Famous Pop Art Pictures

Liz Taylor (1962) Silkscreen Portrait.
Certainly one of a few single and several-
picture portraits by Andy Warhol of
the film star. These works ranking
among the greatest portrait paintings
for the twentieth century.

Green Motor Vehicle Accident (1963).
Certainly one of Warhol's tragedy photographs,
predicated on authorities photographs of crash

CONTEMPORARY PAINTING
For any other images like those
made by Andy Warhol, see:
Greatest 20th-Century Paintings.

MODERN PAINTERS
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Introduction

The passion of Andy Warhol for visual of tv, community newspaper columns, and fan publications ran totally counter towards European type of the fighting avant-garde singer that your abstract expressionists had followed. Warhol demanded wide range and fame, and he considered anybody that has all of them fascinating. Including this, their "lipstick-and-peroxide palette" is, as Adam Gopnik has actually pointed out (brand new Yorker, April 10, 1989), "a totally initial feeling of color helping to make all previous American palettes look European." Warhol's denial of any originality defined his imaginative identity, while the fresh appearance of his paintings - exploiting the most recent commercial art strategies - validated it.

Element of Warhol's unique skill set in his recognition that any particular one are communicated through the news more efficiently than a skill object are, and then he attempted to define his existence completely on low airplane of reproducible photos. Inside the 1968 exhibition catalogue the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, he composed: "If you want to know-all about Andy Warhol, simply glance at the area of my paintings, and indeed there Im. You'll find nothing more." From the very early 1960s until their demise in 1987, Warhol cleverly used both design and news, and by therefore performing revealed the shallow values of contemporary...