The almost 300-piece collection is notable for including not only Warhol's major and most famous pieces (such as Campbell's Soup Cans or the visually loud portraits of Marilyn Monroe), but in addition including personal items and lesser-known works, with audio and visual recordings rounding out the experience.
Warhol is best known for his high-contrast, brightly-colored pop art prints. Pop art was an experimental form that artists were using in the 1960s in response to increased commercialism in American culture; Warhol made the art form his own by focusing on every-day objects and celebrities. Sometmes his art pieces were serious, and sometimes they were meant to be humorous; Warhol was often described as having a deadpan style - both in his art, and in his public personality.The Mailyn Monroe series was a group of mass-produced silk-screen prints based on photographs. The prints are in a wide assortment of bright, deeply saturated and contrasting colors, the combinations of which create images which range from oddly beautiful to frigteningly cartoonish. These images have been reproduced, cropped, regrouped, and even spoofed over and over again in American culture.
Andy Warhol's career as an artist spanned nearly 40 years. From magazine illustrations in 1949 to pop art of the 1960s to dozens of collaborative paintings with Jean-Michel Basquiat in the 80s, Warhol was a highly influential figure in 20th century American art. For this reason alone, the exhibit is worth the visit.
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The Frist Center for the Visual Arts is located on Broadway in downtown Nashville. Housed in a beautiful 1933 building that originally served as the main Nashville post office , the Frists' 24,000 square feet of gallery space houses several concurrat exhibitions which rotate on a regular basis.
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