Andy Warhol
Figure 1: Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol was an American artist
who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works
explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and
advertisement that flourished by the 1960s. was born in August 6, 1928, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United
States and died February 22,
1987, New York City, New York, United
States. Period is Pop art and movies Empire, Flesh, Chelsea Girls, Trash, Sleep, Heat, Bad, Vinyl.
ARTWORK
Campbell's Soup
Cans
Campbell's
Soup Cans, which is sometimes referred to as 32 Campbell's Soup Cans, is a work
of art produced in 1962 by Andy Warhol. It consists of thirty-two canvases,
each measuring 20 inches 51 cm in height × 16 inches 41 cm in width and each
consisting of a painting of a Campbell's Soup can one of each of the canned
soup varieties the company offered at the time. The individual paintings were
produced by a printmaking method the semi mechanized screen printing process,
using a non-painterly style. Campbell's Soup Cans' reliance on themes from
popular culture helped to usher in pop art as a major art movement in the USA.
Figure 2: Campbell's Soup Cans
Eight Elvises
Eight
Elvises is a 1963 silkscreen painting by American pop artist Andy Warhol of
Elvis Presley made from canvas. On November 26, 2009, The Economist reported
that the painting was sold by Italian collector Annibale Berlingieri to a
private collector brokered by Philippe Ségalot, a French art consultant for
$100 million, making it one of the most expensive paintings ever sold the
report described Warhol as the bellwether of the art market.
Figure 3: Eight Elvises
Self Portrait
Andy
Warhol made Self-portrait a few months before his death, which was in February
1987. Year for made this artwork 1986. Paint on canvas and size 208.3 cm ×
208.3 cm 82.0 in × 82.0 in. It uses a Polaroid photograph of him, with the
material of acrylic polymer paint and silk screen printing to produce a
camouflage pattern over the face surrounded by black. The Metropolitan Museum
of Art describes the image. Warhol appears as a haunting, disembodied mask. His
head floats in a dark black void and his face and hair are ghostly pale,
covered in a militaristic camouflage pattern of green, gray, and black. There
is a contrast between the impersonality of the camouflage pattern, which hints
at danger, and the personality of the portrait tradition, where there is direct
contact with the viewer, although in this case with a protective illusory
covering. The ambiguous uses of camouflage drawing attention when a fashionable
look and doing the opposite in military use fascinated Warhol. A version in the
Philadelphia Museum of Art uses pink and magenta on the same black background.
Another version similar to the one kept at the Philadelphia Museum of Art is
part of the National Gallery of Victoria's modern art collection.
Figure 4: Self Portrait
Portrait of Seymour H. Knox
Portrait of Seymour H. Knox is a
1985 portrait by Andy Warhol of Seymour H. Knox II. It was donated by the
families of his two sons, Mr. and Mrs. Seymour H. Knox III and Mrs. and Mrs.
Northrup R. Knox, to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in honor of Seymour H. Knox
II for his 60 year contribution as a member of the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy.
This is one of a number of celebrity portraits that Warhol produced in this
duplicative multicolored style. Many were produced in his early 1960s
silkscreen period. Some of the major celebrity portraits of this style include
those of Elvis Presley, Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, Jacqueline Kennedy,
Mao Zedong and Andy Warhol himself. He also produced similar style works of
several other minor celebrities.
Figure 5: Portrait
of Seymour H. Knox
Marilyn Monroe Castelli Graphics
Invitation
This
1981 Andy Warhol Marilyn Monroe Screenprint is better known as the
"Marilyn Monroe Castelli Graphic Invitation", a Miniature version of
Andy Warhol's most famous Pink Marilyn Monroe image, F&S II. 31, known
Internationally as the quintessential pop icon for both the Artist and the
entire Pop Art movement. The 1981 Andy Warhol Castelli Invitation Screenprint
are offering is in superb condition, the colors fresh, the margins full and
without defects. Importantly, the Andy Warhol Marilyn Monroe Castelli Graphic
Invitation Screenprint is boldly signed with a distinctive Andy Warhol signature
on the front in black pen. Color Silkscreen on paper. Size 7 x 7 inches, folded
as intended, Signed "Andy Warhol" with felt tip pen on recto.
Conceived in 1967 and printed in an Edition of approximately 250.
Figure 6: Marilyn Monroe Castelli
Graphics Invitation
Joan Miro I Ferra
Joan Miró i Ferrà was a Catalan
Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist was born April 20, 1893 born in
Barcelona. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was
established in his native city in 1975. Earning international acclaim, his work
has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a
re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride. In numerous
interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Miró expressed contempt for
conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeois society, and
famously declared an "assassination of painting" in favour of
upsetting the visual elements of established painting.
