The most iconic works of Pop Art!
Considered one of the fathers of pop art, Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was a controversial and innovative visual artist who created works that have remained in the Western collective imagination.
Discover his eleven most iconic works now!
Marilyn Monroe
Hollywood movie star Marilyn Monroe died on August 5, 1962. In the same year, weeks after her death, Warhol created what would become his most celebrated silkscreen print: a tribute to the diva.
The same image of Marilyn received different experiments with vibrant colors; the original photograph was part of the advertising for the film Niagara, released in 1953. Warhol's work became one of the emblems of pop art.
Mao Zedong
Warhol began to take an interest in the figure of former Chinese President Mao Zedong starting in 1972, the year in which Richard Nixon, then President of the United States, made his first visit to China. That same year, the American artist began sketching caricatures of the Chinese authority. The image of the leader that became the most famous caricature of the Chinese authority was painted in 1973. Made with strong brushstrokes and lots of color, Mao Zedong even appears as if he were wearing makeup. The lipstick and eyeshadow stand out against the black and white photograph, as do the background, reinvented in pink, and the clothing, colored yellow. fluorescent.
Banana
The yellow banana was used as the cover art for the debut album of the band The Velvet Underground. Andy Warhol was very involved with music and, in the 1960s, decided to associate himself with the group. Five years later he even became the band's manager. The album that features the banana on the cover is considered "the most prophetic rock album of all time" and one of the greatest albums in history according to Rolling Stone magazine. The famous banana, in turn, detached itself from the image of the band and the album to become one of the symbolic images of pop art.