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Andy Warhol was an American artist and filmmaker. Widely regarded as the most important artist of the second half of the 20th century, Warhol's practice spanned various media, including painting, filmmaking, photography, publishing, and performance art. A leading figure in the Pop art movement, his work explores the relationship between advertising, consumerism, mass media, and celebrity culture.…
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entertainment · American artist and filmmaker (1928–1987) · film director · painter · photographer · film producer · sculptor · visual artist · cinematographer · screenwriter · diarist · designer · also Andy Warhol, Andrew Warhola, Andrew Warhol, Drella, Andrej Varchol, Andrej Warhol
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Public attention spiked: 17,740 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.2× the usual 4,266, with 12 article edits. Editors noted: Early life and education
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Shot Sage Blue Marilyn (1964) sold for $195 million, the highest price ever paid at auction for a work by an American artist
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The foundation sold five of Warhol's computer drawings as NFTs
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The Brooklyn Museum's 2021–2022 exhibition Andy Warhol: Revelation further explored the role of faith in his life and art.
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Alone, Warhol's works generated approximately $569 million at auction, accounting for more than one-sixth of the global art market that year
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Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) (1963) sold for $105 million
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Among his computer disks, along with a separate disk containing the soundtrack
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“Andy Warhol - Página 82, Andy Warhol, Annette Michelson, B. H. D. Buchloh - MIT Press, 2001, ISBN 026263242X, 9780262632423 - 133 páginas”
“Andy Warhol: retrospective - página 26, Andy Warhol, Heiner Bastian, Neue ... - Tate Pub., 2001, ISBN 1854374109, 9781854374103 - 319 páginas”
Released album “Andy Warhol from Tapes: The Inaugural Publication 1994”.
Died 1987-02-22.
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The value of his work continued to rise significantly, establishing him as one of the most consistently high-performing artists in the global art market
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“Everything is beautiful. Pop is everything.”
“Jestem nadzwyczaj bierny. Biorę świat taki, jakim jest. Tylko się przyglądam, obserwuję go.”
“Kupować to bardziej amerykańskie niż myśleć, a ja jestem tak amerykański jak każdy.”
“No futuro, todas as pessoas serão famosas durante quinze minutos.”
“I am a deeply superficial person.”
“Podoba mi się, że w Ameryce najbogatsi konsumenci w zasadzie kupują te same rzeczy, co biedni. Siedzisz przed telewizorem i pijesz Coca Colę, i wiesz, że prezydent pije colę, Liz Taylor pije colę, i myślisz sobie, że ty też możesz pić colę.”
“Pelé is one of the few who contradicted my theory [...] Instead of 15 minutes of fame, he will have 15 centuries.”
“Zarabiać pieniądze to sztuka, pracować to sztuka, ale robić dobre interesy – to sztuka największa.”
“Budzę się i dzwonię do B. B to ktoś, kto pomaga mi zabić czas. B jest kimkolwiek, a ja jestem nikim. B i ja.”
“(You wouldn't believe the number of people who hang the electric chair painting in the homes, especially if the colour of the canvas matches the curtains.)”
“Amo Napoli perché mi ricorda New York, specialmente per i tanti travestiti e per i rifiuti per strada. Come New York è una città che cade a pezzi, e nonostante tutto la gente è felice come quella di New York.”
“Opis: nekrolog w The Times (luty 1987).”
“I think somebody should be able to do all my paintings for me.”
“You'd be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their living-room wall. Specially if the background color matches the drapes.”
“(You'd be surprised who'll hang an electric chair in the living room. Especially if the background matches the drapes.)”
“Opis: po nieudanej próbie zabójstwa Warhola, kiedy postrzeliła go w klatkę piersiową.”
“(You wouldn't believe how many people will hang up a picture of an electric chair? especially if it matches the color of their curtains.)”
“(You wouldn't believe how many people will hang a picture of an electric chair in their room – especially if the color of the picture matches the curtains.)”
