Biography

Quite possibly the most influential artist since Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol revolutionized modern art, radically altering the relationship of art to notions of authorship and commodity, and blurring the boundaries between performance, photography, painting, and sculpture. Warhol’s innovations, which have now become familiar artistic techniques, confounded traditional notions of “the artist’s hand,” and what artistic subject matter could be. Using reproductions of common, commercially available images from advertising and the celebrity press, Warhol presented art as one commodity among many, an act filled with equal parts indifferent boredom, ingenious marketing, and celebration. He was lauded as a mirror of contemporary American culture, in which he predicted that everyone would experience, or want to experience, “15 minutes of fame.” After the artist’s death in 1987, The Andy Warhol Foundation took over ownership of the copyrights and trademarks of Warhol’s work. Upholding the legacy of Warhol’s iconic style, the Foundation licenses original images to manufacturers and artists, allowing his work to reach new audiences throughout the world. The works that fall under the category of After Andy Warhol are created under the supervision of the Foundation to “reflect Warhol’s maverick approach to art making.”