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Andy Warhol ( / ˈwɔːrhɒl /; [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 of the most important American artists of the second half of the 20th century. [2] [3] [4] His works explore the ...
Jun 27, 2024 · Andy Warhol (born August 6, 1928, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died February 22, 1987, New York, New York) was an American artist and filmmaker, an initiator and leading exponent of the Pop art movement of the 1960s whose mass-produced art apotheosized the supposed banality of the commercial culture of the United States.
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Andy Warhol. 1 8. John Warhola, Andy Warhol on the day before he started college, photographed by his brother John in the photo studio that he operated with their cousin John Preksta, September 1945, 1945. The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. T600.
Apr 2, 2014 · Warhol's enigmatic personal life has been the subject of much debate. He is widely believed to have been a gay man, and his art was often infused with homoerotic imagery and motifs.
Andy Warhol directed or produced nearly 150 films. Fifty of the films have been preserved by the Museum of Modern Art . [2] In August 2014, the Museum of Modern Art began a project to digitize films previously unseen and to show them to the public.
YearFilmCast196319631963Sarah Dalton1963Denis DeeganWarhol has been the subject of numerous retrospective exhibitions, books, and feature and documentary films. The Andy Warhol Museum in his native city of Pittsburgh, which holds an extensive permanent collection of art and archives, is the largest museum in the United States dedicated to a single artist.
Aug 6, 2020 · The apotheosis of Warhol’s continuous experiments with time through the cinematic medium, this eight-hour-long film features nothing but a static shot of the Empire State Building, with little to no developments, filmed from early evening until nearly 3am on 24-25 July 1964 from an office of the Rockefeller Foundation, on the 41st floor of the Time-Life Building, 51st Street and 6th Avenue ...
