10 Marilyns, 1967 Art Print
Warhol, Andy
52.9 in. x 22 in.
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Early life
Andy Warhol (Andrew Warhola) was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August 6, 1928. His parents, Ondrej and Julia Warhola was Carpatho-Rusyns who immigrated from what is now known as eastern Slovakia in the early 1920s. Andy was the youngest of three brothers.
He grew up during the Great Depression in the middle of a city industrial smoke. At an early age, he showed a wonderful talent for drawing. Due to an illness at the age of 6 years he was bedridden, her mother and her brothers entertained for hours, showing him how to draw, draw and print images. Andy likes to draw throughout his childhood. He attended primary school and Holmes Schenley High School and graduated from the age of 16 years in 1945, finishing 51st in his class of 278 graduates.
When Andy’s father died in 1942, his main wish was that Andy continued his studies at college. In 1945, Andy was accepted at Carnegie Institute of Technology (now known as Carnegie-Mellon University). It would be the first in his family ever to go beyond high school. He almost failed his first year, but a sympathetic teacher gave him another chance by allowing him to enroll in a summer course. Meanwhile, Andy has helped his older brother, Paul, fruit and vegetable peddler of a truck. Every opportunity was Andy that he would quickly sketch the field of customers.
These sketches not only helped to be readmitted, but they have also won him a small scholarship. During another summer break, he worked in a prestigious department store to create windows. There he was introduced to the world of high fashion, who was later influenced by his interest in becoming an illustrator. Carnegie Tech fed Andy to design acumen and the ability to create visually.
It quickly became popular among his classmates for its unique solutions. A teacher who was dissatisfied with his non-compliance stated that, “Andy Warhola was last on the list for nothing!” But another professor said he was “the only student who had a product to sell.” After his graduation in 1949, Andy and classmate and artist Philip Pearlstein mounted a night train to New York to pursue in the world of art.
1950 Illustrator
Although he started down the “a” in his name during his days at college in Pittsburgh, he has made it more official by signing his first commissioned artwork, Warhol. “For many years there has been much speculation about exactly why he changed his name, but it proved simply easier to say. With its portfolio of samples quickly got Andy illustration work of all the major fashion magazines, including Glamour, Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. Andy line “erased” the art and design beautiful took the eyes of many art directors. Throughout the 1950s, he was prolific in ads showing fashion , books, record albums and many other promotional items. He has also worked to create innovative ads for I. Miller, a popular shoe company. The world of advertising in the 1950s kept him well for his company in the world art of the 60s.
1960 Fine Artist
After a decade of enormous success as an illustrator, Warhol turned to the Fine Arts as a major challenge. In 1960, he bought a house with four floors and experimented with advertising and images of comic books as his art. The object was non-traditional and unique at the time. These early paintings Pop was a coward, unfinished look. Over the next few months, his painting style would evolve into being more flat and graphic. A uniform appearance, however, was that the images are known to everyone in everyday life.
In April 1961, Warhol had his first opportunity to show his art again. He designed a window for Bonwit Teller fashion’s Department Store, which uses five of his paintings as a backdrop for mannequins dressed. Throughout the 1961 Warhol continued to try different techniques and added to his repertoire of popular imagery. Campbell’s Soup has become his main subject and earned him his greatest fame. He and several other artists working on similar themes but in different styles were gathered in a new art movement called Pop Art.
On July 9.1962 Warhol had his first major exhibition at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles. Magazines like Time, Life and Newsweek published articles about the show. Today, the complete series of 32 paintings in this exhibition soup can be seen at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Also in 1962, Warhol discovered that the process of screen printing is the ideal method for repeat images. It was an extension of printing methods earlier that he had used his time as an illustrator. He worked tirelessly and completed his townhouse with many paintings. For painting larger works, he rented a studio and hired an assistant named Gerard Malanga.
Warhol continued to produce many major works. The early sixties was his most creative period. In 1963, he began to experiment as a filmmaker. He saw film as another way to push the limits of his creativity. Like his paintings, his “underground art films” made a splash in the art world by their audacity unconventional strange. The word “Superstar” was born with the women in his films such as Viva, ultraviolet, and Edie, his studio in downtown New York where he was just going became known as the “factory”.
In 1968, Andy Warhol shot by Valerie Solanas, an unstable person who visited the factory. He was in critical condition for several days, but is recovering slowly. The traumatic event has marked a major turning in the life of Warhol.
Post-Pop period 1970′s-1980
In subsequent years, the Factory has changed considerably. It was more open, free-flowing Mecca he had been in previous years. Gerard Malanga and Billy Name, two assistants studio major, left for other activities. With Paul Morrissey as director, the film became less experimental and more commercial. Warhol painting is less focused on the risks and did not shake the art world as he had in the 60s. Significant achievements during this period was the reinvention of Warhol’s portrait of the company, he became the main subject of his painting.
In 1969, Warhol also began a magazine called Interview, which has grown in circulation and owes much of his time. Warhol became a part of New York Set “Jet” and loved to attend meetings with celebrities. He has documented such events with his camera and tape recorder. Meanwhile, Warhol also said his most famous quote was “In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.”
Warhol was an avid collector all his life, see beauty and art in everyday objects such as cookie jars, toys, jewelry, watches, and antiques. He also collected Native American artifacts, equipment arcade at the beginning, including the wooden horses and the work of many other artists.
In 1987, Warhol was hospitalized to have an infection of the gall bladder removed. Although the routine operation was a success, he died mysteriously in the morning of February 22, 1987. He was 58. Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts was established from his estate in 1994, the Warhol Museum opened in its infancy of the city of Pittsburgh. It houses the largest collection of his works.
Andy Warhol was an artist, filmmaker, photographer, author, publisher, and a cultural icon. In the years since his untimely death, his importance has increased in stratospheric proportions. It is now considered one of the most important artists of the 20th century.
