Andy Warhol was an American artist, director and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture, and advertising that flourished by the 1960s, and span a variety of media, including painting, silkscreening, photography, film, and sculpture.
 

The exhibition positions Warhol's career as a continuum, demonstrating that he didn't slow down after surviving the assassination attempt that nearly took his life in 1968, but entered into a period of intense experimentation. This is the largest monographic exhibition to date at the Whitney's new location, with more than 350 works of art, many assembled together for the first time, organized by Donna De Salvo, Deputy Director for International Initiatives and Senior Curator, with Christie Mitchell, senior curatorial assistant, and Mark Loiacono, curatorial research associate.
 

Right after the Mechanical Reproduction, the famous Silver Screen is presented in Whitney Museum of American Art, a long-standing fascination with celebrities and famous movie stars, often reflecting larger cultural obsessions featuring Hollywood’s latest crushes: Warren Beatty, Marlon Brando, Troy Donahue, Elvis Presley, and others. He created portraits of Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe when their personal lives were made highly public.

Warhol’s Mechanical Reproduction came next, he continued to use in his fine art some of the reproductive techniques and tools using repetition, subtle surface variations, and color combinations, he transformed quotidian subject matter such as dollar bills, soup cans, Coke bottles, and supermarket packaging into optically charged, painterly fields.