Word: warhols
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...show presents 100 works by 22 artists, including Richard Hamilton, Andy Warhol, Malcolm Morley and Gerhard Richter. Subjects range from Nevada's bordellos to London's tabloid media, but the strongest works treat some of recent memory's most haunting events. Richter's deliberately blurred Woman with Umbrella depicts Jacqueline Kennedy grieving after her husband's assassination, while Warhol's Big Electric Chair is a silkscreen rendering of the Sing Sing hot seat where convicted spies Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed...
...After years as a successful fashion photographer, with a stint at Andy Warhol's Factory in New York, Toscani took on the Benetton brand account, turning out memorable ads of young people of different races and nationalities. His great breakthrough, though, can be traced to 1991, when he simply slapped the green Benetton logo on a photojournalist's award-winning image of a dying AIDS patient surrounded by his family. Since then, the son of a renowned Milan photojournalist has snapped his own striking frames of Balkan war victims, children from a Sicilian Mafia town and death-row inmates...
...city's iconic palm trees drip with the red, green and black of her Pakistan People's Party colors. Billboards, which usually feature ads for Motorola and new shopping centers, have been taken over by greetings from party faithful. Every available wall has been tiled with her image in Warhol-like repetition, and graffiti screams WELCOME HOME, GREAT LEADER...
Artists come to a career in art with all kinds of life experience on their résumés. Sometimes it's even pertinent. It makes perfect sense that Andy Warhol started out as an advertising illustrator. Or that the welded-steel sculptor David Smith spent time on an auto assembly line. With the Danish artist Olafur Eliasson, it's not so easy at first to connect what he does now-create works that invite you to play with fields of colored light or with lenses and mirrors or with your own understandings of how you see-with what...
...Hayward art gallery (4), overshadowed in recent years by the success of the Tate Modern downriver, is back on the culture map. In October a highly anticipated exhibit, "The Painting of Modern Life," opens with works by Gerhard Richter and Andy Warhol (southbankcentre.co.uk...