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Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was an American artist, a leading figure of the Pop Art movement. ​Using a variety of media materials from photographs up to computer-generated art, Warhol's works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity, culture and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s. Emerging from the poverty and obscurity of an Eastern European immigrant family in Pittsburgh, Warhol became a charismatic magnet for bohemian New York. In 1960, he began to produce his first canvases depicting Popeye and Dick Tracy. After Marilyn Monroe’s death in August 1962, he started working from snapshots of the star’s already legendary face, which had been widely distributed by the world’s press. His choice of subjects clearly relates to an obsession with demise – his Marilyns, his Ten Lizies (created when the actress Elizabeth Taylor was seriously ill), and also his Elvis. Part of the “Death and Disaster” series, Andy Warhol´s Marilyn Monroes are undoubtedly iconic portraits of our era, exploring as they do the artist’s fascination for images of death and beauty. He worked across many media as a painter, printmaker, illustrator, film-maker, and writer, and produced many world-famous series. Andy Warhol Flower´s series reinterprets a traditional motif spanning the history of art, while Warhol´s Cambell´s Soup Can series represents the mass-produced, printed advertisements that inspired him since his childhood. Towards the end of 1962, the artist turned to the photo-silkscreen process, which became his signature medium. From 1963 up until 1968, the year in which he was shot, Warhol – surrounded by assistants in his studio The Factory – took the industrial character of his work to its climax. Warhol has been the subject of numerous retrospective exhibitions and books, as well as feature and documentary films. The Andy Warhol Museum in his native city, Pittsburgh, is the largest museum in the United States dedicated to a single artist. Andy Warhol´s artworks are some of the most influential works of art of the second half of the twentieth century, representing the most recognizable images ever produced.

“ Once you ‘got’ Pop, you could never see a sign again in the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America in the same way again. „

Andy Warhol

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Beethoven

2002

Flowers

1968

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Campbell's Soup, Tomato

1970-2020

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Flowers

1970-2020

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Marilyn Monroe (Portfolio of 10)

1970-2020

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Marilyn (Pink)

2011

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Blue Horse

2002

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Golden Marilyn

2010

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Cow

2012

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Twenty Marilyn

2010

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Campbell Soup

2012

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Blue Elvis

1982-2009

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Self-Portrait, Blue

2010

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Marilyn (Louisiana)

1967

Christmas Boot

2003

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Flowers

2017

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Marilyn (Tate)

1971

Platinum Elvis

2007

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Marilyn (Silver)

2010

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So Sweet Sundae

2003

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Merry Christmas Shoe

2003

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Marilyn (Purple-Red)

2010

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So Sweet Cake

2003

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Christmas Tree

1957

Silver Marilyn

1990s

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Marilyn (Orange-Pink)

2010

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