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Beheading of the rhinoceros
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Indivisible quartet
Room for voices
Time, mistake, space
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Yellow surface
River bed
A J L B
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Checks. Tribute to Niepce
Amalfi box
Big Black Cretto
Basin
Without title
Shock wave
White gold room
Flagellation of Christ
Judith and Holofernes
Vesuvius
Portrait of Paul III with his grandchildren
Danae
Portrait of a young woman called Antea
The Parable of the Blind
Atalante by Ippomena
Transfiguration of Christ
Madonna and Child with Angels
Crib group with the Nativity
Sant'Agata
Portrait of fra luca Pacioli with a pupil
Hercules at the crossroads
Apollo and Marsyas
Saint Jerome in the study
From Frisio to Santa Lucia or Neapolitan song
Crucifixion
Madonna of the veil
Portrait of Pier Luigi Farnese in armor
Globe
Beheading of the rhinoceros
Without title
Untitled
Without title
Without title
Indivisible quartet
Room for voices
Time, mistake, space
Without title
Yellow surface
River bed
A J L B
Without title
Checks. Tribute to Niepce
Amalfi box
Big Black Cretto
Basin
Without title
Shock wave
White gold room
Flagellation of Christ
Judith and Holofernes
Vesuvius
Portrait of Paul III with his grandchildren
Danae
Portrait of a young woman called Antea
The Parable of the Blind
Atalante by Ippomena
Transfiguration of Christ
Madonna and Child with Angels
Crib group with the Nativity
Sant'Agata
Portrait of fra luca Pacioli with a pupil
Hercules at the crossroads
Apollo and Marsyas
Saint Jerome in the study
From Frisio to Santa Lucia or Neapolitan song
Crucifixion
Madonna of the veil
Portrait of Pier Luigi Farnese in armor

Vesuvius

Andy Warhol

Displayed in:

Capodimonte Museum and Real Wood

Capodimonte Museum and Real Wood

Via Miano, 2, Naples

Open now from 08:30 to 19:30

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The cold language, devoid of subjective participation, elaborated according to executive methods derived from mass culture, with which Warhol expresses images and icons of our contemporaneity, is inclined to undergo a greater emotional involvement in the works created for the Neapolitan solo show in 1985. The stereotyped image of Vesuvius, to which the artist looks, undergoes, in fact, a sudden chromatic ignition through which it expresses the destructive violence of nature. Borrowing, therefore, a recurring theme of the traditional iconography of Neapolitan landscape painting, Warhol transfigures it with the impetuousness of the gesture and the expressive power of the industrial colors that make the image of the erupting Vesuvius a disturbing presence, admonition of a impending danger.
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Title: Vesuvius

Author: Andy Warhol

Date: 1985

Technique: Acrylic on canvas

Displayed in: Capodimonte Museum and Real Wood

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