Carnegie Mellon University

"Pope of Pop Art"

• Andrew Warhola, commonly known as

Andy Warhol.

• Year born: August 6, 1928.

• He studied at the School of Fine Arts at

Carnegie Institute of Technology in
Pittsburgh (now Carnegie Mellon
University)

• The family lived at 55 Beelen Street and

later at 3252 Dawson Street in the
Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh.

• Died: February 22, 1987 (aged 58), New

York City, U.S.
 Jewish Geniuses
Ten Jews of the Twentieth Century

•In October 1980

•an exhibit featuring portraits of "famous Jews" opened at the

Jewish Museum in New York.

•featured silk-screen prints and acrylic paintings

•Warhol's standard techniques of cropping photographs, outlining

faces and figures, and overlaying collage-like blocks of color onto
them seem to have little specific connection with the particular
character or significance of either the portraits or the represented
figures.

Title: Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century

Franz Kafka
Medium: Screenprint on Lenox Museum Board.
Year: 1980
Size: 40" x 32"

Title:Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth

CenturyGertrude Stein
Medium: Screenprint on Lenox Museum Board.
Year: 1980
Size: 40" x 32"
Title:Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century
Martin Buber
Medium: Screenprint on Lenox Museum Board.
Year: 1980
Size: 40" x 32"

Title:Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century

Albert Einstein
Medium: Screenprint on Lenox Museum Board.
Year: 1980
Size: 40" x 32"

Title:Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century

Louis Brandeis
Medium:Screenprint on Lenox Museum Board.
Year: 1980
Size: 40" x 32"

Title:Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century

George Gershwin
Medium: Screenprint on Lenox Museum Board.
Year: 1980
Size: 40" x 32"
Title:Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century
The Marx Brothers
Medium: Screenprint on Lenox Museum Board.
Year: 1980
Size: 40" x 32"

Title:Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century

Golda Meir
Medium: Screenprint on Lenox Museum Board.
Year: 1980
Size: 40" x 32"

Title:Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century

Sarah Bernhardt
Medium:Screenprint on Lenox Museum Board.
Year: 1980
Size: 40" x 32"

Title:Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century

Sigmund Freud
Medium:Screenprint on Lenox Museum Board.
Year: 1980
Size: 40" x 32"
He painted his famous cans of Campbell's Soup, which
he claimed to have had for lunch for most of his life.

His Campbell’s Soup cans became his primary

Subject and gain him his notoriety.

commercialism
"I started as a commercial
artist," and I want to finish
as a business artist.... I
wanted to be an Art
Businessman or a
Business Artist. Being
good in business is the
most fascinating kind of
art.“ – Andy Warhol

His interest in money as well as deal-making apparent

in the production of the ten portraits' exhibit has been
noted by his critics.

Title: Marilyn Monroe
Medium: Screenprint on white
paper.
Year: 1967
Size: 36" x 36“
Location: The Andy Warhol
Museum at Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania U.S.
After Marilyn Monroe’s
death, Pop Art founder Andy
Warhol spent four months
making silkscreens based on a
publicity still of Monroe from her
film, “Niagara.” Fusing art with
mass production, Warhol
created brilliantly colored
multiples of her image.
Fascinated by morbid subjects
and celebrity, he symbolized
Monroe’s mortality, and her
media saturation through brash,
assembly-line reproductions of
her face.
 Warhol one day have difficulty on
thinking what to paint, so he asked one of his
friends what he should paint. She told him to
paint everything he loves. The Warhol come up
with the idea to paint money.

“American money is
very well-designed, really. I
like it better than any other
kind of money,” –Andy Warhol

Title: $ (Quadrant)
Medium: Screenprint on Lenox
Museum Board.
Year: 1982
Size: 40" x 32"

"If visitors can't see the

original Last Supperthey
can come across the
street and see mine.“ –
Andy Warhol

Title: Last Supper

Medium: silkscreen ink on synthetic
polymer paint on canvas
Year: 1986
Size: 101 x 101 cm
Location: Guggenheim Museum SoHo.
 Perhaps the most
harrowing and enigmatic of
Warhol's self-portraits were his
last, done in 1986. In these
monumental images the artist
presented himself as a
macabre, disembodied head
floating in a black void and
staring hypnotically at the
viewer, hair rising off his head
like a snaky-haired Medusa.

Title: Andy Warhol Self-portrait

Medium: Acrylic and screenprint on canvas
Year: 1986
Size: 2032 x 2032 mm
Location: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh:

Title: Myths; Superman

Medium: Screenprint on Lenox Museum Board.
Year: 1981
Size: 38" x 38"

Title: Myths; Mickey Mouse

Medium: Screenprint on Lenox
Museum Board.
Year: 1981
Size: 38" x 38"
Title Electric Chair
Screenprint on white
Medium
paper.
Year 1971
Size 35.5" x 48"

Title Flowers
Screenprint on
Medium
white paper.
Year 1970
Size 36" x 36"

Title Shoes
Screenprint with
diamond dust on
Medium D'Arches
Watercolor (Cold
Press).
Year 1980
Size 40.25" x 59.5"
Early works
 Early works

References
• http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/site/pages/onlinex.php
?id=184&live_stat=warholtenportraits
• http://www.warholprints.com/portfolio/Jews.html
• http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-
28755027_ITM
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_warhol#1980s
• http://www.webexhibits.org/colorart/marilyns.html
• http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intO
bjectID=5101418