Andy Warhol’s “The Beatles” is an original screenprint based on photographs taken of The Beatles by Dezo Hoffman in 1963.

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Andy Warhol (born by Andrew Vohola) (American, 1928-1987) is the leader of the pop art movement. He is known for his breadth because it includes paintings, hand painting, printmaking, photography, screen printing, sculpture, movies and music. He is fascinated by the culture and status of celebrities, and his screen printing of popular idols and secular things has been particularly successful and enhances its position as a "celebrity" artist. His studio, factory is a famous meeting place attracting prominent intellectuals, queen, playwright, celebrities of Hollywood, and wealthy customers.

In 1980, the book "Beatles" was published, and it told the British Pop Orchestra. Warhol designed a cover based on the photograph of a famous photographer Dezo Hoffmann. Warhol added an irregularly shaped color block. It is screen printed, but it looks like a colored piece of paper. Hand-drawn lines are also printed. Brilliant contrasting color is the feature of Warhol's work and evokes similarities of psychedelic album covers made by the Beatles in the 1960's. However, Warhol has more relationship with the Rolling Stones than the Beatles, likes the image of their "bad boy", the Beatles 'beautiful' looks pretty.

To create Warhol screen printing, you need two main components. It is a printer that realizes the creative genius and idea of ​​Warhol. Warhol published many of his prints under the name of Andy Warhol Enterprise, but as job demand grew, he hired various printmaking studios and personal printmaking. Business The principal printing studio and printers he uses are Styria Studios Inc., Alexander Heinrici and Rupert Jasen Smith, mainly in charge of printing. Other printers he used include Salvatore Silkscreen, who is responsible for Warhol's soup can, and Aetna Silkscreen Productions, who developed his Flowers series.

One of the first screen-printed images of Warhol was his Marilyn print based on a picture taken by Monroe's 1953 film Niagara. This unforgettable recent magnetic image of suicide star is the theme of choice when Warhol started screen printing. Warhol soon realized that he could systematically create artwork (such as a factory assembly line), resulting in his series and printed portfolio. His first publication series was Marilyn Monroe. He used the efficiency of screen printing techniques to help him and created multiple versions of the same image using a variety of different color combinations. Production of this series was the forerunner of Warhol to create a variety of works, from soup pots to fictional figures of America's pop culture.