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Andy Warhol

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

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Andy Warhol

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  1. Andy Warhol Pop Art’s King Jaime Swank

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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”

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. Art Work - Technology

  12. Art - Social

  13. Art - Social

  14. Art - Political

  15. Art - Diplomatic

  16. Art - Economic

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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”

  22. Multiple Choice • What did Andy Warhol’s father, Andrej Warhola, probably die of? a. Rheumatic fever b. Jaundice c. Strep throat d. Peritonitis e. Tuberculosis

  23. Multiple Choice • What did Andy Warhol’s father, Andrej Warhola, probably die of? a. Rheumatic fever b. Jaundice c. Strep throat d. Peritonitis e. Tuberculosis

  24. Multiple Choice 2) Which medium/media did Andy Warhol NOT dabble in? a. Commercial art b. Acting c. Magazines d. Film e. Pop art

  25. Multiple Choice 2) Which medium/media did Andy Warhol NOT dabble in? a. Commercial art b. Acting c. Magazines d. Film e. Pop art

  26. Multiple Choice 3) What was the name of Warhol’s studio? a. The Factory b. The Machine c. The Firehouse d. The Station e. The Superstar

  27. Multiple Choice 3) What was the name of Warhol’s studio? a. The Factory b. The Machine c. The Firehouse d. The Station e. The Superstar

  28. Multiple Choice 4) What was the name of the young artist Warhol worked with in his later years? a. Jasper Johns b. Valerie Solanas c. Edie Sedgwick d. Emile de Antonio e. Jean-Michel Basquiat

  29. Multiple Choice 4) What was the name of the young artist with whom Warhol worked in his later years? a. Jasper Johns b. Valerie Solanas c. Edie Sedgwick d. Emile de Antonio e. Jean-Michel Basquiat

  30. Multiple Choice 5) What was the name of the magazine in which Warhol’s work was first published? a. Interview b. Glamour c. Vogue d. Ladies’ Home Journal e. People

  31. Multiple Choice 5) What was the name of the magazine in which Warhol’s work was first published? a. Interview b. Glamour c. Vogue d. Ladies’ Home Journal e. People

  32. 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

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