Andy Warhol has been labeled as an artist and an icon. His work established an art movement and has been described as controversial, revolutionary and unoriginal. A museum director once described Warhol as a serious artist who was all about the unserious.
The Last Supper, 1986. Warhol
Last Supper Series, Warhol
The Last Supper, Da Vinci
Warhol recreated Da Vinci's Last Supper. He used his own hand drawings, black and white copies of Da Vinci's, and silkscreens. Some of his series keep the original composition that Da Vinci had while others focused on one zoomed in image of a single character or a small group of them. He transformed a highly religious work of art into a cliché. He played with repetition, color and orientation of the objects from Da Vinci's original piece. He started with something that had highly religious value and made those values non existent.
Warhol’s inseparable life and work influenced the world of art and pop culture more than any other artist of his time, and his work remains one of the leading inspirations for following generations. His output included prints and paintings that have become as famous as the pop images on which they are based.
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