and work that<br />

the “Essence of life itself” only becomes visible when<br />

we believe in the power of our “own” creation. So all<br />

the theories of people who do not create “anything”<br />

except meaningless words to try and explain the<br />

“meaning” in many paintings that have no meaning &<br />

are hung on walls in the great dealer galleries and<br />

museums of the world, supported by “words” to<br />

somehow validate their “worth” in terms of price and<br />

significance seems absurd when considering Van Gogh.<br />

For me “Cosmic Extensionalism” is universal magic, a<br />

cosmic connection to the energy of trillions of galaxy’s<br />

and Channelling that power to everything we do or<br />

create. It is a universal essence of life, colour, magic<br />

and light.<br />

A&M:<br />

Why did you choose to immortalise the Harley<br />

Davidson to feature among your art signatures of a life<br />

time’s work?<br />

Jack Armstrong:<br />

Seeing my first Corvette’s in 1963-1966 was the same<br />

for a young boy, as looking at masterpieces in art<br />

museums. American dreams, on wheels. Exotic bright<br />

coloured paint, the fastest, most beautiful cars I<br />

thought, in the world. Listening to “Engines” that<br />

sounded like thunder-gods became our religion. Harley<br />

Davidson’s from that period were radical icons of lust.<br />

The ultimate, piece of motor art. In the annual custom<br />

auto and motorcycle shows in the Omaha Coliseum,<br />

the velvet ropes surrounding these wondrous<br />

machines became my friends, as I clung to the soft<br />

ropes with small hands and large dreams, I whispered<br />

to myself, “someday I will paint the finest art motor<br />

cycle and Sports car, in the world.” Gazing at those<br />

incredible machines, it seemed to me then, and still<br />

today, which everyone who ever painted no matter<br />

how high the level of perfection that they always went<br />

deep, in the sense of thickness of paint. No matter<br />

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how many layers of paint & lacquer that<br />

were applied, in the end, no matter what<br />

style and colour or pattern, all the same<br />

technique. Flat surface, without any<br />

texture, surface height or “explosion” of<br />

madness. Beauty without magic. I saw<br />

the possibility then, (in 1963) which was<br />

still true in 2010 when I finally achieved<br />

my childhood dream of painting what I<br />

believe to be, the most revolutionary art<br />

motorcycle in history. In 2009 I painted<br />

one shining new, Harley V-Rod that<br />

would become my art signature, of a<br />

lifetime’s work, & planning that could<br />

take me into Vincent’s cosmic world and<br />

beyond. Van Gogh was the first artist in<br />

history to create Revolutionary art.<br />

A&M:<br />

The Cosmic Starship Harley Davidson sold<br />

for $3million (2012) and was followed by<br />

the $3 million Cosmic Star Cruiser ART-<br />

Bike. What are your plans for the future?<br />

Jack Armstrong:<br />

I am in the planning stage to create the<br />

most expensive car in history, A “COSMIC<br />

ROLLS ROYCE” To be released for 2019,<br />

model to be announced, but it will be “a<br />

cosmic starcloud-convertible, price<br />

$100M. U.S. Dollars, with its own “English<br />

made” - 2019 “Cosmic Triumph” Motorcycle,<br />

(model also to be announced.)<br />

Additionally, this $6 Million Dollar Art<br />

Motorcycle will be mounted on its own<br />

custom clear plastic trailer and attached<br />

to the car. I choose to open this final<br />

exhibition of my career, combining the<br />

Classic British Marks of Rolls & Triumph,<br />

which will be an “Artistic Triumph” for<br />

the public and for art. Creating magic<br />

things change when positive things are<br />

done. Art is the most powerful force of<br />

change in the world as is love. Triumph<br />

and Rolls are pieces of art, and after they<br />

are magically transformed into rolling art<br />

objects through the vision of “Cosmic<br />

Extensionalism”, perhaps I can then<br />

change the life of other’s who need<br />

assistance. I would also mention that 1/2<br />

of the sale price of the Rolls and the<br />

Triumph will be donated to children’s<br />

charity of our choice to be announced.<br />

Because children; are truly the world’s<br />

future.<br />

Source of Biographical Data & answers:<br />

“Cosmic Dream Machine”<br />

www.jackarmstrongartist.com<br />

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1. The "COSMIC STARSHIP HARLEY:" Harley Davidson Motorcycle.<br />

2. “THE COSMIC FIREBIRD" original painting.<br />

3. "WARHOL NAKED" original painting.<br />

These 3 pieces listed above are my personal Triptych of Art, as the Cosmic Harley Davidson was completed in 2010,<br />

exactly {500} Years after the famous "Garden of Earthly Delights" triptych was completed by Bosch; in about 1510,<br />

now in the Prado Museum, Madrid." Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, oil on oak panels, 220 cm ×<br />

389 cm (87 in × 153 in), Museo del Prado, Madrid. Each of the 3 objects listed, were the seminal moments in the<br />

history of the art form I created, Cosmic Extensionalism.<br />

I feel the same way about the Cosmic Starship Harley, and the Cosmic Firebird Painting, works of art standing alongside<br />

