| Article on Andy Warhol |
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Artist, philosopher, impresario. He changed American culture. You can worship him for that. Or blame him.
In becoming an icon, it is useful to die young, and Andy Warhol managed this in the nick of time, at the age of fifty-eight, with the help of lifelong frailty and some negligent postoperative care at New York Hospital. Celebrities notoriously get distracted care, but in this case the nurse supposedly watching over him was reading the Bible and did not know her patient was a famous artist. Warhol, who coined the classic epigraph on modern fame — "In the future everybody will be world-famous for fifteen minutes" — became nothing if not famous; for a time he loomed like a Manhattan Elvis, and he donned a silver wig the way Mark Twain wore a white suit. Having risen from the abject obscurity of an immigrant coal miner's sickly, timorous youngest son, he elevated the lowliest, most obscure printed matter — nose-job ads, dance diagrams, tabloid photographs — into the glamour of museum art. His fifteen minutes are still stretching; there is an uncanny, unearthly beauty and rightness to his work, especially the gaudy silk-screens done from 1960 to 1964, of Marilyn Monroe, Campbell's Soup cans, green stamps, dollar bills, Coke bottles. He was a paradox: a painter who rarely touched paint to canvas and relied increasingly on the work of associates; an avant-garde painter who extolled money and boasted of his "business art"; an ill-educated dyslexic who was the wittiest image-maker since Duchamp and the wittiest voice in American art since Whistler. After his premature death, the Museum of Modern Art — a reluctant convert to his magic — gave him a retrospective exhibition, in 1989. At the back of the sumptuous catalog, we find these self-definitive aphorisms: If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface....There's nothing behind it. The reason I'm painting this way is that I want to be a machine. I like boring things. I like things to be exactly the same over and over again....Because the more you look at the same thing, the more the meaning goes away, and the better and emptier you feel. Never so empty, though, that he stopped working, as Duchamp did, in a final gesture of Dada subversion. Warhol's was a protest-free Dada; the machine, organized into a Factory, kept churning out product. A certain deadpan jubilation lurked in such productivity, though the later devices — camouflage blobs, coloring-book outlines, Rorschach blots, Catholic imagery with its kitsch value doubled — seemed clunky compared with the concentrated innocence of the early-Sixties breakthrough, when he so serenely demonstrated the rhetoric of action painting to be uncool. Warhol's movies, his books (like those of Gertrude Stein) need audiences with the patience of saints; the wall art conveys a funerary stillness and glitz in one electric glance, and the only saint needed in the room is St. Andy — St. Andy, the benign, wan apostle of surface and nullity, reconciling us to a cluttered world emptied of more than superficial content. His heritage is all around us, wherever reality feels like television and art like a silk-screened Weegee.
source:rollingstone.com
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| ANDY WARHOL COLORING BOOK |
[04 Dec 2008|04:34pm] |
The National Gallery of Scotland has a great assortment of coloring books for all ages, including this one from the famous Andy Warhol. “The large format 24 page book of Andy Warhol’s drawings of animals and various other pictures for colouring. Suitable for children and adults.”
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[31 Jul 2008|08:41pm] |
"Andy, Andy" by Urii Shabel'nikov at Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art
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| deeply superficial |
[08 Jul 2008|03:45am] |
This is not a critique of Andy Warhol.
Naturally most people scorn at the fashion industry, and may be rightly so, but probably without thinking deeply within themselves as to why they look down upon it. For me, it's because I feel that the fashion industry is very much authoritarian. Right at the top you have the magazine editors, who decide what kind of couture (clothes) will fill up the pages of the magazine. Then over the coming months, the designs filter onto the high street, usually taking the form of couture which range in prices from relatively cheap to obscenely expensive.
Now trying to understand this, and my obscure analogy with an authoritarian regime, what the fashion industry is essentially doing is telling us and coercing us into wearing the kind of clothes it's promoting and advertising. This kind of fashion isn't an art form, nor does it come anywhere close to it, and probably the only people who can be classed as artists are the coutures (fashion designers), who are also responsible, but only a few them, as it is their clothes that have decided the direction of the market over the years.
Personally, I think what we wear should essentially be a representation or a form of expression as to how we feel inside, so to make fashion less superficial and provide more meaning into the character of a person. I guess you could argue that, anything a person wears is a representation of the inner self because it's the inner self that decides what to wear in the first place. But even though a person chooses what they wear, clothes are usually chosen because either they 'look good', or because they're 'in fashion' - so everyone ends up blending in with everyone else—which is false because everyone's different.
