BMW's war paint

American contemporary artist Jeff Koons will be the author of "War Paint» BMW M3 GT2 for twenty-four of the race at Le Mans. He painted the car in different colored rays, which are air currents "flow around" the contours of the car. Sketches for a new job Koons presented on Tuesday, and the machine will be finished by June, when and place of the race. This car is for the Bavarian concern will be the seventeenth, on which the artist worked with a worldwide reputation. The tradition of attracting well-known characters to the design works BMW started in 1975. During this time, the authors of "racing armor" have visited such artists as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and David Hockney. These machines are adorned not only on the track of Le Mans, but also became exhibits in museums throughout the world - the Louvre, the Palazzo Grassi in Venice, the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, the Guggenheim Museum in New York and Bilbao. Jeff Koons is not the first time engaged in registration of vehicles. So, in 2009, he did a terrific paint (look under the cat) for a private yacht Greek millionaire Dakis Zhoannou resembling "break" camouflage coloring ships of World War II.