Recreating Andy Warhol Challenge - July / August 2020

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Recreating Andy Warhol Challenge - July / August 2020
Recreating Andy Warhol Challenge - July / August 2020

Recreating Andy Warhol Challenge - July / August 2020 (*) by Daniel Arrhakis (2020)


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Andy Warhol (1928 – 1987) was an American artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as Pop Art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, advertising, and celebrity culture that flourished by the 1960s, and span a variety of media, including painting, silkscreening, photography, film, and sculpture. Some of his best known works include the silkscreen paintings Campbell's Soup Cans (1962) and Marilyn Diptych (1962), the experimental film Chelsea Girls (1966), and the multimedia events known as the Exploding Plastic Inevitable (1966–67).

The figure of Andy Warhol alone conveys from the outset what Pop Art really is: the broom-shaped hair, the big, round glasses he sometimes wore, his own clothing or even his way of showing the artist and art in one.

Born under the name Andrej Varhola on August 6, 1928 (although there are uncertainties about this date), in a working class family from Slovakia, in 1945 he entered the Carnegie Institute of Technology, where he graduated in design. He started by professionally getting started in commercial illustration and from a very early age he was seen as a controversial artist.
Working most of the time in his studio on the fifth floor of 231 East 47th Street, in Midtown, Manhattan, which he called The Factory, it was in this space that he brought his works to life.

The Factory, became a well-known gathering place that brought together distinguished intellectuals, drag queens, playwrights, Bohemian street people, Hollywood celebrities, and wealthy patrons.

He authored numerous books, including The Philosophy of Andy Warhol and Popism: The Warhol Sixties.
He lived openly as a gay man before the gay liberation movement.

The Andy Warhol Museum is located on the North Shore of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is the largest museum in North America dedicated to a single artist. The museum holds an extensive permanent collection of art and archives from the Pittsburgh-born pop art icon Andy Warhol.

www.warhol.org/
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(*) Creative Art Collage and Digital Graphic work based in some iconic elements and photographs of Andy Warhol; all elements modified and recreated.

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Taken on: August 2, 2017
Sets appears in:   • Recreating Masters    • Contemporaneous Digital Pop Art Visions   
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