Life imitates Art

Mr. Brainwash - Life imitates Art

The silkscreen print by Mr Brainwash, Life imitates Art was made in 2020 and is a limited edition of 95.

The work depicts a child imitating the protagonist of a painting on the wall, none other than Banksy's famous Flower Thrower. Banksy is launching a book entitled Art for Dummies in place of the original's bouquet of flowers. This is a reference to the well-known series of For Dummies manuals, which aim to be accessible guides for everyone in a wide variety of fields.

Life imitates Art measures 91x91 cm and is hand-signed by the artist.

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Mr. Brainwash - Life imitates Art - 2020 - Limited edition of 95 pieces - 91x91 cm

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• 1 - Why and How to Buy Mr Brainwash Art for Sale on Deodato
  • 1.1 - How to Buy Mr Brainwash Original Art For Sale - Prices and Signature
    • 1.1.1 - Certificate, Signature and Price Range
    • 1.1.2 - The Certificate of Authenticity - COA of Unique Pieces
  • 1.2 - Why Invest in Mr Brainwash? - Net Worth and Artist's Choice
• 2 - Who is Mr Brainwash aka Thierry Guetta?
  • 2.1 - 2008 - First Exhibition of Mr Brainwash: Life is Beautiful
  • 2.2 - How Thierry Guetta becames Mr Brainwash: Exit Through The Gift Shop
  • 2.3 - MBW? Banksy? Is Mr Brainwash Banksy?
  • 2.4 - Mr Brainwash and Music Collaborations
• 3 - Mr Brainwash Art and His Icons
  • 3.1 - Famous Artist's Subject of Mr Brainwash Art
  • 3.2 - Celebrities Subject of Mr Brainwash Artwork
  • 3.3 - Comics Subject of MBW Art Work
  • 3.4 - The Writings inside Mr Brainwash Art
  • 3.5 - Life is Beautiful: Not Only an Exhibition

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How to Buy Mr Brainwash Original Art For Sale - Signature and Prices

Before investing in street artist and then Buy Mr Brainwash Art, you must know some things about Prices and Original Signed Artwork.

You must know that the artist's works are not all signed in the same way. We have Expert that can validate an Original Artwork.

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Certificate, Signature and Price Range

Depending on the value of the Work Mr Brainwash has decided to authenticate them differently.

The greater the value of the Work , the more authoritative the type of Certification adopted by the Street Artist.

Let’s go into more details with the following table.

Mr Brainwash Original Signed by Prices
Artworks by Mr.Brainwash	Prices Range	Type of Autentication
Low Prices Artworks	Under 500 Dollars	Fingerprint Sometime with Printed Signature
Large Circulation	Under 1000 Dollars	Fingerprint Sometime with Printed Signature
Old Limited Edition	From 3000 to 15000 Dollars	Someone has Original Signature
Limited Edition	From 1000 to 8000 Dollars	Front: Signed by Mr.Brainwash Back: Fingerprint with Date
Unique Pieces Medium Price	From 15000 to 50000 Dollar	Middle-Front: Signed by Mr.Brainwash Back: Fingerprint + Unique Dollar Serial Number Post Sale: Authenticity Certificate + 1 Dollar Banknote of SN on Works
Unique Pieces High Price	Over 50000 Dollar	Middle-Front: Signed by Mr.Brainwash Back: Fingerprint + Unique Dollar Serial Number Post Sale: Authenticity Certificate + 2 Dollar Banknote of SN on Works

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The Certificate of Authenticity - COA of Unique Pieces

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Why Invest in Mr Brainwash? - Net Worth and Artist's Choice

To Invest in Art of Mr Brainwash is considered by many Art Critics and Expert to be an Intelligent Investment.

Our Advice when you are deciding to invest in art, is to spend time researching and to think with you head.

A good research is to look for "Mr Brainwash Net Worth". We can easily find that actually in 2019 MBW net Worth is 20 Million Dollars and in 2016 was about 10 Million Dollars.

The non-conformist choices made by of MBW compared to traditional street art are among the reasons of the continous growth of Thierry Guetta's patrimony.

The Artist Mr Brainwash has for example chosen to convey his art mainly through events and galleries, except for some building or urban wall.

This decision, together with other choices, make the value of Mr Brainwash Art Grow continuously.

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Who is Mr Brainwash aka Thierry Guetta?

Who is Mr Brainwash? About Mr Brainwash Artist Biography you must know his real name is Thierry Guetta, born in Garges-lès-Gonesse in France.

At the age of 15 Thierry Guetta moved with his family to Los Angeles, where he actually lives and works in his secret workshop.

Thierry Guetta before becaming an artist, was the owner of a vintage store in LA.

Thierry had a passion: filming everything with his beloved camera, which he always carried around his neck.

The course of Mr Guetta life changed in 1999.

He travelled to France and he found out that his cousin had a secret life: he was the famous street-artist Space Invader.

After Thierry Guetta decided to dedicate himself to film his cousin and his friends, he started to travel all over the world.

This way, Mr Brainwash had the opportunity to meet lots of street artists.

The turning point of his life was when he met the two important street-artists Obey (Shepard Farey) and Banksy.

He filmed their artistic creations for some years.