ARTWORK
A
hand flying off toward the constellations
A hand flying off toward the
constellations is a painting by Joan Miró dated 19 January 1974. Size 260.5 cm
x 681 cm (102.6 inch x 268 inch). It is now shown at the Fundació Joan Miró, in
Barcelona. The artist gave the work to the Foundation in the same month that it
opened to the public on 10 June 1975.
Figure
1: A hand flying off toward the constellations
Still
Life with Old Shoe
Still Life with Old Shoe, is an oil
painting of 1937 by Joan Miró, now part of the permanent collection of the
Museum of Modern Art in New York size of painting 81,
3 cm × 116, 8 cm (320 in × 460 in). The
work was given to the museum by James Thrall Soby in 1970.
Figure 2: Still Life with Old
Shoe
The Farm
The Farm is an oil painting made by
Joan Miró between clarifications needed the summer of 1921 in Mont-roig del
Camp and winter 1922 in Paris. It is a kind of inventory of the farmhouse owned
by his family since 1911 in the town of Mont-roig
del Camp. Miró himself regarded this work as a key in his career, describing it
as "a summary of my entire life in the countryside" and "the
summary of one period of my work, but also the point of departure for what was
to follow. It is preserved in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC,
where it was given in 1987 by Mary Hemingway, coming from the private
collection of American writer Ernest Hemingway. Size if painting 123,8 cm × 141.3 cm (48.7 in × 55.6 in).
Figure 3: The Farm
Personnage Oiseaux
Personnage Oiseaux is one of Joan
Miró's largest works in the United States and his only glass mosaic mural,
(Bird Characters), 1972–1978. Size 853 cm × 1585 cm (336 in × 624 in).
Figure 4: Personnage Oiseaux
Portrait of Vincent Nubiola
Portrait of Vincent Nubiola is an
oil painting by Spanish Catalan artist Joan Miró. Painted in 1917 when Miró was
24 years old, a year before his first exhibition, the portrait is now
considered a masterpiece from a period when he experimented with both Cubism
and Fauvism. It is also said by some art critics to show the influence of Van
Gogh. Acquired for a time by Picasso, the painting is now in the permanent
collection of the Folkwang Museum in Essen (Germany). Size
104 cm × 113 cm (41 in
× 44 in).
Figure 5: Portrait of Vincent Nubiola
Leornado da
Vinci
Figure
1: Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was
an Italian Renaissance polymath painter, sculptor, architect, musician,
mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer,
botanist, and writer. Born in April 15, 1452, His genius, perhaps more than
that of any other figure epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. Leonardo
has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance man, a man of
unquenchable curiosity and feverishly inventive imagination. He is widely
considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most
diversely talented person ever to have lived. According to art historian Helen
Gardner, the scope and depth of his interests were without precedent and
"his mind and personality seem to us superhuman, the man himself mysterious
and remote. Marco Rosci states that while there is much speculation about
Leonardo, his vision of the world is essentially logical rather than
mysterious, and that the empirical methods he employed were unusual for his
time.
ARTWORK
Mona Lisa
The Mona Lisa La Gioconda or La Joconde is a half-length portrait of a
woman by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, which has been acclaimed as
"the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung
about, the most parodied work of art in the world. The painting, thought to be
a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo, is in oil on
a white Lombardy poplar panel, and is believed to have been painted between
1503 and 1506, although Leonardo may have continued working on it as late as
1517. It was acquired by King Francis I of France and is now the property of
the French Republic, on permanent display at The Louvre museum in Paris since
1797. The ambiguity of the subject's expression, which is frequently described
as enigmatic, the monumentality of the composition, the subtle modelling of
forms and the atmospheric illusionism were novel qualities that have
contributed to the continuing fascination and study of the work. Size 77 cm ×
53 cm (30 in × 21 in).
Figure 2: Mona Lisa
The Head of a Woman
The Head of a Woman is a painting by the Italian
Renaissance masters Leonardo da Vinci, dating from perhaps around 1500 and
housed in the Galleria Nazionale di Parma, Italy.
Size 24.7 cm × 21 cm
(9.7 in × 8.3 in)
Figure 3: The Head of a Woman
The Battle of
Anghiari
The Battle of Anghiari 1505 is a currently lost painting by Leonardo da
Vinci, at times referred to as The Lost Leonardo, which some commentators
believe to be still hidden beneath one of the later frescoes in the Salone dei
Cinquecento Hall of the Five Hundred in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. Its
central scene depicted four men riding raging war horses engaged in a battle
for possession of a standard, at the Battle of Anghiari in 1440.
