#1962 paintings

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Boston Cremes (1962) by Wayne Thiebaud

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Blonde in Pink by Fritz Willis, 1962

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Washington Square Snow by Ken Van Sickle, 1962

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there is nothing in the desert

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The Premature Burial (1962)

Italian poster art by Sandro Symeoni (1928-2008)

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painting - Jailhouse Blonde - men's magazine interior illustration - circa 1962

Al Rossi

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Robert Motherwell - Beside the Sea No. 18 (1962)

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A greeting kiss

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(1962)

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L'École buissonnière (a/k/a Playing Hooky)

Remedios Varo

oil on masonite, 1962

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The Petrified Forest National Park is established in Arizona on December 9, 1962.  

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Chester County (1962) by Andrew Wyeth

The title of the painting may refer to Tom Clark's home in Chester County. Clark lived in the oldest county in the state, and he lived simply, in a three room house without running water -- this in a region known now for the elegant suburbs of Philadelphia's Main Line. The irony of Clark's Chester County address was likely not lost on the artist. He reminds viewers of another side of the area. But Wyeth admired Clark's dignified bearing, and always saw him, too, as a dignified country gentleman. - Seattle Art Museum

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Taking a Chance (No Bikini A Toll) by Gil Elvgren, 1962

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Daniel Adel, "Waves" serie, American painter, b. 1962

"Biarritz"

"Arabesque IV"

"Arabesque V"

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Cy Twombly - The Fall of Hyperion or Second Voyage to Italy (1962)

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Campbell's Soup Cans (1962) 🎨 Andy Warhol 🏛️ The Museum of Modern Art 📍 New York City, United States

Andy Warhol famously appropriated familiar images from consumer culture and mass media, among them celebrity and tabloid news photographs, comic strips, and, in this work, the widely consumed canned soup made by the Campbell’s Soup Company. When he first exhibited Campbell’s Soup Cans in 1962, the canvases were displayed together on shelves, like products in a grocery aisle. At the time, Campbell’s sold 32 soup varieties; each one of Warhol’s 32 canvases corresponds to a different flavor. (The first flavor the company introduced, in 1897, was tomato).

Though Campbell’s Soup Cans resembles the mass-produced, printed advertisements by which Warhol was inspired, its canvases are hand-painted, and the fleur de lys pattern ringing each can’s bottom edge is hand-stamped. Warhol mimicked the repetition and uniformity of advertising by carefully reproducing the same image across each individual canvas. He varied only the label on the front of each can, distinguishing them by their variety. Warhol said of Campbell’s soup, “I used to drink it. I used to have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess, the same thing over and over again.”

Towards the end of 1962, shortly after he completed Campbell’s Soup Cans, Warhol turned to the photo-silkscreen process. A printmaking technique originally invented for commercial use, it would become his signature medium and link his art making methods more closely to those of advertisements. “I don’t think art should be only for the select few,” he claimed, “I think it should be for the mass of the American people.”