The chill of Warhol's vision is most evident in his portraits of Marilyn Monroe - an image he treated several times after the star's death in 1962.

True to our mass-media age, he used photographic images and transformed them by the garish colors of his day-glo palette and by off-register or intentionally careless printing.

In addition to depicting objects that now - twenty years later - have become emblems of вЂњPopвЂќ culture, Warhol reproduced disasters from the front pages of the Daily News and made portraits of celebrities. Holding up a mirror to consumer society, he created a new iconography for our age. Rather than questioning the validity of art through real objects as Duchamp did, Warhol satirized public taste in his translations of images into paintings and silkscreen prints. Using objects from daily life such as the Campbell's soup can, the Coca-Cola bottle, and the dollar bill, Warhol picked up where Marcel Duchamp (with iconoclastic found sculptures and 'ready-mades') had left off. In an era of processed food, prepackaged goods, and mass-media 'hype,' he found the imagery of his art on supermarket shelves and in newspaper headlines.

As a successful commercial artist during the 1950s and early вЂ60s - designing advertisements for Tiffany's and Bergdorf Goodman - Andy Warhol was unusually aware of the consumer-oriented values of our culture.

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