Pop Art Generation

Beethoven, Yellow Book Art Print
Warhol, Andy
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Detail of the Last Supper, c.1986 Art Print
Warhol, Andy
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This will feature new artists in the run up to the new site launch on the 01/11/09.

There will also be competitions to win ultra cool prints.

Edie Sedgwick, 1966 Art Print
Warhol, Andy
28 in. x 22 in.
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Classic Blondie gig poster featuring the work of the late great Any Warhol. 

The Mabuhay Gardens (aka The Fab Mab) was a San Francisco nightclub located at 443 Broadway, on the Broadway strip of North Beach, an area best known for its strip clubs.

Originally a Filipino restaurant and club owned by Ness Aquino, it featured many Filipino celebrities, including Miss Amapola Cabase. Aquino and Amapola also co-hosted a weekly television program, The Amapola Presents Show on KEMO-TV Channel 20.

In 1976, Aquino agreed to have rock promoter and television producer Dirk Dirksen book punk and new wave bands there; it soon became one of the main venues for punk rock in San Francisco in the late 1970s and early 1980s (a sort of west coast CBGBs). Virtually every early Bay Area punk and new wave band performed there at one time or another, and it was an important touring stop for bands from beyond the San Francisco Bay Area. Among the bands that performed there were the Dead Kennedys, Flipper, Romeo Void, The Sheets, Black Flag, The Dictators, Roky Erickson, Crime, The Nuns, The Offs, The Mutants, The Avengers, Anti-Matter, The Damned, Devo, Iggy Pop, The Ramones, Hüsker Dü, D.O.A., The Screamers, Minutemen, DRI, Redd Kross, JFA, Blind Illusion, and Anvil Chorus. Comedian Whoopi Goldberg also made early appearances at the venue.

Dirksen had a unique style as emcee, deliberately baiting and trading insults with audience and band members, which had the effect of raising the energy of audience and performers alike. Dirksen’s abrasive persona (which was largely a performance) was a central part of the atmosphere of the Mabuhay.

The Mabuhay Gardens shut down in 1986. As of 2006, the building housed a “Yuppie” nightclub, which was called The Velvet Lounge. The Velvet Lounge booked a few punk shows in 2003 with the intention of promoting them as “Fab Mab” shows. However, Dirksen denied them the use of this name, to which he held the trademark. A “Fab Mab Reunion” — emceed by Dirk Dirksen — took place on April 8, 2006 at The Fillmore and not at The Velvet Lounge.

The venue was again opened in September 2007 under the name Club 443, endearingly called the “Old Mab” by its faithful patrons. T&T Presents, an SF based music promotions agency which booked many punk and metal shows at the Mabuhay from the late 1970’s through early ’80’s, are collaborating with Club 443 to bring metal back as it was in its heyday.

An upstairs section of the same building also housed the On Broadway, a second nightclub run by Dirksen upon his departure from the Mab.

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Blondie at Mabuhay Poster
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A late piece by the king of pop art Andy Warhol.

From his Reigning Queens collection this features non other than Britains Queen Elizabeth II.

Certainly the most colourful of any portrait of her, certainly can never see a copy hung in Buckingham Palace and I think its a good bet that there were no sittings involved.
Reigning Queens: Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, c.1985 (Dark Outline) Art Print
Warhol, Andy
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A great print featuring all of the variations that have been released of probably the most famous Pop Art image in history.

Every Pop Artist seems to try a Marilyn but have any ever done it better?
10 Marilyns, 1967 Art Print
Warhol, Andy
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Marilyn, c.1967 (On Blue Ground) Andy Warhol 40×40 Premium Gi… Buy From Art.com

Andrew Warhola (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987), more commonly known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as a painter, avant-garde filmmaker, record producer, author, and public figure known for his membership in wildly diverse social circles that included bohemian street people, distinguished intellectuals, Hollywood celebrities and wealthy aristocrats.

Warhol has been the subject of numerous retrospective exhibitions, books, and feature and documentary films. He coined the expression “15 minutes of fame.”

Prints by the most famous pop artist of them all Andy Warhol.

Next week will see the 22nd anniversary of his death, a great loss to the art world but we are left with the most fantastic prints.

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During the 1960s Pop artists began to turn away from abstract notions of art. Such abstract ideas had been championed during the 1950s by Jackson Pollock and Willen de Kooning.

Pop artists used blatant imagery, print advertising and comic strips.  Artists such as Jasper Johns and Roy Lichenstien focussed upon recognisable, tangible images such as flags, cartoons, coke bottles.  They celebrated commercial art.

 Andy Warhol used icons such as Jackie Kennedy, Marylin Monroe and tangible objects such as soup cans, Brillo boxes, green stamps.  He presented a new way of viewing America through his ‘Pop vision’.

Pop artists of this time introduced the notion that the new era emerging would be sexually ambivalent.  Music at the time echoed this - Rolling Stones, Velvet Underground, David Bowie.

For modern pop art visit - http://www.artforurbanspaces.com/popart/pop-art/