Andy Warhol Company
When Najbrt began to study at the Secondary Graphic School (1977–1981), he slowly started to discover the world of art. He subscribed to the German magazine Art and sent artistic publications for export, which his father brought home from work at printing works, to foreign galleries in exchange for catalogues. He fell in love with abstract expressionism, and mainly the simplicity, colours and ambiguity of pop art. He painted like Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein, Oldenburg and Hockney – in Czechoslovakia of the normalization era it was not clear, whether he liked the art or the way Warhol enhanced the soup can as an illustrator and graphic designer. Warhol’s relativization of boundaries between free and applied arts, business and ideals, pertinence and banality and unquestionable graphic impressiveness have turned into a lifelong licence for Najbrt. He also incited the enthusiasm of his classmate Michal Cihlář for these, who at the end of the 1980s became an expert on Warhol’s East-European roots and one of the initiators of Warhol’s museum in Medzilaborce under Andy Warhol Company.
1990 Aleš Najbrt
Production estimated up to 14 days, the possibility of printing sizes S to XL
price 400 CZK