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Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987)
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Warhol Diaries by Pat Hackett (Editor)
Fascinating
tales from the horses mouth. Andy dictated his diary to Pat
Hackett at 9:30 am daily from wherever he was in the world. It
started out as an expense account diary, but it turned into
gossipy dish about the wild times in the Warhol world of the 70s
and 80s. One can almost hear Andy speaking the words in his low,
whiney voice. Some parts are very very funny, other parts make you
want to cry. Andy was a lost soul and it comes through very
clearly in his quest for acceptance. This book is large, trimmed
down from 20,000 original diary pages, but still too large for a
quick read. It almost takes extra time to read the diaries, a lot
cannot be absorbed all at once. It is best ingested and enjoyed in
small doses. It is really a delight and full of naughty fun --
Anonymous Review
 Andy
Warhol : Drawings 1942-1987 by Mark
Francis, Dieter Koepplin, Andy Warhol
Though he is chiefly
viewed as a monumental pop-art icon, Andy Warhol was truly a man
of many talents. But his component parts don't necessarily match
up. He made paintings, prints, sculptures, installations,
performances; he produced one of the greatest rock bands of all
time, the Velvet Underground; he directed films and wrote a novel
as well as a philosophical text. But over and above this massive
pile of work is a man who was unpredictable, enigmatic, and
impenetrable: ultimately, he would have others think, almost
inhuman.
Drawings are the key to many artists' souls.
They are personal, immediate, and limiting. Never more so than in
the case of Andy Warhol has a book of drawings so brought an
artist's humanity forward. He reveals his particular brand of
filial affection in an early work titled The Broad Gave Me My
Face but I Can Pick My Own Nose--a rebellious youth indeed.
His male nudes from the 1950s are passionate and erotic: here is
an artist in love with his subject. Warhol was a prolific drawer,
and draw he could. Don't forget: he was a very successful
commercial artist, an adman, long before his high-art career took
off.
Among these 248 color plates rest some wonderful
little drawings that stand entirely on their own merit, not their
creator's fame. The catalog Andy Warhol: Drawings, 1942-1987
offers rare insight into one of the century's strangest and most
interesting artists. --Loren E. Baldwin
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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
was established in 1987. In accordance with Andy Warhol's will,
its mission is the advancement of the visual arts.
The Foundation's objective is to foster
innovative artistic expression and the creative process by
encouraging and supporting cultural organizations that in turn,
directly or indirectly, support artists and their work. The
Foundation values the contribution these organizations make to
artists and audiences and to society as a whole by supporting,
exhibiting and interpreting a broad spectrum of contemporary
artistic practice.
The Foundation is focused primarily on
supporting work of a challenging and often experimental nature,
while noting that the interpretation of those terms may vary from
place to place and culture to culture. In this regard the
Foundation encourages curatorial research leading to new
scholarship in the field of contemporary art...
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Excerpt:
The American artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol
was born Andrew Warhola in 1928. There has for years been quite a
bit of confusion to where and when Andy Warhol was born, but
according to Andy's two older brothers and the birth certificate
that was filed in Pittsburgh in 1945, he was born on August 6th in
Pittsburgh. Whether or not this is the day he was born hasn't been
proved, but it was on this date he would celebrate his birthday.
However, there is no doubt that he died at 6:31 A.M. on Sunday,
February 22nd, 1987, at the New York Hospital after a gallbladder
operation. He is considered a founder and major figure of the POP
ART movement. A graduate of the Carnegie Institute of Technology
in 1949, he moved to New York City and gained success as a
commercial artist. He got his first break in August 1949, when
Glamour Magazine wanted him to illustrate a feature entitled "Success
is a Job in New York". But by accident the credit read
"Drawings by Andy Warhol" and that's how Andy dropped
the "a" in his last name. He continued doing ads and
illustrations and by 1955 he was the most successful and imitated
commercial artist in New York. In 1960 he produced the first of
his paintings depicting enlarged comic strip images - such as
Popeye and Superman
- initially for use in a window display. Warhol pioneered the
development of the process whereby an enlarged photographic image
is transferred to a silk screen that is then placed on a canvas
and inked from the back. It was this technique that enabled him to
produce the series of mass-media images - repetitive, yet with
slight variations - that he began in 1962. These, incorporating
such items as Campbell's
Soup cans, dollar bills, Coca-Cola bottles, and the faces of
celebrities, can be taken as comments on the banality, harshness,
and ambiguity of American culture...
This site has good links pages, and other fun
stuff on Warhol.
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In 1989 Dia entered into an historic agreement
with the Carnegie Institute and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the
Visual Arts, Inc. to form the Andy Warhol Museum, which opened in
Pittsburgh in May, 1994. Approximately nine hundred paintings,
hundreds of drawings, film, and vast archival material from every
phase of Warhol's career, drawn from the collections of Dia and
the Estate of Andy Warhol, form the core of the permanent
collection of this museum. The Museum's program combines fixed
installations of Warhol's work with changing exhibitions focused
on Warhol's art and legacy. The creation of this museum as a joint
venture of three organizations presents a model for the
possibilities of museum development in the future. In cooperation
with the Andy Warhol Museum, Dia will create an ongoing series of
Warhol exhibitions at Dia's West 22nd Street facilities in New
York, the first of which was The
Last Supper Paintings, which was on display through June
25, 1995 at 548 West 22nd Street.
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Dia exhibited one of Warhol's major late series:
the Last Supper paintings, at 548 West 22nd Street. Based on the
renowned painting by Leonardo da Vinci, this image was used by
Warhol at the end of his career for a remarkable group of
monumental paintings. Approximately half of the dozen vast
paintings, some up to forty feet in length, were made by
silkscreening the image, and the other half by outlining the image
as projected on the canvas. Very few of these monumental Last
Supper paintings, often considered Warhol's finest late works,
have been seen in United States museums. The initial exhibition
for which the series was devised was held in Milan in 1987. Dia
brought together five of the major monumental paintings from
collections in the U.S. and abroad, plus a group of related works
on paper.
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Andy Warhol's monumental series of 102
paintings, Shadows, constitutes the second exhibition in
Dia's new facility at 535 West 22nd Street. Acquired in 1979 for
Dia's permanent collection, these variously colored silk-screened
abstractions are hung edge-to-edge to fill the perimeter of the
gallery, in conformity with Warhol's original installation, which
he designated as "one painting with...parts."
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