Tag: WARHOL
If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There’s nothing behind it.
Obsessed with celebrity, consumer culture, and mechanical reproduction, Pop artist Andy Warhol created some of the 20th century’s most iconic images. He drew widely from popular culture and everyday subject matter in his most famous works: his 32 Campbell’s soup cans, Brillo pad box sculptures, and portraits of Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor, for example.
Rejecting the dominant painting and sculpting modes of his day, Warhol embraced silk-screen printmaking to achieve his characteristic hard edges and flat areas of color. The artist mentored Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat and continues to influence contemporary art around the world: His provocative successors include Richard Prince, Takashi Murakami, and Jeff Koons. Warhol has been the subject of exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, and Centre Pompidou, among other institutions. His works have sold for upwards of $100 million at auction.
Rarely seen Warhols, Pollocks and Picassos to go on show in Tehran
17 April 2009 • Mark Westall
On 5 May, 150 artworks, spanning from the 1890s to the 1970s are to go on show at The Tehran… Read More
Lucian Freud Designs Wine label
20 February 2009 • Mark Westall
Lucian Freud, has joined the ranks of a select group of artists: those who have designed labels for Château Mouton… Read More
BMW ART CARS
10 February 2009 • Mark Westall
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents an installation of BMW Art Cars designed by Andy Warhol, Frank… Read More
Tate Britain, LATE AT TATE Interviews with POLLOCK / WARHOL / BEUYS, 6 – 10 pm
5 September 2008 • Mark Westall
Tate Britain, LATE AT TATE Interviews with POLLOCK / WARHOL / BEUYS, 6 – 10 pm, Katie Guggenheim Working with… Read More