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The Dark Side of Andy Warhol
Section: THE ARTS / ART
Author: Joanna Shaw-Eagle
Publication: The world & I online
Issue Date: 2/1/2006
Size: 625 Words, 4,417 Characters

The work of pop artist Andy Warhol, king of Campbell's soup cans and brazen Marilyn Monroes, is currently on display in Washington in "Warhol Legacy: Selections From the Andy Warhol Museum"--a collaboration between the Corcoran Gallery of Art and Pittsburgh's Warhol Museum.

Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was full of contradictions: The same artist that silkscreened glitzy celebrity portraits also expressed his forebodings about violence and death in the gut wrenching works in this exhibit's "Death and Disaster" gallery. Stark, haunting images from m...


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