Andy Warhol is considered the most important artist of the last half of the 20th Century. I will allow you to peruse a selection of artworks from The Whitney Museum of American Art’s massive exhibition, to allow you to decide WHY Warhol is currently considered at the very top of the Art World! See if you can verbalize the reason why.
What is your conclusion about why Warhol is almost worshiped in the Art World today?
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See our editorial answer below.
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Editorial Commentary About Warhol’s Oeuvre: Warhol perfectly represented the times we were living in during the last 40 years of the 20th century and we continue to live with-in now. We celebrate fame and fortune, living day to day inundated with commercialism and advertising, as our economy grows, packaging and branding is “art that sells,” and we buy, buy, buy… it’s the most prevalent art form in most American homes. The social problems of the day he slapped on canvas and displayed on walls like they were dirty laundry, while using the poorest of source materials in halftone dotted photographs, xeroxes, over-inked silkscreens and cheap instant photography, elevating all of those to “High Art.” Also, our society is obsessed with the things we detest most, like crime, murder, guns, death, war, enemies of the state, accidents, and disasters. We want all of the details! Our news media delivers to consumers what sells and that proves we cannot get enough of that long list of horrible things. We logically say we want one thing but oh how we pay attention to the other. Warhol’s work was created in an atmosphere of light-hearted interaction, at the Factory, they were having fun with their rebellion, it was his entertainment, but his final artworks have serious and deep underlying messages. Warhol showed us, our society is obsessed – obsessed with celebrity, obsessed with commercialism and obsessed with horrible news. Like the emperor’s new clothes, Warhol turned the mirror toward all of us so we can see who we really – often unsightly when naked.
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