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Ads by Google Related Topics Andy Warhol      Andy Warhol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American painter, filmmaker, publisher, actor, and a major figure in the Pop Art movement. Warhol's house was filled to the brim with his collected art, artifacts, and Americana. Warhol later did a series of his old works in negative, as a comment on his own position as an artist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol   (4483 words)      MSN Encarta - Andy Warhol Andy Warhol (1928-1987), American painter, motion-picture director and producer, and publisher, who was a leader of the pop art movement, which based artwork on images taken from mass, or popular, culture. Warhol’s publications include The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again (1975) and America (1985), a collection of his scathing photographs of contemporary life in the United States. Warhol is considered one of the most important American artists of the 20th century. http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761554847/Andy_Warhol.html   (390 words)      Andy Warhol Andy Warhol was rapidly gaining a solid reputation as a reliable artist with a good work ethic, no doubt based on the fact that he would often burn the midnight oil to present clients with multiple versions for each assignment. Andy was soon ready to have his first major showing; his "15 Drawings Based on the Writings of Truman Capote", opened at the Hugo Gallery in New York, and the exhibit was a great success, and the struggling artist would not only earn more praise, but also gain substantial profits from selling his pieces. Andy's mother missed her son, and decided to move to New York in order to be closer to him. http://www.famouspainter.com/andy.htm   (930 words)      Andy Warhol Posters Warhol became famous in his own lifetime for his pop art and remains a legend today, though many are unaware of the magnitude and the diversity of his work. Andy Warhol is one of the most important artists of this century. Andy did not limit his talents to his print art. http://www.andywarholposters.org   (334 words)      The Warhol - Collections The Andy Warhol Museum's permanent collection is comprised of more than 12,000 works of art by Warhol including paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, film, videotapes, and an extensive archives that consists of ephemera, records, source material for works of art, and other documents of the artist's life. The Archives of The Andy Warhol Museum is maintained for the general public and scholars and is the primary resource on the artist and the period during which he worked. The art collection of The Andy Warhol Museum includes over 8,000 works in all media-paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, and installation. http://www.warhol.org/collections   (271 words)      ANDY WARHOL * Exhibits The Andy Warhol Permanent Exhibition consist of the paintings both lent to the Museum by the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts in New York and owened by the Museum. This composition together with Ultra Violet's monumental painting composition Andy and Ultra are exhibited in one of the Museum's entrance halls. The exhibition is composed mainly of the objects lent by the Protivnak and Bezek families. http://www.region.sk/warhol/exhibits.html   (1188 words)      Andy Warhol Warhol was one of the first artists to understand the importance of the mass media. Georg Frei, an expert on Warhol and the co-editor of his catalogue raisonné, worked as a guest curator for the exhibition. When Warhol's idea for a substitution, a painting with panels of a public official named Robert Moses, was not accepted, Andy had his work painted over in silver. http://www.cosmopolis.ch/english/cosmo12/warhol.htm   (1409 words)      American Masters . Andy Warhol PBS His name was Andy Warhol, and he changed the nature of art forever. For many, Warhol was a work of art in himself, reflecting back the basic desires of an consumerist American culture. What remains certain is that during the sixty years of whirlwind and mystery that was Andy Warhol's life, the art world (and the world at large) became a more fun and interesting place. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/warhol_a.html   (930 words)      Andy Warhol Online Andy Warhol at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 2 works by Andy Warhol Andy Warhol at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Gemini G.E.L. prints Andy Warhol at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C. Jamie Wyeth, drawing, 1976 http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/warhol_andy.html   (912 words)      Guggenheim Collection - Artist - Warhol - Biography Warhol’s new painting was exhibited for the first time in 1962, initially at the Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, then in a solo exhibition at the Stable Gallery, New York. By the early 1960s, Warhol began to paint comic-strip characters and images derived from advertisements; this work was characterized by repetition of banal subjects such as Coca-Cola bottles and soup cans. He also became interested in writing: his autobiography, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again), was published in 1975, and The Factory published Interview