Obsessed with celebrity, consumer culture, and mechanical reproduction, Pop artist Andy Warhol created some of the most iconic images of the 20th century. He drew extensively on pop culture and everyday themes in his most famous works: for example, his 32 Campbell's soup cans, Brillo cushion box sculptures, and portraits of Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor. Rejecting the then-dominant modes of painting and engraving, Warhol employed silkscreen prints to achieve his characteristic hard edges and flat areas of color. The artist mentored Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat and continues to influence contemporary art around the world: his provocative successors include Richard Prince, Takashi Murakami and Jeff Koons. Warhol has exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Modern and the Pompidou Center, among other institutions. His works have sold at auction for more than $100 million.