DO IT YOURSELF (LANDSCAPE)

Do It Yourself (Landscape), 1962

Acrylic, pencil and Letraset on linen. 69 3/4 x 54 1/8" (177.2 x 137.5 cm)

Andy Warhol, American, 1928-1987

Warhol made five Do It Yourself painting based on popular paint-by-number kits. He took the kits' landscape or still life motifs as his starting point, but comparison to the original kits proves that he took liberties with the numbers and colors.

Andy Warhol's Do It Yourself (Landscape) was on display in the special exhibition, Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today from March 2, 2008 to May 12, 2008.

Museum Ludwig Cologne. Donation Ludwig

HOROSCOPES FOR THE COCKTAIL HOUR

Andy Warhol 1959
60,9 x 45,7 cm

Dance Diagram

Andy Warhol (1928-1987) 
Dance Diagram [Fox Trot: 'The Lady Tuck-In Turn-Man'] 
casein and graphite on canvas 
69¾ x 54 in. (177.2 x 137.3 cm.) 
Painted in 1962.

Andy Warhol's artwork ranged in multi forms of media that include hand drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, silk screening, sculpture, film, and music. He was a pioneer in computer-generated art using Amiga computers that were introduced in 1985, just before his death in 1987. He founded Interview Magazine and was the author of numerous books, including The Philosophy of Andy Warhol and Popism: The Warhol Sixties. Andy Warhol is also notable as a gay man who lived openly as such before the gay liberation movement. His studio, The Factory, was a famous gathering place that brought together distinguished intellectuals, drag queens, playwrights, Bohemian street people, Hollywood celebrities, and wealthy patrons. Warhol has been the subject of numerous retrospectiveexhibitions, books, and feature and documentary films. He coined the widely used expression "15 minutes of fame". Much of his creations are very collectable and highly valuble. The highest price ever paid for a Warhol painting is US$100 million for a 1963 canvas titled Eight Elvises. The private transaction was reported in a 2009 article in The Economist, which described Warhol as the "bellwether of the art market". Warhol's works include some of the most expensive paintings aver sold.