Andy Warhol

American artist (1928–1987), the central figure of Pop Art, whose Factory turned mechanical reproduction, celebrity, and the silvered surface into subject matter.

Warhol's silkscreens, films, and studio persona collapsed the line between commercial and fine art and made the reflective, mass-produced image an emblem of the 1960s.

Relationship to Fuller

Relationship: contemporary. Warhol is an art-world contemporary who shares the corpus's postwar design-and-art frame with R. Buckminster Fuller without a direct collaboration. He surfaces most tellingly by comparison: the accounts of Fuller's circle note that Isamu Noguchi made a chrome-plated portrait bust of Fuller in 1929 — a silvered head decades before Warhol's Factory made silver its signature. Warhol thus marks the later Pop moment against which Fuller's earlier art-and-design associations are measured.

See Also

• Isamu Noguchi (Isamu Noguchi) — sculpted Fuller's chrome bust, "silver before Warhol"
• We Are All Astronauts (We Are All Astronauts) — catalog of Fuller's place in the twentieth-century art world
• Jasper Johns (Jasper Johns) — fellow postwar American artist in that milieu

Sources

• Design Envy — 99% Invisible (source reference) — situates Warhol in the design-and-art context around Fuller