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Cover News Reporter Zeng Jie Intern He Yuting Photo Report
This year's Christie's Spring Sale, Andy Warhol's "Shooting Marilyn (Sage Blue)" started at $100 million and finally sold for $195 million (about 1.31 billion yuan), surpassing Picasso and becoming the highest-priced 20th-century art in auction history.
Want to know how dreamy Marilyn Monroe is in Andy Warhol's works? On November 15, the exhibition "Meet Andy Warhol – Pop Art and Neo-Expressionism" will open to the public in Chengdu Impression City, including "Marilyn Monroe" in the same series of silkscreen prints as "Shooting Marilyn (Sage Blue)".
Silkscreen print "Marilyn Monroe"
On November 12, the cover news reporter explored the exhibition in advance, and nearly 100 works brought by more than 10 artists such as Andy Warhol, Jasper Jones, Robert Rauschenberg, etc., presented the rise and development of pop art from 4 different units, and also showed the audience Andy Warhol's multiple roles in the field of art.
Meet Pop Art legends
Pop Art was born in England in the early '50s and flourished in the United States in the '60s, making it famous for its use of images and techniques associated with pop culture, consumerism, and the industrial age that emerged after the war. Pop artists have broken the boundaries between "high art" and "pulp art", implanting images of everyday life such as advertising, product packaging, pop music, comic books and Hollywood movies into their creations in different ways, the most well-known of which is Andy Warhol, the advocate and leader of pop art.
"Everything was beautiful. Popularity is everything. Stepping into the exhibition hall, Andy Warhol's classic quotes are presented on the wall in white on a black background. The exhibition features more than 60 works of art by Andy Warhol, including his highly regarded "Shooting Marilyn (Sage Blue) Dew" and the same series of silkscreen prints, "Campbell's Soup Cans", "The Beatles", and one of the last works, "Rado Watch", allowing art lovers to experience the unique visual language of pop art up close.
Print of "Rado Watch"
Many visitors were shocked by the 10 different color Marilyn Monroe prints hanging on an entire wall in the exhibition hall, and stopped to admire the mystery of color matching. The docent introduced that in 1962, shortly after Marilyn Monroe's death, Andy Warhol created his first silkscreen print about Monroe, based on a still from "Niagara" starring Monroe in 1953. He once explained that he wanted to use something more powerful to produce more assembly line effects, and the silkscreen prints made from photographs came from this. It so happened that Monroe died that month, which gave him the idea of making the first Marilyn prints of her beautiful face.
A complete presentation of the development of the Pop genre
According to the curator of Meet the Museum, the exhibition is divided into 4 parts, the first unit is "Why Pop", focusing on the origin of Pop Art, as one of the representative figures of Pop Art, with Andy Warhol's prints "Campbell's Soup Can" and "Rado Watch"; In the second unit, "Pop and Crossover", Pop Art has not only influenced visual arts, but also penetrated into music, film, design, publishing, fashion and other fields. Pop artists often explore the role of advertising and consumer culture in art and society, using their keen commercial sense and silkscreen techniques to design posters or covers for brand advertising, vinyl records, and film promotions.
Print of Campbell's Soup Can
Artists are not created either/or, and artists in the same art genre are not the same, and the third section of the exhibition, "Pop and New Expressionism", shows the creations of famous artists during the struggle between old and new in the 70s. Works on display include Robert Rauschenberg's "Centennial", Jasper Jones' "Two Balls", Roy Lichtenstein's "The Girl on the Boat" and Keith Haring's "Andy Mickey Mouse". Finally, Andy Warhol's classic works, such as "Basquiat and Warhol's Poster", "Cow" series, Marilyn Monroe and other celebrity image prints, and some photographic works focusing on Andy Warhol are displayed.
The docent leads the exhibition
It is worth mentioning that Andy Warhol is not only an artist, but also a photographer, producer, musician, and has achieved great achievements in many fields. He is good at combining art and business, and once boldly predicted - "everyone can be famous in 15 minutes" and "everyone can be famous in 15 minutes". The exhibition hall displays a number of television sets, showing his films and participating in interview programs, allowing the audience to understand the artist's wonderful life.
In addition, the exhibition has a special color game session that children love, through high-purity colors and bold color matching, let children understand pop art and stimulate their awareness of color perception.
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