You've got to love him.
Andy Warhol is probably one of the most influential artist of all time, and certainly the most notable Pop Artist, a real modern master.
Warhol's penchant for taking everyday props and putting a spotlight on them turned the ordinary extraordinary and memorable because, for him, those little bits of ordinary truly reflected the culture he lived in; they showcased the daily goings on of the regular people, the popular culture; hence: the art of popular culture or Pop Art.
Of course, he's a legend. His works are iconic.
Warhol is the guy who painted the picture of a big, red Campbell Soup can. He's also the guy who painted comic-colored portraits of Marilyn Monroe and made many larger-than-life celebrities even more... larger-than-life.
Warhol liked to paint people in the news, the people on the front page replete with pictures and headlines, and he liked to paint people who held a newspaper in their hands, as well as those reading a paper, too.
His style made them pop, and those portraits have been replicated and donned and admired on walls everywhere. In short, Andy Warhol immortalized the people and things whose images he captured - vividly.
And today Pop Art is still popular. It’s popular because it inspires a memory, an experience, a feeling for the person viewing it.
According to Warhol:
"Once you ‘got’ Pop, you could never see a sign the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again."
And, that says it all. Take a look. You'll see.
