Warhol Elvis paintings

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The Warhol Elvis paintings are a series of iconic Pop Art works by Andy Warhol that depict Elvis Presley in repeated, silkscreened images derived from a publicity still, exploring themes of celebrity, mass production, and American culture.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Pop Art artwork
painting series
artHistoricalContext 1960s American Pop Art
artMarketStatus high auction value
basedOn publicity still of Elvis Presley
colorPalette black and white
monochrome silver
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
creator Andy Warhol
culturalStatus iconic Pop Art image
depicts Elvis Presley
explores boundary between fine art and commercial imagery
mechanization of image-making
seriality in art
features cropped film still imagery
overlapping figures
repeated images of Elvis Presley
genre celebrity portrait
portrait
iconographySource film publicity still for a Western movie
influencedBy Hollywood cinema
advertising imagery
mass media
medium silkscreen ink on canvas
movement Pop art
surface form: Pop Art
notableWork Double Elvis
Eight Elvises
Eight Elvises
surface form: Elvis I and II

Eight Elvises
surface form: Single Elvis

Triple Elvis
portrays Elvis Presley aiming a gun
Elvis Presley in cowboy costume
relatedWorkSeries Warhol Death and Disaster paintings
surface form: Warhol Jackie paintings

Warhol Liz Taylor paintings
Marilyn Diptych
surface form: Warhol Marilyn paintings
subjectOccupation film actor
musician
technique mechanical reproduction
silkscreen printing
theme American popular culture
celebrity culture
commodification of the body
consumer culture
fame
mass media imagery
mass production
myth of the American star
repetition

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Eight Elvises partOfSeries Warhol Elvis paintings
Andy Warhol’s Mao portraits relatedWorkSeries Warhol Elvis paintings
this entity surface form: Andy Warhol’s Elvis Presley portraits