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Edgy downtown perfumery Bond No.9 launched their new Andy Warhol series scent called Union Square. The second of their Warhol collectibles is named for the environs of the two Union Square studios that the artist and his crew successively occupied during 1968-1984-his years of notoriety. It was at these downtown locations Warhol created the Mao paintings, the commissioned portraits of the rich and famous, and his portfolio of 10 Flowers screen prints - same images that adorn it's new bottle.



Andy Warhol's Silver Factory marks the start of Bond No. 9's series of Warhol collectibles. Inspired by Andy Warhol's most recognizable images, is a bold rendition of the Campbell's Soup Can for Bond No. 9 Perfume. The newest scent from Bond No. 9, and the first in a series of unisex scents released by Bond in cooperation with The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.



Silver Factory is a perfume concentrate and celebrates the style of 1960's incense aromas. Depicted on the bottle's surface is a graphic image of The Silver Factory.

Well, Warhol once made mention of a company that was "interested in buying [his] aura." Here it is, in liquid form. Warhol once remarked, "Another way to take up more space is with perfume. I really love wearing perfume."

The Factory was an old loft in New York that used to be a warehouse. It was located on E. 47th street and was on the 5th floor. It is often refered to as the "Silver Factory" mostly because Andy asked Billy Name (Billy Linich), to do what he had done to his own appartment, which is tinfoiled and painted the place silver. During the sixties this is where Warhol's entourage would hang out.



Various casts of charcters would come through to help with art, music, and films. His dream was to create a cast of regulars in movies just like the old MGM Star System. With his head photographer by his side, Paul Morrissey, many films were made.

John McEnroe to Sell Warhol Painting of Him with Tatum O'Neal

John McEnroe, Former tennis star, is planning to sell portrait of him and ex-wife Tatum O'Neal that Andy Warhol painted just after they were married in the mid-1980s. It will be auctioned at Sotheby's and could net more than $500,000. You would think the painting would have sentimental value. Then again, maybe not, after O'Neal was busted two weeks ago trying to buy crack cocaine in Manhattan.

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Joe Simon's battle with the Warhol foundation

This website is about Joe Simon's battle with the Warhol foundation, their dealer Vincent Fremont and its arm the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board Inc.

In the course of this battle, Simon gained a lifetime's knowledge of how Andy worked, thought about his art and wanted to be remembered.

The board has unjustly (most art experts think) declared Joe Simon's Warhol self portrait a fake. They have stamped it denied twice, (which runs through the picture) thereby ruining any possibility that it could be accepted as a genuine Warhol in the future.



You make up your own mind, go into the site, read the evidence which has been accumulated, weigh the testimony of Warhol's friends, colleagues and studio assistants who were there in the early days and who have a thorough knowledge of Warhol's working methods in general and this portrait in particular.

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Warhol Denied

"Brooklyn based artist Charles Lutz is up to something amazing with his series of work entitled Denial & Acceptance. This series "explores issues of authorship, originality, authenticity, as well as art commerce through the work of the most important artist of the 20th Century, Andy Warhol. Lutz takes one of Warhol's most iconic works, 1964 Self Portrait, and recreates the work 12 times in 4 different hues, exact to the specifications of the originals and then submits them to the full authentication process of the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board, fully intending for the works to be formally stamped, cataloged, and DENIED." You can check out the series at warhol denied and you can even purchase your very own Brillo Box from the artist edition of 50 or a paddle-ball game made from a Christie's auction paddle."

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He is regarded as the founder of the British pop art movement. He was best known for his mechanical sculptures. His statue of Sir Isaac Newton is located at the British Library's piazza. A series of mosaics at the Tottenham Court Road Tube station in London is his most famous work. In 1979, he was made a member of the Royal Academy in 1979. In 1988 he was knighted.

He began his studies at the Edinburgh College of Art in 1943 and from 1944-47 he studied at the Slade School of Art in London. He then moved to Paris, where he met Giacometti and was influenced by Dadaism and Surrealism. In 1951, while he was professor at the Central School of Art, he won his first important sculptural commission - a fountain for the Festival of Britain. He later became professor at the St. Martin's School of Art and has also taught in Hamburg, Germany and at the University of California in Berkeley.

One of Britain's foremost sculptors, collagists and printmakers, his work is based on his interest in the mass media and in new developments in science and technology of the post-war era. He was highly influenced by industrial techniques, making many of his sculptures in aluminum and incorporating prefabricated parts.

Eduardo Paolozzi (Scottish, born 1924).

"Robert's work is often referred to as both Pop Art and Abstract Painting. To reference his sources of imagery we must look at the fact that we are besieged with an astounding number of images every day. Advertising, movies, mail, computers, newspapers, magazines, television, comics, art and graffiti all contribute to this constant barrage of visual information. This onslaught has contributed to and influenced our daily lives and Reitzfeld's work accepts this fact. He celebrates and uses this imagery to construct his paintings.