Figure 4:
The Battle of Anghiari
The portrait of a
man
The portrait of a man in red chalk circa 1510 in the Biblioteca Reale,
Turin is widely, though not universally, accepted as a self-portrait of
Leonardo da Vinci. It is thought that Leonardo da Vinci drew this self-portrait
at about the age of 60. The portrait has been extensively reproduced and has
become an iconic representation of Leonardo as a polymath or "Renaissance
Man".
Despite this, some historians and
scholars disagree as to the true identity of the sitter. Size 33.3 cm × 21.6 cm
(13.1 in × 8.5 in).
Figure 5: The portrait of a man
The Virgin and Child with Saint
Anne
The
Virgin and Child with Saint Anne is an oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci
depicting St Anne, her daughter the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus. Christ is
shown grappling with a sacrificial lamb symbolizing his Passion as the Virgin
tries to restrain him. The painting was commissioned as the high altarpiece for
the Church of Santissima Annunziata in Florence and its theme had long
preoccupied Leonardo. Size 168 cm × 112 cm (66 in × 44 in).
Figure 6: The Virgin and Child
with Saint Anne
Pablo
Picasso
Figure 1: Pablo Ruiz y Picasso
Pablo
Ruiz y Picasso, known as Pablo Picasso 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973 was a
Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer who spent
most of his adult life in France. As one of the greatest and most influential
artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement,
the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for
the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most
famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon 1907, and Guernica
1937, a portrayal of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil
War.
ARTWORK
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Les
Demoiselles d'Avignon The Young Ladies of Avignon, and originally titled The
Brothel of Avignon is a large oil painting created in 1907 by the Spanish
artist Pablo Picasso 1881–1973. The work portrays five nude female prostitutes
from a brothel on Carrer d'Avinyó (Avinyó Street) in Barcelona. Each figure is
depicted in a disconcerting confrontational manner and none are conventionally
feminine. The women appear as slightly menacing and rendered with angular and
disjointed body shapes. Two are shown with African mask-like faces and three
more with faces in the Iberian style of Picasso's native Spain, giving them a
savage aura. In this adaptation of Primitivism and abandonment of perspective
in favour of a flat, two-dimensional picture plane, Picasso makes a radical
departure from traditional European painting. The work is widely considered to
be seminal in the early development of both cubism and modern art. Demoiselle
was revolutionary and controversial, and led to wide anger and disagreement,
even amongst his closest associates and friends. Size 243.9 cm × 233.7 cm
(96 in × 92 in).
Figure 2: Les Demoiselles
d'Avignon
Garçon à la Pipe
Garçon
à la Pipe (Boy with a Pipe) is a painting by Pablo Picasso. It was painted in
1905 when Picasso was 24 years old, during his Rose Period, soon after he
settled in the Montmartre section of Paris, France. The oil on canvas painting
depicts a Parisian boy holding a pipe in his left hand and wearing a garland or
wreath of flowers. Size 100 cm × 81.3 cm (39.4 in × 32.0 in).
Figure 3: Garçon à la Pipe
The Old Guitarist
The Old Guitarist is an oil painting
by Pablo Picasso created in 1903. It depicts an old, blind, haggard man with
threadbare clothing weakly hunched over his guitar, playing on the streets of
Barcelona, Spain. It is currently on display in the Art Institute of Chicago.
At the time of The Old Guitarist’s creation, Modernism, Impressionism,
Post-Impressionism, and Symbolism had merged and created an overall movement
called Expressionism, which greatly influenced Picasso’s style. Furthermore, El
Greco, Picasso’s poor standard of living, and the suicide of a dear friend
influenced Picasso’s style at the time, which came to be known as his Blue
Period. Several x-rays, infrared images, and examinations by curators revealed
three different figures hidden behind the old guitarist.
Figure 4: The Old Guitarist
Guernica
Guernica
is a painting by Pablo Picasso. It was created in response to the bombing of
Guernica, a Basque Country village in northern Spain, by German and Italian
warplanes at the behest of the Spanish Nationalist forces on 26 April 1937
during the Spanish Civil War. Guernica shows the tragedies of war and the
suffering it inflicts upon individuals, particularly innocent civilians. This
work has gained a monumental status, becoming a perpetual reminder of the
tragedies of war, an anti-war symbol, and an embodiment of peace. Upon
completion, Guernica was displayed around the world in a brief tour, becoming
famous and widely acclaimed. This tour helped bring the Spanish Civil War to
the world's attention. Although mention is frequently made of the painting's
"return" to Spain, this is not in fact correct. Guernica was painted
in Paris, where it was first exhibited, before being placed in the care of the
Museum of Modern Art, as it was Picasso's express desire that the painting
should not be delivered to Spain until liberty and democracy had been
re-established in the country. On its arrival in Spain, in September 1981, it
was first displayed behind bomb-and bullet-proof glass screens at the Casón del
Buen Retiro in Madrid in time to celebrate the centenary of Picasso's birth,
October 24. The exhibition was visited by almost a million people in the first
year. Guernica was moved to its current permanent location in a purpose-built
gallery at the Museo Reina Sofía in 1992.
