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Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol

23 5.6
An American artist and filmmaker who made bright pictures of everyday products and famous people
  • proper noun
  • /ˈændi ˈwɔːrhoʊl/
: Andy Warhol
  • At the National Portrait Gallery, you can see Andy Warhol's likeness of the queen, as well as other contemporary artists' views.
  • Andy Warhol as an artist
  • Andy Warhol Museum
  • Andy Warhol Foundation

Examples

  • Or take Red Jackie, one of Andy Warhol's rare 1963 portraits of then-First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.

  • To be directed by the ghost of Andy Warhol.

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  • Another of the major lots, a 1981 Andy Warhol silkscreen of Marlon.

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  • The Andy Warhol Museum will be the most comprehensive single-artist museum in the world.

Surface Forms

Andy Warhol main

Morphology

Andy + Warhol

This is a personal name (proper noun) whose meaning is factual/historical rather than compositional; knowing the constituent tokens 'Andy' and 'Warhol' does not allow a learner to infer that the referent was an American artist and Pop Art figure. Proper names are arbitrary labels that require world knowledge or prior exposure, so a B1 learner would not derive the MWE's meaning from its parts.

Etymology

Andy Warhol was an American artist who made art from ordinary things and repeated images of famous people. He painted many copies, for example the Campbell's Soup Cans and portraits of movie stars, so his name now stands for 'art about mass production and fame'.