So I'm driving through Santa Monica in traffic yesterday and I see out of the corner of my eye, an never ending room full of crowns! So I instantly pull over to see what it is, naturally. This artwork is amazing I just can't handle the abstract-ness of it.
So I meet the artist, his names Mark Andrew Allen.
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(Allen's Work Above)
His art reminds me so much of one of my favorite artists of the 60s, Andy Warhol's buddy Jean Michel Basquiat.
Even the crown is like a modern version of Basquiat's signature symbol.
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