“I'm Not Perfect (But I'm Perfect for You)”
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Including Statues of Liberty, Self-Portraits, and Last Supper, based on Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper
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“Do you like interviews?– Yes.– Yes?– No– No?– No.– Yes and no?– Yes? (da un'intervista telefonica del 1986)”
During the computer's launch event at Lincoln Center in New York City, he used the Amiga's graphics software to create a digitally painted portrait of Blondie singer Debbie Harry
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“La centralinista che Gael ha appena assunto non ha capito per due volte consecutive che ero io a telefonare. Dovrebbe essere licenziata subito (telefono $ 2, taxi $ 3, $ 4). (25 ottobre 1985; p. 499)”
Warhol used Amiga computers to generate digital art, including the short film You Are the One
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Warhol experimented with digital art using a Commodore Amiga 1000
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Warhol was commissioned to design a poster commemorating the centennial of the Brooklyn Bridge, which he contributed to the New York Art Expo that year
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Warhol began collaborating with artists Jean-Michel Basquiat and Francesco Clemente
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“Ci pensi che Tennessee Williams si è strozzato con un tappo di bottiglia? (3 marzo 1983; p. 360)”
Warhol created a limited edition of 100 silkscreen portraits of actress Jane Fonda to support the California State Assembly campaign of her husband, Tom Hayden
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Warhol collaborated with Peter Sellars and Lewis Allen on a project titled A No Man Show, a traveling stage production featuring a life-sized animatronic robot modeled after Warhol
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And was later represented by Ford Models
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Consisted of burglar alarms placed around the perimeter of a room at the Factory and aimed toward an empty center
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An institution dedicated to restoring traditional approaches to artistic training
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Warhol formed a publishing company, Andy Warhol Books, which was an imprint of Grosset & Dunlap
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Warhol began his Reversals and Retrospectives series, revisiting earlier subjects such as Marilyn Monroe, Mao Zedong, and his disaster imagery
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Warhol was commissioned to paint a BMW M1 Group 4 racing version for the fourth installment of the BMW Art Car project
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19 Cents (1962) sold for $95,000—setting a new auction record for Warhol—after having originally been purchased for $1,300 in 1962
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But the car model was changed, and it didn't qualify for the race that year
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“Avevo tanti impegni, ma ho deciso di stare a casa a tingermi le sopracciglia. (11 marzo 1978; p. 80)”
Debuted his Torsos and Athletes series, and then began Oxidation (1977–78) also known as "piss paintings," which were abstract works that Warhol created by exposing a layer of metallic paint to urine, and Shadows (19
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Warhol and painter Jamie Wyeth were commissioned to paint each other's portraits by the Coe Kerr Gallery in Manhattan
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“The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975), Cap. 6”
Warhol completed the Ladies and Gentlemen series, followed by Cats and Dogs in 1976 and the Skulls series later that year
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Was of his mother, Julia Warhola, who had died two years earlier
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Said, "I try to go around so often so much and try to go to every party so that they'll be bored with me and stop writing about me
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The couple moved into a Neo-Georgian townhouse at 57 East 66th Street in Manhattan's Lenox Hill neighborhood
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But adamantly rejected surgery because he feared hospitals
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Warhol planned the Halston runway presentation at the Coty Awards
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Distinctly featured Warhol's Cow (1966) wallpaper as the backdrop for his paintings
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Campbell's Soup Can with Peeling Label (1962) sold for $60,000 at Parke-Bernet Galleries, then the highest price ever paid at public auction for a work by a living American artist
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The show traveled to the Isaac Delgado Museum in New Orleans before arriving at the RISD Museum
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Some of the acetate films used to produce some of Warhol's screenprints were taken to Europe, where they were used to create a new series of editions published under the name "Sunday B
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“Television is so great. Everybody ought to have at least two sets, or three, like the President. There”
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Warhol received an invitation to curate an exhibition using items from the permanent collection of the Rhode Island School of Design Museum (RISD Museum) in Providence
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“Warhol explained that the lack of a plot in Blue Movie was intentional (1969)”
Radical feminist writer Valerie Solanas shot Warhol and Mario Amaya, art critic and curator, at the Factory
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Radical feminist writer Valerie Solanas shot Warhol and art critic Mario Amaya at the Factory
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The Factory evolved into a business enterprise
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“I framtiden kommer var och en att vara världskänd i 15 minuter.In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.I en utställningskatalog för en fotoutställning på Moderna Museet, Stockholm 1968. Källa. Har sedan ofta parafraserats som "15 minuters berömmelse" och liknande.”
