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No image due to Copyright restrictions. | | | Warhol, Andy (1928 - 1987) USA
Ten Foot Flowers, 1967
Silkscreen ink and synthetic polymer paint on canvas; 293 x 293 x 4.5 cm Pop Art
UID 102-614
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Biography
American painter, sculptor, designer, illustrator, director, writer and collector. He studied at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburg between 1945 and 1949 and moved to New York where he began working as a commercial artist and illustrator for magazines and newspapers. His work in the 50s, was attractive and, at times, eccentric and even in his originals there is a feel of them having being printed. He developed the "Blotted Line" technique, a first step towards other reproduction techniques such as screen printing. As from the 60s, Warhol concentrated fundamentally on painting. Motivated by a desire to become as well-known as Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, he began painting a series based on advertising images and comic strip stories. These were some of the first examples of Pop Art. Warhol was attracted to the shocking images of popular newspapers, to money and to the products of the consumer society, such as Coca-Cola bottles and cans of Campbell soup. After 1962, together with the group of artists in his New York studio, The Factory, he began to paint portraits of the famous as well as producing photographic works, films and music. He published the celebrity magazine Interview and organised television shows and multimedia concerts with the band, Velvet Underground. In 1968 he took part, for the first time, in a European exhibition and in documenta 4 in Kassel. In the same year, there was an attempt on his life and he was hospitalised for two months. At the end of his career, he used the work of great masters like Leonardo Da Vinci as reference points and supports for his own works. In 1989, he had two major retrospectives, one at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, another at the Ludwig Museum in Cologne. Warhol is still considered the main and most controversial figure in Pop Art.
Exhibitions
Andy Warhol: A Factory Fundação de Serralves, Portugal 11-02-2000 ~ 30-04-2000
Andy Warhol Fondazione La Triennale di Milano, Italy 20-09-2004 ~ 09-01-2005
Colecção Berardo - Arte Pop & Ca. Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 19-04-2002 ~ 15-09-2002
Collection Berardo, Oeuvres Choisies du 20e Siècle Musée des Beaux Arts de Lyon, France 05-10-2001 ~ 14-01-2002
Pop 60s Transatlantic Crossing Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 11-09-1997 ~ 17-11-1997
The Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 17-05-1997 ~ 31-08-1997
Face - a - Face Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 02-10-2001 ~ 30-04-2001
Sedução Cinema & Pintura Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 27-06-2006 ~ 31-01-2007
Berardo Museum Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 25-06-2007 ~ 16-09-2007
De Miró à Warhol. La Collection Berardo à Paris Musée du Luxembourg, France 16-10-2008 ~ 22-02-2009
Fragmentos Arte Contemporânea na Colecção Berardo MACE, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas, Portugal 24-09-2010 ~ 23-01-2011
Tudo o que é Sólido Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 07-06-2010 ~ 12-09-2010
Bibliography
Andy Warhol, 1970 Published by Thames & Hudson
Colecção Berardo - Art Pop & Ca., 2002 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729742873
Collection Berardo, Oeuvres Choisies du 20e Siècle, 2001 Published by Musée des Beaux Arts de Lyon ISBN 2711843319
Pop '60s Transatlantic Crossing, 1997 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 9728176384
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art, 2004 Published by TBS Television, INC.
The Andy Warhol Show, 2004 Published by Fundazione La Triennale di Milano
The Berardo Collection – Sintra Museum of Modern Art, 1996 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729739105
Flowers Andy Warhol, 1970 Published by Thames and Hudson
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