With a stationary Bolex camera, from —66 Warhol made almost of these silent four-minute Screen Tests played back in slow motion. All rights reserved. Warhol first began making box sculptures in Invoking a factory assembly line and enlisting help from his studio assistants at the Silver Factory, he created hundreds of replicas of large supermarket product boxes—including Brillo Boxes , Heinz Boxes , Del Monte Boxes , and more. The Brillo Boxes were first exhibited in at the Stable Gallery in New York where they were tightly packed and piled high, recalling a grocery warehouse.
Warhol expanded into performance art in with the debut of his traveling cinematic multimedia performance Exploding Plastic Inevitable , featuring The Velvet Underground and Nico.
EPI was an immersive experience with live music, lighting effects, projected film footage, and live dancers. The clouds floated among dancers on stage. Warhol lost the lease on his Silver Factory in and relocated to the 6th floor of 33 Union Square West.
Warhol was physically and emotionally scarred by the nearly fatal shooting. This event significantly altered his working practice from an experimental, collaborative approach to a much more guarded one. The shooting damaged eight organs and left scars across his stomach and torso. The incident and numerous surgeries that followed required that he wear a corset for the rest of his life. In college, Warhol developed a blotted-line technique that combined drawing with basic printmaking.
Blotted line allowed him to create a variety of illustrations using the same initial pattern, important to his commercial illustration career when he could bring several ideas to clients.
This was the beginning of his lifelong interest to quickly create multiples. His most notable style, photographic silkscreen printing, replicated the look of commercial advertising. It gave Warhol a faithful duplication of his source images while allowing him to experiment with various techniques, such as over-printing printing one color on top of another , registration aligning colors on a single image , and color combinations. Warhol worked with art assistants and professional printers to produce thousands of silkscreen paintings and print portfolios throughout his lifetime.
Warhol became increasingly involved in publishing in the late s, becoming fully immersed in the s. In , he co-founded Interview , a magazine devoted to film, fashion, and popular culture that gave him access to the stars. Interview - Vol. He had been commissioned previously for album cover designs and painted portraits, but in the s he began to receive hundreds of commissions from socialites, music and film stars, and others.
During this period, Warhol used a Polaroid camera and a tape recorder to document his daily life, from business meetings to star-studded social occasions. He also used Polaroid photographs as source materials for his iconic celebrity portraits and many still lifes throughout the s and s. By , increasing his painting production, Warhol moved his office to a larger space on the 3rd floor of Broadway on Union Square.
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As a result of the injuries he sustained, he had to wear a surgical corset for the rest of his life. In the s, Warhol continued to explore other forms of media. Warhol also experimented extensively with video art, producing more than 60 films during his career. Some of his most famous films include Sleep , which depicts poet John Giorno sleeping for six hours, and Eat , which shows a man eating a mushroom for 45 minutes.
In his later life, Warhol suffered from chronic issues with his gallbladder. On February 20, , he was admitted to New York Hospital where his gallbladder was successfully removed and he seemed to be recovering.
However, days later he suffered complications that resulted in sudden cardiac arrest and he died on February 22, , at the age of Thousands of people attended a memorial for the artist at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. Warhol's enigmatic personal life has been the subject of much debate. He is widely believed to have been a gay man, and his art was often infused with homoerotic imagery and motifs. However, he claimed that he remained a virgin for his entire life.
Warhol's life and work simultaneously satirized and celebrated materiality and celebrity. On the one hand, his paintings of distorted brand images and celebrity faces could be read as a critique of what he viewed as a culture obsessed with money and celebrity.
On the other hand, Warhol's focus on consumer goods and pop-culture icons, as well as his own taste for money and fame, suggests a life in celebration of the very aspects of American culture that his work criticized.
Warhol spoke to this apparent contradiction between his life and work in his book The Philosophy of Andy Warhol , writing that "making money is art and working is art, and good business is the best art. In , the last two executions by electric chair in New York State took place. The same year Andy Warhol obtained a photograph of the empty execution chamber. He used it to create a series of paintings depicting the electric chair as a metaphor of death and thereby commenting on the controversy surrounding the death penalty in the s.
Big Electric Chair is the most famous painting of the series. The source image for the series was photographs published in the issue of Modern Photography taken by the nature photographer Patricia Caulfield. At a time when Warhol was concentrating on consumerism, celebrity, death and disasters, the series was a departure as it depicted a more abstract and philosophical subject. The paintings were immediately sold out when they were put on show.
A symbol of modern mass consumerism, the Coca Cola bottle is an iconic American object which caught the fancy of Warhol. In fact one of his most famous quotes revolves around it. Warhol created several works on the Coke bottle.
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