Word: warhol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Plastic pies, soup cans and comic-strip images by Warhol, Rosenquist, Lichtenstein and Oldenburg crop up in a show at Sidney Janis' Manhattan gallery and pop art arrives...
...block on its side, decorated it with butterflies and found, much to his surprise, that it reminded him of both an owl and a soldier's helmet. Jasper Johns coated his block with metallic plaster-and his dealer put a price of $9,000 on it. Andy Warhol stripped his hat block down to its core and discovered a phallic symbol; with characteristic idiosyncrasy, he priced it at 3? (the gallery promptly bought...
...during and familiarity appeals instantly but the particular interest of Pop lies in social criticism. The works at the Metropolitan provide a dose including Old??nberg's giant pool balls. Lichtensten's cartoons, Warhol's Marilyn Monroe, Pop lets the viewer share the satisfied superiority of mocking America and its many brands of soup...
They step out of a Warhol movie, this rock and roll band. Pope Ondine and four Chelsea girls, Heavy Metal Kids fleeing the Nova Police. The drummer emerges from beyond a wall of amps, dreamily staring into space, slack-jawed and moronic; the bassist, his pasty skin framed by long dark lifeless hair, is a ringer for Mario Montez. Their new guitarist, the one discovered in a men's room, has powdered his face and lipsticked his already feminine mouth. The lead guitarist is dressed in black mariachi pants and spiky teased hair; there is a gold ring...
American Painting: From its Beginnings to the Armory Show by Jules David Prown; The Twentieth Century by Barbara Rose. 269 pages. 2 vols. Skira. $50. How and why American art developed from West and Copley through Homer and Ryder to Pollock, De Kooning and Warhol. With anecdotes about each painter, these companion volumes provide a wieldy and informative analysis of art technique in relation to the nation's history...