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Giorgio Armani

Date

1980

Creator

Andy Warhol

Location

Raclin Murphy Museum of Art

The quintessential American Pop artist, Andy Warhol created a mythic persona to complement his art. In the 1960s he photographically transformed magazine reproductions into paintings and prints of stars like Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley. Later he developed key designs from original photographs, that he made with a Polaroid Big Shot, an affordable portrait camera with self-developing film...This Polaroid of fashion designer Giorgio Armani was a study for a portrait painting for the marketing Gruppo Finanziario Tessile. from Touchstones of the Twentieth Century: A History of Photography at the University of Notre Dame (exhibition, 2020-21)

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The quintessential American Pop artist, Andy Warhol created a mythic persona to complement his art. In the 1960s he photographically transformed magazine reproductions into paintings and prints of stars like Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley. Later he developed key designs from original photographs, that he made with a Polaroid Big Shot, an affordable portrait camera with self-developing film...This Polaroid of fashion designer Giorgio Armani was a study for a portrait painting for the marketing Gruppo Finanziario Tessile. from Touchstones of the Twentieth Century: A History of Photography at the University of Notre Dame (exhibition, 2020-21)
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  • The quintessential American Pop artist, Andy Warhol created a mythic persona to complement his art. In the 1960s he photographically transformed magazine reproductions into paintings and prints of stars like Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley. Later he developed key designs from original photographs, that he made with a Polaroid Big Shot, an affordable portrait camera with self-developing film...This Polaroid of fashion designer Giorgio Armani was a study for a portrait painting for the marketing Gruppo Finanziario Tessile. from Touchstones of the Twentieth Century: A History of Photography at the University of Notre Dame (exhibition, 2020-21)
  • The quintessential American Pop artist, Andy Warhol created a mythic persona to complement his art. In the 1960s he photographically transformed magazine reproductions into paintings and prints of stars like Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley. Later he developed key designs from original photographs, that he made with a Polaroid Big Shot, an affordable portrait camera with self-developing film...This Polaroid of fashion designer Giorgio Armani was a study for a portrait painting for the marketing Gruppo Finanziario Tessile. from Touchstones of the Twentieth Century: A History of Photography at the University of Notre Dame (exhibition, 2020-21)
Andy Warhol (American, 1928 - 1987)
1980
Photographs
Dye diffusion transfer print
2008.026.009
dye diffusion transfer prints
fashion designers
portraits
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Not on view, please request access
4 1/4 x 3 3/8 in. (10.8 x 8.6 cm)
Gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

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