More than any other artist of his generation, Warhol understood how the reproduced image had come to reflect and shape contemporary life, and identified an age in which high art and consumer culture would become inextricably linked. Also exhibited, Warhol's early illustrations of the 1950s offer a more intimate encounter with the artist than the cool persona fronting his Pop art aesthetic of the 1960s and beyond.
Virtual Exhibition
Andy Warhol’s portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, created in the final years of his life, presents an iconic manifestation of his career-long fascination with the themes of fame, power, glamour and mass reproduced images. By the late 1970s, Warhol had established himself as an arbiter of cool and status, whose fame had come to match that of his subjects.