magazine. http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_bio_163.html   (315 words)      Andy Warhol Biography The quintessence of Andy Warhol art was to remove the difference between fine arts and the commercial arts used for magazine illustrations, comic books, record albums or advertising campaigns. Warhol was obsessed by the ambition to become famous and wealthy. In 1952 Andy Warhol had his first one-man show exhibition at the Hugo Gallery in New York. http://www.artelino.com/articles/andy_warhol.asp   (795 words)      Andy Warhol Biography - Bio Andy Warhol had the privilege of working with the rock band The Velvet Underground in 1965. This inspiring artist and filmmaker is considered a founder and a major figure of the pop art movement. By 1955 Andy Warhol had almost all of New York copying his work. http://www.warhols.com/bio.html   (348 words)      eyestorm - Andy Warhol Arguably the most important artist of the 20th Century, Warhol's work has been collected by nearly every major art museum in the world, and a vast institution in the town of his birth is solely dedicated to his work: The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, USA. Although Andy Warhol died in 1987, he remains the most contemporary of artists. Warhol's apparently vacant gaze at what he called 'all the great modern things' - soup cans, Marilyn, car crashes - still makes his paintings, films and photographs utterly provocative. http://www.eyestorm.com/artists/ar1_artist_profile.asp?artist_id=116   (88 words)      St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Andy Warhol Andy Warhol was the most renowned Pop artist in the 1960s and, more generally, one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. Warhol's position as the leading Pop artist was consolidated in 1962 at the seminal "New Realists" exhibition at the Sidney Janis Gallery in New York. In 1960, the year Warhol began to paint&; he made some of the earliest works that could be called Pop Art. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419201275   (358 words)      Warhol, Andy on Encyclopedia.com Andy WARHOL with the American painter Robert INDIANA (left) in the Warhol studio. Intel's ArtMuseum.net immerses visitors in Andy Warhol's art and life; Unique web-only exhibit organized by the Andy Warhol Museum in collaboration with ArtMuseum.net. The Andy Warhol Museum, which exhibits many of his works, opened in Pittsburgh in 1994. http://encyclopedia.infonautics.com/html/W/Warhol-A1.asp   (1103 words)      afterimage: Screenprints of Andy Warhol Director's essay Warhol really had three careers: first he was a commercial artist from 1949 to 1960, which brought him considerable success; second, he became a pop artist from 1960 to 1968, and developed his ‘Factory&; studio and his fame; third, he was a successful business artist from 1968 until his death in 1987. Warhol made 28 screenprints of his Elvis, all executed in black paint on a silver-painted canvas. Andy Warhol, in his 1975 publication, The philosophy of Andy Warhol, claimed: ‘in the future, everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes’. http://www.nga.gov.au/warhol/Default.cfm   (1556 words)      Andy Warhol's possession obsession csmonitor.com Warhol also understood consumerism, which his art appeared to reflect as both ironic and glorious – though Fremont points out that his art wasn't sarcastic, but "an appreciation of American culture." And he was as much consumer as commentator. Warhol also was involved with rock music (he sponsored the influential '60s New York band The Velvet Underground), and was a photographer, filmmaker, author, model, TV personality (on MTV's "Andy Warhol's 15 Minutes"), social magnet (at his famed studio The Factory), socialite (he was a Studio 54 regular), and cultural voyeur. Warhol himself never mentioned the idea of creating a museum for his works or his collections. http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0329/p13s02-alar.html   (1250 words)      ANDY WARHOL 1931 A Warhol portrait is not only a portrait of the subject but also one of the artist himself who, through his highly individual style and masterly manipulation of the media, made a significant contribution to this genre, in which he documented the leading figures of his day. In this century, the Pop Art portraits of Andy Warhol have preserved the images of leading contemporary figures; except that here, the artist has gone further, extending the discourse to challenge notions of fame and identity in modern society. The use of photo-silkscreen allowed Warhol to transfer single, double, or multiple images onto the support, repeating the single photograph or series of views, again and again, reiterating his theme and presenting his subject in new ways. http://www.butlerart.com/pc_book/pages/andy_warhol_1931.htm   (617 words)      Andy Warhol - Wikipedia Mitarbeiter, Protagonisten und „Superstars“ aus Warhols Umfeld (Auswahl) Die Kunst des Andy Warhol Poster, Reproduktionen, seine Philosophie und andere Informationsquellen] durch seine Filmleidenschaft), versuchte Warhol zunächst Bilder aus Kinomagazinen per Hand abzuzeichnen. