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Marilyn Monroe, celebrity cult icon, became the subject of Warhol’s paintings after her death. Whole series were created by Warhol to underline the importance of her death and Warhol experimented with many variations that are still popular even today.

Campbell’s Soup brand was also linked closely to Warhol after his series of paintings which spanned much of Warhol’s career, as he commonly came back to the Soup Can image as a tool for creativity. These heavily branded themes brought in young people and gave importance and relevance to the pop art movement.

Warhol’s Shoes is a popular choice with art consumers and was covered by Warhol from an early point in his career, where he worked as a commercial illustrator artist and gained popularity with this theme. Warhol, as is common in much of his work, chose to contrast a bright main subject with much darker background elements. Andy Warhol became famous for his TV, Film & Paintings, but perhaps all of this might not have happened if it wasn’t for his initial success as a professional illustrator.

The attempted murder of Andy Warhol led to a new direction in Warhol’s work which covered the subject of death and other items closely related to that. The Gun series is a good example of this new art direction, and he used his common repetition style to put across his feelings of death and danger.

The Cow wallpaper is a bright, colourful series by Warhol which showed off his bold colour choices as many as any of Warhol’s career. Psychedelic yellow was used to great effect here. The cow itself came from a agricultural journal as was repeated to extremes by the obsessive Warhol.

The full length of Warhol’s career is littered with interesting self-portraits which help art fans to see into Warhol’s mind and discover how he saw himself. Some were also less than happy portrayals and showed a typical artist at odds with himself, so common amongst many of the greatest artists.

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