Pop Art Andy Warhol Skull

Obsessed with celebrity consumer culture and mechanical re production pop artist andy warhol created some of the most iconic images of the 20th century.

Pop art andy warhol skull. Warhol s life and work inspires creative thinkers worldwide thanks to his enduring imagery his artfully cultivated celebrity and the ongoing research of dedicated scholars. This is the transformative magic of warhol. Obsessed with celebrity consumer culture and mechanical re production pop artist andy warhol created some of the most iconic images of the 20th century. As famous for his quips as for his art he variously mused that art is what you can get away with and everyone will be famous for 15 minutes warhol drew widely from popular culture and everyday subject matter creating works.

Available for sale from karma andy warhol skull c. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression advertising and celebrity culture that flourished by the 1960s and span a variety of media including painting silkscreening. Skull was created in 1976 by andy warhol in pop art style. Skulls was made in warhol s new york studio known as the factory on unstretched canvas that had been rolled out flat on the studio floor.

Available for sale from phillips andy warhol skull 1976 screenprint in colours on strathmore bristol paper the full sheet 76 7 101 7 cm. Like his campbell soup can series warhol takes the everyday skull hiding in plain sight and transforms the obvious object into the sublime object of art. View andy warhol s 39 181 artworks on artnet. Find an in depth biography exhibitions original artworks for sale the latest news and sold auction prices.

Under warhol s death defying brush stroke soup cans become art and a skull becomes a pop culture icon on life death and the meaning of it all. August 6 1928 february 22 1987 was an american artist film director and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. See available prints and multiples paintings and works on paper for sale and learn about the artist. Andy warhol was a leading figure in the pop art movement.

Although he had a large number of staff working for him during the period when this work was made warhol also employed an assistant named rupert smith to help specifically with screen printing.