Celebrities were a common subject for Andy Warhol over the span of his iconic career, and internationally acclaimed, Swedish-born actress Ingrid Bergman became the subject of one such portfolio in 1983, one year after her death.
It is undisputed that Warhol’sCampbell’s Soup Canscompletely changed the concept of art appreciation and cemented his status as the most-renowned American pop art artist and, at one point, the highest-priced living American Artist.
Alex Katz has been credited as an influence for many later artists, and his work is also seen as a precursor to pop art. However, Katz has admitted that he destroyed a thousand paintings during his first ten years as a painter as he struggled to find his style. When asked, Katz explained that he “was tired of being patronized” and “tired of soft painting.”
Paintings, prints, photographs, sculpture, books, and installations—Mel Bochner has made works in nearly every medium throughout his nearly six-decade career. One of the founding fathers of conceptual art, Mel Bochner has spent his career questioning the art object, focusing on...
It is a widely held opinion among art critics thatMoonwalkperfectly exemplifies Warhol’s talent for identifying iconic images and adding his own unique elements in order to create timeless Pop Art masterpieces.
The city of Bormes-les-Mimosas is featured in the original lithograph Couple in the Mimosas from the portfolio Nice and the Cote d'Azur by Marc Chagall. Bormes-les-Mimosas is a historic village situated on the hills in the South of France. It...
“The walking people don’t address you, they walk past in profile oblivious to the viewer which gives them a kind of dignity, like an animal.” Julian Opie’s artwork is similar to pop-art. Portraits and animated walking figures, rendered with...
Pablo Picasso’s life-long fascination with bullfighting began during his childhood. The artist would frequently accompany his father to the bullfights hosted in Málaga, his native city. Pablo Picasso’s preoccupation with the bullfight remained a recurring theme in his work, exploring...
Vote McGovern by Andy Warhol was created for the George McGovern Presidential campaign in 1972. Andy Warhol’s ghoulish depiction of Richard Nixon with blue skin and orange eyes leaves no doubt as to the artist’s political position, even without the...
“It doesn’t matter if anybody else is into these places. I have had a deep emotional connection to most of the places I select to paint. That is going to come across. There is a personal nostalgia I can feed...
“But I always say, one's company, two's a crowd, and three's a party” – Andy Warhol This beautiful screen print entitled, Committee 2000, is hand signed by the iconic pop artist. It comes from an edition of 2,000 total, and...
Alex Katz has always had his own direction, and it has not been the direction of mainstream art in any of the last seven decades. In the 1950s, when most of the serious art being done was abstract, Katz angered...
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s appreciation of comic book superheroes was threaded throughout his body of artistic works Batman, the Joker, Superman, Thor and Captain America appear alongside Basquiat’s iconic text and gestural marks. In an 1983 interview for Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine,...
As you look at the artwork by Pop Art star Roy Lichtenstein, a theme begins to emerge: women. Comic book women of the 1960s with the classic blonde hair and red lips. They are anonymous, beautiful and often unhappily bothered...
In the early 60’s, Andy Warhol declared “painting is dead,” and became fascinated with printmaking. He saw it as the way to make art in the modern world, and fully dove into exploring how to push the boundaries of this...
“I thought to be an artist you had to be a genius or something. It was that 19th century idea…but with hard work, I got to be good.” Alex Katz While best known for his bright, billboard-size portraits, Alex Katz has...
The first thing you see when you look at the lithograph FEMME AU BOUQUET (WOMEN WITH BOUQUET) are the beautiful contrasting warm reds, oranges, blues and greens. Marc Chagall’s masterful application of color is always a treat to behold. PABLO PICASSO once confided...
Ever since his graffiti beginnings in 1990s New York – art has always been a communication too for KAWS. From street art to vast public commissions, he says, “it’s a chance to create a dialogue”. Some might not take KAWS's cartoon-inspired...
"I don't want to be a celebrity artist. I want to be known for my ideas."- DERRICK ADAMS This suite of 9 screenprints, titled HOW I SPENT MY SUMMER, is a commentary on what Adams has referred to as the “joy of...
In the 1960s, ROY LICHTENSTEIN created "fantasy drama" artworks of women in love affairs with domineering men. Artworks like CRYING GIRL portray innocent "girls next door" in a variety of tenuous emotional states. PABLO PICASSO'S depictions of weeping women may have been a influence on...
“I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in - like peace and justice and freedom.”- BANKSY The Wizard of Oz is a story that is...
