Andy Warhol Paintings


By the beginning of the 1960s, Warhol was a very successful commercial illustrator. His detailed and elegant drawings for I. Miller shoes were particularly popular. These illustrations consisted mainly of "blotted ink" drawings (or monoprints), a technique which he applied in much of his early art. Although many artists of this period worked in commercial art, most did so discreetly. Warhol was so successful, however, that his profile as an illustrator seemed to undermine his efforts to be taken seriously as an artist.
 
In the early 1960s, Warhol tried to exhibit some of his drawings using these techniques in a gallery, only to be turned down. He began to rethink the relationship between his commercial work and the rest of his art. Instead of treating these things as opposites, he merged them, and began to take commercial and popular culture more explicitly as his topic.
 
Pop Art was an experimental form that several artists were independently adopting; some of these pioneers, such as Roy Lichtenstein, would later become synonymous with the movement. Warhol, who would become famous as the "Pope of Pop", turned to this new style, where popular subjects could be part of the artist's palette. His early paintings show images taken from cartoons and advertisements, hand-painted with paint drips. Those drips emulated the style of successful abstract expressionists (such as Robert Rauschenberg). Eventually, Warhol pared his image vocabulary down to the icon itself—to brand names, celebrities, dollar signs—and removed all traces of the artist's "hand" in the production of his paintings.
 
To him, part of defining a niche was defining his subject matter. Cartoons were already being used by Lichtenstein, typography by Jasper Johns, and so on; Warhol wanted a distinguishing subject. His friends suggested he should paint the things he loved the most. In his signature way of taking things literally, for his first major exhibition he painted his famous cans of Campbell's Soup, which he claimed to have had for lunch for most of his life.
 

He loved celebrities, so he painted them as well. From these beginnings he developed his later style and subjects. Instead of working on a signature subject matter, as he started out to do, he worked more and more on a signature style, slowly eliminating the hand-made from the artistic process. Warhol frequently used silk-screening; his later drawings were traced from slide projections. Warhol went from being a painter to being a designer of paintings. At the height of his fame as a painter, Warhol had several assistants who produced his silk-screen multiples, following his directions to make different versions and variations.

 

Andy Warhol & Salvador Dali  The Young Virgin by Ringo

Andy Warhol & Salvador Dali The Young Virgin by Ringo

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Marilyn Monroe Andy Warhol Style oil on canvas painting

Marilyn Monroe Andy Warhol Style oil on canvas painting

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Andy Warhol Repro oil painting Campbell's Soup I 1968

Andy Warhol Repro oil painting Campbell's Soup I 1968

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Andy Warhol Repro oil painting Marilyn Monroe1 1967

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ART OIL PAINTING repro Andy Warhol Marilyn Monroe 30x40

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Andy Warhol Repro oil painting Giant Size 1963

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Art Repro Andy Warhol  Oil Painting Jackie Kennedy 1964

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Art Repro Andy Warhol  Oil Painting Shot Blue Marilyn

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Art Repro Andy Warhol  Oil Painting Ingrid With Hat

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Art Repro Andy Warhol  Pop Art Oil Painting Grace Kelly

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Andy Warhol Repro oil painting Marilyn Monroe 1967

Andy Warhol Repro oil painting Marilyn Monroe 1967

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Andy Warhol Repro oil painting Liz 1964

Andy Warhol Repro oil painting Liz 1964

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Andy Warhol Repro oil painting Cow 1966

Andy Warhol Repro oil painting Cow 1966

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 Kunst-Pin:  Micky Maus ( von Andy Warhol)

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Andy Warhol Repro oil painting Sunset 1972

Andy Warhol Repro oil painting Sunset 1972

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Andy Warhol Repro oil painting Mao 1972

Andy Warhol Repro oil painting Mao 1972

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Andy Warhol Repro oil painting Mao1 1972

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Painting Signed? by Andy Warhol

Painting Signed? by Andy Warhol

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