Celebrity Portraits
Long before his iconic portraits of the rich and famous cemented him as a household name, Andy Warhol spent his childhood collecting celebrity autographs and decorating his room with photos torn from tabloid magazines. His fixation on celebrities only continued when he moved to New York to become an illustrator for Glamour magazine and endured through his career as a Pop artist. Starlets, politicians, athletes—Warhol captured them all. “I’ll paint anybody. Anybody that asks me. I just try to make people look good,” he once said. To create his portraits, Warhol used a semi-mechanized silkscreen process that allowed him to mass-produce images of his subjects. Critics have long observed that his technique mirrors the nature of celebrity itself, where icons like Mick Jagger, Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, and Elvis Presley have become commodities to be bought and sold.
Series by this artist
- Campbell’s Soup Cans110 available
- Marilyn Monroe109 available
- Advertisements83 available
- Polaroids77 available
- Mick Jagger75 available
- Myths72 available
- Ladies and Gentlemen71 available
- Mao63 available
- Shoes61 available
- Cowboys and Indians60 available
- Death and Disaster42 available
- Dollar Sign42 available
- Endangered Species41 available
- Illustrations39 available
- Electric Chairs39 available
- Athletes38 available
- Reigning Queens36 available
- Sex Parts and Torsos35 available
- Jean-Michel Basquiat30 available
- Muhammad Ali27 available
- Martha Graham25 available
- Details of Renaissance Paintings25 available
- Bananas24 available
- Lenin23 available
- Dancers23 available
- Space Fruit23 available
- Mickey Mouse21 available
- Camouflage20 available
- Hammer and Sickle20 available
- Tomato Soup19 available
- Leonardo da Vinci18 available
- Letter to the World (The Kick)18 available
- Halston17 available
- Brillo Boxes17 available
- Saint Apollonia16 available
- Committee 200016 available
- Joseph Beuys16 available
- Shadows16 available
- Jacqueline Kennedy15 available
- Howdy Doody15 available
- Interview Magazine14 available
- Ingrid Bergman14 available
- Wild Raspberries13 available
- The Star12 available
- The Rolling Stones12 available
- Greta Garbo12 available
- Poinsettias11 available
- Querelle11 available
- Blackglama11 available
- General Custer11 available