The artist brought to life in his masterpieces people such as Elvis Presley (Triple Elvis, 1963), Michael Jackson (Michael Jackson, 1984), Brigitte Bardot (Brigitte Bardot, 1974), and his forever favourite, Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn Diptych, 1962).
This movement is also well known for its intensified, vibrating colours, and for focusing on common objects of ordinary quotidian life, having served as a huge influence for Graphism and fashion drawings.Īndy Warhol is celebrated for creating art over the image of music icons and movie stars, showing how impersonal, objectified, distant and void they usually are seen as. Warhol is an iconic figure of Pop Art, an artistic movement that originated in the UK around the 1950s and characterized by portraying ironic themes related to capitalism, excessive consumption, mass culture’s aesthetics, – highly criticized by the Frankfurt School – mass publicity, and the so-called “American way of living”. The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) was finally allowed to reopen to the public on July 21st, 2021 and since then, the gallery has been hosting a major Andy Warhol exhibition. Here goes a friendly reminder: don’t miss out! An incredible opportunity to have a closer look at the work of the most renowned artist of the Pop Art movement.
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What to do, when, and how to visit the Andy Warhol exhibit in Toronto.
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