Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol (born Andrew Warhola) started as a commercial illustrator and contributed to fashion magazines in the 1950s.

In the 1960s he rose to fame as a pioneer of Pop Art with paintings of American products such as the Campbell soup cans and Coca Cola. He also painted portraits of icons such as Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor.

He switched to silk screen prints to create "art" of mass-produced items but also to mass produce the art itself.

Two of his most famous silk screens are the images of Che Guevara, the latin american guerrilla revolutionary and film star Marilyn Monroe.

Hand creating this style of image can be done using the techniques described in the colour derivation photos discussed here a while back. But there is a free piece of Windows software that you can use to create your own Warhol-type images.

The link to the trial version of Andy is here and it requires only that you unzip the package onto your hard drive. There is no installation as such. Just double click the executable and it runs.

Use the File - Open dialogue or the Open icon to access your hard disk drive and locate an image to load. If your image is much over 2000 pixels wide, you will be asked if you want to reduce the size; say yes and the final image is about 2000 pixels in its biggest dimension.


Now just click on the Che button and voila - instant Andy Warhol "Che" styling on your photo. You can turn off various colour combinations if you don't like them with the check marks underneath each. If you want to try the "Marilyn" colour styling, click on the Marilyn button. By changing the width and height you can change the number of images across and vertically.


Don't restrict yourself to portraits. This works well with many landscapes as well.


Here is a photo of the Colliseum in Rome give the "Che" treatment.


p.s. The creator of the Andy Warhol Replicator has a much newer more powerful editor available - the Pop Art Studio. My only problem with it is the €49 price tag (about $65) which seems a little pricy for casual use.