“Andy Warhol: Pop Icons” explores the visual world through which Andy Warhol blurred the boundaries between art, advertising, music, fashion and popular culture. More than 180 paintings, screenprints, drawings, photographs and Polaroids show how he turned everyday objects into images that are hard to forget. Rather than simply bringing together a collection of icons, the exhibition reveals how he worked: repeating, simplifying and transforming everyday things until they could no longer be seen in the same way.
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Campbell’s Soup cans appear alongside portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Mick Jagger, Liz Taylor and Michael Jackson, bringing products and celebrities into the same visual world.
The exhibition opens in a particularly significant year for Warhol, marking the 40th anniversary of his death. It offers an opportunity to revisit his work through the icons that helped define an era.
