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Neue Nationalgalerie presents the exhibition Velvet Rage and Beauty from 9. June 2024 Andy Warhol is probably one of the best-known and most talked-about artists of the 20th century. While his depictions of consumer goods and celebrities have been widely publicised, there is a common thread that runs through his career – from the late 1940s to his untimely death in the 1980s. He was constantly searching for an ideal of beauty – male beauty, and for a form; he wanted to create lasting images of what he desired. He therefore visualised and immortalised this ongoing quest for ideal beauty.
From his early line drawings to the screen tests and experiments with moving images and films in the 1960s, the torso paintings in the 1970s and his collaboration with Jean-Michel Basquiat, there is a continuous search for the expression of this ideal. During his lifetime, these works were considered either inappropriate, immoral, perverse or even pornographic and …
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Image above: Neue Nationalgalerie, Foto Maximilian Meisse
