Hour 13:15
16 Feb 26
Andy Warhol was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker, and is regarded as one of the leading figures of the Pop Art movement in the United States. He studied at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and began his career in commercial art.
Title: Red Flowers
Artist: Andy Warhol
Dimensions: 56 × 56 cm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location: Private Library, Niavaran Cultural-Historical Complex
Andy Warhol
Born: August 6, 1928
Died: February 22, 1987
Biography
Andy Warhol was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker, and is regarded as one of the leading figures of the Pop Art movement in the United States. He studied at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and began his career in commercial art.
Style
Warhol’s paintings frequently depicted Campbell’s soup cans, Coca-Cola bottles, and Marilyn Monroe, often reproduced in multiple images through silkscreen printing processes. In addition to painting, he produced experimental films, including an eight-hour film of the Empire State Building. His works are held in major collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
In his art, Warhol drew upon advertising imagery and mass media aesthetics. Beginning in the early 1960s, he created works based on the repeated reproduction of a single independent image. Initially, he used rubber and wooden stamps for this purpose, later adopting the silkscreen technique on canvas. His chosen subjects included portraits of celebrities, documentary images, consumer goods, and flowers.
Selected Works
Sleep, Lonesome Cowboys, Trash, Elvis Presley, Coca-Cola Bottles, Dollar Bills