IN HOMAGE TO XX CENTURY: FROM LENIN TO WARHOL, AND VICE VERSA

Abstract

This paper treats the social-philosophical content of the work of the contemporary art. For instance, we study a famous representative of pop-art, Andy Warhol (1928-1987), espe-cially his work ‘Lenin’. We try to prove that the work of Warhol was due no only to the post-industrial era, but also to a philosophical problematization of the fundamental prob-lems of ‘our contemporaneity’ (according to Ch. Baudelaire), independently of ideolo-gies. The art itself, in its current condition, sees deeply in the heart of humanity and surpasses every social critics. The modernity in the shadows of art is a paradox of tragedy of the human existence.