Warhol exhibit offers fresh experience for old, new audiences
NEW YORK (AFP) — His Marilyn Monroe paintings and oversize soup cans are cultural icons, but in an exhibition that opened yesterday, New York’s Whitney Museum hopes to paint a new, more complex picture of Andy Warhol.
Spanning three floors, “Andy Warhol – From A to B and Back Again” presents the silver-haired artist’s career as a whole, from his early advertising illustrations to his abstract explorations.
Although the exhibition shows off his love of vibrant, repetitive screen printing, it also presents Warhol as far from a one-trick pony. It is a multidimensional experience of a multidimensional artist: a designer, painter, photographer, videographer, producer and magazine editor – not to mention curator of his own exhibitions.