Andy Warhol - Mao Tse-tung
Andy Warhol - Mao Tse-tung
Gallery archivist Tim Jones describes how the screenprint Mao Tse-tung by Andy Warhol came into the colleciton.
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Andy Warhol Mao Tse-Tung
Op + Pop 6 February – 19 June 2016
Closely associated with notions of fame and popular culture, Andy Warhol was a leading name in American pop art, and renowned for using the aesthetics of advertising and commercial printing techniques in his work.
Warhol’s screenprint of Mao Tse-Tung was made when communist China’s founder was still alive. It adapted a portrait that was used throughout China in veneration of its leader and his ideas. The blue-faced Chairman Mao is one of a series of colour variations Warhol created, all equally startling. He made similar portraits of American icons including Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Elvis Presley and Mickey Mouse.
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