Andy Warhol – From A to B and Back Again
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Andy Warhol
From A to B and Back Again
It’s hard to believe that America hasn’t experienced a full-scale retrospective of one of its most beloved and celebrated icons, Andy Warhol, in over 30 years. Opening this week at the Whitney Museum of American Art, “Andy Warhol – From A to B and Back Again” is the first comprehensive survey of the late Pop artist’s work in over three decades; reasserting Warhol’s overwhelming importance to a new generation as not only the king of Pop, but the monarch of celebrity, color, visual appropriation, and commonplace iconography – so much of what contemporary society is enthralled with today.
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This expansive exhibition featuring over 350 works spread throughout the museum, includes a comprehensive selection of Warhol’s fashion sketches from the 1950s, early hand painted canvases – produced before the artist began utilizing his trademark screen-printing technique – Warhol’s celebrity portraits from the 1960s featuring the likes of Marilyn Monroe, Jacqueline Kennedy, Elvis Presley and Elizabeth Taylor, the artist’s prolific Death and Disaster series, a room of Warhol’s iconic silk-screened flowers, paintings of drag queens, dictators, Campbell Soup cans, Coca-Cola bottles, camouflage patterns, a selection of the artist’s films, and a gallery featuring over 80 examples of Warhol’s colorful society portraits – a body of work which he began in the late 60s and continued expanding upon until his untimely death in 1987.
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With an overwhelmingly expansive oeuvre to choose from, curator Donna De Salvo does a sensational job of representing Warhol’s most characteristic paintings alongside a number of lesser-known works that have often been overlooked throughout his prolific career. This exhibition is a definite must see for art lovers and Warhol enthusiasts.