“Catalogue of an exhibition of his art in Stockholm, Sweden (1968)”
Warhol was referred to as the "Pope of Pop Art." Religious themes appeared frequently in his work, including the film Imitation of Christ (1967), Crosses (1982), Details of Renaissance Paintings (1984), and the Last Supper series (1986), which is the largest body of religious-themed works by an American artist.
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Warhol established Factory Additions as his printmaking and publishing enterprise, issuing portfolios of ten images in editions of 250
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“Quote of Warhol in Andy, My true Story 3, Gretchen Berg, Los Angeles Free Press (17 March 1967); as quoted in Andy Warhol, retrospective, Art and Bullfinch Press / Little Brown, 1989, pp. 457 – 467”
“In: Andy, My true Story 3, Gretchen Berg, Los Angeles Free Press (17 March 1967); as quoted in Andy Warhol, retrospective, New York and Boston Museum of modern Art & Bullfinch Press / Little Brown, 1989, pp. 457–67”
Warhol underwent a transitional period as he sought to expand his filmmaking activities and increase his income
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In 1966, his mother Julia Warhola described him as a "good religious boy" who attended Sunday Mass weekly at St.
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Large paintings from the Flowers series sold for approximately $6,000, while smaller versions were available for as little as $400
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Four of his new larger Marilyn canvases were famously shot by performance artist Dorothy Podber, resulting in the Shot Marilyns
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“Quote in 'What is Pop Art? Answers from 8 Painters', in Art News 62 (November 1963)”
“What is Pop Art? Answers from 8 Painters', Part 1, G. R. Swenson, in Art News 62 (November 1963)”
Warhol was filmed in his studio for the CBS-TV special "Exhibitions: Contemporary American Painters," a survey of living American artists at work in their studios
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“Quotes of Andy Warhol in "What Is Pop Art?", by Gene Swenson - "Interviews with Eight Painters (Part 1)", Art News 62, New York, November 1963; reprinted in Pop Art Redefined, John Russell and Suzi Gablik (eds.), London, 1969”
“Quote in Warhol in his own words – Untitled Statements (1963 – 1987), selected by Neil Printz; as quoted in Andy Warhol, retrospective, Art and Bullfinch Press / Little Brown, 1989, pp. 457–467”
Warhol remained without major gallery representation, increasingly determined to secure his place within the emerging movement
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Warhol painted his celebrated cans of Campbell's soup, which he claimed to have had for lunch for 20 years
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Warhol adopted the silkscreen print process as a technique for making paintings to make a more "assembly-line effect
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Warhol sold paintings directly to collector Robert Scull and soon attracted major buyers such as Emily Tremaine and Burton Tremaine, but dealer Ivan Karp's efforts failed to secure him gallery representation
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Warhol purchased a Victorian townhouse at 1342 Lexington Avenue, now part of the Hardenbergh/Rhinelander Historic District, in the Carnegie Hill neighborhood of Manhattan
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The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) politely declined Warhol's gift of his drawing Shoe, citing limited storage space and asking him to retrieve it
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Warhol began designing advertisements for the shoe manufacturer Israel Miller
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Warhol created illustrated backdrops for a television performance by jazz bandleader Duke Ellington on the CBS program Music '55
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Warhol exhibited his work on multiple occasions at Vito Giallo's Loft Gallery in New York
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And a full-page interior illustration in 1949
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Warhol created a series of pen-and-ink drawings satirizing his customers and documenting social contrasts encountered during his route, from affluent to working-class families
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Warhol won a scholarship to the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh
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His teacher recognized his talent and arranged for him to attend Saturday drawing classes at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh
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Born 1928-08-06.
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“Andy Warhol, 1928-1987: works from the collections of José Mugrabi and an Isle of Man company - página 82, Andy Warhol, Jacob Baal-Teshuva, David Bourdon - Prestel, 1993, ISBN 3791312774, 9783791312774 - 144 páginas”
Warhol's father emigrated to the United States and found work in a coal mine
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