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol   (2891 words)      Andy Warhol's Marilyn Prints Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was a key figure in Pop Art, an art movement that emerged in America and elsewhere in the 1950s to become prominent over the next two decades. The screen is prepared using a photographic process, and then different color inks are printed using a rubber squeegee to press the paint onto the painting through the screen. Using photo-stencils in screen-printing, Warhol uses photographic images for his screenprints. http://webexhibits.org/colorart/marilyns.html   (366 words)      Bright Lights Film Journal Decamping with Andy Warhol Warhol's disengagement with an art form whose course he radically altered is legendary; the image of a permanently distracted Andy turning on a camera, corralling some of his "superstars" to primp and prance in front of it, then wandering off on some new tangent seems irrefutable. Her response to a string of indignities — treacherous husbands, rude shopgirls, threatening surgeons — is as stoic as Margaret Dumont's to one of Groucho's importunities, and she sometimes casually turns these assaults to her advantage, as when she forces one of her tormentors (Woronov) to hold the mirror while she primps. The Whitney Museum and New York MOMA's restoration of Andy Warhol's staggering film legacy — 4,000 individual works at last count — is making it possible to finally start to assess the Popmeister's contribution to cinema. http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/25/warhol.html   (1080 words)      Andy Warhol Artist and Filmmaker Warhol first applied his silkscreen techniques as a commercial artist in the 1950s. This comprehensive overview of Warhol's works includes an analysis of his art in the context of his life and times. Warhol's pre-Pop drawings and paintings are the basis for this book. http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/95aug/warhol.html   (1165 words)      Andy Warhol About Face Portraiture became a central theme in Andy Warhol's art. If one looks at one of his portraits, one does not first think of it as a painting, but as a Warhol. He was able to reverse values, forms, conventions and attitudes in his art. http://www.cosmopolis.ch/english/cosmo5/warhol.htm   (504 words)      Andy Warhol Andy has been described as the father of Pop Art, yet was the most destructive force against it. From Art to Television to Music, Andy was somehow involved. Andy had an idea to produce thousands and thousands of paintings in a single month. http://www.msu.edu/user/stewa134/warhol.htm   (857 words)      WWW Pop Art: Andy Warhol In the same year Joseph Beuys by Andy Warhol was shown at the Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, he showed Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century at the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, and at the Jewish Museum, New York, and POPism, The Warhol '60s was published. In 1981 the exhibition Andy Warhol - Paintings 1961-1968 was shown at the Kestner-Gesselschaft, Hanover, and at the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich. The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, showed The Portraits of the 70s in 1979. http://www.fi.muni.cz/~toms/PopArt/Biographies/warhol.html   (745 words)      Andy Warhol (Getty Museum) Thus Andy Warhol described himself, being deliberately enigmatic with regard to the depth of his talent. Throughout the 1960s, his New York City studio, the Factory, was a fertile creative ground for a disparate group of artists and hangers-on. He derived his subject matter from popular culture and established himself as a prime mover in the Pop Art movement with his paintings of Campbell's Soup cans. http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=1625&page=1   (204 words)      Andy Warhol: The Last Supper Paintings Based on the renowned painting by Leonardo da Vinci, this image was used by Warhol at the end of his career for a remarkable group of monumental paintings. Approximately half of the dozen vast paintings, some up to forty feet in length, were made by silkscreening the image, and the other half by outlining the image as projected on the canvas. Dia exhibited one of Warhol's major late series: the Last Supper paintings, at 548 West 22nd Street. http://www.diachelsea.org/exhibs/warhol/lastsupper   (374 words)      Andy Warhol: Shadows Andy Warhol's monumental series of 102 paintings, Shadows, constitutes the second exhibition in Dia's new facility at 535 West 22nd Street. Funding for this project has been provided by members of the Dia Art Council. Shadows was first exhibited at the Heiner Friedrich Gallery (Lone Star Foundation) in New York in January 1979. http://www.diacenter.org/exhibs/warhol/shadows/index.html   (245 words)      Andy Warhol's Time Capsules Andy Warhol spent years documenting and cataloguing his daily existence, his collections at once becoming art as well as archive. The phenomenal contents of Andy Warhol's Time Capsules not only provide a unique window into the life of this prolific and iconic artist, but also offer an almost exhaustive cultural context for the social and artistic scene in America during his career. A. Warhol, THE philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and back again, London, 1975. http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/timecapsules   (578 words)      Andy Warhol Dia's other exhibitions of Warhol's work include "Andy Warhol: Disaster Paintings, 1963" (1986), "Andy Warhol: Hand-Painted