Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol (1928-1987), American, Pop artist.
Warhol brought Pop Art to the American art world almost single-handedly.
Starting in 1962, Warhol captured the imagination of the country not only with his art, but with his personality and bohemian lifestyle.
The Sixties proved to be the perfect decade for him to come on the scene and his career seemed to mirror the broader counter-culture for the next 25 years.
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Warhol started his career as a commercial and graphic artist.
Indeed it was his use of consumer product icons like Campbell’s Soup cans and Coca-Cola bottles that helped fuel interest in his career.
Warhol also used familiar celebrities in his art including Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Elizabeth Taylor and Muhammad Ali.
In the 1970s Warhol’s popularity cooled, but his empire grew.
Portraits commissions from the rich and famous helped to keep his name in the papers; he painted portraits for Mick Jagger and John Lennon as well as many others, including, in 1973, Mao Zedong, the leader of Communist China.
By the end of the decade Warhol’s balance between business and art had become part of the conversation in modern art.
His own writings and quotes seemed to fuel the controversy, writing in 1975 “Making money is art, and working is art and good business is the best art."
Warhol became an elder statesman of modern art toward the end of his life and his impact on the direction of the arts worldwide and on the careers of individual artists was profound.
In the 1980s, Warhol ‘discovered’ Jean-Michel Basquiat, as well as other fledgling painters.
Warhol’s business acumen and unique sense of the relation between art and business made an empire, his sense of style inspired generations.
Dollar Sign 1981 Framed Art Print by Andy Warhol
Dollar Sign 1981
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Dollar Sign 1981 Framed Art Print by Andy Warhol
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