He began producing prints using the silkscreen method and his work became controversial and popular. Warhol started painting readily found, mass-produced objects, drawing on his extensive advertising background. This early works are all enveloped by and cover consumerism and early American consumerism.ĭuring the 1960s Warhol began to make paintings of iconic American products such as Campbell’s Soup Cans and Coca Cola bottles, as well as painting celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Troy Donahue, Mohammed Ali and Elizabeth Taylor. The exhibit included the works Marilyn Diptych, 100 Soup Cans, 100 Coke Bottles and 100 Dollar Bills. Warhol’s first New York solo pop art exhibition was hosted at Eleanor Ward’s Stable Gallery on November 26th 1962. Andy Warhol helped shape American consumerism during the 1960s. Pop Art emerged in the early 1960s as, wherein artists used everyday consumer objects as subjects. Nancy Regan knows it, Gloria Vanderbilt knows it, Jackie Onassis knows it, Katharine Hepburn knows it, the baglady knows it, and you know it.” – Andy Warhol from America. Tab is Tab and no matter how rich you are, you can’t get a better one than the homeless woman on the corner is drinking. Jackie Onassis drinks Tab, and just think, you can drink Tab too. “You can see a billboard for Tab and think: Nancy Regan drinks tab, Gloria Vanderbilt drinks Tab.
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