Realistic acrylic portrait of the American artist Andy Warhol, painted by the painter Paul Meijering - the original painting is 90 x 90 cm and available for sale.
Andy Warhol (Pittsburgh, 6 August 1928 - New York, 22 February 1987) was an American artist, film director and author. Warhol also worked as a music producer and actor. From his background and experience in the applied arts, Warhol was one of the protagonists of pop art in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s. Warhol is also called the silver prince of the pop.
Warhol is particularly famous for his 'flat' and high-contrast paintings and screen prints of packaged products and everyday objects such as Campbell's soup cans, flowers and the banana on the cover of the album The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967), as well as for his stylised portraits of 20th-century celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe, Grace Jones, Elvis Presley, Judy Garland, and Elizabeth Taylor.
For almost 33 years now, Paul Meijering has been active with the paint brushes. As a 17- year old inspired youngster he joined the Academy of Arts in Enschede (Holland) in order to receive a native training in drawing- and painting technique.
At that time (1980) the tendency..
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