Warhol Naked that will always define me, and the art creation, Cosmic Extensionalism. All 3 objects of my art,<br />

are each the reflection of the same dream, and the same artistic truth. Through Warhol, and all the visionary artists<br />

that came before him, I understood that to be the best, you simply could not conform or alter your vision, to please<br />

a dealer or a buyer of my work, because the conformity would have destroyed the unique imagination behind the<br />

masterpiece. Once imagination is removed, there is no masterpiece. This is true in all the arts, from the Individual<br />

art masterpiece, to film, music, & poetry—No Passion, No Imagination, No Fire, No Art. There is nothing of value In<br />

any object that was created without passion. There have been millions of paintings created and sold throughout<br />

time, and the few, that achieve the highest amounts at auction, become extraordinary examples of the artist's<br />

work, and the most uniquely powerful objects in our time.<br />

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The rarest ones, most reflective of the artist's life and style, become famous. When you say the words, Van Gogh,<br />

you think of Starry Night, or Yellow, Sun Flowers. The art would not exist without Vincent's creation. But Vincent<br />

would not have existed, as we now understand him, had he not created the seminal piece of his "new" style of art,<br />

which is his masterpiece, "Starry Night." Today, at auction it would bring 1 Billion Dollars or more, because it is the<br />

painting that most closely defines and identifies the artist in the art he created. There are many rare things in the<br />

world, that have rarity yet are similar to other things of the same type.<br />

My art and my life have only one meaning, and it can be discovered my passion for my work, which is reflected in<br />

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my writing about my art. My art is not rare because there are few things like it available on the market, but is rare<br />

because there is nothing else on earth that is like it.<br />

When I’m dead and when my art will sell for 1 Billion Dollars each, for Warhol Naked, The Cosmic Firebird, or the<br />

Cosmic Harley, people that want to own a piece of the artist's soul, who created the masterpiece, will gladly<br />

exchange money for that rare thing that can never be duplicated, the original masterpiece that is most closely<br />

associated with the artist in question, and the pieces that will always reign supreme at auction.<br />

These 3 art objects, will continue to define my art and my life's work, "Cosmic Extensionalism," long after I am<br />

gone, and my triptych is written about. If I had not imagined and then created these 3 objects, I strongly feel, my<br />

work as an artist would still be unknown, as my connection with cosmic energy, had not been completely realized,<br />

before 2001, and my creation of Warhol Naked. In the time period of 2001-2010, every great painting including the<br />

Cosmic Motorcycle, was produced.<br />

The Cosmic Firebird Painting Created in 2007, my middle period of Cosmic Extensionalism, for which I later produced<br />

2 Ballets done for film, is the culmination of everything I realized in my cosmic connection to the universal<br />

magic in art. It is nothing like any painting, before or after, and that is what places it exactly in the same category as<br />

Warhol Naked. Indeed there will never be anything like either one of these originals. The third and final piece of the<br />

puzzle of my Art Triptych, symbolizing the completion of my cosmic art journey of discovery, and celebration, happened;<br />

when the painting became alive in the lights of hundreds of photographers from around the world. The<br />

most iconic art motorcycle in history, the "Cosmic" Harley Davidson, literally came to life on Oct. 21, 2010, In Los<br />

Angeles. It has never been duplicated by any artist, or any corporation, and it will remain iconic as long as people<br />

continue to value original concepts that were unique, in capturing the attention of the entire world, and not singularly<br />

only the artistic world. I believe the bold and exotic coloring and shading of paint used in the creation of these<br />

three individual pieces, actually become one “A Triptych”, when viewed with the Harley in the center of the other<br />

originals. By channeling this unlimited cosmic energy into my work, and in creating cosmic extensions inside my art,<br />

is the true foundation of cosmic extensionalism, a kind of art magic, that Warhol recognized when he said my work<br />

was more alchemy than art, thus dubbing me, “The Last Wizard of art," in 1985. I had been experimenting with this<br />

energy and magic my entire life until it formed into a cognitive reality late in 1999, with "The Cosmic Style of Art,"<br />

that I am known for today.<br />

Vincent Van Gogh painted for the last ten years of his life and died at 37 years old. His seminal paintings were done<br />

in the last two years of his life. My work has taken over forty years to reach my peak. The best were created<br />

between 2000-2010. Exactly ten years, like Vincent.<br />

"These 3 pieces are the rarest in symbolic "essence," of art and artist, and each contain the meaning inside Cosmic<br />

Extensionalism Art, 1. Imagined, 2. Defined, and 3. Created, in the 21st Century. When you see them, you will<br />

believe in them also. This is my Triptych of Cosmic Art, and its Extensionalism into the cosmic magic, discovered in<br />

my work, by Warhol.<br />

Jack Armstrong, Original Artist, 2017, "All Rights Reserved."<br />

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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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