"The Howdy Doody Show was ‘one of the most popular and influential children’s television series in American history. In its original run from 1947 to 1960, each episode opened with the voiceover question “Say, kids, what time is it?” Resounding from the peanut gallery—and from millions of television-watching kids around the country—came the reply, “It's Howdy Doody time!”’"
—National Museum of American History, Smithsonian
Andy Warhol was the leading exponent of the Pop Art movement in the U.S. in the 1960s. Following an early career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol achieved fame with his revolutionary series of silkscreened prints and paintings of familiar objects, such as Campbell's soup tins, and celebrities, such as Marilyn Monroe. Obsessed with popular culture, celebrity and advertising, Warhol created his slick, seemingly mass-produced images of everyday subject matter from his famed Factory studio in New York City. His use of mechanical methods of reproduction, notably the commercial technique of silk screening, wholly revolutionized art-making.
Working as an artist, but also director and producer, Warhol produced a number of avant-garde films in addition to managing the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground and founding Interview magazine. A central figure in the New York art scene until his untimely death in 1987, Warhol was notably also a mentor to such artists as Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
1981年作 絲印版畫 鑽石粉塵 Lenox 博物館板(全紙本) 紙本:38 x 38 英吋 (96.5 x 96.5 公分) 款識:簽名、50/200(畫背) 鈴印:紐約 Ronald Feldman Fine Arts 畫廊、藝術家版權(畫背) 尚有30版藝術家試作版,此作由紐約 Ronald Feldman Fine Arts 畫廊出版,此作已裱。