Today is the 31st anniversary of Andy Warhol's death

biography ^ | 02/22/2018 | biography

[fwdude]

Warhol erased the fine line between art and crap.

It's not so fine a line as a lot of people claim.

[sodpoodle]

Who keeps digging him up? :):):)

[sodpoodle]

A true entrepreneur!!!

[sodpoodle]

****George Washington’s Birthday.****

No thread on George Washington’s birthday - you should start one.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Slovak

[sodpoodle]

****Warhol’s death was an horrific episode.***

Wiki’s biography describes the shooting which preceded it. Shot by a man-hating feminist.

[Mrs. Don-o]

He was a strange one. Attended *daily* Liturgy (Mass) with his mother, never received Communion (or so I hear.)

Cultivated an intense gender-perversion milieu all around himself, never had sex and died a virgin (or so I hear.)

Was trained and capable of top-notch fine art, produced (mostly) repetitive silk-screen dreck (or so I’ve seen.)

Certainly proof that the human personality is a mystery fathomable only by God...may Great Mercy be upon him.

[Oratam]

Warhol and nine other artists were commissioned in 1962 to create works to decorate the New York State Pavilion of the 1964 World's Fair.

Where millions would pass, Warhol hung a mural entitled "The Thirteen Most Wanted," a bold black & white work depicting 22 head-and-shoulder mug shots of wanted men from a booklet published by the New York Police Department in 1962.

Seems to me he was trying to perform a public service.

[morphing libertarian]

Valerie Solanas

Wasn’t that one of the senators who stabbed caesar?

[Liz]

Weird....by today’s standards.

But not too many years ago people lived their lives like he did.

[Liz]

The shooting incident happened many years before his death.

[Cecily]

[padubis]

My wife was on a NYC to Washington,D.C. flight with him in ‘75 or ‘76. She had a window seat and when he showed up he wanted to switch seats with her. She eventually obliged and he then grabbed her camera, pointed it out the window and proceeded to shoot the whole roll of film. She still has that stack of pictures of clouds,all Andy Warhol originals, and no way to prove their provenance.

[Olog-hai]

The late Malcolm Young of AC/DC fame once played in an Australian band called the Velvet Underground, as did AC/DC’s first singer, Dave Evans (who is relatively unknown outside Australia, and who shares the real name of U2’s “The Edge”).

The song in the first link is from the period before Malcolm joined the band, though.

[To Hell With Poverty]

Man that book is as much of a reason why I eventually wound up here at FR as anything. Read it about half way through art school, talk about an eye opener.

[sodpoodle]

AAhaa - are there any reflections of him in the windows?

Perhaps enlarging the images would show any reflection of him on the glass.

If this helps get the $$$$$$$ from the photos -that advice will cost you;) LOL!!!!

[Mastador1]

Whoop Dee Doo, Wharhol died on this day, how about we talk about people that actually contributed something important, like raising a family, working, that died today.

Wharhol, Bleh!

Yeah, it's my opinion and just as valid as those that call his work art.

[sodpoodle]

It’s also George Washington’s birthday. Does that help?

[Mastador1]

Only if you can show me what positive thing Warhol has to do with Washington on this day.

[padubis]

They’re quite unremarkable and there don’t seem to be any reflections, but who knows, right? And of course, if I find out otherwise, the check will be in the mail :D