Sarasota Arts & Culture Magazine - September/October 2007 - (Page 21) : : Art 101 this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest…All the cokes are the same and all the cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.” His fascination with popular culture led to an inordinate amount of silkscreen prints depicting everything from Campbell’s Soup Cans to Marilyn Monroe. But Warhol wanted to mass produce his art, thus, “The Factory” was born. Magnetically drawing both underground and popular artists, writers and musicians to his studio, Warhol’s eccentricities led to a revolution in art: his own creativity was diminished to manufacture duplicates of his abstract renditions of iconic images. The Factory became the hub for “art workers” to produce both Warhol’s prints and their own works of art, as well as an experimental filmmaking studio. Warhol produced over 300 underground films, as unconventional and controversial as his own person. Popularity plagued Warhol in such a way that the controversy nearly coincided with the acceptance. Near the end of his reign of the sixties, a worker named Valerie Solanas shot the pop artist three times in the chest, claiming, “He had too much control over my life.” Still scathed by his narrow escape from death, Warhol’s style drastically changed in the seventies. The artist who established mass production of art now poured his time into individual portraits of the rich and affluent. Uniqueness and individuality characterized the man, but in a different way. He became an entrepreneur. He founded the magazine Interview, opened a nightclub and published books. Though he was an extremely public individual, few agree upon his actual personality. Hollywood glamour was his obsession, and Studio 54 and Serendipity 3 were not strange havens to his nights out; but he was regarded as shy, quiet and a true workaholic. After a three decade spell of artistic sway, medical complications took his life. No matter the viewpoint, the artist is a legend as iconic as the depicted images for which he is so renowned. After Andy Warhol’s hand touched the field of art, creative expression was never the same. Opposite Page: Brillo Box, 1964, silkscreen ink on painted wood. This Page: Marilyn, 1967, screenprint on white paper; The Resume of Andy Warhol, compiled by Alizah Herman. arts and culture magazine : : 21
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