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Andy Warhol. Pop Art’s King. Jaime Swank. Table. Early Life Career and Life in 20s and 30s The Factory Work and Impact Rest of Life Key Terms Quotes Quiz Time! Works Cited. Early Life. Born August 6, 1928, in Pittsburgh’s immigrant ghetto, Soho Parents: Andrej and Julia Warhola - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Andy Warhol
Jaime Swank
Pop Art’s King
Table
Early LifeCareer and Life in 20s and 30s
The FactoryWork and Impact
Rest of LifeKey Terms
QuotesQuiz Time!
Works Cited
Early Life• Born August 6, 1928, in
Pittsburgh’s immigrant ghetto, Soho
• Parents: Andrej and Julia Warhola
• Carpatho-Ruthenia (currently part of Ukraine)
• Two older brothers – Paul and John
• Byzantine Catholic
Early Talent
• Always won his mother’s art contest• Wanted a movie projector• Saved money to buy film of cartoons and then
drew his own copies• Carnegie Institute gifted children’s class
Young Misfortunes• Andy caught rheumatic
fever at eight• A complication of
inadequately treated strep throat
• Fever, pain, shortness of breath
• St. Vitus’ dance – uncontrollable shaking
• Left school for a while• Didn’t affect his grades
• Andrej died when Andy was 13
• He suffered from jaundice and caught hepatitis while doing construction work
• Probably died of peritonitis
• Inflammation of the inner wall of the abdomen
College
• Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon)
• Art competition ($40 and an exhibition)
• Blotted line• Decided to go into
commercial art• Went to New York and left
a positive impression on magazine art directors
Commercial Art
• “Success Is a Job in New York” – first assignment for Glamour
• Oops…Warhol!• Okay with making changes…art directors
love it!• Naïvety• The “roach period”, Philip Pearlstein• “Mama’s boy”• Lost his hair early
Sexual Orientation
• Warhol was more openly gay than most• Before modern gay rights movement- “sexual
perverts”• Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns snubbed him• Emile de Antonio: “You’re too swish, and that upsets
them”• Warhol: “I know plenty of painters who are more
swish than me”• “The major painters try to look straight. You play up
the swish”
Shot to Fame
• Serendipity 3 – ice cream parlor on the Upper East Side
• Abstract Expressionism (Jackson Pollack)
• Andy didn’t fit in• Part of the rising Pop Art
movement• Started drawing iconic
Coke bottles and Campbell’s Soup cans
The Factory• Warehouse space on the fifth floor of a loft building near
Grand Central Station• Open-door policy• Made films and art• “Superstars” – Nico, Joe Dallesandro, Edie Sedgwick, Viva,
Ultra Violet, Holly Woodlawn, Jackie Curtis, Candy Darling
Art Work - Technology
Art - Social
Art - Social
Art - Political
Art - Diplomatic
Art - Economic
Film
• 500 screen tests• Most had no plot• Eat and Sleep• Some were inspired by
gay underground and camp culture
• Chelsea Girls – his most popular, two different stories at the same time
Attempted Murder
• 1968• Valerie Solanas – founder and sole member of the
Society for Cutting Up Men• She sent him a screenplay, which he disliked and lost• She demanded Warhol pay her rent• Offered her $25 in I, a Man• Pulled a gun out of a crumpled bag and shot Warhol
and Mario Amaya• Andy revoked the open-door policy
Later Years and Death• 1970s- made mostly
commissioned portraits• Interview magazine• 1980s – worked with younger
artists such as Jean- Michel Basquiat
• Death- NYC 6:32 AM Febuary 2, 1987
• Routine gallbladder surgery, cardiac arrythmia
• Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Key Terms• Pop Art - “The style of art made popular in the 1960s by
such artists as Andy Warhol… using images from such popular sources as advertising and comic books, and also using common objects” (Greenberg and Jordan 155)
• Abstract Expressionism – the style of art made popular by the likes of Jackson Pollack
• Commercial artist – an artist who makes images for advertisements or media such as magazines or newspaper articles
• Jasper Johns and Robert Raushenberg – artists who drew the subjects of Pop Art with the style of Abstract Expressionism
Quotes• “The Pop artists did images that anybody walking down
Broadway could recognize in a split second”• “Pop art is for everyone. I don’t think art should be only
for the select few”• “Machines have less problems. I’d like to be a machine,
wouldn’t you? • “In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen
minutes”• “I like boring things. I like things to be the same over and
over again.”• “Buying is much more American than thinking, and I’m
as American as they come”
Multiple Choice
1) What did Andy Warhol’s father, Andrej Warhola, probably die of?
a. Rheumatic feverb. Jaundicec. Strep throatd. Peritonitise. Tuberculosis
Multiple Choice
1) What did Andy Warhol’s father, Andrej Warhola, probably die of?
a. Rheumatic feverb. Jaundicec. Strep throatd. Peritonitise. Tuberculosis
Multiple Choice
2) Which medium/media did Andy Warhol NOT dabble in?
a. Commercial artb. Actingc. Magazinesd. Filme. Pop art
Multiple Choice
2) Which medium/media did Andy Warhol NOT dabble in?
a. Commercial artb. Actingc. Magazinesd. Filme. Pop art
Multiple Choice
3) What was the name of Warhol’s studio?a. The Factoryb. The Machinec. The Firehoused. The Statione. The Superstar
Multiple Choice
3) What was the name of Warhol’s studio?a. The Factoryb. The Machinec. The Firehoused. The Statione. The Superstar
Multiple Choice
4) What was the name of the young artist Warhol worked with in his later years?
a. Jasper Johnsb. Valerie Solanasc. Edie Sedgwickd. Emile de Antonioe. Jean-Michel Basquiat
Multiple Choice
4) What was the name of the young artist with whom Warhol worked in his later years?
a. Jasper Johnsb. Valerie Solanasc. Edie Sedgwickd. Emile de Antonioe. Jean-Michel Basquiat
Multiple Choice
5) What was the name of the magazine in which Warhol’s work was first published?
a. Interviewb. Glamourc. Vogued. Ladies’ Home Journale. People
Multiple Choice
5) What was the name of the magazine in which Warhol’s work was first published?
a. Interviewb. Glamourc. Vogued. Ladies’ Home Journale. People
Sources
• http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/rheumatic-fever/DS00250
• Greenberg, Jan, and Sandra Jordan. Andy Warhol: Prince of Pop. New York: Delacorte, 2004. Print.
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_warhol