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In the early 1960s Warhol explored the fame of everyday objects with paintings of Campbell Soup cans, Coca-Cola bottles, and three-dimensional Brillo boxes. The movement of Pop Art was ushered in when these symbols of popular culture entered the realm of fine art. Pop artists used all aspects of American consumer culture as the subject matter for their artwork, including: magazine advertisements, newspaper headlines, car crashes and portraits of famous movie stars.

Andy Warhol was particularly fascinated with the glamour and fame of Hollywood. Even as a young boy, Andy loved togo to the movies and started collecting glamour magazines and autographed photographs of movie stars such as Shirley Temple, Mae West and Carmen Miranda. As an adult, Warhol continued to collect fan magazines as well as publicity stills of Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, and Bridgette Bardot. He used clippings and photographs from these collections as the source material for some of his most famous portraits. This fascination with all things famous lasted throughout Warhol’s life, even as he too became a sought after celebrity. Andy Warhol used photographic silkscreen to create his portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Mick Jagger, and Jackie Kennedy.

This method of printing creates a very precise and defined image and allows the artist to mass-produce a large number of prints with relative ease. Warhol adopted the methods of mass production to make images of celebrities who were themselves mass produced. Elvis existed not only as a flesh-and-blood person but as millions of pictures on album covers and movie screens, in newspapers and magazines. He was infinitely reproducible. Similarly, Warhol could produce as many Elvis painting as he pleased, through use of the silkscreen printing process.

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