Label: Andy Warhol is one of the central figures of the Pop Art movement and one of the most recognizable artists of the second half of the twentieth-century. He was pivotal in redefining the nature of art by borrowing from popular culture, celebrating ordinary consumer goods, and adopting a commercial, hands-off approach to art-making. Through printmaking, Warhol explored both the aesthetics and the mechanics of mass-produced images and popular culture. He identified the defining cultural images of his time, as this silkscreen image of Chairman Mao demonstrates, and manipulated them in serialized paintings and prints. The image of Chairman Mao became very familiar to most Americans after a 1972 visit to China by then-President Richard Nixon. Warhol appropriated the image which originally appeared in Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, 1966, and on millions of placards during China’s Cultural Revolution.
Exhibition label from "Art Asks - You Answer," 2022.
Exhibition History: From Warhol to Bartlett: Contemporary Prints from the Collection of Michael J. and Mary Tatalovich, Haggerty Museum of Art, 12/12/1997 - 02/15/1998
Selections from the Mary and Michael Tatalovich Collection, Haggerty Museum of Art, 06/06/2012 - 08/05/2012
Scrutiny After The Glimpse, Haggerty Musuem of Art, 06/04/2014 - 08/03/2014
HMA DNA: Collection HIghlights, Haggerty Museum of Art, 06/09/2016 - 05/21/2017
Art Asks - You Answer, Haggerty Museum of Art, 01/14/2022 - 05/22/2022
Publication History: Curtis L. Carter and Richard H. Axsom, From Warhol to Barlett: Contemporary Prints from the Collection of Michael J. and Mary Tatalovich (Milwaukee: Haggerty Museum of Art, 1997).
