Andy Warhol- POP ART

1. Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid-1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular culture such as advertising, news, etc.

   
   

   
   

   

   
   

   

   
   

   

   
   

   

   
   

   

   Facts:

   1. A devout Roman Catholic, Warhol attended mass daily

   2. The blank right-hand side of Warhol's Silver Car Crash mimics the breaking of a strip of projected film and the loss of consciousness upon death.

   3. In 1964 the Castelli Gallery showed Warhol's Flowers series, a theme the artist selected in part because the art dealer Ileana Sonnabend sensed New York collectors' resistance to his early Death and Disaster paintings, which had been more popular in Europe.

   4. Warhol started to paint depictions of Elizabeth Taylor when the actress got sick while filming Cleopatra and the artist believed she might die.

   5. Warhol struck upon series paintings as a way to draw attention at galleries, and to distinguish himself from fellow Pop figure Roy Lichtenstein.