Andy Warhol
Chanel No. 5 (Blue) Advertising Poster, 1997
Life Savers, Chanel perfumes, Liza Minnelli, and Donald Duck come together in Andy Warhol’s …
Read moreLife Savers, Chanel perfumes, Liza Minnelli, and Donald Duck come together in Andy Warhol’s “Advertisements.” Commissioned in 1985 by Feldman Fine Arts just two years before the artist’s early death at the age of 58, the “Ads Portfolio” is a product of Warhol’s laser focus on celebrity and obsessive interest in …
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Obsessed with celebrity, consumer culture, and mechanical (re)production, Pop artist Andy Warhol created some of the most iconic images of the 20th century. As famous for his quips as for his art—he variously mused that “art is what you can get away with” and “everyone will be famous for 15 minutes”—Warhol drew widely from popular culture and everyday subject matter, creating works like his 32 Campbell's Soup Cans (1962), Brillo pad box sculptures, and portraits of Marilyn Monroe, using the medium of silk-screen printmaking to achieve his characteristic hard edges and flat areas of color. Known for his cultivation of celebrity, Factory studio (a radical social and creative melting pot), and avant-garde films like Chelsea Girls (1966), Warhol was also a mentor to artists like Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. His Pop sensibility is now standard practice, taken up by major contemporary artists Richard Prince, Takashi Murakami, and Jeff Koons, among countless others.
Life Savers, Chanel perfumes, Liza Minnelli, and Donald Duck come together in Andy Warhol’s …
Read moreLife Savers, Chanel perfumes, Liza Minnelli, and Donald Duck come together in Andy Warhol’s “Advertisements.” Commissioned in 1985 by Feldman Fine Arts just two years before the artist’s early death at the age of 58, the “Ads Portfolio” is a product of Warhol’s laser focus on celebrity and obsessive interest in …
Read moreObsessed with celebrity, consumer culture, and mechanical (re)production, Pop artist Andy Warhol created some of the most iconic images of the 20th century. As famous for his quips as for his art—he variously mused that “art is what you can get away with” and “everyone will be famous for 15 minutes”—Warhol drew widely from popular culture and everyday subject matter, creating works like his 32 Campbell's Soup Cans (1962), Brillo pad box sculptures, and portraits of Marilyn Monroe, using the medium of silk-screen printmaking to achieve his characteristic hard edges and flat areas of color. Known for his cultivation of celebrity, Factory studio (a radical social and creative melting pot), and avant-garde films like Chelsea Girls (1966), Warhol was also a mentor to artists like Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. His Pop sensibility is now standard practice, taken up by major contemporary artists Richard Prince, Takashi Murakami, and Jeff Koons, among countless others.
