Andy Warhol
$ (Quadrant) (FS II.284), 1982
Screenprint on Lenox Museum Board
40 × 32 in
101.6 × 81.3 cm
Framed:
50 1/2 x 42 in
128.3 x 106.7 cm
Hand-signed by artist, Signed and numbered in pencil on lower right. Each print is unique.
Edition 30/60
I don’t believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdale’s. They just take longer to get back. - Andy Warhol
It’s sort of ironic that Andy Warhol’s first published works as a commercial illustrator in New York were illustrations for an article in Glamour called What is Success?
He got the job just a few days after moving to New York in 1949 and became one of the city’s most sought after commercial illustrators. His works appeared, not only in Glamour, but in Mademoiselle, Vogue, and Harper's Bazaar.
Warhol’s talent was not only his art, but his ability to acutely observe the people and culture that surrounded him, which led to his breaking the barriers between high art and popular culture.
In the early 1960s, when he began to show his own works in galleries, Warhol became, not only proficient at, but a pioneer in, the art of silkscreen. One of his first subjects was dollar bills, which he drew, then silkscreened. Money, and the dollar symbol, were favorites of his.
$ (Quadrant), done in 1982, a recent addition to our gallery, is a wonderful example of Warhol’s ability to show us an image that we often see, and view it in a new light.
I’m interested in portraying a sort of antisensibility that pervades society. - Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) translated popular culture into works of art that combined traditional and radical techniques. He was a prolific printmaker throughout his career.
Lichtenstein served as a draftsman and artist for the Army during and after World War ll. He returned to the States in 1946, got his MFA at Ohio State and taught art at the school for about ten years.
He chose emotional subjects for many of his works, and juxtaposed the emotions with his deliberate, commercialized style.
Lichtenstein often combined screenprint, lithography, woodcut and waxtype in a single work, as in Blue Face, 1989.
Art should be something that liberates your soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. - Keith Haring
Keith Haring (1958-1990) pushed boundaries with his art. He moved from Pittsburgh to New York in 1978 and enrolled in the School of Visual Arts while supporting himself by working as a busboy at the Danceteria nightclub.
"One day, riding the subway,” he said,”I saw this empty black panel where an advertisement was supposed to go. I immediately realized that this was the perfect place to draw. I went back above ground to a card shop and bought a box of white chalk, went back down and did a drawing on it. It was perfect-soft black paper; chalk drew on it really easily.”
He was arrested for drawing in the subway, even though subway-goers appreciated his drawings and often asked him about them while he was working. Today, murals and graffiti can be found in cities around the world.
Haring also screenprinted his works, to make them more accessible to the public. Growing 2, 1988, combines Haring’s simple, figurative style and use of bold colors.
For inquiries, please contact Clay Surovek at (561) 655-2665 or clay@surovekgallery.com.
