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Biographical Information:
Andy Warhol was born in 1928 in Pennsylvania and died in 1987 in New York City. He first worked for a year as an illustrator for Glamour Magazine after arriving in New York City in 1949 and subsequently as a commercial artist. From 1957 onwards he only concentrated and produced his own work. His first successful work consisted of a sculpture in the form of Campbell's soup cans and Brillo boxes, and screenprinted paintings of contemporary icons like Elvis Presley and Jackie Kennedy, which he made with the help of his assistants in his "Factory", as his large studio was called. Warhol concentrated on subjects derived from advertising and commercial products like Coca-Cola bottles, Campbell's soup cans and Brillo cartons. His most characteristic manner was repetition within a grid: endless rows of consumer products, literally presented and arranged as they might be on a supermarket shelf or an assembly line. Later on he turned to the examination of contemporary American folk heroes and glamorous movie stars (like Elvis Presley, Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe.From 1962 onwards he used a mechanical photo silk-screen process for his pictures. After representing scenes of destruction or disasters taken from press photographs, Warhol concentrated on making films and on the promotion of his rock band "The Velvet Underground". Warhol's style of film making has had a huge effect on commercial cinema. While European "New Wave" movies had failed to change Hollywood techniques, he succeeded to influence the modern American cinema by adopting casual styles of acting , wandering camera movements and passages of apparently trivial conversation.
He increasingly made himself and his friends the subject of his art and achieved cult status in New York City, especially after he nearly died in 1968 from gunshot wounds inflicted by a woman declaring herself the sole member of S.C.U. M. ( the Society for Cutting Up Men).
Throughout the 1970s Warhol worked primarily as a society portraitist and made loudly colored silk-screen paintings of friends, celebrities and himself.
Although Pop Art started as a reaction against the success and intellectual seriousness of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Artists found themselves quickly as successful and wealthy as their predecessors and most of them settled into a comfortable living making innumerable versions of their successful styles. But Andy Warhol was an exception. He was a sophisticated and analytical thinker, aware of the pressures of
success. He chose to make success and "being an institution" his art form. Art had been manipulated by the art world, the critics, dealers and collectors for a long time; now Warhol was going to use them as his canvas.
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Museum Resources:
Andy Warhol Museum
Greenville County Museum of Art
Milwaukee Art Museum
Museum für Neue Kunst | ZKM Karlsruhe
Tate Modern
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Commercial Resources:
A Doubletake Gallery - Quality Fine Art Consignments
A Doubletake Gallery - Quality Fine Art Consignments
A-1 ArtWise International and FINE ART HOTLINE
Amuseum Gallery - A Virtual Museum of Art, Antiques, and Collectibles
Art Beat Online Gallery
Arte Visual
ArtGiftsDirect.com
ARTWISE INTERNATIONAL and FINE ART HOTLINE
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Gagosian Gallery
Galgano Gallery
Greg Kucera Gallery
Guelman Gallery
J AND I ART DEALERS
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Popart.com
SoBo/South Boston Company
VERED GALLERY
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Warhol Superstars
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Figurative Art at the End of the Century
The Architecture of Reassurance - Designing the Disney Theme Parks
The Warhol Look/Glamour Style Fashion
Fame After Photography
Photographs by Nadar and Warhol
Joseph Beuys: The Secret Block for a Secret Person in
Andy Warhol Museum's Community Forums On line
Andy Warhol Drawings: 1942-1986
11th Annual Eldredge Prize Awarded for
New Interpretation of 1960s American Art
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Related Information:
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Artful Enterprises Joint Venture
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