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Fall 2014 Student Work
Fall 2014 Students working on the Warhol Project
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Positive Space: the subject
Negative Space: the background
Inverted: opposite color scheme
Contrast: opposites of an element (for this project it's color-BLACK & WHITE)
So who is Andy Warhol?
Andy Warhol, the famous American artist, was born on Monday, August 6, 1928. He is considered a pioneer of “Pop Art” which was an art movement during 1950s. The movement started in Britain during the mid-1950s and was initiated in America in the latter part of the 1950s. Pop art was contradictory to the well-known traditional ways of art.
"Pop Art" = Things in Popular Culture
Andy Warhol’s first movie was titled “Sleep”. The distinct feature of this movie was the duration of the movie, which was 6 long hours and the content of the movie, which showed his friend sleeping. The premiere of the movie was attended by only nine people out of whom two left the venue before the movie even ended.
Finding beauty in the every day object!
Warhol created a silkscreen painting of Elvis Presley in 1963 titled ‘Eight Elvises’. A 12 foot painting of eight identical, overlapping images of Elvis Presley in cowboy attire, it is a unique painting, i.e. it was not mass produced like many of Warhol’s work. In 2008, it was sold for US$100 million to make Warhol only the fifth artist to have a painting sold for at least $100 million. The sale broke the record for a Warhol painting and the price paid for Eight Elvises is still the maximum for a painting by Warhol if you adjust for inflation.
The Factory
Andy almost died when he was shot three times in the chest by Valerie Solanis. Valerie was an ardent feminist and one of many who thought Warhol was abusive and controlling. She thought that he deserved to die. Warhol was at one point pronounced dead, but was revived and slowly recovered. Valerie was a founder of club called SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) and she was the only member of the group.
After Andy Warhol’s death, his will was read out. According to his will, his estate (except for a few things) was to be auctioned to create a foundation that would work for the advancement of the visual arts. The auction of his estate resulted in collecting around $20 million. This money resulted in the formation of “Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts”. The foundation has been contributing towards the enhancement of arts and overcoming the challenges it possesses since then.
Andy Warhol is certainly an inspiration to art lovers. His work in the field of art is irreplaceable. For this very reason, “The Andy Warhol Museum” has been built in his memory. The museum stands in Andy’s hometown in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The museum is the largest museum in America, which is solely devoted to the art collection of a single artist. It has seven floors with over 17 galleries, 77 sculptures, 900 paintings, 2,000 paper works, 1,000 prints, 4,000 photographs and 4,350 films and videos.