Produced for British television on the 15th anniversary of Andy Warhol's death, this comprehensive, balanced and engaging documentary examines the pioneering pop artist's contributions to late-20th-century painting, film, music, publishing and, most pervasively, contemporary mass culture. The son of working class Slovakian immigrants, Warhol began his career as a commercial artist and began painting in the late 1950s. In 1960, his first solo show of soup can paintings generated heated debate in both the popular and art-world press; Warhol's flat, appropriated commercial images were the antithesis of muscular abstract expressionism, and his affectless, icily cool pers...
Released:
2002
Rated:
NR
Length:
104 mins