The images that reveal themselves in Robert's paintings are all a part of him, his identity, and history and they are auto-biographical. These elements are the basis for his production. Some recent, some from my past. Some clear, some fragmented, others abstracted. The work combines parts of art historical images with images from popular culture, including cartoon, advertising, art deco and art nouveau passages. Together they meld to create a blend that critics have dubbed pop culture." reference

Some suggest that Pop art developed in New York in the 1950's. In fact, it was started in London in the 50's by Richard Hamilton and was adopted in the 60's by the likes of David Hockney and Peter Blake.

Then it moved to New York where in the hands of artists like Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg and Roy Lichenstein, the concept of Pop Art really took off.

Pop Art is a direct descendant of Dadaism in the way it mocks the established art world by appropriating images from the street, the mass media, and presents popular culture as art in itself.

It was Andy Warhol, however, who really brought Pop Art to the public eye.

His screen prints of Campbell 's soup tins and film stars such as Marilyn Monroe, are part of the iconography of the 20th century. His suggestion that everyone should have '15 minutes of fame' has entered the English language as a concept. That's art at its best, right up there with The Beatles in terms of reaching the masses with your thoughts.

Another great exponent of this art form is Roy Lichenstein (featured above). He literally took the imagery of comic book magazines and reproduced them as art forms - dots and all.

Other leading artists in Pop were Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg.

Andy Warhol is known for his silkscreens of both famous people and everyday objects, his sage selection of press photographs.

Roy Lichtenstein employed a comic strip style in his paintings. Roy Lichtenstein became one of the leading pop artists of the sixties with his comic-strip paintings and manipulated those illustrative techniques to great aesthetic effect. Drowning Girl 1963, shown right, is one of his better known works and is a good example of the design features in his most famous pieces.

Lichtenstein used the apparent conflict between high and quotidian culture as a stimulating artistic impetus for his work. Thus he produced images of everyday objects, household items from the domestic culture and lifestyle of the normal American citizen. At the same time, Lichtenstein repeatedly paraphrased and reflected on works of classic modernism. With his unmistakable painting style that portrayed everyday objects and original artwork as products of purely mechanical actions, he became the herald of a new, humane perspective of the world and a new classic of the beauty of everyday life.

The leading Pop artists in Britain included David Hockney, R.B. Kitaj, and Allen Jones.

John Clem Clarke Pop Art Painting 'Cola Billboard'

He is most famous for his "Combines" of the 1950s, in which non-traditional materials and objects were employed in innovative combinations. While the Combines are both painting and sculpture, Rauschenberg has also worked with photography, printmaking, papermaking, and performance. Rauschenberg had a tendency to pick up the trash that interested him on the streets of New York City and bringing it back to his studio to use it in this works. In addition to painting and sculpture, Rauschenberg's long career has also included significant contributions to printmaking and Performance Art. He also won a Grammy Award for his album design of the Talking Heads album Speaking in Tongues.

"From Lichtenstein to Warhol, the art of the controversial Pop Art movement will be on exhibit at the Crocker Art Museum August 16 - November 2, 2008. American Pop: Featuring Andy Warhol's Athletes from the Richard Weisman Collection highlights 36 works drawn from major private collections as well as the Crocker's own and probes how artistic introspection of the 1960s developed into the ultimate endorsement of 1970s celebrity.

The show includes two Sacramento artists' unique stamp on the Pop Art movement: Wayne Thiebaud, whose painterly layering of pigment defined his vision of lunch counter confections and Barbara Spring, who turned found drift wood into cunning depictions of roast beef, sliced ham, coconut cake and petit fours.

Highlighting Pop's ultimate expression is the exhibit's special display of Andy Warhol's Athletes Series. Begun in 1977 and completed in 1979, these 10 portraits capture the decade's athletic superstars with the late 20th-century's stamp of fame-a Warhol silk-screen.

How Warhol came to photograph and "paint" Dorothy Hamill, Muhammad Ali, Pelé and Jack Nicklaus reveals the ongoing importance of friendships between patrons and artists in contemporary art. In September, Athletes owner Richard Weisman will speak with college students about the inspiration behind the series and his career as a collector.

The exhibition demonstrates that while Warhol, James Rosenquist, Roy Lichtenstein and Mel Ramos created signature Pop works, a wide variety of often surprising artists were also drawn to explore the new subject matter. This broad adoption shows how Pop Art represented both a prevailing mood and an important influence. Critics decried the celebration of Pop, but the fast acceptance of the movement by artists and collectors alike signaled a seismic shift in American life.

American Pop is supported in part by the Kathryn Uhl Ball and Fred Uhl Ball Endowment Fund and by Mr. and Mrs. Les Lederer.