Size 349 cm × 776 cm (137.4 in × 305.5 in).
Figure 5: Guernica
Portrait of Angel Fernández de
Soto
Portrait
of Angel Fernández de Soto (also known as The Absinthe Drinker) is a portrait
by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso completed in 1903 during his Blue Period. The
oil painting depicts Picasso's friend and fellow painter, Angel Fernandez de
Soto, in a bar with a glass of absinthe. The painting was previously owned by
musical theatre composer Andrew Lloyd Webber. On 23 June 2010, the painting was
sold at auction for £34.7 million. Size 70.3 cm × 55.3 cm (27 5/8 in × 21¾ in).
Figure 6: Portrait of Angel
Fernández de Soto
Vincent Willem van Gogh
Figure 1: Vincent Willem van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh was born in 30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890 was a
post-Impressionist painter of Dutch origin whose work, notable for its rough
beauty, emotional honesty and bold colour, had a far-reaching influence on
20th-century art. After years of painful anxiety and frequent bouts of mental
illness, he died aged 37 from a gunshot wound, generally accepted to be
self-inflicted although no gun was ever found. His work was then known to only
a handful of people and appreciated by fewer still. Van Gogh began to draw as a
child, and he continued to draw throughout the years that led up to his
decision to become an artist. He did not begin painting until his late
twenties, completing many of his best-known works during the last two years of
his life. In just over a decade, he produced more than 2,100 artworks,
consisting of 860 oil paintings and more than 1,300 watercolours, drawings,
sketches and prints. His work included self-portraits, landscapes, still life,
portraits and paintings of cypresses, wheat fields and sunflowers.
ARTWORK
Starry Night over the Rhone
Starry
Night over the Rhone (September 1888) is one of Vincent van Gogh's paintings of
Arles at night time. It was painted at a spot on the bank of the Rhone River
that was only a one or two-minute walk from the Yellow House on the Place
Lamartine which Van Gogh was renting at the time. The night sky and the effects
of light at night provided the subject for some of his more famous paintings,
including Cafe Terrace at Night painted earlier the same month and the later
canvas from Saint-Rémy, The Starry Night. A sketch of the painting is included
in a letter van Gogh sent to his friend Eugène Boch on October 2, 1888. The
painting was first exhibited in 1889 at the annual exhibition of the Société
des Artistes Indépendants in Paris, together with the Irises. The latter was
added by Theo, while Vincent had proposed one of his paintings from the public
gardens in Arles, most probably the version now in the Phillips Collection.
Size 72.5 cm × 92 cm (28.5 in × 36.2 in).
Figure 2: Starry Night over the Rhone
The
Potato Eaters
The
Potato Eaters is a painting by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh that he
painted in April 1885 while in Nuenen, Netherlands. It is in the Van Gogh
Museum in Amsterdam. The version at the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo is a
preliminary oil sketch, and he also made a version as a lithograph. In 1885 van
Gogh made several versions of The Potato Eaters. Size 82 cm × 114 cm
(32.3 in × 44.9 in).
Figure 3: The Potato Eaters
The
Night Cafe
The Night Cafe is an oil painting
created in Arles in September 1888 by Vincent van Gogh. Its title is inscribed
lower right beneath the signature. The interior depicted is the Café de la
Gare, 30 Place Lamartine, run by Joseph-Michel and his wife Marie Ginoux, who
in November 1888 posed for Van Gogh's and Gauguin's Arlésienne; a bit later,
Joseph Ginoux evidently posed for both artists, Size 72.4 cm × 92.1 cm
(28.5 in × 36.3 in).
Figure 4: The Night Cafe
Cafe Terrace at Night
Cafe Terrace at Night, also known as
The Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum, is a coloured oil painting executed by
the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh on an industrially primed canvas, France,
mid-September 1888. Size of painting 80.7 cm
× 65.3 cm (31.8 in × 25.7 in).
Figure
5: Cafe Terrace at Night
The
Red Vineyards near Arles
The Red Vineyards near Arles is
an oil painting by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, executed on a privately
primed Toile de 30 piece of burlap in early November 1888. It supposedly is the
only piece sold by the artist while he was alive. Size of painting 75 cm × 93 cm
(29.5 in × 36.6 in).
Figure 6: The Red Vineyards near
