The King of Rock’n’Roll Meets the Prince of Pop Art | Andy Warhol's 'Double Elvis [Ferus Type]'

Andy Warhol's 1963 work 'Double Elvis [Ferus Type]' unites two of the most venerated figures of modern times — the King of Rock’n’Roll and the Prince of Pop Art. Andy Warhol had held an almost obsessive fascination for the glittering allure of Hollywood since boyhood. As a child, he kept a scrapbook of movie-star photographs and continued to collect such images and movie posters later in life. The curator Walter Hopps once recalled that when he had visited Warhol’s house in 1961, the floor had been ‘covered wall-to-wall with every sort of pulp movie magazine, fan magazine, and trade sheet, having to do with popular stars from the movies or rock’n’roll. Warhol wallowed in it’. Double Elvis, painted in the summer of 1963, pays tribute to a larger-than-life superstar whose international fame brought him the level of celebrity Warhol so coveted and admired. Before long, the artist himself would reach the same dizzy heights, having reshaped the visual arts with his profound awareness of the way mass media defines the norms of contemporary experience. Find out more: https://ift.tt/2vOaqMp