The cover art for Johnny Griffin's album "The Congregation" was by an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as what?
The Congregation (Johnny Griffin album) The Congregation is an album by American tenor saxophonist Johnny Griffin recorded in 1957 and released on the Blue Note label. It would be his last recording for the label. The cover art was designed by Andy Warhol.
Contemporary realism The contemporary realism movement is a North American style of painting which came into existence c. 1960s and early 1970s. Featuring a straightforward approach to representation practiced by artists such as Philip Pearlstein, Alex Katz, Jack Beal and Neil Welliver. The movement refers to figurative art works created in a natural yet highly objective style. Today the term Contemporary Realism encompasses all post-1970 sculptors and painters whose discipline is representational art, where the object is to portray the "real" and not the "ideal".