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BY ELLEN GAMERMAN
This wallpaper doesn't belong in Grandma's bathroom.
Looking beyond the limits of picture frames, contemporary artists are going after the whole wall, attacking it with paint, video and their own wallpaper. The floor-to-ceiling works—prevalent at recent international art fairs—convey images ranging from the unsettling (floating eyeballs, writhing snakes, dead flies) to the whimsical (Andy Warhol in drag).
Artists famously toyed with wall art in the 1960s, when Mr. Warhol created hot-pink cow wallpaper and Sol LeWitt started drawing directly on walls. Today's artists are rediscovering wallpaper in particular thanks to sophisticated digital printing that improves the quality and cuts the ...
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