{"id":749,"date":"2016-08-22T08:36:12","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T08:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/?p=749"},"modified":"2016-08-18T15:40:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T15:40:56","slug":"wow-work-of-the-week-andy-warhol-ingrid-bergman-the-nun-fs-ii-314","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wow\/wow-work-of-the-week-andy-warhol-ingrid-bergman-the-nun-fs-ii-314","title":{"rendered":"WOW – Work Of the Week – Andy Warhol “Ingrid Bergman, The Nun FS.II 314”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
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ANDY WARHOL<\/b><\/span>
\nIngrid Bergman, The Nun FS.II 314<\/i><\/span>
\n1983<\/span>
\nScreenprint on Lenox Museum Board<\/span>
\n38 x 38 in.
\nArtist’s Proof (A.P.) of 20<\/span>
\nPencil signed and numbered<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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Andy Warhol was the most successful and highly paid commercial illustrator in New York even before he began to make art destined for galleries. Neverthless, his screenprinted images of Marilyn Monroe, soup cans, movie stars and sensational newspaper stories, quickly became synonymous with Pop Art.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pop Art marked an important new stage in the breakdown between high and low art forms. Warhol\u2019s paintings from the early 1960s were important in pioneering these developments, but it is arguable that the diverse activities of his later years were just as influential in expanding the implications of Pop Art into other spaces, and further eroding the borders between the worlds of high art and popular culture.<\/span><\/p>\n

Andy Warhol is now considered\u00a0one of the most influential artists of the second half of the 20th century, who created some of the most recognizable images ever produced.<\/span><\/p>\n

After the the success of the Campbell\u2019s Soup Series <\/em>in the early 1960s, indeed, Warhol began creating screenprints of movie star portraits including\u00a0Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Elizabeth Taylor and Ingrid Bergman.<\/span>
\nAndy Warhol\u2019s stunning images of Academy Award winning actress Ingrid Bergman, were created by the artist at the request of a Swedish art gallery in the 1980\u2019s, Galerie Borjeson, in Malmo, Sweden.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Ingrid Bergman Series<\/i> is made up of three types of screen prints. The source images used for these portrait pieces include a publicity photo (Herself<\/i>), and movie stills from her role in Casablanca (With Hat<\/i>) and from the movie The Bell of St. Mary\u2019s <\/i>(The Nun<\/i>).<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, when we think of Ingrid Bergman, we think of her playing Ilsa, the long lost love interest of Rick, played by Humphrey Bogart.\u00a0<\/span>No one can ever forget Bergman standing on the runway, all teary eyed and wearing the famous hat, as Bogart makes her get on that plane.<\/span>
\nThis was her most famous and enduring role, and that is why Warhol portrayed here in the hat as one of the three pieces in the Ingrid Bergman Suite<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, many people do not realize that the movie The Bell Of St. Mary’s<\/i> was enormously popular, the highest-grossing movie of 1945 in the USA. In this movie, Ingrid Bergman is the leading female role and stars together with famous actor and singer Bing Crosby, who plays t<\/span>he unconventional Father Charles “Chuck” O’Malley, assigned to St. Mary’s parish. The parish includes a school building on the verge of being condemned; but the sisters of the parish feel that God will provide for them.\u00a0<\/span>Father O’Malley and the dedicated but stubborn Sister Superior, Mary Benedict (Ingrid Bergman), both wish to save the school, but they have\u00a0different views and methods.<\/span><\/p>\n

This portrait of Ingrid Bergman in her most severe role is made even more dramatic in this iconic print. The vibrant color palette is made dynamic through Warhol’s exciting element of abstraction, the yellow lines making her figure and makeup pop, with her hands clasped in prayer and only sketched with yellow lines.<\/span><\/p>\n

Like the majority of his works, once again, this print is indicative of Warhol\u2019s obsession with all things relating to fame, especially movie stars. For this reason, his artwork can also be considered as a sort of visual recording of the culture of his time.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ANDY WARHOL Ingrid Bergman, The Nun FS.II 314 1983 Screenprint on Lenox Museum Board 38 x 38 in. Artist’s Proof (A.P.) of 20 Pencil signed and numbered About This Work: Andy Warhol was the most successful and highly paid commercial … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[291,52,16,79,394,14,84,25,248,8,83,9,275,395,15,102,73,397,279,23,46,47,56,396,45,88,222,17,89],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751,"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}