Flower Andy Warhol Female Fashion Figure

Exhibition dates: fifth Feb – 13th May 2012

Many thankx to The Warhol Museum for assuasive me to publish the photographs of the fine art in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger version of the prototype.

Andy Warhol (American, 1928-87)
Car (1958 Cadillac Coupe DeVille)
c. 1958
Ink and Dr. Martin's Aniline dye on Strathmore paper
13 ¼ x 25 5/8 in. (33.7 x 65.i cm.)
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the VisualArts, Inc.,
© 2010 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Gild (ARS), New York

I think of myself as an American creative person; I like it here. I think information technology'southward so not bad. I feel I correspond the U.S. in my art but I'one thousand not a social critic: I just paint those objects in my paintings considering those are the things I know all-time… I've heard information technology said that my paintings are as much a part of the stylish world every bit clothes and cars.

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Andy Warhol, 1966

Andy Warhol (American, 1928-87)
Female person Fashion Figure (with 1959 Plymouth Sport Fury Convertible)
c. 1959
Ink and Dr. Martin's Aniline dye on Strathmore paper
20 1/8 x 24 seven/8 in. (51.i x 63.ii cm.)
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Drove, Contribution The Andy Warhol, Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.,
© 2010 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Andy Warhol (American, 1928-87)
5 Deaths
1963
Acrylic and silkscreen ink on sail
20 1/8 x xxx in. (51.1 ten 76.two cm.)
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.,
© 2010 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Andy Warhol (American, 1928-87)
BMW M1 Art Race Car
1979

Andy Warhol (American, 1928-87)
BMW M1 Fine art Race Automobile (particular)
1979

Warhol and Cars: American Icons is the start exhibition to examine Warhol'due south indelible fascination with automotive vehicles as products of American consumer club. This exhibition features more than xl drawings, paintings, photographs, and related archival material spanning from 1946 to 1986. As i of the most iconic and influential artists of the 20th century, Andy Warhol has helped to define America. His signature images of such American products and celebrities as Campbell'south soup cans, Coca-Cola bottles, Marilyn Monroe, and Elizabeth Taylor accept become instantly recognisable. The majority of the work in the exhibition is from The Andy Warhol Museum'southward collection.

The exhibition, organised by the Montclair Art Museum in New Jersey, traces the development of Warhol's work with cars throughout his career. Warhol and Carshighlights include drawing created in the 1940s; works on paper of the 1950s, as well as paintings and prints from the 60s, 70s and 80s. The exhibition is organised chronologically and thematically, tracing the development of Warhol's piece of work with cars throughout his career. Exhibition highlights include a rare, spontaneous drawing of the 1940s featuring a produce truck operated by Warhol's brother Paul; works on paper of the 1950s, dating from the era of Warhol's commercial magazine illustration; and paintings and prints from his important and poignant Car Crash series.

A key work is Twelve Cadillacs, part of a group of nine Warhol car paintings published in the November 1962 effect of Harper'due south Bazaar, which commissioned Warhol to make a visual commentary on the phenomenon of the iconic American motor car. The repetition and grid organization became a primal feature of Warhol'south work. For the first fourth dimension, Twelve Cadillacs will be juxtaposed with potential source images, likewise every bit the related Seven Cadillacs and the hand-painted Lincoln Continental, both of which were likewise part of the Harper'southward Bazaar commission. As well on view will be a related drawing and car model of Cadillacs from the Jean South. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection of American Automobile Art.

Warhol'southward continued engagement with the theme of the automobile is seen in prints and paintings of the 1970s and 1980s based on Volkswagen advertisements, likewise as in multiple photographs of European and American cars sewn together with thread into a format evocative of Warhol's feature assembly-line aesthetic. An original BMW M-1 racing automobile that was hand-painted by Warhol will be on display in the archway gallery. A film of Warhol painting a BMW in 1979 as part of the BMW Art Race Car Projects introduced past French race auto driver Herve Poulin volition be on view during the exhibition. The automobile is office of the BMW Museum's drove in Munich and was last displayed in the United States at Grand Central Terminal in New York Urban center in 2009.

Press release from The Warhol Museum website

Andy Warhol (American, 1928-87)
1978 BMW 320i Art Car Maquette
1978

Andy Warhol (American, 1928-87)
Police Motorcar
1983
From the serial Paintings for Children
Synthetic polymer and silkscreen inks on canvas
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.,
© 2010 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Andy Warhol (American, 1928-87)
European License Plate, 1976-1986
1986
© AWF

Andy Warhol (American, 1928-87)
Truck
1985
© AWF

Andy Warhol (American, 1928-87)
Seven Cadillacs
1962
Silkscreen ink on linen
56 ten 19 in. (142.2 x 48.3 cm.)
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.,
© 2010 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Order (ARS), New York.

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