Andy Warhol. 1995 Poster of Birth of Venus (Blue & Green 1984). 70 cm x 100 cm. Copyright 1995 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Printed in Germany Achenbach Art Nr. 654.
 
Andy Warhol was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.  Birth of Venus is a portfolio of four screenprints of Botticelli’s goddess of Venus.  Warhol was known to obsess over the fame of celebrities of Hollywood. Therefore, he took a classical art piece of the past and redefined it in terms of the modern American idols,  by using his signature techniques of pop color combinations.   Although Botticelli’s original work of Venus has an elaborate background with her full body, Warhol choses to focus on her face and flowing hair.