American Pop artist Andy Warhol was one of the most significant and prolific figures of his time, his works exploring the connection between celebrity culture and artistic expression. Andy Warhol was born to Slovakian parents in in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. When he was eight years old, he contracted Chorea a neurological disease , which confined him to bed. To keep him entertained during his recovery, his mother gave him drawing lessons. Warhol developed a love for the medium, and he continued to draw in his spare time upon regaining his health.
Warhol went on to become an illustrator for Glamour magazine, which placed him as a leading figure in the s Pop Art movement. His aesthetic was a unique convergence of fine art mediums such as photography and drawing with highly commercialized components revolving around household brand and celebrity names. Garnering international attention for his unique productions, Warhol loved to maintain an element of personal and professional mystery, admitting that he never discussed his background and would invent a new persona every time he was asked.
The kismet of that early work it remains breathtaking would never have happened without instinct, taste, a sense of proportion and color his were perfect , and maybe above all guile.
As the exhibit reminds us, the best work is audacious, though now it comes with a feeling of irrevocable permanence. Soup cans, Marilyn, Liz, the Brillo boxes—at the Whitney, one canonical piece follows another, each delivering its little eidetic hit, as when you pass a celebrity on the street. The experience is powerful, disorienting, and over before it begins. I was in and out in half an hour. Despite its subtle and not-so-subtle ravishments, a Warhol canvas is expressively vacant.
The deadpan rigmarole was total. It functioned as an anti-elegy. It said that nothing was lost, that nothing of depth or value had been surrendered to the image. Special collections: Andy Warhol archived his clutter. What made Warhol thrilling in acquired a bitter aura in November The exhibit follows him from a super-devout Catholic family in the Slavic ghettos of Pittsburgh —a boy who was cripplingly shy, ill-assimilated, and often confined to a sickbed; a boy for whom thought, expression, and narrative were pain—as he turned himself into Andy Warhol.
What can this story tell us about our own anti-humanist swerve? Warhol was born Andrew Warhola he later dropped the a to seem less ethnic in , to an impoverished working-class family.
His parents had immigrated to the United States from Mikova , in what is now Slovakia. Thanks to the postal bonds set aside for him by his father who died when Andrew was 13 , Warhol was the first person in his family to attend college.
Cookies You can set your cookie preferences using the toggles below. The Pop Art movement Andy Warhold is, without doubt, the most significant figure in Pop Art and responsible for its rise. He changed the concept of being 'an artist' Andy Warhol communicated his art in all sorts of forms. His artistic techniques Andy Warhol popularised silk-screening as an artistic process. Create your free account today and explore our weekly auctions curated by our team of experts. Do you have a Catawiki account?
Sign in. Share this article. Commenting on celebrity fixation — his own and that of the public at large — Warhol observed, "more than anything people just want stars. In , however, Warhol's thriving career almost ended. He was shot by Valerie Solanas , an aspiring writer and radical feminist, on June 3. Warhol was seriously wounded in this attack.
Solanas had appeared in one of Warhol's films and was reportedly upset with him over his refusal to use a script she had written. After the shooting, Solanas was arrested and later pleaded guilty to the crime. Warhol spent weeks in a New York hospital recovering from his injuries and underwent several subsequent surgeries.
As a result of the injuries he sustained, he had to wear a surgical corset for the rest of his life. In the s, Warhol continued to explore other forms of media. Warhol also experimented extensively with video art, producing more than 60 films during his career. Some of his most famous films include Sleep , which depicts poet John Giorno sleeping for six hours, and Eat , which shows a man eating a mushroom for 45 minutes. In his later life, Warhol suffered from chronic issues with his gallbladder.
On February 20, , he was admitted to New York Hospital where his gallbladder was successfully removed and he seemed to be recovering. However, days later he suffered complications that resulted in sudden cardiac arrest and he died on February 22, , at the age of Thousands of people attended a memorial for the artist at St.
Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. Warhol's enigmatic personal life has been the subject of much debate.
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