6 of the most famous women in Andy Warhol's portraits

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

The famous artist (as well as producer, designer, writer, collector, magazine publisher and film director) Andy Warhol was born on August 6, 1928. Born Andrei Vargola, he became a cult person during his lifetime and remains so today. Of course, like any artist, Warhol needed muses. He was inspired by the most popular women from the world of show business and not only. We have collected 6 of Warhol's most famous female portraits.

Marilyn Monroe

Warhol was attracted by her ability to seduce and be a real diva.

Monroe and Warhol did not know each other personally. But in this blonde, who became the sex symbol of Hollywood, Warhol was attracted by her ability to seduce and be a real diva. This is what he tried to portray in the portrait of the actress. The image turned out to be so effective and memorable that later the painting "Golden Marilyn Monroe" began to be called "Virgin Mary of the XX century."

Brigitte Bardot

The artist and his muse met in 1967 in Cannes.

Andy Warhol himself said about the French actress: “Brigitte Bardot was one of those first women who kept pace with the times. They viewed men as an object of love, bribing them with this, and then abandoned them. I like it.

The artist and his muse met in 1967 in Cannes. He had long dreamed of painting her portrait and did it at a time when Bardo was about to leave the cinema. The portrait is based on a photograph taken by Richard Avedon in 1959.

Elizabeth Taylor

Taylor, who, like Warhol, became a cult person during her lifetime, was friends with many artists of her time and often decorated their canvases. Andy truly admired this woman, her beauty, sense of style and inner strength. He said: "If in my next life I became a ring on Liz Taylor's finger, it would be very impressive" and painted one portrait of her after another - in total he created about 50 paintings depicting Taylor's face in different variations.

Jacqueline Kennedy

The first lady of the United States was friends with Andy Warhol, finding him funny and interesting. He loved her for her femininity, sophistication and, of course, for her status. Warhol took a series of photographs of Jacqueline, capturing her at different moments in life, and then made of them the fresco "Jackie Sixteen", which in 2011 was sold at Sotheby's for $ 20 million.

Liza Minnelli

Warhol emphasized Minnelli's sexy lips.

In the late seventies, Andy Warhol was friends with the singer and actress Liza Minnelli, they met at the Studio 54 club. For everyone she was a star, but for him just Lisa. The artist was impressed by her taste in clothes, as well as her love and numerous novels. In his paintings, Warhol focused on Minnelli's sexy lips.

Queen Elizabeth II

The British ruler has inspired many artists, and Warhol was no exception. And if in most of the portraits of his muses he avoided details, then for the sake of Her Majesty he made an exception. In the 1985 painting, he depicted all the attributes of a royal person - jewelry, a crown, an order.