Images, 1960–62" (1987), and "Andy Warhol: Skulls" (1987–88). Krauss, Rosalind E. "Warhol's Abstract Spectacle." In Abstraction, Gesture, Ecriture: Paintings from the Daros Collection. "The Importance of Remembering Andy." In Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art, vol. http://www.diabeacon.org/exhibs_b/warhol   (276 words)      Andy Warhol 1980 - 2006 On February 14th, Andy Warhol rang his dermatologist, KAREN BURKE, about a pain in his right side that he had had for awhile. The Andy Warhol museum acquired ownership of the rights to Andy Warhol's entire film and video work from the Andy Warhol Foundation of the Visual Arts. Volume 1 of The Films of Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné by Callie Angell is published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., focusing on Andy Warhol's Screen Tests. http://www.warholstars.org/chron/1980Plus.html   (4647 words)      Andy Warhol Warhol's early “structural” films were an expression of the then emerging aesthetic of minimalism (found especially in the music of John Cage and LaMonte Young), but this was not the only influence. Warhol had used the same type of camera for his 8-hour epic, Empire (his first “sound” movie without sound), but he employed it now for a number of “dramatic” collaborations with “scriptwriters” Chuck Wein and Ronald Tavel, the latter from the Theater of the Ridiculous. In 1964 Warhol's filmmaking became centralised at his silver painted and foil covered studio, the Factory. http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/02/warhol.html   (2343 words)      MoMA.org Exhibitions 2003 Andy Warhol Using a stationary camera, Warhol manipulated light and shadow in increasingly inventive ways to capture the appearance, style, personality, and mood of both famous and lesser-known visitors to his studio, the Factory. This exhibition presents twenty-eight selections from MoMA's collection of approximately five hundred portrait films made by Andy Warhol between 1964 and 1966, the period when he realized his revolutionary vision of celebrity. The result is an unusual fluidity of pace, a rhythm gently at odds with the starkness of the lighting and the boldness of the close-ups of face and hair. http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2003/warhol.html   (218 words)      Andy Warhol And it all flowed from one central insight: that in a culture glutted with information, where most people experience most things at second or third hand through TV and print, through images that become banal and disassociated by repeated again and again and again, there is role for affectless art. Earlier artists, like Monet, had painted the same motif in series in order to display minute discriminations of perception, the shift of light and color form hour to hour on a haystack, and how these could be recorded by the subtlety of eye and hand. He was a conduit for a sort of collective American state of mind in which celebrity - the famous image of a person, the famous brand name - had completely replaced both sacredness and solidity. http://www.artchive.com/artchive/W/warhol.html   (522 words)      Andy Warhol May Wilson - the woman under whose bed Valerie Solanas stored the gun she used to shoot Andy Warhol - is one of the artists whose work is to be included in a group show - "Constellation" - at the Pavel Zoubok Gallery in New York from April 20 - May 27, 2006. Al Hansen, a Fluxus artist, was the father of Warhol star Bibbe Hansen and edited an underground magazine titled Kiss - "the paper you read with one hand" - which featured contributions by Andy Warhol, Ondine and Brigid Berlin. Wilson's assemblages were included in Martha Jackson's "New Media - New Forms: In Painting and Sculpture" in 1960 which featured the works of artists that were often referred to as "Neo-Dada" and later considered as precursors to Pop (see New Media New Forms). http://www.warholstars.org   (432 words)      Andy Warhol Martin Lawrence Galleries The name Andy Warhol is synonymous with Pop Art. Painter, graphic artist, manager of a rock band and filmmaker, Warhol had a huge influence on subsequent generations of artists. Starting out as a technically innovative commercial artist in the world of New York advertising, in the early 1960s Warhol began adapting the commercial process of silkscreening to the world of fine art and created iconic masterpieces such as Marilyn Monroe, Ads and Myths, among his most famous images. http://www.martinlawrence.com/warhol.html   (210 words)      Andy Warhol PARTIAL GIFT OF THE ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION FOR THE VISUAL ARTS AND PARTIAL PURCHASE, SMITHSONIAN COLLECTIONS ACQUISITION PROGRAM AND JOSEPH H. Andy Warhol first used the silkscreen method of transferring black-and-white photographs to canvas in 1962; his explorations of the famous began in August with his first Marilyn Monroe painting. He quickly moved on to depicting other Hollywood stars, socialites, and himself, transforming his subjects' ordinary features and gestures into aspects of mythical beings through simple outlines, shadings, highlights, and bold color overlays. This Self-Portrait displays his aging features, from sunken cheeks to puffy jowls. http://hirshhorn.si.edu/collection/gallery/warhol.html   (219 words)      Andy Warhol : The Prince of Pop Andy Warhol was and will