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ANDY WARHOL (LIFE (He started working for the New york Times for…
ANDY WARHOL
LIFE
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,in 6th August 1928
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He studied commercial art at Carnegie Mellon University (that at the time was called Carnegie Institute of Technology)
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The emphasis on the artisanal and authentic was undermined by Warhol's work, principally because he used capitalist American culture's techniques of mass production
In mid-1960s in his studio in New York 'The Factory' he started to paint socialities and celebrities, and he worked also for magazines like Vogue and Glamour
In 'The Factory', he worked with a lot of celebrities like the band 'The Velvet Underground', Salvador Dalì, Eddie Segwick,and a lot of ''wannabes'',or rather people that want in vain to be famous (in Italian 'Vorrei ma non posso')
Warhol lived in troubled times, in fact, the radical feminist Valerie Solanas attempted at Warhol's life in 1968, and he risked to die but he survived
ART
ART TECHNIQUE
His principal technique was the silk screen, a commercial process that he used for fine art, and with this technique he produced more paintings than using an assistent
ARTWORKS
He painted a lot of things,for example paintings portray household products, 1960s icons in repetition or in slow motion, Campbell's soup cans, a singular banana, huge Brillo Boxes and a lot of other
EVOLUTION OF HIS ART
The director of the Andy Warhol Museum, Patrick Moore, says ''Andy Warhol's art was radically different from anything that came before it.''
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After, a ''shadow of darkness'' comes in Warhol's work, because he started to paint tragic images like destroyed soup cans or newspaper images of car crashes. But there's logic in his reasoning, in fact he thought that all things and famous people are going to fade.
From the attempted murder at his own life, Warhol put in his work horrific images, like car crashes.
According with Patrick Moore's words, in these images there's more power than beauty. In fact,if we see an accident on the road or if we see a celebrity in a place, it's difficult to look away, and for these reasons, in Warhol's paintings there's at the same time celebrity and power.