Catalogue information

LastDodo number
3999169
Area
Prints / graphics
Title
Marilyn Monroe Rosa Face
Technique
Year
1967
Print run
2400
Dimensions
60 x 60 cm
Printing office
Details

Andy Warhol (Pittsburgh, August 6, 1928 - New York City, February 22, 1987) was an American artist, film director and author. Warhol also worked as a music producer and actor. From his background and experience in the applied arts, Warhol was one of the protagonists of Pop Art in the United States in the 1950s and 60 of the 20th century. Warhol is called the silver prince of the pop. Warhol is particularly famous for his 'flat' and high-contrast paintings and screen prints of packaged products and everyday objects such as Campbell's soup cans, flowers and the banana on the cover of the album The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967), as well as for his stylized portraits of 20th century celebrities like Marilyn Monroe, Grace Jones. Elvis Presley, Judy Garland, and Elizabeth Taylor. Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola in Pittsburgh, United States. His parents were Ondrej (Andrew) Warhola and Júlia Justyna Zavack á, Slovak immigrants. Ondrej (whose original family name was Varchola, which he changed to Warhola when he emigrated to the US) worked in the Pennsylvania coal mines. Andy showed early artistic talent and went on to study applied art in Pittsburgh at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, now Carnegie Mellon University. He stood out there by drawing two self-portraits on which he was picking his nose (Upper Torso Boy Picking Nose and Full Figure Boy Picking Nose). In 1949 Warhol moved to New York, where he built a career in the advertising and magazine world.

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