Roy Fox Lichtenstein (October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) His most celebrated image is arguably Whaam! (1963, at Tate Modern, London), which is one of the earliest known examples of pop art, adapted from a comic-book panel drawn by Russ Heath in a 1962 issue of DC Comics’ All-American Men of War. Most of […]
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Keep on Truckin’ by Robert Crumb (R. Crumb) was first published in Zap Comix # 1, in 1968. ‘Keep on truckin’ is also a phrase from the 1930s song “Trucking My Blues Away” by Blind Boy Fuller. The forward stepping foot was a symbol of the hippie counter-culture in the late 1960s.
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Andy Photographed Muhammed Ali in 1977, and this was part of his “Athletes” series. The other althletes included: O.J. Simpson, Dorothy Hamill, Pele, Jack Nicklaus,Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Rod Gilbert, Willie Shoemaker, Chris Evert and Tom Seaver. Warhol was a practicing Byzantine (Eastern) Catholic. He regularly volunteered at homeless shelters in New York, particularly during the busier
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Andy made himself into art several times in his career. His most famous is probably this one, from 1986. Warhol died in New York City at 6:32 am on February 22, 1987, from a sudden post-operative cardiac arrhythmia. Before his coffin was lowered, Paige Powell dropped a copy of Interview magazine, which he co-founded, an
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The Marx Brothers, part of the ten painting set of “Jewish Geniuses” (1980). The Jewish Museum, in New York City, initially (and controversially) showed three sets of the paintings and an edition of prints in the fall of 1980. The whole set included Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud, Sarah Bernhardt, Louis Brandeis, Martin Buber, George
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Queen Elizabeth II was one of four paintings Andy did of female world leader. They included: Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and Queen Ntombi Twala of Swaziland. QE II’s picture was from her Silver Jubilee (1977). The others were also from official and media photographs. The Artists
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Sigmund Freud, part of the ten painting set of “Jewish Geniuses” (1980). The official title was “Ten Portraits o f Jews of the 20th Century.” New York Times critic Hilton Kramercalled the show “vulgar, exploitative, tawdry and an example of crass recycling.” The whole set included Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud, Sarah Bernhardt, Louis Brandeis,
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Marilyn was completed in the weeks after her death (1962) containing fifty images of the actress, which are all based on a single publicity photograph from the 1953 film, Niagara. The Artists Rights Society is the U.S. copyright representative for the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for all Warhol works with the exception
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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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