https://padlet.com/aidan_packer1234/PopArtApacker Cool Pop Art en-us 2016-11-28 21:05:54 UTC 2026-01-26 19:32:36 UTC hello@padlet.com aidan_packer1234 https://padlet.com/aidan_packer1234/PopArtApacker/wish/140345994 Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was a key figure in Pop Art, an art movement that emerged in America and elsewhere in the 1950s to become prominent over the next two decades.]]> 2016-11-28 21:21:26 UTC https://padlet.com/aidan_packer1234/PopArtApacker/wish/140345994 aidan_packer1234 https://padlet.com/aidan_packer1234/PopArtApacker/wish/140969741 This piece of work below is one by Andy Warhol and it is a collage of famous and important people at the time in the 1950’s.]]> 2016-11-30 21:08:48 UTC https://padlet.com/aidan_packer1234/PopArtApacker/wish/140969741 aidan_packer1234 https://padlet.com/aidan_packer1234/PopArtApacker/wish/140971532 Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans consist of thirty-two canvases, one of each of the 32 varieties offered by the company at the time. It is the work of art that led to pop art becoming a major art movement in the USA.]]> 2016-11-30 21:18:42 UTC https://padlet.com/aidan_packer1234/PopArtApacker/wish/140971532 aidan_packer1234 https://padlet.com/aidan_packer1234/PopArtApacker/wish/140972179 A 12 foot painting of eight identical, overlapping images of Elvis Presley in cowboy attire, Eight Elvises is a unique painting, i.e. it was not mass produced like many of Warhol’s work. In 2008, it was sold for US$100 million to make Warhol only the fifth artist to have a painting sold for at least $100 million]]> 2016-11-30 21:22:28 UTC https://padlet.com/aidan_packer1234/PopArtApacker/wish/140972179 aidan_packer1234 https://padlet.com/aidan_packer1234/PopArtApacker/wish/140972570 This famous work belongs to the last series of self-portraits which Warhol painted in the year before his death. It is one of the five versions (green, blue, purple, yellow and here, red) of the set.]]> 2016-11-30 21:24:23 UTC https://padlet.com/aidan_packer1234/PopArtApacker/wish/140972570 aidan_packer1234 https://padlet.com/aidan_packer1234/PopArtApacker/wish/140972918 A symbol of modern mass consumerism, the Coca Cola bottle is an iconic American object which caught the fancy of Warhol. In fact one of his most famous quotes revolves around it. ]]> 2016-11-30 21:26:11 UTC https://padlet.com/aidan_packer1234/PopArtApacker/wish/140972918 aidan_packer1234 https://padlet.com/aidan_packer1234/PopArtApacker/wish/140973280 This is one of the seven monumental-scale paintings from Andy Warhol’s famous Flowers series. ]]> 2016-11-30 21:27:54 UTC https://padlet.com/aidan_packer1234/PopArtApacker/wish/140973280 aidan_packer1234 https://padlet.com/aidan_packer1234/PopArtApacker/wish/140973649 Warhol created a Myths-series which contained a series of silkscreened portraits of ten fictional characters taken from popular culture. All the portraits were inlaid with diamond dust which made them shine with soft, wavering light. ]]> 2016-11-30 21:29:07 UTC https://padlet.com/aidan_packer1234/PopArtApacker/wish/140973649