Land Rover of Louisville Contemporary exhibition support provided by:Īugusta and Gill Holland Exhibition season support provided by: Through both obscure works such as the “sunset” film commission from 1967, and late masterpieces like the pink Last Supper (1986) the exhibition will present a fresh perspective on the artist.Īndy Warhol: Revelation is curated by José Carlos Diaz, chief curator at The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and includes a full-color catalog with contributions from Diaz and Miranda Lash, curator of contemporary art at the Speed Art Museum.Ĭheck artmaking tutorials, performances, panel conversations, virtual tours, and special insights from curator José Diaz on the Andy Warhol: Revelation YouTube playlist! IN-GALLERY RESOURCES Rare source material and newly discovered items will provide an intimate look on Warhol’s creative process. Revelation will feature over 150 objects from The Andy Warhol Museum’s permanent collection, including archival materials, drawings, paintings, prints, and film. Through this process, the artist elevated kitsch and mundane images from mass media, and transformed them into sacred high art. Nevertheless, he used various media to explore this tension through his art.įrom iconic portraits of celebrities to appropriated Renaissance masterpieces, Warhol flirted with styles and symbolism from Eastern and Western Catholic art history, carefully reframing them within the context of Pop. As a queer man, Warhol may have felt a sense of guilt and fear towards the Catholic Church, which kept him from fully immersing himself in the faith. Yet, his relationship with Catholicism was far from simple. Throughout his life as a celebrity artist, Warhol retained some of his Catholic practices when his peers were distancing themselves from their religious backgrounds. Using The Warhol’s robust holdings of the artist’s early works, the exhibition will trace the influence of his religious roots in Pittsburgh to his Pop career in New York City. In the Warhola family’s Carpatho-Rusyn neighborhood, life revolved around the church community, and the young artist was deeply impacted from this environment. He would stare for hours at the icon paintings of Christ and the saints that hung in the elaborate iconostasis, or icon screen, at the front of the nave. While his monumental crosses and depictions of Christ directly reference biblical stories, this exhibition will also explore his coded depictions of spirituality such as an unfinished film reel depicting the setting sun, originally commissioned by the de Menil family and funded by the Roman Catholic Church.īorn in Pittsburgh to a devout Byzantine Catholic family, Warhol grew up attending multiple weekly services at his local church with his mother, Julia Warhola. North Building, 3rd Floor Special ExhibitionĪndy Warhol: Revelation is the first exhibition to comprehensively examine the Pop artist’s complex Catholic faith in relation to his artistic production.Ĭhristian motifs frequently appear in both explicit and metaphorical forms throughout the body of Andy Warhol’s oeuvre.
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