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Warhol's Children

Warhol's Children
Takashi Murakami's "Jellyfish Eyes" (2002)

It can be argued that all contemporary artists are the offspring of Andy Warhol in one way or another, since his paradigm-shifting influence on the way art is made, its allowable subject matter, and its very philosophical underpinnings—a copy of a Brillo box is a sculpture?—has spread out to impact creativity around the world.

That said, some artists are more Warholian than others, picking up on an aspect of his work and running with it. In this collection, we've spotlighted a few of these, including artists influenced by his factory-style mode of mass production (everyone from Hirst and Murakami to Liam Gillick and Josh Smith), his taste for appropriation (Richard Prince, Hank Willis Thomas, Adam Parker Smith), his techniques involving screenprinting and polaroids (Christopher Wool, Rob Pruitt, Jeremy Kost), and his obsession with both celebrity and the demimonde (John Waters, Richard Phillips, James Franco, Kalup Linzy, Don Florence).

Oh yes, and of course his flowers, which like other elements of his revolutionary art-making have spread their seeds in the work of contemporary artists everywhere.

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