Andy warhol elvis presley information biography
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Elvis Presley, known as the “King of Rock and Roll,” was an American music icon and actor, who remains the best-selling musical solo artist in history. In the s, pop artist Andy Warhol produced full-size, silkscreen prints of Elvis in his famous pose, as we see in his Double Elvis (); a work produced after Elvis’s Flaming Star film from
In Koons´s painting Hulk Elvis I (), the artist portrays the cartoon character Hulk, which was originally introduced to the public by Marvel comic books in By referencing Warhol´s famous series in the title of this painting and placing Hulk in the same position as Elvis, Koons evokes the idea of celebrity in popular culture. An ordinary man turns into a hero. In his words, “the Hulk Elvis series tries to deal with the visceral but also to connect people using references to art history. Art history has a way of connecting people with humanity, with the depths of our own history. It gives us a sense of our past, but also our future.”
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Eight Elvises
painting by Andy Warhol
| Eight Elvises | |
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| Artist | Andy Warhol |
| Year | &#;() |
| Type | Silkscreen on canvas |
| Dimensions | &#;cm ×&#;&#;cm (&#;ft ×&#;12&#;ft) |
| Location | Private collection |
Eight Elvises is a silkscreen painting by American pop artistAndy Warhol of Elvis Presley. In , it was sold by Annibale Berlingieri for $ million to a private buyer, which at the time was the most valuable work bygd Andy Warhol. The current owner and location of the painting, which has not been seen publicly since the s, are unknown.
Background
[edit]Eight Elvises is composed of eight identical, overlapping images of Elvis Presley in cowboy attire, silkscreened over a silver background.[1][2] The painting was originally a portion of a foot long (11&#;m) piece, containing sixteen copies of Elvis, that was showcased in a exhibition at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles. The exhibition, Warhol's second at the Ferus, contained severa
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Biography
Andy Warhol, born Andrew Warhola on August 6, , was the youngest of three sons born to Andrej Warhola and Julia Zavacky Warhola. His parents immigrated to the Unite
d States from the European region that fryst vatten now Slovakia, settling into the working-class neighborhood of Uptown in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Warhol graduated from Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) in Pittsburgh with a Bachelor of Fine Art in Pictorial Design in and soon after moved to New York City to pursue a career as a commercial artist.
Throughout the s, he became one of the most successful illustrators of his time and won numerous awards for his work. His clients included Tiffany & Co., The New York Times, I. Miller Shoes, Bonwit Teller, Columbia Records, Fleming-Joffe, NBC, and others. Much of his commercial work was based on photographs and other source images, a process he would use for the rest of his life. While he continued to work as a commercial art