Wednesday
Aug062014
Quote of the Day
Wednesday, August 6, 2014 at 11:03AM
"Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches." - Andy Warhol
(This Warhol quote is one of my all time favorite art quotes!!)
Entries in Andy Warhol (13)
Wednesday, August 6, 2014 at 11:03AM Friday
Mar152013
Did You Know?
Friday, March 15, 2013 at 11:08AM 
Andy Warhol created the Rolling Stone's emblem depicting the big tongue. It first appeared on the cover of the 'Sticky Fingers' album.
Tuesday
Oct022012
Andy Warhol Cooks (sort of...)
Tuesday, October 2, 2012 at 10:49AM 
Andy Warhol Cookbook Illustration from 1961 (click photo for larger image)
Andy Warhol Cookbook Illustration from 1961 (click photo for larger image)
“Famed pop art icon Andy Warhol is perhaps best remembered for soup cans and Marilyn Monroe, but before the eccentric artist gained fame for his paintings, he worked as an commercial illustrator.”
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Thursday
Sep062012
Campbell’s Releases Soup Cans Featuring Andy Warhol’s Pop Art
Thursday, September 6, 2012 at 6:48PM 
Photo by Campbell Soup Company (click photo for larger image)
“To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Andy Warhol‘s 1962 32 Campbell’s Soup Cans piece, Campbell Soup Company is releasing a limited edition of 1.2 million Campbell’s Condensed Tomato Soup cans that will be featuring pop art labels from original Warhol artwork.”
Soup never got better!
Tuesday
Aug072012
Deborah Kass, Feminist Warhol Appropriator, Getting Major Retrospective at Warhol Museum
Tuesday, August 7, 2012 at 11:14AM 
Deborah Kass, “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,” 1994, courtesy of the artist. (click photo for larger image)Pop Art was an art movement that had its origins in England in the 1950s, and made its way to the United States during the 1960s. Pop artists focused their attention on familiar images of popular culture, such as billboards, comic strips, magazine, ads, and supermarket products. One of the leading exponents was Andy Warhol.
“For eight years, from 1992 to 2000, Deborah Kass pursued “The Warhol Project,” a series of feminist appropriations of the Pop artist’s iconic self-portraits and images of celebrities like Elvis and Marilyn Monroe, in which she was often her own subject, while some pieces featured Barbara Streisand, Cindy Sherman, Linda Nochlin and others. It seems fitting, then, that Kass should be having a major retrospective at Pittsburgh’s Andy Warhol Museum in the fall.”
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