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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It's not so fine a line as a lot of people claim.
Who keeps digging him up? :):):)
A true entrepreneur!!!
****George Washington’s Birthday.****
No thread on George Washington’s birthday - you should start one.
Slovak
****Warhol’s death was an horrific episode.***
Wiki’s biography describes the shooting which preceded it. Shot by a man-hating feminist.
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.
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.
Valerie Solanas
Wasn’t that one of the senators who stabbed caesar?
Weird....by today’s standards.
But not too many years ago people lived their lives like he did.
The shooting incident happened many years before his death.
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.
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.
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!!!!
Wharhol, Bleh!
Yeah, it's my opinion and just as valid as those that call his work art.
It’s also George Washington’s birthday. Does that help?
Only if you can show me what positive thing Warhol has to do with Washington on this day.
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
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