by prosk8ter
In this article we’ll get to know a few things about Pushwagner’s history and his pictures and arts. When he was a kid, he went through a car accident. It was so brutal that he had injuries for two years. Then he learned how to draw and paint while he was looking out the window, seeing other children play. Later in his youth he was so poor that he needed to paint and sell the arts for living. He was doing art in the junk market. Now his work is worth up to millions of Norwegian kroners in the avant-garde art market.
Pushwagner started on a more serious level, with
art, when he was around 18 years old. His did single artist production, with a
small scale of outsourcing.
He lived a life like a roller-coaster, with ups and downs. He was addicted to
drugs, and were doing a lot of drugs while he was painting. Maybe that’s the
reason why his pictures looks like they do. He used a lot of vibrant colors,
and he stands out by other artists when it comes to drawing faces and people.
In many of his pictures he has people and faces, and if you take a good look,
you can see a difference between the faces. Even though they looks like each
other in some point of view, he has drown every single face in their own way.
The best-seller is the picture “Vertigo 23” who
was sold out for 1.3 millions Norwegian kroners after his death. The picture
contains skyscraper in Manhattan with faces in every window. Some people think
it’s Pushwagner’s face, even though nobody has confirmed this.
In the very beginning he was selling his pictures for living, to earn enough
money for food and drugs, with commercial intentions. He was still living on
the street.
After a short term progress, he was planning to build his own gallery. But the
breakthrough didn’t happened before the year of 2008. He had his own art
collection, and started to be known for his graphical, colorful and
overwhelming art in many countries. The first gallery who was showing his
pictures was the gallery “Fineart” at Tjuvholmen in Oslo, Norway. This was in
2011. He got so much attention that they had a new show in the gallery in 2014,
which earned 15 millions Norwegian kroners.
He died in 2018, right before he was going to show his newest pictures. He said to the lawyer that he wanted the show to find place even though he was gone. And it did.
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