Posted on 02/22/2018 7:00:10 AM PST by sodpoodle
Lived: Aug 06, 1928 - Feb 22, 1987 (age 58)
Warhol's other famous pop paintings depicted Coca-cola bottles, vacuum cleaners and hamburgers. He also painted celebrity portraits in vivid and garish colors; his most famous subjects include Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Mick Jagger and Mao Zedong. As these portraits gained fame and notoriety, Warhol began to receive hundreds of commissions for portraits from socialites and celebrities. His portrait " Eight Elvises" eventually resold for $100 million in 2008, making it one of the most valuable paintings in world history.
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In 1968, however, Warhol's thriving career almost ended. He was shot by Valerie Solanas, an aspiring writer and radical feminist, on June 3. Warhol was seriously wounded in this attack. Solanas had appeared in one of Warhol's films and was reportedly upset with him over his refusal to use a script she had written. After the shooting, Solanas was arrested and later pleaded guilty to the crime. As a result of the injuries he sustained, he had to wear a surgical corset for the rest of his life.
Oh. It’s trash day, here.
Warhol is not worthy enough to even have died on George Washington’s Birthday. Please let Warhol rest in peace and today celebrate the life and birth of America’s “Indispensable Man.” (see, James Flexner)
LOL...crap indeed.
Warhol’s death was an horrific episode.
He needed a gall bladder operation....but he did not want to go into the hospital b/c he said he know he would not come out alive.
The operation went well....he was sedated and put in post-op. He hired private nurses to sit by his bedside.
The nurse did not notice anything alarming....but at one point she looked over and he had turned blue-—meaning he was not getting oxygen.
Hospital Code Blue was called in——but they could not get the oxygen tube down his throat. They blamed it on rigor mortis.......b/c Warhol was dead.
Only years later was it concluded that Warhol was allergic to the post-op meds....his throat swelled (common with allergies)....and he died.
He is buried about a 30 minute ride from me in SW Pennsylvania. His headstone reads “Warhol,”although the family stones around him read “Warhola.”
The process isnt quite that easy to do in 5 minutes. Maybe a couple of hours is more accurate. Most of that due to the mechanics, not actual work.
Some of his stuff is pretty interesting design-wise. Paying 100 million for that knowing his pictures could technically be cranked out by the millions 24/7 because it is just silk-screen, is just laughable, though.
Certainly it isnt fine art, even he would agree there. A little secret is that his home was filled with classical art and not the stuff from the Pop-Art world.
Amen!
All of his “superstars” were transvestites/transexuals. One of them, “Candy Darling” (real name James Slattery), took female hormones to feminize his voice and appearance. Lou Reed’s “Walk On The Wild Side” is all about them.
Died from an hernia operation... Apparently, he avoided it until it was way too late. Sadly, his interior was full of gangrene and the surgeons were unsuccessful in their attempts to save him.
Awesomely easy concept though... Take a black and white photo, throw some paint on it a voila... Million dollar art pieces.
How many more years will it take for his ridiculous paintings to be forgotten?
Warhola is his birth name.
I drive past the cemetery where he’s buried on my way from the South Hills of Pittsburgh going towards Castle Shannon Pittsburgh 15234. He’s buried on the hillside of a little cemetery near the trolley junction off Route 88.
I pass the cemetery where he is buried every morning.
Polish, I think.
Warhol erased the fine line between art and crap.
He guarded his religious identity, and he faithfully attended Mass, and so on......
Warhol often included religious imagery in his artwork that is rarely displayed.
His recreation of Da Vinci's Last Supper, as well as his paintings of Jesus Christ
and of the Virgin Mary, helped popularize other classical religious works.
A master of talentless art. The sooner forgotten, the better.
2 reasons I really like him. The first being your point, he was a master troll. Played the modern art world like a fiddle, exposing it for the b.s. factory it is, and yet living it up and making some great contributions to design. Not “fine art” necessarily but fantastic design. He brought fun to that world and opened the door to it for the common person. Put the pop in populism you could say.
I guess my other point is that I really really really love the Velvet Underground and all the bands they accidentally launched.
I will excuse myself now. Fire away everyone. ;)
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