Marilyn monroe was a pop art painting that warhol had done and it was very popular.

Andy warhol pop art background. Andy warhol was a successful magazine and ad illustrator who became a leading artist of the 1960s pop art movements. August 6 1928 february 22 1987 was an american artist film director and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression advertising and celebrity culture that flourished by the 1960s and span a variety of media including painting silkscreening photography film and sculpture. He ventured into a wide variety of art forms including performance art.

Andy warhol original name andrew warhola born august 6 1928 pittsburgh pennsylvania u s died february 22 1987 new york new york american artist and filmmaker an initiator and leading exponent of the pop art movement of the 1960s whose mass produced art apotheosized the supposed banality of the commercial culture of the united states. Challenging the idealist visions and personal emotions conveyed by abstraction warhol embraced popular culture and commercial processes to produce work that appealed to the general public. Although warhol was fascinated with celebrity and became a celebrity himself he remained a private and mysterious person. Andy warhol born andrew warhola.

Download 1600x1345 andy warhol wallpaper cow 1966 awf andy warhol silver clouds. Though he is best remembered for his mass produced paintings of campbell s soup cans he created hundreds of other works ranging from commercial advertisements to films. Warhol s iconic pop art works include images of consumer goods such as campbell s soup cans and coca cola bottles and portraits of celebrities such as marilyn monroe based on media photographs. His paintings of various popular subjects such as elvis marylin monroe and even the common advertisements of the late 1950 s and early 1960 s are some of the most highly sought and valuable paintings in the world.

Warhol s first pop art paintings were displayed in april 1961 serving as the backdrop for new york department store bonwit teller s window display. Andy warhol was one of the major contributors to the american pop art movement and one of the most famous and recognized artists from this period even to this day.

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