Andy Warhol was one of the most important artists of the twentieth century and a central figure in American Pop Art. From the 1960s onwards he used images from advertising, news and popular culture, from Campbell’s Soup Cans and Coca-Cola to Marilyn Monroe and Mao. Through photography and screenprinting he developed a visual language centred on repetition, mass production and celebrity.
Printmaking forms an important part of Warhol’s oeuvre. His experiments with reproduction had a major influence on post-war art and permanently changed the relationship between art and popular visual culture.
