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Marilyn monroe, the Mona Lisa, a Coca-Cola bottle, Superman - if it was famous, Andy Warhol made it into art. He said, famously, that in the future everyone would be famous for 15 minutes. Anybody looking for his own quarter-hour in New York in the 1960s hung out at Warhol's Factory, the studio where he and his entourage produced paintings and films...
London's Tate Modern expects huge crowds for "Warhol," which opened early this month and runs until April 1. "There's something about his work that's so contemporary," says curator Donna De Salvo. Since Warhol, no one can be naive about the way the media shape our view of the world. This wasn't his stated aim - he didn't have one. His manifesto was to have no manifesto. In his words: "If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface: of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There...
From 1960 Warhol made paintings by enlarging the drawings found in small ads for water heaters, TVs - or, in Before and After (1961), nose reshaping. The canvas shows how American society is caught between innovation and conformity, says De Salvo: "You see one nose and then you see this very refined, curt nose that has a kind of anonymous quality. He uses one image as a metaphor for an entire culture." Warhol had his own conk altered a few years earlier on his journey from a Czechoslovak immigrant background in Pittsburgh to fashionable circles in New York...
...moved on to multiple images of Coke bottles, green trading stamps, Campbell's soup cans and human beings. Thirty Are Better Than One (1963) presents 30 - count 'em - stacked Mona Lisas. In the same room are multiples of Monroe, Elvis Presley, the Statue of Liberty and Elizabeth Taylor. Warhol first painted Monroe after her suicide in August 1962. Instead of a recent photograph, he used a film still from nearly 10 years before. The flat silk-screen technique crookedly applies green eyeshadow and scarlet lipstick, like a magazine illustration of this season's makeup trends. Warhol's paintings "have...
Perhaps because he himself had been an artist, it did not take long for the likes of Andy Warhol, Mark Rothko and Lee Krasner to enter into Glimcher’s circle of intimate acquaintances. Glimcher founded Pace in 1960 immediately after he left the Massachusetts College of Art, convinced that he would never become a painter but confident that art would nonetheless be his life...