Warhol, Andy (1928-1987)
Andy Warhol was the most renowned Pop artist in the 1960s and, more generally, one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. His boundless and apparently effortl...
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Andy Warhol (ca. 1927-1987) was a pioneer American pop artist and film maker. His paintings of Campbell soup cans and other mundane objects both piqued and delighted the art public and brought him fam...
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Andy Warhol was worried about a pimple he had found that morning. B, on the other end of the telephone line, told him to cover it up. Warhol got some makeup and did so. "Okay, B, okay. So now the pimp...
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Critical Essay by Brendan Gill
The speed and ease of [Warhol's] movie-making are based on the theory that nothing that an artist produces in the course of his work can fairly be called a mistak...
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Critical Essay by David Denby
The dramatic action of [Viva and Louis, also known as Blue Movie and Fuck] consists of the two characters struggling to find enough to say and do to fill up the time it t...
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Critical Essay by Michael Goodwin
A delightful blasphemy, [Imitation of Christ] actually looks more like Bike Boy than Lonesome Cowboys; basically, it's just a series of encounters between Patr...
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Critical Essay by Peter Buckley
[My Hustler] really is just a home movie made by a few people who know a bit about cameras and a bit about their subject, and like any homegrown product, it has its ups...
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Critical Essay by Richard Schickel
[Ernie Kovacs's comment, "Show me a cowboy who rides sidesaddle, and I'll show you a gay ranchero"], which I heard the late great comedia...
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Critical Essay by Stephen Koch
Warhol was a central protagonist in a social drama that tried to make the 1960's look like another Age of Innocence. A childlike, gum-chewing naïveté...
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Critical Essay by John Russell Taylor
The essence of Warhol's art—and by extension that of the Factory he heads—is the straight look at things as they are, and acceptance of appea...
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Critical Essay by Jonas Mekas
[The work of Andy Warhol] is the last word in the Direct Cinema. It is hard to imagine anything more pure, less staged, and less directed than Andy Warhol's ...
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Critical Essay by Gregory Battcock
Screen Test is a transitional work both in technique and content…. Yet the "still image" device is still retained in Screen Test. (By "st...
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Critical Essay by Parker Tyler
A part of Warhol's negotiable charm as a modern entertainer is his work as applied art-naiveté. There is something both perverse and violent about pasting ...
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Critical Essay by Howard Thompson
[In this month's Andy Warhol picture, a stringy-haired blonde drawls,] "Are you as bored as I am?" Baby, we were stultified.
Undaunted devotees o...
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Art can be pleasurable; it does not have to be deep. Andy Warhol's pieces of work were not exactly profound. He developed his own style from, "taking an image familiar to millions and presenting i...
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I selected Andy Warhol because I have long admired his crazy, quirky, unconventional style of producing works of art from normal, everyday subjects ranging from inanimate, normally unnoticed objects t...
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It has been perceived throughout time that an artist's inspiration has had an impact on what was meaningful in that era and Andy Wahol was no exception to that rule. In fact because he was a prominent...
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Julia and Ondrej Warhola were from Czechoslovakia, but moved to America and had three children; Paul, John, and Andy Warhola. Andy Warhola would soon become one of the greatest artists of his time.
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In 1928 one of Pop Arts most famous painters was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His name is Andy Warhol or as it says on his birth certificate Andrew Warhola he was born to two Czechoslovak immigr...
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Warhol, Andy
Warhol, Andy (1928-1987)
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol
