Andy warhol pictures

The album was referred to as “the most prophetic art album ever made.” After ranking 13th on Rolling stone magazine’s greatest album of all time list, Warhol’s Banana became one of the most sought-after pieces of pop art.

Banana can rightly be referred to as the international symbol of Warhol.

2. Coca Cola

Next on our list is Warhol’s ‘coca-cola’.

There is hardly anyone who would claim to not know the coca-cola brand. The coca-cola bottle is a symbolic American object which happened to tickle Warhol’s fancy. 

One of his famous quotes has a thing to do with it. He created many works on the coca-cola bottle. Unlike his later silkscreens, coca-cola is hand-painted and happens to be one of Warhol’s most expensive paintings ever sold.

The coca-cola bottle was an inspiration to Warhol as he set out to develop his own identity. Throughout his career, Warhol created about 15 different artworks related to coca-cola.

3. Mao

This work of art was created in 1973, started the year President Richard Nixon, who was the US president, made his first visit to China, 1972.

He made hundreds of MAO paintings using a photograph from MAO’s little red book. This painting is quite huge and is about 15 feet tall. It is also the most well-known MAO portrait by Warhol.

This particular painting reflects Warhol at his most painterly self and is said to be one of the best paintings he made.

4. Soup Cans

Campbell’s soup cans, also known as 32 Campbell’s soup cans, is one of Andy Warhol’s famous works. It was produced between November 1961 and April 1962. It comprises 32 canvases, each one representing the canned soup varieties that the company offered at the time.

This work of art made pop art become a major art movement in the USA.

The debates that stemmed from the merits and ethics of such work made Andy Warhol the leading and most well-known pop artist.

5. Marlin Diptych

Following Marilyn Monroe’s death in August 1962, Warhol created this masterpiece which consists of 50 images of Marilyn using the same publicity photograph from the film titled Niagara.

The work is divided into two halves, with 25 images on both sides. The 25 images on the left are colored, and those on the right are in black and white with a fading effect. 

This piece is considered a symbolic work of pop art and was once rated the third most influential piece of modern art in a survey by Guardian.

6. Eight Elvis

Created in 1963, this work is a 12-foot painting of eight identical, overlapping images of Elvis Presley in cowboy attire.

It is a unique painting as it was not mass-produced

It is a masterpiece and remains one of the most expensive paintings ever sold.

7. The Shoes Series

Andy Warhol was known to have a fetish for shoes and feet. This was probably the inspiration behind the shoe series.

His advert for women’s footwear in the 1950’s was outstanding and recognized. It is a collection of different shoe paintings by Andy Warhol.

famous andy warhol artwork – eight elvises

The exhibition poster depicts a single emerald green shoe hanging in a starry sky. However, he incorporated a lot of different shoes in his shoe series that were reminiscent of still life.

Closing Thoughts

Andy Warhol influenced art in many ways; he used bright colors, celebrities, and everyday objects to enable everyone to relate to art. He wanted to give people something to question, and his works like the Campbell’s soup cans and Marlin Diptych raised many questions as to why art was done that way and why those works count as art.

He successfully merged popular culture and art just as he intended to.

He had an immense contribution to the development of pop art, and the King of pop art cannot be ignored by anyone looking to learn more about that Genre.