The Crocker Art Museum was founded in 1885 and continues as the leading art institution for the California Capital Region and Central Valley. The Museum offers a diverse spectrum of special exhibitions, events and programs to augment its collections of California, European and Asian artworks. The Crocker is located at 216 O Street in Downtown Sacramento. Museum hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Tuesday-Sunday; Thursday until 9 p.m. Admission is free on Sundays from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. For more information on exhibits and events call (916) 808-7000 or visit the Crocker Art Museum."

Source: Art Knowledge News

For more than three decades, Roy Lichtenstein (born in 1923 in New York; died in 1997 in New York) managed to stay true to his artistic sources and at the same time to stylistically expand the different thematic groups, to interlink and vary them in multifarious ways. The fact that he once said of himself, "I try to make a commercial Picasso or Mondrian," clearly sums up the whole range of his artistic intentions.

He strove to subject both art historical works, as valuable objects of a high culture, and simple everyday objects, as part of a banalized mass culture, to the same visually striking image strategy. In this way he succeeded in making them a fait accompli, confederates in the quest for the same beauty.

Inspired by his appreciation of Native American art. The exhibition includes works on paper created during 1949-1951 when the artist was studying for his Master of Fine Arts degree at Ohio State University and teaching art, as well as works from 1952 made in Cleveland where he remained until his move to New York in 1957. These early works reflect Lichtenstein's interests in European modernism (Picasso, Miro, and Klee) as well as Native American art. The later works include a 1979 sketchbook of Native American images based on motifs from textiles, ceramics, beadwork, quillwork, and baskets. Also featured is a major series of Surrealist-Pop paintings from 1979 based on Native American themes (Pow Wow, Amerind Composition, Indian Composition,), perhaps stimulated by Lichtenstein's experiences while residing near a Shinnecock Indian reservation in Southhampton, New York. To Lichtenstein, Native American art provided a historical base for American art, reminiscent of African art's relationship to European modernism. Roy Lichtenstein: American Indian Encounters presented by the Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation is organized by the Montclair Art Museum in conjunction with the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation.

Picture is that of 'Little Landscape'.

The term 'Pop Art' first appeared in Britain during the 1950s and referred to the interest of a number of artists in the images of mass media, advertising, comics and consumer products. The 1950s were a period of optimism in Britain following the end of war-time rationing, and a consumer boom took place. Influenced by the art seen in Eduardo Paolozzi's 1953 exhibition Parallel between Art and Life at the Institute for Contemporary Arts, and by American artists such as Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, British artists such as Richard Hamilton and the Independent Group aimed at broadening taste into more popular, less academic art. Hamilton helped organize the 'Man, Machine, and Motion' exhibition in 1955, and 'This is Tomorrow' with its landmark image Just What is it that makes today's home so different, so appealing? (1956).


Pop Art coincided with the youth and pop music phenomenon of the 1950s and '60s, and became very much a part of the image of fashionable, 'swinging' London. Peter Blake, for example, designed album covers for Elvis Presley and the Beatles and placed film stars such as Brigitte Bardot in his pictures in the same way that Warhol was immortalizing Marilyn Monroe in the USA.
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His later career led him to designing commercial advertisements and store displays, and his inventiveness led him to attempt new media throughout his career. Warhol's career spanned painting, printmaking, film, photography, music production and numerous unclassifed... shall we say, experiments. His fixation with celebrities, high profile publications, and irreverent projects lines a long road, despite the "15 minutes of fame" to which he believed everyone was entitiled.

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Rob Lee's masterful and complex artistry is achieved through use of negative images, rubber solution and acrylic paints to create his highly stylized paintings.

To appreciate this artist, please view his creations on YouTube (see below).

"You will find other canvas art for sale that are actually photographs that have been digitally manipulated to look like original paintings, or spray painted using stencils, hence the 'seller' can start with a very low auction price. All my works are painstakingly hand painted and so I have to start at a reasonable opening price.

The photos of my paintings are unadulterated. Often you will see other art sellers display a painting superimposed above a sofa (couch) that would be about 3 feet long if it were a real photo. None of that nonsense goes on with my listings. Each of my paintings are individual. The painting you see in my listings is the very same one you will purchase........ this is not always the case with some other artists.........

I do not use any black paint in my paintings .Instead colours are rendered in layers over each other to create an optically mixed black. Layers of brown and blue are applied, each layer is allowed to dry before applying the next wash of colour. . I have not seen any other pop artists using this technique, probably because it is quite time consuming. The resulting dark tones are more vibrant due to this technique."

- Rob Lee


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The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art presents an exciting new exhibition from the permanent collection entitled The Pop Environment, on view until July 13, 2008. In the early 1960s, Pop artists began acknowledging and appropriating imagery from the commercial environment, thereby shattering the distinction between high and low culture. continued...

David Hockney was born on 9 July 1937 in Saltaire, Bradford. He graduated from the Bradford School of Art in 1957 and studied at the Royal College of Art from 1959-1962. While there he met RB Kitaj and became instrumental in the founding of the British Pop Art movement.

David Hockney is arguably the most versatile and popular British artist of the 20th century.