The first big exhibition of portraits made by Andy Warhola (1928 – 1987) , king of a pop-art is organized in the Grand Palais in Paris. The exhibition lasts to July, 13th. It contains 150 original portraits provided by rich collectors from their private collections. A gallery tries to show Warhola´s art in „new form“ and visitors appreciates it. The interest of public is huge. This event can compares to exhibition of Vincent van Gogh in Vienna last year.
The portraits exhibited in the gallery are so popular, that we surely can say about every second one, we see it somewhen or somewhere. There are e. g. portrait of Marilyn Monroe, Mao Ce-Tung, portraits of monarchs and famous bussinessmen who characterized a society in 60´s – 80´s.
Visitors can find not only portraits at the exhibition, but also source materials for these portraits – photographs and films, of which Warhola selected the best pieces for art proccessing.
A bonus is one of the artist´s experimental films, eight-hour view on Empire State Building in New York.
Andy Warhol was born in Medzilaborce, small town in Slovakia. He was unique artist, who knew to use a visual potential of an era, in which he lived. He took a photos, reconstructed and paint the faces of beautiful women and famous men, musicians, actors, fashion designers and politicians, e. g. Mick Jagger or Liz Taylor. He imaged things which became the symbols of American life after the war: a death-chair, a bottle of Coca-Cola, tins of soup or a one-dollar note. His art was a reaction to the mass culture and the consumer society. In general, he popularized the triviality and the stereotyp of Euro-American civilization and a consumer emptiness became a work of art.
This painter made 1000 portraits in years 1972 – 1986, what is nearly one portrait a week. Many of them were made to order and price was about 25 000 dollars for a portrait. He was really clever and he knew how to earn much money by his paintings. One specific character of Warhola´s pictures is „a beauty of surface“, it means, pictures don´t have hidden meaning, they image only themselves.
„Warhol was more than an artist, he´s been an icon,“ said Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Warhola´s previous colleague. "All the pictures are the another way of perception the history, the end of era and the start of something new,“ notes French fashion designer.
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