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...image that captures the essence of this exhibit is Haring's Andy Mouse, a series of paintings of Warhol as Mickey Mouse. Haring once, admitted in an interview that Andy Mouse is a representation of himself...
Warhol challenged the accepted definition of art by experimenting with the border between originality and mass production. He used popular images of objects and celebrities and silk-screened them on to canvases, often varying color combinations. This exhibit contains some classic Warhol subjects, including Chairman Mao, Jackie Kennedy, and Marilyn Monroe. One corner of the exhibition space is devoted to a pile of Kellogg's Cornflakes packing box replicas. Carpenters made these wooden boxes to the exact dimensions of the actual ones; Warhol's assistants silk-screened the letters onto the pieces...
...creation of Mickey Mouse in 1928 marked the entry of art into the mainstream of everyday life. The exhibition spans the history of the Walt Disney Company, from "Steamboat Willie" (the first animated film to feature Mickey Mouse and a synchronized soundtrack) to "The Prince and the Pauper," Disney's 1990 animation short. The exhibit includes preliminary drawings, movie posters, and frames of celluloid animation film ("cells"). The sequence of drawings for "The Prince and the Pauper" includes a story sketch, which captures the mood of the story; rough drawings of the extreme points of the character's movements; "clean...
Through this exhibit, the museum aims to show the public that art is not just something that hangs on museum walls--it is as much a part of daily American life as Mickey Mouse is. The Worcester Art Museum has set aside one of their small galleries as a room where children (and adults, too) can participate in hands-on activities. The room features Keith Haring coloring books, black paper and chalk which visitors can use to create "subway drawings" like Haring's, and huge black and white plastic-covered photographs of Madonna and Batman which children can embellish with...
...People have come to think of the Divinity School as some building hidden behind the biology buildings," said Gomes, who is the curator of the celebration's exhibit. "It is time to show what we have got. The anniversary is an excuse to stop daily activity and reflect on the past...