{"id":661,"date":"2016-05-09T15:45:22","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T15:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/?p=661"},"modified":"2016-05-09T15:45:22","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T15:45:22","slug":"wow-work-of-the-week-andy-warhol-louis-brandeis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wow\/wow-work-of-the-week-andy-warhol-louis-brandeis","title":{"rendered":"WOW – Work Of the Week – Andy Warhol “Louis Brandeis”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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ANDY WARHOL<\/b><\/span>
\nLouis Brandeis<\/i>, from 10 Portraits Of Jews Of The 20th Century<\/i><\/span>
\n1980<\/span>
\nScreenprint on Lenox Museum Board<\/span>
\n40 x 32 in.
\nArtist’s Proof (A.P.) of\u00a030<\/span>
\nPencil signed and numbered lower left<\/span><\/p>\n

About This Work:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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In 1980 Andy Warhol produced a suite called Ten Portraits of Jews of the 20th Century<\/i>. This series appeared at the Jewish Museum<\/span> that year for the first time.<\/span>
\nThe idea for this series came from the art dealer Ronald Feldman, after an Israeli dealer asked for a series of portraits of Golda Meir.<\/span><\/p>\n

To create this portfolio, Warhol followed his usual procedure for portraits, silk-screening a photograph over previously applied colors and tracing crayon-like lines over the photograph\u2019s contours. The underlying vivid colors are broken up into flat, geometric compositions, creating a mild tension between abstraction and photographic representation.<\/span><\/p>\n

The ten subjects of the series were more than just celebrities. They were all people of great accomplishment. But the real subject in this portraits is Fame. Warhol was obsessed with the concepts of fame and publicity and he was interested in famous people because<\/i> they were famous. What the series reflects is the distinctively modern experience of knowing many famous people but rarely knowing in any depth what they are famous for. For example, lots of people know the name Gertrude Stein, but how many have actually read anything she wrote?<\/span><\/p>\n

The Ten Portraits Of Jews Of The 20th Century <\/i>are renowned luminaries of Jewish culture. They are:<\/span><\/p>\n