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"Luminous Art & Design :: Art & Artists"
Andy Warhol :: Biography and Books"
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Information and facts all about Andy Warhol(shot by revolver) and his pop art movement, Campbell soupe can, pictures, handbags. Order art workbooks, magazines subscriptions online directly from wholesaler at discount wholesale price.
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Andy Warhol born August 6, 1928 in Soho Pennsylvania a superb of Pittsburgh, to Czechoslovakian parents was a modern artist of photo, film, screen prints, paintings and sculptures. Andy was the youngest of three boys. His father who was working in construction died when he was just thirteen years old.
Warhol went to Carnegie Institute of Technology, now Carnegie Mellon University. After graduating he moved to New York were his career flourished. His first work appeared in Glamour Magazine in 1949. He was known to be homosexual and some of his work reflected his lifestyle. Drawings in the 1950’s depicted good looking young men portraying homosexual undertones. He made countless sketches and films with male subjects shown as objects of desire. Because of the nature of his work in that era he didn’t receive any awards for this unheard of style.
In the 1960’s he became well known for his images of Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Elizabeth Taylor and Greta Garbo. Warhol started his “Death in America” theme in 1963 featuring gruesome car crashes, morbid suicides, food poisonings, the famous electric chair and the hydrogen bomb. He preferred “found” photos acquired by his friends who had access to magazine and wire service photo files. Friends were advised to find macabre images of calamities. At the time as one can imagine there were few buyers of these images, which were sometimes on huge scales in vivid colors with his signature repetitive patterns. There were approximately 150 death and disaster paintings.
People considered Andy to have a bizarre personality. He wore blond and silver-grey wigs. He had a love of cats which images of them can be found throughout his work. Described as a workaholic and very ambitious he was a different personality constantly striving to create something new and exciting in the art world. Famous quotes are well known from him. “Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art of all”
In 1964 the studio he worked from was painted silver and well know as the “Factory”. It was definitely the place to party in New York and well known to society’s elite. The Velvet Underground then an upcoming rock band was featured in a traveling show he started called the Exploding Plastic Inevitable. During this time Andy opened up a club called the Gymnasium. It featured exercise equipment on the dance floor. Although creative it was short lived.
Valerie Solana’s, a writer who appeared in Warhol’s 1967 film (I, A Man) came into his studio and shot Warhol three times in the chest. After a five hour operation he started his recovery nothing short of a miracle itself considering the severity of his wounds. Solana’s turned herself in and was sent to a mental institute and later given a three year sentence. During Andy’s recuperation time he painted a large series of portraits of Happy Rockefeller, the wife of the then governor of New York.
Jackie Kennedy Onassis and Truman Capote became important subjects to Warhol in the 1970’s. Much time was spent socializing with them along with using them for art subjects. Warhol was a regular at the ever popular Studio 54 disco club. During this time he started experimenting with unusual even unheard of techniques. One such experiment he was known to use human urine on metallic paint covered canvas, this created chemical reactions and one of a kind abstract shapes. Known for sometimes odd behavior he started creating time capsules in 1974 with random items from his everyday life. In the end they numbered to about 600 capsules.
Mid 1980’s Warhol had television shows, (Andy Warhol’s Fifteen Minutes and Andy Warhol T.V.). They aired nationally on the ever popular MTV and on Madison Square Garden cable television in New York. He had public association with young male art stars like Keith Haring and Jean Michel Basquiat. Basquiat kept a friendship and creative partnership resulting in collaborative paintings and portraits.
Due to complications following a gall bladder removal surgery Andy Warhol died in New York City on February 22, 1987. During his career he produced over 2,000 various works of art and made an everlasting imprint on the history of modern art in many different formats. In 1988 his enormous estate of art and antiques raised twenty million dollars for The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts.
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