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These artists, including Goldstein, Robert Longo, Troy Brauntuch and, initially, Phillip Smith, came to the forefront of the 1980s art boom and flourished to varying degrees as the decade wore on.

Goldstein began seriously to make paintings at this time.

Eventually he became known for what he referred to as " salon paintings " – those designed both to be sold to the very rich and to secure for the artist a place in art history.

Although he was accused by some of " selling out " to a bull market in painting, this tactic appropriated the art star mantle that Goldstein's work always had assumed.