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Race Riot is a 1964 acrylic and silkscreen painting by the American artist Andy Warhol that he executed in 1964. It fetched $62,885,000 at Christie's in New York on 13 May 2014. [ 1 ] [ a ]
Andy Warhol (/ ˈ w ɔːr h ɒ l /; [1] born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director and producer.A leading figure in the pop art movement, Warhol is considered one the most important artists of the second half of the 20th century.
In August, Warhol's pop art had its first museum presentation in a survey show at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut. This show resulted in Warhol's first fine-art review in The New York Times. Regarding some of Warhol's Campbell's Soup can paintings, the review stated, "These are no mere unruly incidents but big steps towards art ...
They may not be Campbell Soup cans, but tasty, original works from pop art icon Andy Warhol’s formative years are currently under the hammer. ‘Andy Warhol by Hand: The 1950s’ auction ...
The Screen Tests are a series of short, silent, black-and-white film portraits by Andy Warhol, made between 1964 and 1966, generally showing their subjects from the neck up against plain backdrops. The Screen Tests , of which 472 survive, depict a wide range of figures, many of them part of the mid-1960s downtown New York cultural scene.
Pop artist Andy Warhol was a photography enthusiast who famously carried around a Polaroid camera in the 1970s. [1] He used Polaroids as the basis of his commissioned silkscreen portraits. [2] [3] In 1976, Warhol and Bob Colacello, editor of Warhol's Interview magazine, both purchased a Minox 35EL camera while they were in Bonn.
Valerie Jean Solanas (April 9, 1936 – April 25, 1988) was an American radical feminist known for the SCUM Manifesto, which she self-published in 1967, and her attempt to murder artist Andy Warhol in 1968. On June 3, 1968, Solanas went to The Factory, shot Warhol and art critic Mario Amaya, and attempted to shoot Warhol's manager, Fred Hughes.
Starting in the 1960s, Warhol faced lawsuits from photographer Fred Ward, whose photograph of Jackie Kennedy was the basis of Warhol’s “Sixteen Jackies;” Charles Moore, whose photograph of ...