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Andy Warhol Fine Art Prints
Andy
Warhol
Andy Warhol is best remembered for his
declaration that everyone would have fifteen minutes
of fame.
The Campbell's Soup Cans. The Marilyns. The Electric Chairs. The
Flowers. The work created by Andy Warhol elevated everyday images
to art, ensuring Warhol a fame that has far outlasted the 15
minutes he predicted for everyone else. His very name is
synonymous with the 1960s American art movement known as Pop.
Though chiefly viewed as a monumental pop-art icon,
Andy Warhol was truly a man of many talents. But his component parts don't necessarily match up.
He
made paintings, prints, sculptures, installations,
performances; he produced one of the greatest rock
bands of all time, the Velvet Underground; he directed
films and wrote a novel as well as a philosophical
text.
But over and above this massive pile of work
is a man who was unpredictable, enigmatic, and impenetrable:
ultimately, he would have others think, almost inhuman. Drawings are the key to many artists' souls.
They are personal, immediate, and limiting. Never more so than in the case of Andy
Warhol has a book of drawings so brought an artist's humanity forward.
He reveals his particular brand of filial affection in an
early work titled
The Broad Gave
Me My Face but I Can Pick My Own Nose
--a rebellious youth indeed...
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