Andy Warhol’s Best Art Explained
Marilyn Monroe, celebrity cult icon, became the subject of Warhol’s paintings after her death. Whole series were created by Warhol to underline the importance of her death and Warhol experimented with many variations that are still popular even today.
The series of paintings based on the image of Soup Cans also a key part of Warhol’s art career and remain popular today. Campbell’s Soup brand became famous around the world thanks to the exposure. As with Marilyn Monroe, Campbell’s Soup Cans was a subject that Warhol constantly re-approached with new ideas for many years.
Warhol’s Shoes is a popular choice with art consumers and was covered by Warhol from an early point in his career, where he worked as a commercial illustrator artist and gained popularity with this theme. Warhol, as is common in much of his work, chose to contrast a bright main subject with much darker background elements. Andy Warhol became famous for his TV, Film & Paintings, but perhaps all of this might not have happened if it wasn’t for his initial success as a professional illustrator.
The attempted murder of Andy Warhol led to a new direction in Warhol’s work which covered the subject of death and other items closely related to that. The Gun series is a good example of this new art direction, and he used his common repetition style to put across his feelings of death and danger.
Warhol’s bold styles is shown best in his Cow wallpaper series which remains a popular choice with Warhol Art lovers around the world. Psychedelic yellow combined with pinks to dazzle art lovers and attract young followers towards the Pop Art movement, of which Warhol was one of the figureheads. The cow photo came from an agricultural print which later was repeated into real wallpaper by obsessed Warhol.
Finally, Warhol produced many self-portraits alongside this Warhol star portraits across his career. These are very interesting to study as they give of clues as to how Warhol viewed himself and the outside world. His own personality made this difficult, so these self-portraits are invaluable.