Museums: The Andy Warhol Museum (Part 3 of 6)

Our tour of the Andy Warhol Museum continues.  

The museum includes many works from the later part of Warhol's career.

One interesting work (pictured below) is part of a series of paintings and prints depicting Renaissance artwork.  The original Renaissance work (also pictured below) is Sandro Botticelli's Birth of Venus.

The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli (1486?) (photo of the painting in the Uffizi)

Closeup of The Birth of Venus

You might remember when Venus went Blub during Year 1.  Here is Blub's version of Venus.

While touring the exhibition, we learned that Andy Warhol was an early computer nerd.  In 1985, he used a computer, a Commodore Amiga 1000, to create works of art.

To see Andy Warhol use the Commodore Amiga to "paint" a portrait of Blondie's Deborah Harry, click here.  

Andy Warhol with Debbie Harry (1985)

The museum's collection includes several of Warhol's collaborations with Jean-Michel Basquiat.  Here is one those collaborations.

This next work really pisses us off.  For an explanation why, you can read the description after the photograph.

The museum has a special climate-controlled room where hundreds of boxes are stored.  Each box is a sort of "time capsule" painstakingly created by Warhol.    

Instead of calling each box a "time capsule", Greg thinks the expression buying "a pig in a poke" is more apt.

Next Up:  Portraits