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ISTANBUL (Reuters) A show of Andy Warhol most evocative and familiar images at Istanbul Pera Museum portrays the pop art great in a very personal light.

Opened by his nephew James Warhola, Warhol: uk canada goose Pop Art for Everyone exhibits 87 of the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania born artist works, including cheap canada goose uk family favorites like Soup, first created in 1962 and revisited over the years.

Ten soup can prints occupy an entire wall in the first gallery room at the Pera, the floor of which is dominated by massive pink metal letters spelling out the artist name.

Warhol career began as a graphic designer in advertising, and he was fascinated by the aesthetics canada goose coats on sale of mass culture.

That flew in the face of the American art Canada Goose online establishment of the time, and Warhol created much controversy before winning his place as one of the most important figures of art in the second half of the 20th canada goose century.

Twenty seven years after his death, he is still often exhibited, with two New Canada Goose Parka York shows this past spring.

He also one of the canada goose uk outlet top selling. A silkscreen painting from his wig self portraits from the 1980s sold for more than $30 million in June. [ID:nnL6N0P43S5]

the years since his death, there have been canada goose uk black friday so many shows, like every year, and in every major city in the world. He never showed this much in his lifetime, Warhola said.

was a famous illustrator, then a pop artist, but at the time of his death he wasn considered as important as he become today.

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Art for Everyone, running through July 20, offers a rare chance for outside audiences to see late career series all in one show, Canada Goose sale such as Species from 1983, which depicts animals in Warhol characteristic lurid colors buy canada goose jacket with off register line drawings, and the more somber Portraits of Jews of the 20th Century, from 1980.

did a lot of series in his last decade at a time when his work was no longer considered that much of a breakthrough, said Warhola. in recent years, we see these in a historical view and realize he was still breaking cheap Canada Goose ground in the

The Pera Museum, which opened in 2005, has helped bring work by history canadian goose jacket best known artists to Istanbul, once a backwater on the exhibition circuit. In the spring it hosted rare ceramics and engravings from another 20th century master, Picasso.

At its latest show, the Pera highlights, as the most striking aspect, Warhol bold use of color.

Set against neon painted walls, garish portraits of Hollywood star John Wayne and Communist leader VladimirLenin adorn the gallery space.

A portfolio of 10 works from also prove what an expert colorist Uncle Andy, Canada Goose Outlet as Warhola calls him, was.

Warhol dropped the from his surname after finishing college and moving to New York because it was easier to say, said Warhola, an accomplished children book illustrator who began jacketstock drawing after seeing his uncle fanciful designs for shoe advertisements.

Warhola offered a link between Istanbul and Warhol, who was raised in the Byzantine Catholic faith and found early inspiration in the gold emblazoned canada goose clearance icons adorning St. John Chrysostom Church in Pittsburgh.

uncle interest in gold started in his illustration work Canada Goose Online from the and it led up through his pop art. It was from the icons that he used to see at church as a boy. He would stare at these wonderfully stylized figures from Byzantine art.

a way, it completes canada goose uk shop a circle to have his art end up back here in (the former Byzantine capital of) Istanbul shown in such a beautiful manner at this museum, he Canada Goose Jackets said.