{"id":37226,"date":"2019-07-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/bmw-m1-art-car-2\/"},"modified":"2020-10-07T08:49:11","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T08:49:11","slug":"bmw-m1-art-car-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/bmw-m1-art-car-2\/","title":{"rendered":"BMW M1 Art Car"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Combining vehicles and art is not really a new idea. Already in the Middle Ages paintings were made, on which carriages or agricultural vehicles can be seen. Later, talented artists also made drawings, watercolors or oil paintings of trains, planes and automobiles. However, to create a work of art on a car was a revolutionary idea in 1975. Herv\u00e9 Poulain, a French auctioneer and hobby racing driver, managed to convince the American artist Alexander Calder to design a BMW 3.0 CSL in his colors and designs. Calder painted a scale model of the car, which was then transferred to the original vehicle by the talented painter Walter Maurer. The same was true for the second BMW Art Car, which was created one year later by Frank Stella on the basis of another 3.0 CSL. Also Roy Lichtenstein, who was the third artist to create an Art Car based on a BMW 320i Turbo Group 5, gave Maurer a painted model car and left it to him to transfer the design by paint gun.

But then BMW agreed with most famous artist, who ever designed an Art Car to date: Andy Warhol. After some unsuccessful attempts with model cars, the American Pop Art artist insisted on painting the original car – an M1 Group 4 racecar – directly. For this purpose, Walter Maurer had specifically searched for appropriate paint material that would hold on to the sheet metal, not run directly, and could then be protected with clear lacquer. After all, the M1, as all three Art Cars before, should go racing. After only about 26 minutes the master artist already put his brush down, examined his work and was content with himself and the achievement: “I attempted to show speed as a visual image. When an automobile is really travelling fast, all the lines and colours are transformed into a blur. I love this car. It\u2019s more successful than the artwork.”<\/p>\n\n\n

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