Label
Collectible

Medicom - Vinyl Collectible Dolls - VCD Andy Warhol Camo Ver.

Brand
Medicom Toy
$120.00

Description

About Medicom Toy VCD Andy Warhol Camo Version

Part of the Japanese collectible toy company, Medicom Toy's Vinyl Collectible Dolls collection, and in partnership with The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, comes to this incredible VCD Andy Warhol Camo figurine, featuring the world-renowned 20th century American Pop Artist Andy Warhol and his iconic camouflage pattern in pink. Andy Warhol is without a doubt one of the most recognized artists of the 20th century and in the history of art. The quintessential American Pop artist was Andy Warhol. An early successful career as a commercial artist and illustrator grounded Warhol in the sensibility and visual rhetoric of advertising and the mass media. This knowledge proved useful for his Pop artworks, which often depicted icons of mass-produced consumer culture, Hollywood celebrities, or immediately recognizable patterns such as the camouflage pattern found in Warhol's works and in this VCD Andy Warhol Camo figurine. Warhol favored reassuringly familiar objects and people, by also using a visual vocabulary and a printing method that reinforced the image's connections to consumer culture. The printing silk-screen technique allowed Warhol to print the image endlessly (although often adding variations). Repetition and redundancy in Warhol's works became representative of the saturation of products and visual elements in American contemporary society. So immersed was Warhol in a culture of mass production that he not only produced numerous canvases of the same image but also named his studio, The Factory. 

Details

  • Dimensions: (Height) 9.25" inches (235 mm)
  • Weight: approx. 1.54 lbs (700 g)
  • © / ® / ™ The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
  • © 2018 Medicom Toy Corporation, All rights reserved.
  • Warhol

    The Artist

    Warhol

    Pop Culture artwork by Andy Warhol Andy Warhol is without a doubt the first name to come to mind when thinking about the Pop Art culture. His iconic work focused mainly on celebrity culture, artistic expression, and advertisement, which were all prominent in the 1960s. He utilized a variety of media including hand drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, silk screening, sculpture, film, and music. Warhol also lived openly as a homosexual man before the gay liberation movement began. He had His Factory, where intellectuals, drag queens, playwrights, Bohemian street people, Hollywood celebrities, and wealthy patrons would collaborate. The Pop Artist produced extraordinarily valuable pieces, including some of the most expensive paintings ever to be sold. While never traditionally thought of as a popular consumer product before, Warhol’s work opened up the ideas of mass-production and mass-appeal into the art world.

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