February 23: On This Day in World History … briefly
After gallbladder surgery, Warhol died of cardiac arrhythmia in February 1987 at the age of 58.
1987: Warhol’s 15 minutes are up
The man who found art in a Campbell’s soup can died on the operating table in New York. He was considered the ‘Pope of pop art’. In the 1960s he started reproducing blown-up comic strip scenes for New York shop window displays, using a technique of silk-screening outsized photographic enlargements.
His ‘factory’ churned out sequential mass-media images, all slightly different: whether it was the soup can or Marilyn Monroe’s face. He often hinted that he was taking both the public and critics for a ride.
“If you want to know anything about me, just look at the surface of my paintings. It’s all there, there’s nothing more.” He once said, causing speculation about whether he implied profundity or shallowness about himself and his paintings.
Most notable historic snippets or facts extracted from the book ‘On This Day’ first published in 1992 by Octopus Publishing Group Ltd, London, as well as additional supplementary information extracted from Wikipedia.
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