Andy Warhol Exhibition

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Andy Warhol Exhibition. Photo courtesy of Barcelona Turisme.

Andy Warhol's world famous works are getting a new showing in Barcelona at the ARENAS SHOPPING COMPLEX, put on by Cupula Events, on through September 1.

From a modernist family of Slovakian origin that immigrated to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the 1920s, Andy Warhol was quick to display precocious artistic talent. After studying as a commercial illustrator at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, he set up in Manhattan in 1949.

He soon landed a contract with “Vogue” and “Glamour," two magazines for which he drew women’s silhouettes and fashion accessories, in doing so creating the blurred line technique.

He produced drawings with pen, inked over it, and then pressed it onto another sheet of paper before the ink dried. The result obtained was irregular and spontaneous drawings with an original hand-made feel.

In the 1950s, as an author, the artist published books such as “In the Bottom of My Garden," which were hand-colored and colorized by friends of Warhol during evenings at the “Serendipity 3" café where he exposed his works.

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