always be known as "The Prince of Pop" because of his influential art. Andy Warhol and the Pop Art Movement : A Biography This website is a look at his controversial life, his art, and the people and things he has affected. http://www.princeofpop.com   (129 words)      Andy Warhol [1928-1987] - Featured Artist on Artfact.com Andy Warhol : kunstenaar / artist at GALERIES.NL Andy Warhol at the Irish Museum of Modern Art Andy Warhol [1928-1987] - Featured Artist on Artfact.com http://www.artfact.com/features/viewArtist.cfm?aID=10873   (463 words)      Andy Warhol Exhibition Click here to enter the gallery and view some of Andy Warhol's pieces that are included in the exhibition. The selected works are drawn from the renowned collection of Pittsburgh's Andy Warhol Museum. A major retrospective of America's premier Pop artist, this special exhibition contains more than 60 works surveying the entire range of Warhol's extraordinary career as painter and graphic artist. http://www.chrysler.org/warhol   (128 words)      Andy Warhol @ Catharton Artists Warhol's art often dealt with the superficial nature of the modern celebrity. For many years after the exhibition he produced what is considered to be his best work, often based around altered and painted-over photographs, and poorly duplicated screen-print reproductions of his work. In 1968, the year she published the manifesto, Solanas shot Andy Warhol. http://www.catharton.com/artists/1.htm   (320 words)      Andy Warhol: A Celebration of Genius In the 10th anniversary of Andy Warhol's death, the number of inspired artists and fans continue to grow. Any Warhol paintings or photographs offered for sale on this page will also have the opportunity to show the painting at no cost. This is and will always be a completely free Warhol site. http://members.aol.com/jeremymp/warhol.html   (92 words)      Andy Warhol - Wikiquote Andy Warhol's Exposures (1979) commenting on the nightclub "Studio 54", and his world famous quote. If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. Edward Smith: Does that mean you don't have to think when you're painting? http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol   (1091 words)      The Warhol - Museum Info The Andy Warhol Museum is a vital forum in which diverse audiences of artists, scholars and the general public are galvanized through creative interaction with the art and life of Andy Warhol. It is also a primary resource for anyone seeking insights into contemporary art and popular culture. The Warhol is ever-changing and constantly re-defining itself in relation to contemporary life, using its unique collections and dynamic, interactive programming as tools. http://www.warhol.org/museum_info/index.html   (181 words)      Andy Warhol Photographs, at the International Center of Photography This is the first exhibition to explore the full extent of Warhol's engagement with photography. © 1999 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. The exhibition has been organized by the International Center of Photography and the Hamburg Kunsthalle, in cooperation with The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York. http://www.icp.org/exhibitions/warhol/index.html   (93 words)      Andy Warhol Resources - Biographies and Paintings + Resources for the famous artist Andy Warhol with biographies, paintings, art quotes and artist information. Click on the link above to submit your famous artists URL to our arts directory. http://www.warhol.org/ - categories - Famous Artists - Andy Warhol - American - Pop Art http://www.linkism.com/visual_artists/famous-artists/andy-warhol.htm   (125 words)      Andy Warhol The son of Ruthenian immigrants, Andy Warhol studied art at the Carnegie... Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol (1990).... Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships and Intersections (1982).... http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0912238   (437 words)      The Chelsea Girls (Andy Warhol) Philological edition on split screen as according to the instructions of the MoMA (Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art) and the Andy Warhol Foundation. Andy, Paul, Gerard, Lester Persky, Rodney La Rod, David Croland, International Velvet And Eric Emerson take Chelsea Girls to the Cannes Film Festival but never get to show it. It's Warhol's most famous self-signed film, and — with almost all the leading Factory personalities and music by the Velvet Underground — it's easy to see why. http://smironne.free.fr/NICO/FILMS/chg.html   (1015 words)      15 minutes of fame - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Warhol's statement was based in his interest in fame and famous people. The expression is a paraphrase of Andy Warhol's statements, in 1968 that In 1986, Warhol had a short-lived MTV television series, Andy Warhol's 15 Minutes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_minutes   (225 words)      BBC - BBC Four - Audio Interviews - Andy Warhol His mass-produced art mirrored and celebrated the banality of commercial Western culture in the late Modern and Postmodern period. "Pope of Pop", Andy Warhol led the Pop Art movement. Andy Warhol talks to Edward Lucie Smith about http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/warhola1.shtml   (94 words)

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