Warhol’s famous portrait of Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong was created in 1973. Mao was painted 15 feet high, as many of the images on China’s buildings and walls was oversized. Adding a bit of colors to pretty Mao up; Andy was not a fan. The Artists Rights Society is the U.S. copyright representative […]
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20×16 inches, Knives, acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas was created in 1981/2. “I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They’re so beautiful. Everything’s plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic. – Andy Warhol The Artists Rights Society is the U.S. copyright representative for the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
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Painted in 1962, it stands about 6 feet tall. Why is it famous? Picture it up on your wall! Andy captured American consumerism in a way that few had before him. “What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You
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Ed “Big Daddy” Roth (March 4, 1932 – April 4, 2001) In 1962 the Revell model company began selling plastic models of Roth’s cars and from 1963 to 1965 Revell also manufactured plastic models of many of Roth’s monsters. He earned one penny for each sold, earning him $32,000 in 1963. Constantly reissued, there are
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Shirley Temple, The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in Her Time by Salvador Dalí (1939). Andy Warhol said that Dalí was an important influence on pop art. The Dalí Museam (USA) http://theDali.org/home.php 1 Dalí Blvd, St Petersburg, FL 33701 (727) 823-3767
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Salvador Dalí Self Portrait by photographer Philippe Halsman (1948). Also known as Dali Atomicus. Strings* aside, it reportedly took 28 takes to get it just right. *edited out for publication.
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The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory (1954) , refers to Salvador Dalí’s The Persistence of Memory (1934) and signified Dalí’s acknowledgment of quantum mechanics. Dalí’s famous mustache was influenced by 17th-century Spanish master painter Diego Velázquez.
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Salvador Dali was born Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marqués de Dalí de Pubol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989) Dalí’s older brother, also named Salvador had died of gastroenteritis nine months earlier. When he was five, Dalí was taken to his brother’s grave and told by his parents that he
Michelangelo In 1488, young Michelangelo was apprenticed to Ghirlandaio, who was coincidentally called upon to do interior art for the Sistine Chapel. He returned to Rome from Florence in 1505, to build statues for ‘The Pope’s Tomb.’ 50 years of interruptions made the task incomplete by the time Michelangelo died. Although he died in Rome
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