Framed Celebrity Pop Art

Pop art often concerns itself with the ephemeral, transient nature of its subjects, and sometimes even with its representation choices. It is no surprise, then, that framed celebrity pop art makes up some of the most iconic pieces in the pop art canon. Since celebrity can be fleeting, the pop art approach is a natural fit to portray celebrities.

Andy Warhol is the undisputed king of framed celebrity pop art pictures. People who don’t know much about pop art, or even art in general, are frequently familiar with works of Warhol’s such as “Marilyn Diptych.” The style used in that work has been copied numerous times and even parodied on occasion. The celebrities he often portrayed are iconic in their own right, but his techniques of using exaggerated and shifted color schemes in works such as “Double Elvis” and “Blackglama (Judy Garland)” both adds to these celebrities’ legends and enshrines Warhol in the cultural pantheon with his subjects.