Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol, photographed by Harvey Stein

Andy Warhol, photographed by Steve Wood, 1981

Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist, father of pop art mouvement. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became a renowned and sometimes controversial artist. Warhol's art encompassed many forms of media, including hand drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, silk screening, sculpture, film, and music. He founded Interview Magazine in 1969. The magazine features intimate conversations between some of the world's biggest celebrities, artists, musicians, and creative thinkers. Warhol also made computer-generated art using Amiga computers, in 1985.

Works

Polaroid portraits

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  Caroline, Princess of Monaco, 1983

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  Unidentified girl (Blue t-shirt with Teddy Bear), 9/1979

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  Mick Jagger, Polaroid Portrait

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  Debbie Harry, 1980

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  Diana Ross, 1981

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  Dolly Parton, 1985

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  Keith Haring, 1986

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  Arnold Schwarzenegger, 1977

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  John Lennon, 1971

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  Tatum O'Neal, 1986

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  Yoko Ono, 1971

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  Andy Warhol - Self-Portrait in Drag, 1981

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  Andy Warhol - Self-Portrait in Drag, 1981

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  Andy Warhol - Self-Portrait in Drag, 1981

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  Clockwise from top left: Sean Lennon, Truman Capote, Evelyn Kuhn, William Burroughs, Martha Graham, Jimmy Carter.

Drawings for Kurt Benirschke, Vanishing animals, 1986

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  Gazelle

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  Mongolian horse

Films

Andy Warhol made over 100 movies, short or long, from 1963 to late 1970s, mostly silent experimental films.

• Sleep, with John Giorno, 1963
• Kiss, 1963
• Screen Tests, features artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Bob Dylan, Salvador Dali, Dennis Hopper, and others, 1964
• Eat, with Robert Indiana, 1964

Legacy

The Andy Warhol Museum in his native city, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, holds an extensive permanent collection of art and archives. It is the largest museum in the United States dedicated to a single artist.

Publications

• The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again), written by Pat Hackett and Bob Colacello, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975.
• with Pat Hackett, Popism: The Warhol Sixties, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980.
• with Pat Hackett, The Andy Warhol Diaries, Grand Central Publishing, 1991.

Literature

• Victor Bockris, The Life and Death of Andy Warhol, New York: Bantam Books, 1989.
• Klaus Honnef, Andy Warhol, 1928-1987: Commerce Into Art, Taschen, 2000.
• Annette Michelson (ed.), Andy Warhol, MIT Press, 2001.
• Linda Bolton, Andy Warhol, London: Franklin Watts, 2002.
• Gary Indiana, Andy Warhol and the Can that Sold the World, New York: Basic Books, 2010.

Links

• Warhol Digitally Paints Debbie Harry with the Amiga 1000 Computer (1985)
• Warhol's robot designed by Walt Disney animator Alvaro Villa
• http://www.ubu.com/sound/warhol.html
• http://www.ubu.com/film/warhol_cinema.html
• http://avantgardefilmindex.org/filmmakers/warhol-andy/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol