Everyone Will Be Famous for 15 Minutes – Andy Warhol
“Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.” – Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol’s 15 minutes of fame has lasted for 25 years. He created different art forms fromhand drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, silk screening, sculpture, film, and music. According to http://www.art.com/gallery/id--a76/andy-warhol-posters.htm ‘he produced more than art-he was essentially his own brand’. He was an artist from America who was well known for being an important part of the starting of a visual art movement by the name of pop art.
Warhol was openly gay. He often talked about the fact that his homosexuality influenced his work a lot in interviews, in everyday conversations and in his books (eg. Popism: The Warhol 1960’s). From early on in his career right through to the end, he ‘produced erotic photography and drawings’ of nude men. Several of his most famous works are inspired by gay underground culture as well as explore/discover the complications and difficulties of sexuality and desire. HIs very first erotic drawings of nude men that he gave to a fine art gallery, were not wanted because they said they were too openly gay.
Andy Warhol started to produce paintings of iconic American objects throughout the 1960s. Such items were dollar bills, mushroom clouds, electric chairs, Campbell’s Soup Cans and Coca-Cola bottles, plus he did newspaper headlines and/or photographs of police dogs attacking civil rights protesters. He also painted celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Muhammad Ali and Elizabeth Taylor.
A quote from Andy Warhol found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol: “What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coca-Cola, Liz Taylor drinks Coca-Cola, and just think, you can drink Coca-Cola, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better
Andy Warhol’s 15 minutes of fame has lasted for 25 years. He created different art forms fromhand drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, silk screening, sculpture, film, and music. According to http://www.art.com/gallery/id--a76/andy-warhol-posters.htm ‘he produced more than art-he was essentially his own brand’. He was an artist from America who was well known for being an important part of the starting of a visual art movement by the name of pop art.
Warhol was openly gay. He often talked about the fact that his homosexuality influenced his work a lot in interviews, in everyday conversations and in his books (eg. Popism: The Warhol 1960’s). From early on in his career right through to the end, he ‘produced erotic photography and drawings’ of nude men. Several of his most famous works are inspired by gay underground culture as well as explore/discover the complications and difficulties of sexuality and desire. HIs very first erotic drawings of nude men that he gave to a fine art gallery, were not wanted because they said they were too openly gay.
Andy Warhol started to produce paintings of iconic American objects throughout the 1960s. Such items were dollar bills, mushroom clouds, electric chairs, Campbell’s Soup Cans and Coca-Cola bottles, plus he did newspaper headlines and/or photographs of police dogs attacking civil rights protesters. He also painted celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Muhammad Ali and Elizabeth Taylor.
A quote from Andy Warhol found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol: “What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coca-Cola, Liz Taylor drinks Coca-Cola, and just think, you can drink Coca-Cola, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better