Tuesday 5 March 2013

Andy Warhol



Andy Warhol was born in 1928 and died in 1987, he was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s. In the United States there is a large museum dedicated to him called The Andy Warhol Museum. Warhol's art consists of many forms of media, including hand drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, silk screening, sculpture, film, and music. He also used computer generated art in 1984. He founded Interview Magazine and was the author of many books, including The Philosophy of Andy Warhol and Popism: The Warhol Sixties. The highest price ever paid for a Warhol painting is US$100 million for a 1963 canvas titled Eight Elvises.


Andy Warhol is most famous for Marilyn Diptych made in 1962 were  twenty-five pictures on the left side of the diptych are brightly colored, while the twenty-five on the right are in black and white. This work was made a few weeks after Marilyn Monroe’s death.


Eight Elvises - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 2013. Eight Elvises - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [ONLINE] Available at:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Elvises.
Andy Warhol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 2013. Andy Warhol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [ONLINE] Available at:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol.

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