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[carlavisuals]

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[brooklynmuseum]

Early in his commercial career, Warhol was ironically referred to as the “Leonardo da Vinci of shoes” for his unmistakable and influential advertisement art. Using groundbreaking technologies and radical perspectives, Leonardo earned international fame by establishing a system of production and patronage on a grand scale. Warhol admired and emulated the multifaceted, multimedia scope of Leonardo’s work, which he revisited throughout his life. Like Leonardo, Warhol worked in many disciplines—commercial illustration, photography, movies, publishing, and painting—and with diverse techniques. And just as Renaissance artists reconfigured classical Greco-Roman art, Warhol revived the work of Leonardo and translated centuries-old subjects into a Pop context. Leonardo’s Annunciation, Last Supper, Madonna Litta, and Mona Lisa inspired Warhol to create his own renditions, exploring and exploding their iconic, traditional themes.

Plan your visit to Andy Warhol: Revelation, on view through June 20!

Visitors at Andy Warhol: Revelation. Brooklyn Museum November 19, 2021–June 19, 2022. (Photo: Jonathan Dorado, Brooklyn Museum. Artworks by Andy Warhol © 2021 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Used with permission of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts)

[brooklynmuseum]

For almost two decades beginning in 1952, Julia Warhola managed Warhol’s New York home, cooking and cleaning, making donations to churches, and contributing to his commercial work with her award-winning penmanship. By 1971, in poor health, Julia returned to Pittsburgh, where she passed away the following year. Warhol kept his mother’s death to himself but confesses in his diaries, “At Christmas time I really think about my mother and if I did the right thing sending her back to Pittsburgh. I still feel so guilty.” In 1974, he created nine posthumous portraits of Julia based on a photograph by Edward Wallowitch, acclaimed photographer and one of Warhol’s first boyfriends. These images feature the same technique used in Warhol’s lucrative portrait commissions. 

Plan a trip to Andy Warhol: Revelation to experience Julia’s portrait in-person!

Visitors at Andy Warhol: Revelation. Brooklyn Museum November 19, 2021–June 19, 2022. (Photo: Jonathan Dorado, Brooklyn Museum. Artworks by Andy Warhol © 2021 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Used with permission of Warhol Foundation)

[brooklynmuseum]

Drawing on the tradition of religious iconographers, Warhol elevated certain women to iconic status, revealing his public and private adoration. Unlike the subjects of his commissioned portraits, Marilyn Monroe, Jackie Kennedy, and Julia Warhola did not sit for photo shoots with the artist. Instead, Warhol transformed images of Kennedy in mourning and of Monroe and Julia after their deaths. Just as Catholic art makes use of metaphor and allegory, Warhol transformed the lives of real women into metaphors for tragic beauty and the beauty of tragedy. In some ways, Kennedy and Monroe become opposing forces, reinforcing rigid biblical views of womanhood as well as conventional beauty norms.

Plan your visit today!

Visitors at Andy Warhol: Revelation. Brooklyn Museum November 19, 2021–June 19, 2022. (Photo: Matthew Carasella, Brooklyn Museum. Artworks by Andy Warhol © 2021 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Used with permission of @warholfoundation)

[brooklynmuseum]

The reviews are in, and it's ★★★★★ for Andy Warhol: Revelation! Book your tickets today to experience the first exhibition to examine the iconic Pop artist's complex Catholic faith in relation to his century-defining artistic practice. ⁠

Visitors at Andy Warhol: Revelation. Brooklyn Museum November 19, 2021–June 19, 2022. (Photo: Jonathan Dorado, Brooklyn Museum. Artworks by Andy Warhol © 2021 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Used with permission of Andy Warhol Foundation)

[brooklynmuseum]

According to some accounts, Warhol had desperately wanted to paint a pope since the early 1960s. He saw Pope Paul VI’s entourage through the window of The Factory during the whirlwind fourteen-hour papal visit to New York City on October 4, 1965. Warhol called it “the most Pop public appearance tour of the sixties.” On April 2, 1980, Warhol and his manager, Fred Hughes, met Pope John Paul II at the Vatican. Although they expected a private audience, the pair found themselves among a throng of five thousand people waiting to see the pontiff. Warhol waited three hours before finally shaking the pope’s hand and snapping a few photographs.

Plan your visit to Andy: Warhol Revelation!

Visitors at Andy Warhol: Revelation. Brooklyn Museum November 19, 2021–June 19, 2022. (Photo: Jonathon Dorado, Brooklyn Museum. Artworks by Andy Warhol © 2021 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Used with permission of @warholfoundation)

[brooklynmuseum]

Merry Christmas! The Museum is closed today in observation of the holiday, but ‘tis still the season to plan your visit to #WarholRevelation—get your tickets today!

In Andy Warhol: Revelation, themes and imagery from Catholic art are explored across Warhol’s career and in many mediums. In the first gallery, works on paper from the 1950s feature Warhol’s signature blotted line technique, tracing tender moments between the Virgin Mary and child, a heraldic angel, and a gilded Nativity Scene. These 1950s works—created for commercial commissions and clients—showcase Warhol’s familiarity with imagery celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. The artist also loved Christmas for its Pop appeal, celebrating throughout his life with cards, gifts, and parties, as well as visiting church.

Visitors at Andy Warhol: Revelation. Brooklyn Museum November 19, 2021–June 19, 2022. (Photo: Jonathon Dorado, Brooklyn Museum. Artworks by Andy Warhol © 2021 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Used with permission of @warholfoundation)

[brooklynmuseum]

Warhol’s parents immigrated to the U.S. in the early 20th century from present-day Slovakia. They lived in Pittsburgh’s Ruska Dolina neighborhood and retained their language and cultural traditions, in part due to the local Byzantine Catholic church. Raising a family during the Great Depression, Warhol’s parents nevertheless embraced young Andy’s creativity, spending money hard earned in factory and domestic work to purchase a camera and a projector for the budding artist. 

After moving to New York, Warhol shortened his last name and concealed his immigrant and working-class roots. A visible, openly gay fixture in the city’s cultural landscape, Warhol never abandoned the religious habits of Ruska Dolina, sustained by his mother Julia Warhola, who lived with him for nearly two decades. Warhol visited church regularly, financed his nephew’s studies for the priesthood, served meals to homeless people on holy days, and amassed a trove of religious objects and ephemera, some of which is on view in Andy Warhol: Revelation.

Visitors at Andy Warhol: Revelation. Brooklyn Museum November 19, 2021–June 19, 2022. (Photo: Jonathan Dorado, Brooklyn Museum. Artworks by Andy Warhol © 2021 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Used with permission of Warhol Foundation)