Ben Vautier was born July 18 1935, and works and lives in Nice. Vautier was interested in many french artist and musicians inspiring him with his writing, art and music. He is most famous for his text-based paintings. My subject is french, becasue Ben Vautiner is french. He was born in Naples, Italy. He was inspired by french artists Yves Klein, Marcel Duchamp and the Nouveaux Réalistes and he deveolped his own personal type of art simliar to Dada.

Ben Vautiers work influenced French culture in a huge way. He was not only interested in art and painting, but also in music and writing. He owned a record store called Magazin which evoked peoples attention because of the way he decorated and the interior he designed for his store. He was famous for his text paintings, and sculptures. he used script and comic book pieces in his art, capturing peoples eyes and attracting him to his delicately painted messages in acrylic paint. He also mounted things that he sculpted, especially birds. After they were mounted he added commentary. He created a whole new type of text painting to inspire other french artist, and make his art known all around France.

Some of Ben Vautiers works have different themes, like the text writing paintings and the sculptures on a mount. When Vautiers work is researched and looked at the most common theme of art that is found is the text paintings. The theme he created throughout his work, made him famous for a certain reason and gave people something to remember him by.

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