There's nothing wrong with wearing clothes which 'look good', it's just that no-one would wear clothes just to 'look good' if it wasn't emphasized so much by the whole fashion industry and then inevitably the media industry. In essence, the fashion industry has over the years created the notion of wearing clothes to look good, and so resulting in the state we are in today, where the word beauty literally means 'how good you look' which also results in our fallibility to define beauty as conventionally aesthetically pleasing people.
The alternative; if there were no fashion shows setting the trends, and no fashion magazines telling us what to wear, then the clothes at the high street shops would be pretty generic, and so it would stimulate peoples fantastic sense of creativity to modify their own clothes for their own suitability. And so people would be genuine individuals, wearing beautiful clothes, and in the truest sense of the word, everyone would be beautiful.
As for the coutures (fashion designers), I don't think the problem of the fashion industry lies with them, because they're there the ones creating the clothes in the very first place; and to illustrate the point of the monopoly of the fashion industry, whichever designers' concepts are taken up by the high street fashion labels, the designers' who's concepts aren't taken up are in essence rejected, and so diversity is essentially inhibited.
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| Warhol and the Beats |
[04 Jul 2008|10:25pm] |
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I'm finding that there seems to be some kind of a similarity between the Beat Generation and Warhol. Both were somewhat alike in the sense that they had a different 'outlook on life' compared to the norm. They bought a different enthusiasm which society couldn't and wouldn't handle. Being so much within 'society' means that true expression and the chance to develop your own take on life never takes place. 'Society' forces everyone to adhere to everybody else, to be 'normal', and then claims this as 'freedom' and tells us of 'diversity' which exists in our society. The Beat Genration and Warhol existed quite seperate from society; allowing them to develop and nurture ideas and live in 'harmony'—in the sense that they could hold their own perspectives and ideas without the ideals and niceties of life being forced onto them by 'society'. You would say that the Beat Generation existed within the framework of society—a lot of what they did was together and within the boundaries of the 'norms' set by 'society'. But when explored, you discover they didn't. They partied and socialised not primarily for partying's sake, but to share and explore ideas, and look for new experiences by being with other people. Because they were very much aware of the aforementioned things, their whole intention was different, they were very much outside of 'society'. I guess this is also true in Warhol's case. You see, I don't think that the other people within Warhol's group had the same outlook or even the same ideas as Warhol himself, and I also think that the people around Warhol probably garnered an idea about him and what he was and what he was doing, but I somehow think they didn't really know him. Warhol somehow seems that he was very much his own, and no-one really understood him, and so he played along to peoples perceptions of whatever they thought of him.
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| Warhol |
[04 Jul 2008|12:31pm] |
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I really want to hate him, but I can't. I've seen videos of him, and interviews, and I really want to hate him, but I can't. I have a burning desire to hate him, I really do, but i can't. From what I see, I think he's marvellous. He somehow represents a lot of the 'superficiality' surrounding the modern era, but with him, this superficiality isn't really superficiality, it's some sort of deepness and depth. Yet when a lot of people emulate, idolize or even show deep admiration for him, more often than not, it's superficiality. I think the only way to (truly) understand him and his work is not to show any kind of affection and admiration for him and his work, and to view them with a sceptical eye, as to understand the 'Warhol' behind the work.
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| Does anyone know... ? |
[28 May 2008|08:35pm] |
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Does anyone know where I might be able to find these watches, from 15minutesof.com, for maybe a cheaper price? Or, if you know where I can find watches that are similar.
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| Which filmic Warhol do you prefer? |
[03 May 2008|01:37pm] |
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A simple poll: which filmic Warhol do you prefer?
I opted not to include Bowie-Warhol for the obvious reason that it would have made the poll practically superfluous.
Poll #1181947 All my Warhols
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: AllWhich Warhol most pleases you?
Original posting here.
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| I just.. |
[02 Apr 2008|07:18pm] |
I just bought this amazing book from this record/book store.
It is an original copy of "a" by Andy Warhol.
ORIGINAL!!
One of three books written by Warhol?
copy right 1968 by Andy Warhol.
First Printing
Many copies of "a" have been made in the past decade.
I just wonder how much does this worth? I got it for 12.50 from the owner.
It doesn't have a price printed on the book.
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[01 Apr 2008|04:31pm] |
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i went to pittsburgh this weekend and visited the museum, have lovely pictures and info if anyone is interested. comment and ill hit it up :)
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| 366 days of andy warhol!! |
[11 Feb 2008|07:40pm] |
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I just thought members of the community would appreciate this.
