NEOLOGISMS

"There are dozens of Warhol shows, small and large, in several countries on several continents almost every year," says Joel Wachs, presidentof the board of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, an organization created after Warhol's 1987 death to promote the arts. "Wherever you go around the world, when you say 'artist' someone will answer 'Warhol.'"Our lexicon has even adopted words like "Warholian " and "Warholesque" to describe contemporary artists, artists like Shepard Fairey who created the iconic (and controversial) President Barack Obama "Hope" campaign poster recently obtained by the Smithsonian.

Inside Bay Area
Jan 13 2009