Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol’s Childhood Home

Carnegie Mellon University

Making the Rounds,

1950

In the Bottom of My Garden, ca. 1956

Campbell’s Soup Cans,

1962

MASS MEDIA

The Velvet Underground(Band)

Screenshot from Chelsea Girls

Actual Valerie Solanas

Lili Taylor, I Shot Andy Warhol

Mao, 1973

Michael Jackson, 1984

Accused of surrendering or

helping Consumerism

The Last Supper Cycle, 1986

Ted Carey and Andy Warhol, ca. 1958

Childhood

Pittsburg, Pennsylvania

Caught cholera in third grade

Became hypochondriac and bed-ridden, growing attached to his mother

While bed-ridden he drew, listened to the radio and collected pictures of movie stars around his bed

Father died from jaundice from tainted water he drank at a construction site while he was 13

University

Attended School of Fine Arts at Carnegie Institute of Technology

Struggled Freshman year, took summer drawing classes to improve

Involved in student activities such as the Modern Dance Club, only male member, the Beaux Arts Society and working as editor on the student publication Cano.

Advertisement Work

Moved to New York worked in magazine illustration and advertisements

Gained fame from shoe advertisements

Some work shown in his earliest showing in Bodley Gallery

Hired by RCA Records to design album covers and promotional materials

Fine Art

Solo exhibition in Ferus gallery in Los Angeles

Founded his studio The Factory

Held the pivotal event The Supermarket

Influences

Mass media, commercialism, every day things bringing them up and creating art from everyday things or things everyone knows

“What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coca-Cola, Liz Taylor drinks Coca-Cola, and just think, you can drink Coca-Cola, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the cokes are the same and all the cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.”

Other Works

Created controversial and often bizarre films, some of them anti-films(Talk about a few)

Adopted The Velvet Underground

Attempted Assassination

Valerie Solanas, author of the S.C.U.M.(Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto and small figure in the Factory scene shot at Warhol and curator Mario Amaya on June 3, 1968

Had asked Warhol earlier in the day for a script that seemed to have been misplaced

Warhol was lucky to live through the incident and affected him for the rest of his life

70s and 80s

Warhol became much more of businessman, quoted as saying “Making money is art, and working is art and good business is the best art.”

Criticism

Some people criticized him falling into commercialism, encouraging it

Personal Life

Practicing Ruthenian Rite Catholic, regularly volunteered at homeless shelters

Thought to be homosexual and a virgin

Drew many male nudes, some works turned away for being to openly gay

Death

Had been making good recovery from gallbladder surgery before dying in his sleep for a post-operative cardiac arrhythmia

Almost all his estate, as dictated by his will, was used to create a foundation for the advancement of the visual arts

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts is one of the largest grant-giving organizations in the US

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