Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol was born in 1928 in Pittsburgh. He became popular as a painter, print maker, filmmaker and leader of the pop art movement. During the 60s Warhol began to make paintings of famous American products such as Campbell's Soup Cans and Coca-Cola, as well as paintings of celebrities like Marilyn Monroe.

Later he switched to silkscreen prints, which he produced in series. He said that he wanted to be a "machine" and minimize the percentage of his own creativity in his works. This was a new revolution in art, which became soon very controversial and popular. He focused his work onAmerican Pop Culture. Andy Warhol painted dollar bills, celebrities, brand name products, and images from newspaper clippings. He wanted his subjects to be instantly recognizable, and often had a mass appeal - this aspect interested him most. 

Warhol loved the money. This was also a reason for his dollar bill paintings, which he created in 1981. This piece is an ironic acknowledgement which illustrates postmodernism in its final stage.

Further more Warhol created arts of Marilyn Monroe in 1962, who died in the same year. In the following four months, he made more than twenty silkscreen paintings of her. All the 20 images based on the same publicity photograph from the 1953 film "Niagara". The reason that he created those arts was that Andy Warhol found in Monroe a fusion of two of his consistent themes: death and the cult of celebrity. 

He repeated the image to show her constant presence in the media. 

The contrast of vivid colour with black and white, and the effect of fading in the right panel are suggestive of the star’s mortality.

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