For the official Andy Warhol admirer...
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[09 Feb 2008|11:24pm] |
Does anyone happen to have a larger image of this picture of Andy?
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| New icons! |
[10 Feb 2008|12:38am] |
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(7) Sean Lennon
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+ Comment and let me know which one(s) you are taking
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X-posted everywhere. Sowwy!
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| Warhol card |
[09 Feb 2008|01:55pm] |
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I defy you to tell me you've ever seen a cooler greeting card than this:
 
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| "Factory Girl" recap |
[30 Jan 2008|08:40am] |
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Please feel free to check out my humorous recap of the freakishly awful Warhol/Sedgwick flick Factory Girl over at the Agony Booth.
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[03 Jan 2008|03:41pm] |
ANDY WARHOL. PORTRAITS. Edited by Tony Shafrazi [2007]
Цена: 1280 руб.
Цена Amazon.co.uk: J34 (~ 1700 руб.) со стандартной доставкой. Но книга весит почти 2, 5 кг, поэтому сумма у Амазона, скорее всего,будет выше.
Формат: 30 х 26 х 4 см.
Объем: 304 стр.
Книга в супер-обложке.
Состояние: При транспортировке на супер-обложке образовался малозаметный сантиметровый надрыв рядом с корешком. В остальном книга в идеальном состоянии, следов чтения нет (новая).
Представлены работы участвовавшие в выставке 2005 г. в галерее редактора (Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, 2005) и почти равное количество портретов не попавших в 2005м на стены галереи. Исчерпывающая коллекция, великолепная полиграфия.
Книга находится в Санкт-Петербурге. Забрать можно в районе ст.м. Сенная Площадь/ Садовая.
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| tattoo. |
[19 Dec 2007|09:40pm] |
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from the book 365 takes, there should be the piece called "so" on page 121. does anyone have a visual of this (even a scan) they could share? i'd like to get it tattooed, but i can't find the image online and do not actually own the book.
any help would be greatly appreciated.
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[23 Nov 2007|02:01pm] |
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| stars |
[19 Sep 2007|11:43am] |
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I'm looking to get a tat. I want a couple stars on my hip. each star meaning something different. i was wondering if Warhol ever did any art with stars in them? does anybody have pictures?
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[14 Sep 2007|06:17pm] |
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i know those lips! i want that shirt!
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[12 Sep 2007|04:51pm] |
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could anyone help me locate a large image of andy's blue cat that says "purr" everywhere? everything i come across is too small for what i need it for.
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[23 Aug 2007|07:48am] |
hi ya!
does anyone of youn know where to get a copy of Andy Warhol's "Kitchen" on DVD?
Thanks!
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| Factory Girl |
[20 Aug 2007|11:07am] |
I watched Factory Girl this weekend. It was a lot better than the critics let on. I was very surprised with the level of the story. I have seen countless movies with Warhol characters in them. Guy Pierce plays Warhol in this rendition, and actually brings a sexual depth to Warhol that he doesn’t have in any other film. In all of the others I have seen he is quite A sexual. Whereas in this film he seems like a jealous lover when it comes to Edie, tho we know Andy as pretty much a gay man.
I was wrecked by this film when it was over. I mean bawling like a baby. And I will tell you why. Several reasons.
~~~~SPOILERS~~~~~~~
In the end you see Edie looking like a flower child in a treatment facility saying that she is doing well, and then it says she dies of an overdose. Sad. The girl went through much trauma, and in a time when you just didn’t deal with issues of abuse and incest especially she had to pretty much live with it. She acted out a lot because of it which was tragic.
The thing that I think really got to me was the depiction of Andy. There had always been rumors about how evil the whole factory thing was. That they weren’t nice people and pretty much used people and spit them out. I remember in Basquait how the theme came up repeatedly how Andy uses people. Jean Michel came after Edie, so it was common knowledge at that point. Had Andy lived who knows what he and Jeans relationship would have evolved into or out of? In I Shot Andy Warhol, you see the systematic dismissal of Valerie Solanis, which eventually leads to he retaliation and Andy being shot. At that point, having seen this film when it came out many years ago now, you see Andy bleeding on the floor and you are upset. That terrible woman, she is crazy! But having seen Factory Girl now; I see where she was coming from. When she says “He is evil”, I get it now. Not that there is any justification for violence on another human being. Valarie was a mentally ill person too. But didn’t Andy ever think “I better slow my roll, I am messing with someone who ain’t got all the marbles.”? The way he treated Edie when she didn’t bend to his will, and the way he acted when she was dating Bob Dylan, was very shocking and unexpected. Andy was making a very good living from his paintings and wouldn’t give her any money for the work she had done in multiple projects for him. Oh I take that back, he gave her an entire $50 for her troubles. I thought WHAT AN ASSHOLE!!! Then he avoids her completely. Then he replaces her with a look alike, and doesn’t care how it looks. Granted you don’t want to hand a junkie a wad of cash, I mean what if they die of an overdose the next day. But you can go to her landlord and pay her rent. Buy her food for the fridge. Be human at least.
