Andy Warhol - Reports

Andy Warhol, born as Andrew Warhola - slavic descent, was born 1928 in Pittsburgh and is the most important personality of pop art, which he did not only found but he also influenced through his extensive work, consisting of graphics, painting, movies, music and books. Andy Warhol began his career as a successful illustrator for fashion magazines, but concentrated more and more in his artistic work after his exhibition 'Fifteen Drawings Based on the Writings of Truman Capote ", 1952. Warhol was well known and famous, with its serial reproductions of already existent motives from the daily media, which he reduced to their visible structure, and presented them in different bright color variations in distinct sequences. The silkscreen series of "icons" of his time as Mao, Queen Elizabeth II, Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Albert Einstein, Joseph Beuys or the Campbell's soup cans are indicative of this. This linking between politicians, celebrities, commerce, and aesthetics with art was always one of his ambitious goals, whereby he propagated the ideal of the “business art”. All areas of Andy Warhols work have great influence on the present - contemporary art, literature and film, pop art lives with its "anti-art" attitude. The complex artistic motive, which is readable entirety only in recent years leads to high market prices that are comparable with those of the Impressionists. © ArtLogistics

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