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<h1>Who was Andy Warhol?</h1>
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<p>(August 6, 1928 - February 22, 1987) was an American artist who was a
leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works
explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture
and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s. After a successful
career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became a renowned and
sometimes controversial artist. The Andy Warhol Museum in his native
city, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, holds an extensive permanent collection
of art and archives. It is the largest museum in the United States of
America dedicated to a single artist.</p>
<p>Warhol's artwork ranged in many forms of media that include hand drawing,
painting, printmaking, photography, silk screening, sculpture, film, and
music. He was a pioneer in computer-generated art using Amiga computers
that were introduced in 1985, just before his death in 1987. He founded
Interview Magazine and was the author of numerous books, including The
Philosophy of Andy Warhol and Popism: The Warhol Sixties. Andy Warhol is
also notable as a gay man who lived openly as such before the gay
liberation movement. His studio, The Factory, was a famous gathering
place that brought together distinguished intellectuals, drag queens,
playwrights, Bohemian street people, Hollywood celebrities, and wealthy
patrons.</p>
<p>Warhol has been the subject of numerous retrospective exhibitions, books,
and feature and documentary films. He coined the widely used expression
"15 minutes of fame". Many of his creations are very collectible and
highly valuable. The highest price ever paid for a Warhol painting is
US$100 million for a 1963 canvas titled Eight Elvises. The private
transaction was reported in a 2009 article in The Economist, which
described Warhol as the "bellwether of the art market". Warhol's works
include some of the most expensive paintings ever sold.</p>
<p>Narrative courtesy of wikipedia:
<br /><em>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol</em>
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<h1>Andy Warhol: The College Years</h1>
<p>When he entered the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie
Mellon University) as a freshman in 1945, Andrew Warhola embarked on the
formal road to what would become one of the most celebrated art careers
of the 20th-century. With America embroiled in the final throes of World
War II and the steel mills and factories of Pittsburgh churning out
heavy materials at full tilt, the rarefied world of the academy (with
classes taught by artists Balcomb Greene, Robert Lepper, Samuel
Rosenberg, and Howard Worner, among others) would have been a comforting
realm within which the future Andy Warhol (he dropped the final in
the 1950s to make his name seem less ethnic) could develop his aesthetic
voice. The day before he entered college, Warhol sat for a portrait
photo in a small photo studio operated by his middle brother, John, and
their cousin Johnny Preksta. Interestingly enough, in relation to
Warhol's yet-to-come work of the early-1960s, it consisted of a
photobooth machine, and the customers received not just the
black-and-white product, but a hand-colored portrait. However, in 1945
and Warhol struggled with his first-year classes in the Department
of Painting and Design., resulting in him having to take a summer
drawing class so that he could refine his draftsmanship to please his
professors.</p>
<p>The drawings made in the summer of 1946 are technically mature images of
women buying fruits and vegetables on the streets of Warhol's childhood
neighborhood of South Oakland, mere blocks away from Carnegie Tech.
Warhol spent many days that summer observing his oldest brother, Paul,
who sold produce from a truck, and the resultant pictures that he made
of those commercial transactions won Warhol accolades upon his return to
school in the fall when he received the Martin B. Leisser Prize and had
the works exhibited in the college's fine arts gallery. From that point
forward, Warhol was a star student in the program and, over the course
of his entire college career, learned all of the many skills that a
successful commercial illustrator would be expected to know in the job
market.</p>
<p>While at Carnegie Tech, Warhol became involved in various student
activities, including the Modern Dance Club (he was the only male in the
group) and the Beaux Arts Society. He worked as an editor of the student
publication Cano, designing a cover for the magazine in November 1948.
His artistic experimentations in 1947 and 1948 led him to develop what
would one day become his signature drawing style -- the blotted line
technique -- in which he would ink an image in reverse on a vellum-like
paper and then tamp it down onto a clean sheet of paper, resulting in a
drippy and imperfect line that was slightly reminiscent of artist Ben
Shahn, but still highly unique and playful. In the summer between his
sophomore and junior years, Warhol took a summer job in the display
department of Horne's Department Store in downtown Pittsburgh where he
continued to hone his skills of selling products through visual
enticement.</p>
<p>Warhol's involvement with the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh group of
regional artists now celebrating its 100th-anniversary - was both
positive and negative to the young artist. In 1948, two of Warhol's works
were selected for inclusion in the AAP's annual juried show, a painting
titled I Like Dance and a print titled Dance in Black and White. The
titles alone show Warhol's great interest in dance - and in fact he once
said that he would rather have been a ballerina than an artist - but
unfortunately, his fellow members of the Modern Dance Club thought that
Warhol's skills would best be utilized in designing the group's programs
in lieu of him actually taking to the stage. His important Dance Diagram
paintings from the early 1960s would ultimately find their inspiration
in Warhol's early forays into the subject.</p>
<p>The following year, Warhol tasted the thrill of aesthetic controversy
when he was rejected from the 1949 AAP juried exhibition after
submitting his The Broad Gave Me My Face, But I Can Pick My Own Nose
painting at the beginning of his last semester of his senior year.
Featuring a young man gingerly picking his nose, the facial details of
the painting suggest that it's a self-portrait of Warhol, no doubt
thumbing his nose at the establishment as he would do throughout his
lifetime. The jury declined to accept the work over the protests of
juror George Grosz, the elderly German artist who was known for his
caricatures of society.</p>
<p>By his graduation in June 1949, Warhol changed the name of the painting
to Don't Pick on Me and submitted it to a student exhibition, where it
attracted considerable attention. Recently, several of Warhol's
classmates have recalled that the painting was originally titled The
Lord Gave Me My Face, But I Can Pick My Own Nose, and it somehow was
twisted into the more audacious meaning with the word "broad."</p>
<p>Within weeks of graduating from Carnegie Tech, Warhol and fellow
classmate Phillip Pearlstein departed Pittsburgh and moved to New York
City, where over the course of their decades-long careers, both would
rise to the upper echelons of the art world establishment. Warhol's
formative years soaking in the art of commercial illustration would
indeed serve him well, first as the most celebrated graphic artist of
the 1950s and later on as one of the pioneers of the Pop Art movement of
the early 1960s.</p>
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Narrative courtesy of the Andy Warhol Museum: <br/>
<em>http://www.warhol.org/webcalendar/event.aspx?id=2077</em>
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