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Andy Warhol (/ ˈ w ɔːr h ɒ l /; [1] born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director and producer.A leading figure in the pop art movement, Warhol is considered one the most important artists of the second half of the 20th century.
In August, Warhol's pop art had its first museum presentation in a survey show at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut. This show resulted in Warhol's first fine-art review in The New York Times. Regarding some of Warhol's Campbell's Soup can paintings, the review stated, "These are no mere unruly incidents but big steps towards art ...
Andy Warhol is probably the most famous figure in pop art. In fact, art critic Arthur Danto once called Warhol "the nearest thing to a philosophical genius the history of art has produced". [ 19 ] Warhol attempted to take pop beyond an artistic style to a life style, and his work often displays a lack of human affectation that dispenses with ...
The 1960s brought us The Beatles, Bob Dylan, beehive hairstyles, the civil rights movement, ATMs, audio cassettes, the Flintstones, and some of the most iconic fashion ever. It was a time of ...
Andy Warhol, left, stands with bride Randy McNair and groom Gary Norris at Warhol’s Mod Wedding, a pop-art extravaganza that was part of the Carnaby Street Fun Festival at the State Fairgrounds ...
It's a Pop history in wraparound sunglasses and it reads like a dream." [ 3 ] Ben Pleasants of the Los Angeles Times noted that "'Popism: The Warhol '60s' is not a book about turbulence in America, or upheaval in our cities or even experimentation in the arts; instead, it focuses on the chic gossip of the art crowd of Manhattan during that era."
Chelsea Girls is a 1966 American experimental underground film directed by Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey.The film was Warhol's first major commercial success after a long line of avant-garde art films (both feature-length and short).
The Exploding Plastic Inevitable, sometimes simply called Plastic Inevitable or EPI, was a series of multimedia gesamtkunstwerk events organized by Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey in 1966 and 1967, featuring musical performances by the Velvet Underground and Nico, screenings of Warhol's films, such as Eat, and dancing and mime performance art by ...