WARHOL’S ART AT IMA
The Andy Warhol Enterprises exhibit at the Indianapolis Museum of Art located at 4000 Michigan Rd. is a unique experience that you shouldn’t pass up. The exhibit runs until Jan. 2. Tickets are $17 each, but for $7 more you can purchase a years membership at the IMA and get into all exhibits for free.
The exhibit showcases a large window display that Warhol designed for perfume in France and shows some of his earlier works, which are astounding and different from his well-known pieces. The window display is entitled “Bonwit Teller Window Display,” and was constructed in 1957. Some of his earlier works also include multiple sketchings of shoes, and one pair that he drew featured two intertwining snakes as the straps.
Warhol’s signature style can be viewed in the Andy Warhol Enterprises exhibit at the IMA through Jan. 2. Photo contributed by the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
Warhol also became amused with the idea of money and created a few pieces inspired by that. After learning about up-and-coming pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, Warhol decided to become more corporate trade advertising oriented and created some of his more popular works, such as the “Campbell’s Soup Cans” and “Brillo Soap Pads Box” designs.
Warhol also was fascinated with film and created a few documentaries and designed the cover album art for the band Velvet Underground. He became involved with the band and started his own business in New York, working with famous celebrities such as Madonna, Elvis, Michael Jackson and David Bowie, featuring them in his magazine, “Interview.” His office became known as “The Factory,” where celebrities would hang out and have parties.
Many of his more famous pieces were made on silk screen transfers such as Marilyn Monroe, Truman Capote and his dollar bill signs. The more recent money symbols in the 1980s were known as “business art” when Warhol started creating ads for different corporations and designed the apple symbol for Apple Computers, Inc. Andy Warhol was one of the top American pop artists, and his fame far surpassed his quote that “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes.”
