Andy Warhol. The Early Sixties. Paintings and Drawings 1961-1964
05.09.2010 - 23.01.2011
After a successful career as a graphic designer, in the early 1960s Andy Warhol decided to become an independent artist. Meanwhile, he maintained a focus on the world of consumption and mass culture. The exhibition illuminates Andy Warhol's critical early years as a painter and drawer, from 1961 to1964. During these years, Warhol progressively replaced an individual pictorial language with an already mediatized, thus collective body of images, as well as mechanical procedures. This innovation in painting fundamentally expanded the field of possibilities for artistic expression, and its repercussions have continued into the present. Approximately 70 paintings and drawings will be on view, including important works from the collection of the Kunstmuseum Basel and the Kupferstichkabinett.