Andy Warhol
Warhol, Andy
Andrew Warhola 安迪·沃霍尔
<p>No artist is more closely associated with advertising, consumer culture, and mass media than Andy Warhol. Through his brazen appropriation of images and his radical use of the photo-emulsion silkscreen process, the artist became synonymous with Pop. His ability to produce the same image—over and over, quickly and efficiently—upset traditional boundaries between fine and commercial art. In his most distinctive works, Warhol embraced both consumer products and Hollywood personalities, rendering Campbell’s Soup cans and Coca-Cola bottles as stars and celebrities like Elvis Presley, <a href="https://www-2018.artic.edu/collection?q=Marilyn+Monroe+%28Marilyn%29&amp;categoryQuery=Warhol&amp;artist_ids=Andy+Warhol" target="_blank">Marilyn Monroe</a>, and <a href="https://www-2018.artic.edu/artworks/229406/liz-3-early-colored-liz?q=Liz+Taylor" target="_blank">Elizabeth Taylor</a> as products—and vice versa.&nbsp;</p><p>Born in Pittsburgh, Warhol studied pictorial design at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University). He moved to New York during the post–World War II economic boom and worked throughout the 1950s as an illustrator for clients that included I.&nbsp;Miller Shoes, Tiffany and Company, and <em>Vogue</em>. He brought the same savvy entrepreneurial approach of his advertising work to his first engagements in 1961 with Pop Art, a movement that began in Great Britain in the 1950s. Throughout his life, Warhol remained captivated by celebrity and the role that media plays in fashioning persona, ideas he explored in his social and artistic production and through experiments in underground cinema, publishing, photography, and performance.</p><p>Many of the iconic paintings in the Edlis Neeson Collection at the Art Institute emphasize Warhol’s engagement with portraiture. For <a href="https://www-2018.artic.edu/artworks/229356/twelve-jackies?q=Twelve+Jackies" target="_blank"><em>Twelve Jackies</em></a> (1964), which comes from a body of work created shortly after the death of John&nbsp;F. Kennedy, Warhol selected a press photograph of the former first lady at the president’s funeral following his assassination. By cropping and enlarging the image, Warhol focused attention on his subject much like a film director using a close-up lens, ultimately conveying that notoriety could be found even, and perhaps especially, in tragedy. <a href="https://www-2018.artic.edu/artworks/229357" target="_blank"><em>Little Race Riot</em></a><em> </em>(1964) and <a href="https://www-2018.artic.edu/artworks/229360" target="_blank"><em>Big Electric Chair</em></a><em> </em>(1967–68) similarly express Warhol’s fixation on the disturbing realities of violence that haunt American life, while two <a href="https://www-2018.artic.edu/artworks/229358" target="_blank">self-portraits of 1964</a> and <a href="https://www-2018.artic.edu/artworks/229359" target="_blank">1966</a> poetically demonstrate his obsession with his own self-image. </p>
Andy Warhol
American, 1928–1987 Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987)
printed by Alexander Heinrici (American, 20th-21st centries)
published by Peter M. Brant, Castelli Graphics and Multiples, Inc. Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987)
printed by Aetna Silkscreen Products (American 20th century)
published by Factory Additions (American, 20th century) Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987)
printed by Licht Editions, Ltd., Denver
published by Colorado State University, Department of Art, Fort Collins, CO Andy Warhol
American, 1928-1987 Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987)
printed by Alexander Heinrici (American, 20th -21st century)
published by The Committee to Endow a Chair in honor of Meyer Schapiro at Columbia University, New York Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987)
printed by KMF, Inc. (Knickerbocker Machine & Foundry, Inc.), New York
published by Original Editions, New York Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987)
Assisted by Stephen Shore (American, born 1947)
Assisted by David Paul 
Assisted by Various Artists
Photographs by Nat Finkelstein (American, 1933-2009)
Photographs by Billy Name (American, 1940-2016) Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987)
published by Experiments in Art and Technology, Incorporated (American, 20th century) Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987)
printed by Alexander Heinrici (American, born Vienna, 1945)
published by Peter M. Brant, Castelli Graphics and Multiples, Inc., New York Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987)
printed Rupert Jasen Smith (American, 1953–1989)
published by Editions Schellmann & Klüser, Munich and New York Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987)
printed by Rupert James Smith
published by Editions Schellmann & Kiuser Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987)
printed by Sirocco Screenprinters (American, 20th century), under the supervision of Ives-Sillman (American, 20th century)
published by Wadsworth Atheneum (American, 20th-21st century)