Sarasota Arts & Culture Magazine - September/October 2007 - (Page 20) Art 101 : : Blurring the Palette of Fine and Commercial Art Next to “Pop Art” in the encyclopedia, there will most likely lie a color picture of Andy Warhol, complete with his brief, italicized description. The artistic phenomenon paralleled in Britain and the United States, like many of the pop culture materializations of the mid-twentieth century. But none surpassed Warhol as the legendary “Prince of Pop,” who famously drew upon themes in popular mass culture to express a reaction to those dominant ideas in abstract expressions. Though fine art talent was evidential to Warhol’s artistic bent early on, he intended to remove the schism between fine arts and the commercial arts of print media, rather than pursue his drawing and painting. He received a degree in commercial art from the Carnegie Institute of Technology in his hometown of Pittsburgh, and proceeded to penetrate the commercial market in New York with his illustrations for magazines like Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. Perhaps it was his inner city upbringing by Slovak immigrant parents (the Warholas), or perhaps it was the St. Vitus’ dance he contracted in the third grade, but Warhol’s circles of social interaction and artistic appreciation spanned from the bohemian to the aristocrat. In his book, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol from A to B and Back Again, he says, “What’s great about ANDY WARHOL: 20 : : arts and culture magazine
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