About the Artists

ANDY WARHOL pioneered social media by becoming the first artist who was simultaneously a celebrity and star on camera, friends with celebrities, and closely tied to media and marketing of the time. A wide breadth of art was created by Warhol: photographs, prints, paintings, and film. Andy Warhol was the leader of the Pop Art movement- his work becoming the most influential in the second half of the 20th century.

 

JOSEF ALBERS produced many studies of color theory, congregating into a long series titled “Homage to the Square.” He was a German-born American who worked as an educator and oil painting artist. Albers often returned to simple shapes and the interdependent relationship of colors, providing insight into art through Modernism and geometric abstraction.

 

VICTOR VASARELY fathered the Op-Art movement, which focused on issues of perception usually in the second dimension. His early career as a graphic artist developed into iconic screen-printed optical illusions. Vasarely’s work also abstracted geometry in an attempt to highlight perspective through the relationship of the composition.