There is a conversation that Edie and Andy have on the phone in the film where they talk about what they want people to say when they die. Andy says “I hope I die first because I would be (destroyed) if you died first.” Then they re created an interview after Edie’s death where he is unemotional and claims to have “Barely knew her.” I was FLOORED!
They re created the interview, and so he actually said this at some point. My idea of him was shattered in that moment. So it was like finding out there was no Santa Claus for me. I have been a fan of his since I was a child. I guess I had a fluffy view of him all this time and it all came crashing down. I cried and cried. I was really wrecked.
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| More floor fun |
[14 Aug 2007|10:33pm] |
First off, thanks to everyone for their help! I've definitely gotten some great ideas from you all for my floor.
Secondly, I have 24 frames that I need to fill with photos and pictures, so what I'm asking (begging) for are pictures of your favorite Silver Factory-era photos and artwork. If you could post them as a reply to this entry, that would be AMAZING!
I'll be sure to post the final result of my floor!
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| Silver Factory |
[09 Aug 2007|12:09am] |
So I'm an RA this year and I'm in charge of a community that's arts-oriented and I decided today that my floor theme is going to be the Silver Factory. So far, I'm putting tin-foil on the doors into the hall and am going to frame pictures of Warhol's work (including blowing up the above photo and making it a focal point) and put them in silver frames up and down the hall, but I'm wondering, what else should I do to make my hall look Factory-ish?
Thanks for any ideas!
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[05 Aug 2007|01:51pm] |
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If any of you are interested, there is someone auctioning off original 35mm negatives with photos of Ondine, by a Pittsburgh photographer named Michael Chikiris. Click here to see the auction. They're starting at $99.99. It's a really neat thing to have, and I don't see how they could not get more valuable over time.
The same person was selling negatives with Andy actually in them (here). I watched the auction for three days (I literally refreshed the page every minute or so), put in a bid of $120 (which was a big investment for me, a poor little art student that paints shoes for a living) and was winning the auction until the last 10 seconds. Someone jumped in and beat me, and they got the negatives for $122.50. I wanted to die.
Anyway, I don't have the money to bid on the Ondine set (I would've spent it on the Andy ones, just 'cause Andy was in them, duh) but maybe one of you will be interested. Let me know if one of you wins it, I'd love to buy a print from you if you're willing to make one from the negs.
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[20 Jul 2007|09:11pm] |
I bought this Warhol watch at Nordstrom Rack today. It was marked down from $96 to $37. Check your local N.R. for one.
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| Warhol Museum |
[07 Jul 2007|10:59pm] |
In August I shall make my pilgrimage to the Warhol Museum.
Anything major I should put on the to-do list?
Seeing as this will be my first time there, I'd like input & opinions.
Also information about the store.
How much cash should I bring for souvenirs?
Thanks a lot!
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[06 Jul 2007|11:40pm] |
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| Attire Attire |
[05 Jul 2007|03:39pm] |
Ive noticed that this has yet to be posted...
...and I'm a little surprised...
I found these shoes a few months ago...
These are the Resi Warhols by Royal Elastics.
They can be found here along with other styles as well.
...I was also curious as to what everyone thinks about all the new Andy Warhol clothing that has been hitting stores...
...some of which can be found at Revolve.
I for the most part am not toooo fond of the clothing so far...
Thumbs up!!?
Thumbs down!!?
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[04 Jul 2007|01:17pm] |
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Does anyone have any info on Warhol stuff to do in New York City? My friend says one of his studios is open for viewing but I can't find any information on it. Is there a website I could look at, or do any native New-Yorkers know off the top of their head?
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| Paris Hilton |
[03 Jul 2007|11:53am] |
Andy Warhol would have loved Paris Hilton.
Your thoughts on this?
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