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Andy Warhol Museum – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – A Visitor’s Guide
The Andy Warhol Museum features exhibits and collection of twenty century modern art. Located on the North Shore of Pittsburgh, the museum is one of the Carnegie museums of Pittsburgh. The museum is open Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Friday from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. The price of admission is $15 for adults, $8 for children, and $9 for seniors. The museum has a café and a store.
Andy Warhol was a visionary and pioneer in contemporary art. He brought mass production to the fine art world and merged fine art and pop culture. The museum shows more then twelve thousand works by this great talent. The exhibits range from paintings, to prints, to sculptures, to video tapes.
Current Exhibits
Two of the current exhibits at the Andy Warhol Museum are Piet and Glenn Kaino. Piet is a Dutch artist best know for his Neo-Plasticism. This exhibit has 24 paintings ranging from 1907 to 1937. One of the paintings in the collection is Composition with Yellow, Red, Black, Blue and Grey which is a classic painting in the Neo-Plasticism style of lines and colors. The Glenn Kaino exhibit will consist of pieces created between 2000 and 2007. Glenn Kaino is an American born sculpture and some of his pieces include Desk Top Operation: There’s No Place Like Home, A Plank for Every Pirate, and Simple Systems for Dimensional Transformation.
Permanent Collections
The art collection ranges Andy Warhol‘s life, from the 1940′s to the 1980′s. Of the permanent exhibits, one is a room created by Andy Warhol named Silver Clouds. Also on display, adorning the entrance way, are a series of self portraits of Andy Warhol. The museum exhibits some of his most powerful works, his paintings of death and disaster, painted in 1962 and 1963. Warhol‘s enlarged paintings of everyday things such as the paintings Coca-Cola, Telephone, and Campbell’s Soup Cans are more of the artist’s works on permanent display. Warhol‘s silk screenings are also exhibited on the pop art side the museum exhibits. his movies, such as Sleep and Empire, are shown in their own gallery. The film collection also includes restored films, such as Outer and Inner Space and Hedy.
The Archive
The Andy Warhol Museum also contains an archive which not only has information about Andy Warhol, but also about the time period he worked in. The archive is open to the public for exhibition and study. Items in the archive include press clippings and interviews with Warhol, as well as the materials he used to create his works. Warhol‘s Time Capsules are also located in the archive.
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