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2008 - First Exhibition of Mr Brainwash: Life is Beautiful

In 2008 Thierry Guetta decided to start creating his own art. To make Mr Brainwash art known, the artist organized an Exhibition.

His first exhibition took place in Los Angeles, on Hollywood's Walk of Fame Sunset Boulevard, inside a space of around 15,000 square-foot.

The name of the show that started on the 18th of June 2008, was Life is Beautiful and it was a big success.

At the Show were exhibited 300 Mr Brainwash Artworks like paintings, prints and sculptures.

There were also a sculpture made of 100,000 shoes and a real-size of Edward Hopper's Nighthawks.

Thanks to Life is Beautiful Exhibition Mr Brainwash earned more than 1.000.000 dollars by selling his artworks.

It was in this way that the life of Thierry Guetta changed completely.

Later on, Mr. Brainwash made many other like exhibitions on 2015 in NYC or in Milan on 2019 renamed 'Milan is Beautiful'

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How Thierry Guetta becames Mr Brainwash: Exit Through The Gift Shop

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MBW? Banksy? Is Mr Brainwash Banksy?

There is a popular question: is Mr Brainwash Banksy? Lots of people think that under the hidden personality of Banksy there is Mr. Brainwash.

Mr Brainwash and Banksy are friends. Thierry Guetta followed and filmed Banksy during the realisation of some of his works all over the world.

But the more important fact is that Banksy directed the documentary Exit Through The Gift Shop. In this way he contributed to increase Mr Brainwash popularity.

It is for this reason that Mr Brainwash dedicated some of his works to Banksy. For example, He realised the works Banksy Thrower and the Girl with Balloon.

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Mr Brainwash and Music Collaborations

After his exhibition in Los Angeles in 2008, he became soon one of the most important street-artists in the world.

From 2009 he began to collaborate with very important singers and for the greatest hits.

Mr Brainwash realised the cover of Madonna’s album “Celebration”.

He worked also with Michael Jackson, The Red Hot Chilli Peppers, the Black Keys and Rick Ross.

All these collaborations contributed to increase his reputation and career as Artist.

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Mr Brainwash Art and His Icons

The art of Mr Brainwash is very characteristic.

He realiseds his unique artworks in mixed media on a precious handmade sheet of paper or on canvas.

The artist uses different techniques:

• - stencil,
• - painting,
• - collages,
• - dripping.

The style is that of Pop Art.

His paintings are about love and positive vibes and full of colours.

The subjects, either famous celebrities, comics’ characters, children taking photos or writing messages of support.

These are the reasons why Mr. Brainwash art is so appreciated among young people and also why people love to invest in his works and use them to decorate their homes.

Very particular are the backgrounds because they are all different from each other.

They are an explosion of colours and filled with references of all the greatest artists and personalities of cinema, music and cartoons.

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Famous Artist's Subject of Mr Brainwash Art

In Mr Brainwash Art works we can see the famous Marilyn Monroe or Campbell's Soup of Andy Warhol, Keith Haring’s primitive men, the Balloon Girl and the Thrower of Banksy.

Some recent work have as subject the Monna Lisa holding Jeff Koons’ famous Balloon Dog, or driving a vintage Ferrari.

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Celebrities Subject of Mr Brainwash Artwork

Mr. Brainwash Einstein, who holds up the sign “Love is the Answer” is one of source of inspiration of the artist as one of the most appreciated subjects.

Another celebrity that appears frequently is Mr Brainwash Charlie Chaplin.

Then there are also Queen Elizabeth, absolute protagonist of Mr. Brainwash “Queen Aviator”, Hitchcock, Billie Holiday screaming “Life is Beautiful”.

Some Other Celebrities are:

• - Beatles,
• - Elvis Presley,
• - Bob Marley
• - Kardashian
• - Marilyn Monroe
• - Muhhammad Ali
• - David Bowie

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Comics Subject of MBW Art work

Recurrent are also the subjects from the comic world such as Famous Mr. Brainwash Batman vs Superman and some other like:

• - Batman,
• - Superman,
• - Aquaman,
• - Captain America,
• - Spiderman,
• - Mikey Mouse,
• - Mikey and Minnie.

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The Writings inside Mr Brainwash Art

Writings are another big part of Mr Brainwash Art.

As a matter of fact, slogans and sentences have a central role in his artworks.

Examples are Mr Brainwash Follow Your Dreams print, the most famous probably being the one with the chimpanzee spraying the phrase on the wall.

Or again Chaplin with the heart, Einstein “Love is the answer”.

In addition to these most known pieces, must be also counted an army of kids associated with sentences such as:

• - “Dream big Dreams”,
• - “Never Never Give Up”,
• - “Life is Beautiful”,
• - “Follow your Heart”,
• - “Love is the Answer”,
• - “Smile”

and so on…

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Life is Beautiful: Not Only an Exhibition

Life is Beautiful is not only the name of Mr Brainwash's first exhibition in Los Angeles in 2008.

This phrase became soon his slogan.

Thierry Guetta is a person always positive, smiling and cheerful.

His personal purpose is to bring joy and positive messages of love through his art and works.

This sentence is so important for him that he always writes it behind all his unique works.

Mr Brainwash Produced also some artworks like sculptures and paintings with neon using the slogan "Life is Beautiful".

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