Andy Warhol – Velvet Rage and Beauty (Members of The Arts Society Berlin only)
Andy Warhol is arguably one of the most widely known and dis- cussed artists of the twentieth century. While his depictions of con- sumer products and celebrities became household famous, there is a newly identified red thread through his career, starting in the late 1940s until his untimely death in the 1980s: a continuous searching to visualize his ideal of beauty, mostly male beauty, finding form and creating lasting images of what Warhol desired. Neue Nationalgalerie is for the first time putting together a large survey focused on War- hol’s search for a certain ideal beauty and shows that it is a central aspect and red thread throughout the artist’s different production phases and stages of career, from the 1940s to the 1980s.
