Andy Warhol: Advertisements

Life Savers, Chanel perfumes, Liza Minnelli, and Donald Duck come together in [Andy Warhol](/artist/andy-warhol)’s “Advertisements.” Commissioned in 1985 by Feldman Fine Arts just two years before the artist’s early death at the age of 58, the “Ads Portfolio” is a product of Warhol’s laser focus on [celebrity](/artist-series/andy-warhol-celebrity-portraits) and obsessive interest in American consumerism. The 10 resulting prints—appropriated from then-familiar ads and rendered as works of fine art in Warhol’s signature technicolor silkscreens—blur the line between mass-marketed images in magazines and fine art paintings only for the wealthy elite. In this series, Andy Warhol’s career truly comes full circle, blending his early days as a commercial illustrator with his mature Pop style.