Andy Warhol's UCCA exhibition

Before we begin to introduce Andy Warhol, there is a concept/genre of Art that we should know about -- Pop Art.

Pop art is a form of Popular art.

Pop art emerged in Britain in the early 1950s, reached its peak in the United States in the mid-1950s, and developed in New York later, when abstract expressionism, which it opposed, was in its last flourishing period. In the mid-1960s, Pop art replaced abstract expressionism and became the mainstream avant-garde art. Pop art is mainly a form of expression in which artists in the new period combine commercial art with modern art. The emergence of Pop art is accidental, but also born with criticism and suspicion. After the Second World War, the rapid economic development of Britain and the United States and other countries moved towards the commercial society, and people's hearts became more and more lost in consumerism.

"Anti-elite, anti-classic, often in order to transport the masses"

Pop art is a provocation against the concept of class and the nobleness of art. It makes good use of the way of dissemination and replication to make art equal to everyone, not only in terms of ideas, but also in terms of price. And the embodiment of which is conducive to the rapid transmission of screen printing works and television media works. Under the cover of popularity, the essence is to bring art back to normal. The concept of Pop art (in the way of commerce itself) has exerted a great influence on later modern art and American culture.

They rode a wave of pop pop and used it to spread their work. When the waves receded, they took away the emptiness of The Times, and left behind the pop lighthouse of culture.

The brightest light in the lighthouse (the most representative person) is Andy Warho.

-So who was Andy Warhol? "American artist, printer, and cinematographer who was one of the pioneers of the visual art movement Pop Art. After his great success as a commercial illustrator, Warhol worked as a painter, avant-garde filmmaker, archivist, writer and more."

Pop culture is a kind of ideological deconstruction and remodeling

Its graphics, copy the history society life original appearance as the basic elements of creation.

Artist Chen Danqing writes in the preface to his book (In Chinese) :

"This book shows freedom and honesty everywhere,

In other words,

Warhol, with his innocent selfishness, his morbid naivete, his troubled curiosity,

And a natural sense of equality between any external information and any internal activity,

Prove to us what it means to be free and honest.

His complexity lies in the fact that he sees the relationship between art and the core of society so clearly that it is "impossible to begin". Only by returning to the methods of Chinese Zen wisdom can we find a general counterpoint."

- Andy Warhol's works and how can we appreciate pop art?

"Warhol's early paintings, mostly drawn from cartoons or advertisements, are clearly hand-drawn, with traces of water droplets. These droplets are modeled after successful abstract expressionist artists (e.g. Willem de Kooning). Eventually, Warhol reduced his graphic language to the ICONS themselves -- logos, celebrities, dollar signs, etc. -- and eliminated all traces of hand-drawn painting from his paintings. 3"

"Warhol's work ranged from cartoons to serious work, and his subject could be a soup can or an electric chair. Whether he painted celebrities, everyday objects, images of suicide, car crashes or disasters, Warhol used the same technique -- screen prints, reproduced in series, often in bright colors."

It's one of Andy Warhol's constant debates about how to appreciate it. Just because of its commerciality and the large number of copies of its works, people question whether it is still unique. Such doubts and problems exist not only with Andy Warhol, but also with all modern artists.

From the point of view of art history, modern art is the great turning point of the whole art. Artists elevated the status of medieval painting as a religious theologian, to the ultimate expression of Renaissance aesthetics, to the relationship between Baroque art and desire

"Andy Warhol."

Discover the possibilities of humanity in the age of consumption

Rococo period of painting and human interaction to satire... Artists seek from the outside to the inside step by step, from the concrete to the abstract, from service and power to the expression of self-value thought. The development of modern art is based on post-impressionist painters such as Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Cezanne, from which we can see that their works no longer serve our aesthetic senses, but provide us with more spiritual feelings.

Therefore, when appreciating modern art, we should not be limited to the criticism of aesthetic feeling, but believe in our own feelings. For example, it is normal for some works to bring you negative feelings such as disgust and anger. Behind these feelings, we can start to criticize and think more, which also achieves the purpose of modern art.

- About the exhibition itself

The exhibition is divided into five chapters and features 400 works by Warhol

Commercial crossover from the 1950s

Iconic paintings from the '60s

A response to the street culture of the 1980s, which also includes photography