Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol

Jaime Swank

Pop Art’s King

Table

Early LifeCareer and Life in 20s and 30s

The FactoryWork and Impact

Rest of LifeKey Terms

QuotesQuiz Time!

Works Cited

Early Life• Born August 6, 1928, in

Pittsburgh’s immigrant ghetto, Soho

• Parents: Andrej and Julia Warhola

• Carpatho-Ruthenia (currently part of Ukraine)

• Two older brothers – Paul and John

• Byzantine Catholic

Early Talent

• Always won his mother’s art contest• Wanted a movie projector• Saved money to buy film of cartoons and then

drew his own copies• Carnegie Institute gifted children’s class

Young Misfortunes• Andy caught rheumatic

fever at eight• A complication of

inadequately treated strep throat

• Fever, pain, shortness of breath

• St. Vitus’ dance – uncontrollable shaking

• Left school for a while• Didn’t affect his grades

• Andrej died when Andy was 13

• He suffered from jaundice and caught hepatitis while doing construction work

• Probably died of peritonitis

• Inflammation of the inner wall of the abdomen

College

• Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon)

• Art competition ($40 and an exhibition)

• Blotted line• Decided to go into

commercial art• Went to New York and left

a positive impression on magazine art directors

Commercial Art

• “Success Is a Job in New York” – first assignment for Glamour

• Oops…Warhol!• Okay with making changes…art directors

love it!• Naïvety• The “roach period”, Philip Pearlstein• “Mama’s boy”• Lost his hair early

Sexual Orientation

• Warhol was more openly gay than most• Before modern gay rights movement- “sexual

perverts”• Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns snubbed him• Emile de Antonio: “You’re too swish, and that upsets

them”• Warhol: “I know plenty of painters who are more

swish than me”• “The major painters try to look straight. You play up

the swish”

Shot to Fame

• Serendipity 3 – ice cream parlor on the Upper East Side

• Abstract Expressionism (Jackson Pollack)

• Andy didn’t fit in• Part of the rising Pop Art

movement• Started drawing iconic

Coke bottles and Campbell’s Soup cans

The Factory• Warehouse space on the fifth floor of a loft building near

Grand Central Station• Open-door policy• Made films and art• “Superstars” – Nico, Joe Dallesandro, Edie Sedgwick, Viva,

Ultra Violet, Holly Woodlawn, Jackie Curtis, Candy Darling

Art Work - Technology

Art - Social

Art - Social

Art - Political

Art - Diplomatic

Art - Economic

Film

• 500 screen tests• Most had no plot• Eat and Sleep• Some were inspired by

gay underground and camp culture

• Chelsea Girls – his most popular, two different stories at the same time

Attempted Murder

• 1968• Valerie Solanas – founder and sole member of the

Society for Cutting Up Men• She sent him a screenplay, which he disliked and lost• She demanded Warhol pay her rent• Offered her $25 in I, a Man• Pulled a gun out of a crumpled bag and shot Warhol

and Mario Amaya• Andy revoked the open-door policy

Later Years and Death• 1970s- made mostly

commissioned portraits• Interview magazine• 1980s – worked with younger

artists such as Jean- Michel Basquiat

• Death- NYC 6:32 AM Febuary 2, 1987

• Routine gallbladder surgery, cardiac arrythmia

• Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Key Terms• Pop Art - “The style of art made popular in the 1960s by

such artists as Andy Warhol… using images from such popular sources as advertising and comic books, and also using common objects” (Greenberg and Jordan 155)

• Abstract Expressionism – the style of art made popular by the likes of Jackson Pollack

• Commercial artist – an artist who makes images for advertisements or media such as magazines or newspaper articles

• Jasper Johns and Robert Raushenberg – artists who drew the subjects of Pop Art with the style of Abstract Expressionism

Quotes• “The Pop artists did images that anybody walking down

Broadway could recognize in a split second”• “Pop art is for everyone. I don’t think art should be only

for the select few”• “Machines have less problems. I’d like to be a machine,

wouldn’t you? • “In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen

minutes”• “I like boring things. I like things to be the same over and

over again.”• “Buying is much more American than thinking, and I’m

as American as they come”

Multiple Choice

1) What did Andy Warhol’s father, Andrej Warhola, probably die of?

a. Rheumatic feverb. Jaundicec. Strep throatd. Peritonitise. Tuberculosis

Multiple Choice

1) What did Andy Warhol’s father, Andrej Warhola, probably die of?

a. Rheumatic feverb. Jaundicec. Strep throatd. Peritonitise. Tuberculosis

Multiple Choice

2) Which medium/media did Andy Warhol NOT dabble in?

a. Commercial artb. Actingc. Magazinesd. Filme. Pop art

Multiple Choice

2) Which medium/media did Andy Warhol NOT dabble in?

a. Commercial artb. Actingc. Magazinesd. Filme. Pop art

Multiple Choice

3) What was the name of Warhol’s studio?a. The Factoryb. The Machinec. The Firehoused. The Statione. The Superstar

Multiple Choice

3) What was the name of Warhol’s studio?a. The Factoryb. The Machinec. The Firehoused. The Statione. The Superstar

Multiple Choice

4) What was the name of the young artist Warhol worked with in his later years?

a. Jasper Johnsb. Valerie Solanasc. Edie Sedgwickd. Emile de Antonioe. Jean-Michel Basquiat

Multiple Choice

4) What was the name of the young artist with whom Warhol worked in his later years?

a. Jasper Johnsb. Valerie Solanasc. Edie Sedgwickd. Emile de Antonioe. Jean-Michel Basquiat

Multiple Choice

5) What was the name of the magazine in which Warhol’s work was first published?

a. Interviewb. Glamourc. Vogued. Ladies’ Home Journale. People

Multiple Choice

5) What was the name of the magazine in which Warhol’s work was first published?

a. Interviewb. Glamourc. Vogued. Ladies’ Home Journale. People

Sources

• http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/rheumatic-fever/DS00250

• Greenberg, Jan, and Sandra Jordan. Andy Warhol: Prince of Pop. New York: Delacorte, 2004. Print.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_warhol