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The 5\u00a0Best BMW Art Cars<\/h2>\n

The team here at Supercars.net<\/a> was recently discussing how we look at cars as art. That got us thinking about the more literal “cars as art” projects over the years. Clearly the most iconic car projects are the The BMW Art Car Projects. The BMW<\/a> Art Car Project was introduced by the French racecar driver and auctioneer Herv\u00e9 Poulain, who wanted to invite an artist to create a canvas on an automobile.<\/p>\n

In 1975, Poulain commissioned American artist and friend Alexander Calder to paint the first BMW Art Car. This first example would be a BMW 3.0 CSL which Poulain himself would race in the 1975 Le Mans endurance race.<\/p>\n

Since Calder’s work of art, many other renowned artists throughout the world have created BMW Art Cars, including David Hockney, Jenny Holzer, Roy Lichtenstein,Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol. To date, a total of 17 BMW Art Cars, based on both racing and regular production vehicles, have been created.\u00a0While all 17 BMW Art Cars are beautiful and unique, we have our favorites, so we pulled together a list of the top 5 BMW Art Cars below.<\/p>\n

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Alexander Calder\u00a0– 1975 BMW\u00a03.0 CSL<\/h2>\n

In 1975, Calder was commissioned to paint a BMW 3.0 CSL, which would be the first vehicle in the BMW Art Car Project. Calder used primary colors and painted\u00a0them in broad swathes across the paintwork of the BMW 3.0 CSL. The use of differing colors within the individual elements of the car\u2019s structure adds to the illusion of movement within the picture as a whole.<\/p>\n

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Roy Lichtenstein – 1977 BMW 320i Group 5 Race<\/h2>\n

The Group 5 320i was a monster, with aero that made the CSL look weak.\u00a0Lichtenstein said about his design, “I wanted the lines I painted to be a depiction the road showing the car where to go,” said Roy Lichtenstein commenting on his design of the BMW 320i. “The design also shows the countryside through which the car has travelled. One could call it an enumeration of everything a car experiences \u2013 only that this car reflects all of these things before actually having been on a road.”<\/p>\n

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Andy Warhol –\u00a01979 BMW M1 Group 4 Race Version<\/h2>\n

It takes forever to build the M1 and along comes Warhol and spends 20 minutes throwing paint all over the pace and creates one of the most iconic art cars ever.\u00a0Andy Warhol immortalized himself in this M1.\u00a0His work went on display as early as 1952 in New York. In 1956 he received the coveted \u201cArt Directors Club Award.\u201d At his legendary \u201cFactory,\u201d at which he employed a whole team of workers, classic art concepts were negated and overturned in an unprecedented manner.<\/p>\n

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Jenny Holzer –\u00a01999 BMW V12 LMR<\/h2>\n

The Art Car designed by the American concept artist Jenny Holzer is adorned with messages which “will probably never become void”. Her concept is based on traditional colors and materials used in motor racing.\u00a0This and other provocative messages glare at the beholder from the otherwise white bodywork of the 15th Art Car. Instead of chrome, a light and shiny foil was used for the lettering to avoid increasing the weight of the BMW V12 LMR. Known for being critical of western society, Holzer nevertheless grew up \u201csurrounded by cars since I went to kindergarten,\u201d as the daughter of a car dealer.<\/p>\n

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Jeff Koons –\u00a02010 BMW M3 GT2<\/h2>\n

As part of his creative process, the artist collected images of race cars, related graphics, vibrant colors, speed and explosions. The resulting artwork of bright colors conceived by Koons is evocative of power, motion and bursting energy. Its silver interior along with the powerful exterior design, the Art Car will impart a dynamic appearance even when it\u201fs standing still.\u00a0It was unveiled to the world at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in June 2010 \u2013 to great acclaim! The media and art magazines from all over the world carried reports on the 17th model in the Art Car series. The car bears the racing number 79 \u2013 a tribute to the BMW M1 body work-over presented by Andy Warhol in 1979.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 5\u00a0Best BMW Art Cars The team here at Supercars.net was recently discussing how we look at cars as art. That got us thinking about the more literal “cars as art” projects over the years. Clearly the most iconic car projects are the The BMW Art Car Projects. The BMW Art Car Project was introduced by the French racecar driver and auctioneer Herv\u00e9 Poulain, who wanted to invite an artist to create a canvas on an automobile. In 1975, Poulain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":824668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226,477],"tags":[6197,22552,228,18108,22539],"class_list":["post-290818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bmw","category-special-lists","tag-best-cars","tag-best-cars-brand-cars","tag-bmw","tag-bmw-lists","tag-special-lists"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Best BMW Art Cars<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/bmw-art-cars\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Best BMW Art Cars\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The 5\u00a0Best BMW Art Cars The team here at Supercars.net was recently discussing how we look at cars as art. 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