Art Car

An art car is a car that is deliberately designed as a work of art. Unlike also individually designed custom cars of artistic claim is in the foreground.

Art Cars emerged first from the artistic design will by amateur artists, about the hippies in the 60s in the U.S.. The psychedelic -designed former school bus Further the group The Merry Pranksters became known.

Demarcation

Meant by Art Cars are just cars that are designed as such artistic, but retain their function as cars, not cars that are parts of works of art they loose their function, eg, buried, embedded in concrete, be divulged or welded to decay. An artist who used cars for art, for example, is Wolf Vostell.

BMW

Main article: BMW Art Car

The idea to design cars by recognized artists, had the French auctioneer and racing driver Hervé Poulain. Due to his initiative Alexander Calder painted a BMW 3.0 CSL 1975. A year later Plated New York Frank Stella a white BMW with black lines. These two racing cars, as well as later by Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol (1979) and Jenny Holzer designed, took part in Le Mans 24 - hour race.

More cars were designed by AR Penck, Robert Rauschenberg, Ernst Fuchs, Ken Done, Michael Jagamarra Nelson, Matazo Kayama, César Manrique, Esther Mahlangu, Sandro Chia, David Hockney, Olafur Eliasson (2007) and Jeff Koons (2010).

Art Cars have been or will be exhibited in museums such as the Louvre in Paris, the Royal Academy of Arts in London and New York's Whitney Museum of American Art, Venice's Palazzo Grassi, Sydney's Powerhouse Museum and the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Bilbao.

Media Art Car

The Leipzig media artist Martin Höfer took up the idea of the Art Cars on again and designed a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup, which took part in the entire 2012 season in the DTM at the Porsche Carrera Cup Germany. Was piloted in the Media Art Car by Christina Nielsen, who went to the start for the team Farnbacher Racing.

Film

1981 John Carpenter used in his film The Rattlesnake designed as a Art Car Cadillac Fleetwood.

Harrod Blank turned three documentaries about art cars, built themselves three such cars and founded the second largest Art Car Festival in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Other examples

• One of the famous Art Cars is a Rolls- Royce, John Lennon of gypsy artists let the paint.

Festivals

With the extreme and funniest Art Cars can be observed on the art, self- presentation, Party and Art Car Burning Man Festival.