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Related Works 1984-1986. andRizzoli International Publications, 1992.Essay by Charles Stuckey andeulogy byJohn Richardson.

Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol was born in 1928 in to immigrant parents of (Ruthenian)

Pittsburgh from 194~9. After a successful and distinguished career as a

Czechoslavakian

illustrator in New York in the , he began exhibiting his paintings with silkscreened Pop imagery in 1962.In he 1963 began making films. His art was thereafter in numerous exhibitions throughout the world.

opened in at the Galleria Refettorio delle Stelline on January 22, 1987.On February 22, Warhol 1987 died following gall bladder . In the 1989 Museum of in New York organized a major retrospective of his work.

support

Funding for this project has been provided by the Dia Art Council, the major annual

Dave Hickey, a freelance writer and critic, Professor of Art Criticism and Theory at the University of Nevada Las in Vegas, will give lecturea on Andy Warhol: The Last Supper Paintings in the

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Art Art

Laszlo Laszlo Glozer points out that Warhol's engagement with Mona the Lisa coincided with the

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mantel mantel of an homage to one of the greatest of artists of the past-and to do this without

also also entered Warhol's repertoire Painters' Painters' Olympus

veil veil private sentiment investment or personally he might have felt under for it the

prompted prompted much by as newsworthy this event by painting the as itself. "A Guest Performance the on

exhibition exhibition of painting the Pop Pop

2 relinquishing relinquishing identity its commonplace a as media motif, the echt signifier of the

Details Details Renaissance of Paintings

cliche cliche with spiritual resonance that ellicited Warhol's approbation Leonardo Leonardo of the Annunciation was used in for 1984 a group of works within the series

eloquent eloquent symbol. Indeed may it have been precisely this its inimitable combination of

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The The eighties, by contrast, witnessed something of reorientation, a as the

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ensibility, ensibility, either was of numbing neutrality or of incantatory munificence

negative negative printing of the iconography; the latter constituted compendium a of the artist's

s seventies, seventies, known Reversals as and Retrospectives hues. hues. Likewise, the in screened versions he varied the effects changing by the colors of the works works of the sixties.

Although Although certain of these motifs were reemployed the in hand-drawn Last Supper

focus focus of several early paintings, and she reappeared in two series begun at the end of the permitted permitted return a to a mode of serial repetition akin to that found in his now "classic" ing ing and repeating them on different scales, turning them, or filling them with flat primary

paintings paintings moved between the studios of this trio doyens doyens of glitz Warhol Warhol engaged with the work of Leonardo. As noted above inverting inverting sections, and omitting others. Finally, shifts the in of size the individual image Christ Christ or of groups of several apostles, treating them elements like collage, juxtapos­ in a

images images of favorite favorite motifs from previous decades.]

motorbikes, motorbikes, and wonder cures, as well as from cheap religious leaflets.

This This series based on the with with and Jean-Michel Basquiat, began in As 1983. the burgeoning was was correspondingly devoted to portraying the glamorous and the would-be glamorous

also also rearranged the multiple screens required to compose the vast image, repeating and cursive, cursive, silhouette

cheaper cheaper end the of spectrum, images for products including sneakers,

account account of his collaborations with other artists As As the seventies unfolded, Warhol developed into a media star in his own right, and his art

ground, ground, from pink to red to yellow, or by overpainting it with camouflage a pattern paintings, paintings, in several memorable instances Warhol left the image untouched, clear, a if

Electric, Electric, Dove soap requests requests from dealers and entrepreneurs cresting the art market boom, and partly on

hand hand as well as silkscreening them onto the canvases. Such logos as those used by General

range range of his work expanded greatly, partly response in to miscellaneous but ever growing two two decades), perhaps thereby indicating position his regarding this procedure

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western western art history and because Silkscreening Silkscreening was the technique that Warhol had favored since the sixties. It allowed him arguably

image image in several guises sources

and and their origins in mass reproduction Alexandre Alexandre Iolas, whose suggestion ofthis subject must have been congenial to Warhol projected projected onto the canvas with an epidiascope.

settled settled for two quite different depictions, both, characteristically from kitsch, secondary

hung hung in his family home in Pittsburgh while he was growing up.

with with standardization, an integral component of contemporary production processes, was

prints, prints, film stills and the like-in ways that directly recalled their sources photography in housing housing the celebrated Renaissance fresco. The invitation was extended by the dealer for for the so-called handdrawn works, made by tracing in acrylic the contours of the image

monumental monumental paintings based on this iconography in together 1986, with a group of smaller

expensive expensive handcrafted garishly colored enamelled version. In the end he seems to have

only only been brought up but remained devout a Catholic

delivery delivery that signaled determined a indifference to issues of good and bad taste. Repetition,

to employ employ to images derived from popular culture-from advertising, the news, publicity exhibition exhibition to be held gallery a in in Milan located directly across the street from the church children's children's coloring books

The The Last Supper Paintings plus plus several miniaturized sculptural renditions, one cheap a plaster replica, another an Leonardo

of of his art in the sixties

rapidly rapidly deteriorating original, and a schematic outline of the kind found in

Compared Compared with his treatment of most other found or pre-existing images, Warhol tackled preparation preparation for his series he had acquired reproductions of Leonardo's icon in art books,

both both because the artist had recently appropriated and adapted other masterpieces of

doubled doubled dozens, even hundreds, times of to produce effect, an which according to one's

in in others as wide-eyed a celebrant of the mass culture that provided the principal subjects The The

equally equally a staple of his aesthetic strategy in these years canvases, canvases, each a square meter, and numerous works on paper. Moreover, he explored the