Andy Warhol

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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
Drawings for Kurt Benirschke, Vanishing animals, 1986

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.

Literature

Books by Warhol
  • 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
Books on Warhol
  • 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, The MIT Press, 2001.
  • Gary Indiana, Andy Warhol and the Can that Sold the World, New York: Basic Books, 2010.

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