27/08/2026
American artists are the next ones that we’re highlighting. A few days ago you voted for your favourite ones and here they are: And Warhol, Robert Indiana and Julian Schnabel.
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„I want to be as famous as the Queen of England” is what Andy Warhol once said. The artist – who had a huge appetite for celebrity - saw the monarch not necessarily as Queen, but more as a VIP.
There are four portraits in this series, one of which is in the National Portrait Gallery in England. The were part of his iconic series “Reigning Queens”, which included Queen Margarethe of Denmark, Queen Beatrix of the Netehrlands and Queen Ntombi of Swaziland.
Queen Elizabeth II.’s portrait is based an official photograph from 1977, the year she celebrated her 25th throne jubilee. Warhol’s take on the picture gives it heightened impact.
One of the big stars of New York’s art scene in the 1980s, Julian Schnabel became internationally known thanks to his “Plate Paintings”, for which he applied broken crockery onto large canvases. Not for him the minimalist concept art of the earlier decades; Schnabel stood for a new, expressive and confident way of painting.
Through the “Plate Paintings”, the artist managed to combine painting and sculpture. His inspiration were the Güell Park mosaics by architect Antonia Gaudì in Barcelona. Interested in the reflecting characteristic of the white plates there, he bought a cheap box of plates back home, broke them and fixed the pieces with Bondo onto a wooden support.
LOVE surely is one of the most iconic letterings. It was thought up by the American artist Robert Indiana in 1964, as the motif for the Christmas Card for the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 1973, the motto and symbol of the hippie generation also appeared on a United States postage stamp.
Indiana later created LOVE as painting, sculpture, screen print, and even as a carpet. There are also various country-specific versions of the lettering, such as the black-red-gold German LOVE, the red-white-and-blue American LOVE, or a version featuring Hebrew lettering: LOVE as a truly international success story.
