Genius of Andy Warhol
Genius of Andy WarholNever before have I encountered more intriguing works of art than
those done by Andy Warhol. I have been curious about his life ever
since I saw his work in Milwaukee. I saw his famous work of the
Campbell's Soup Can. By viewing this, one can tell he is not your
average artist. I'm sure his life is full of interesting events that
shaped him into who he was. As an artist myself, I would like to get
to know the background of his life. I may then be able to appreciate
his styles and understand why and how his works were created. His
life is as interesting as his artistic masterpieces.
Andrew Warhola (his original name) was born one of three sons of
Czech immigrants, somewhere in Pennsylvania on either August 6, 1928
or on September 28, 1930 (the date on his birth certificate). His
father died when Andy was at a very young age. Thus, it forced Andy
into a deep depression containing lack of self confidence. Much of
his young life has been kept secret. However, he did report being
very shy and depressed because he never felt comfortable with his
homosexuality. His childhood life may have been full of the torture
that children threw at him for being the different person he was. He
was able to attend college. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts
degree in pictorial design from Carnegie Institute of Technology in
1949, he went to New York City with Philip Pearlstein, who was a
fellow student that later became a well-known realist painter. In
1960, Warhol finally began to paint in earnest and to view art
seriously as a career. He began his career with commercial drawings
of women's shoes. In 1961, an early manifestation was his Dick Tracy,
an enlarged version of the comic strip that was placed in the window
of Lord & Taylor's department store. He followed in his own footsteps
to keep going in the ever-so-famous "pop art" track. Warhol's use of
images are so close to the images themselves, thanks to the
photographic silkscreen technique, which is a process of applying the
same image over and over again without changing the original. In
1963, he began turning film into his next aesthetic. He was the
recorder of the world around him. Warhol saw this world as populated
by hustlers of various sorts, motivated largely by money and the
goods it would buy. Later that next year, he started to experiment in
underground film. In the late 70's he began to use sex and nudity to
gain attention in his films. Whether this was moral or not; it did,
however, work. The rest of his short life was spent visiting with
celebrities and keeping up with the world's times. He tried to
understand how the rest of the world saw things, but just never got
there. Sadly, Warhol died of a heart failure on March 9, 1987,...
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