VENEZUELAN CRUZ TEN AMONG THE ONE HUNDRED MOST QUOTED ARTISTS IN THE WORLD

Caracas. – The price increase of the works of Carlos Cruz Diez reached 10.4%, a percentage so high that the LiveArt portal places it in 27th place in the detailed ranking they publish to measure, hour by hour, how art moves in economic terms .

The results are products of auctions and art market data, driven by Artificial Intelligence

It was announced that in the case of Cruz Diez, his recent sales amounted to 2 million 200 thousand dollars, with the minimum price being 441 thousand dollars for one of them. It is striking that a consecrated man of the stature of Fernando Botero occupies 98th place in this same ranking, while another prestigious Latin American, the Cuban Wilfremo Lam, remains at 64th.

The media notes that «Carlos Cruz-Diez was a Venezuelan artist known for his innovative contributions to the kinetic and optical art movements. By studying the methods of color theories of pointillist artist Geroges Seurat and Josef Albers, Cruz-Diez was able to create compositions that appear to vibrate and move. Writing about color in a 1975 Paris publication, Cruz-Diez stated that color must be felt as "a reality that acts on the human being with the same intensity as cold, heat, sound, etc..."

Cruz-Diez's artwork was featured in a review of Latin American art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 1993 and was the subject of a major retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in 2011.
Today, they can be found in the permanent collections of cultural institutions around the world, including the Center Pompidou, Paris, France; the Tate, London, United Kingdom; the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; and the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, among others. Cruz-Diez also received numerous awards throughout his career, including the Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2002 and Ordre National de la Légion d'Honneur, Officier in 2012. Cruz-Diez received both honors while alive in his adopted city of Paris, France," defines the portal to the Venezuelan.

Above Cruz Diez there are names of the stature of Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol, the first two in the ranking, as well as emblematic painters such as Modigliani, Rothko, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Roy Lichstenstein, Marc Chagall, Kandinsky or Calder, among others. . (The universal)