“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” – Andy Warhol.
“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” – Andy Warhol.Picture: Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987), New York City, 1975..Andy Warhol, who died thirty years ago today, was an American artist and a leader in the American pop art movement, best-known for his perspective on the overlap between art, celebrity and pop culture, and advertising..After a career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol began showing his art in the late 1950s; by the early 1960s, he had created and displayed iconic works including “Marilyn Diptych” and “100 Soup Cans.”.From there, Warhol continued to focus on iconic American objects and personalities; of Warhol’s famous portrait of Marilyn Monroe, one historian wrote: “Portraiture is almost as old as art itself and one of the most used genres in art-making…It being so commonly used, not many artists can claim to have changed the course or set a new standard in portraiture; Warhol can.”.In 1962, Warhol founded his studio, “The Factory,” in which queer artists and icons—including Lou Reed, Holly Woodlawn, Marsha P. Johnson, Candy Darling, and Joe Dallesandro—were celebrated and given space to socialize and create. Warhol also managed The Velvet Underground, founded Interview magazine (@interviewmag), and produced visual art—including a number of seminal underground films—that made overtly queer imagery accessible, commercially successful, and beautiful..After being shot and nearly killed in June 1968, Warhol’s perspective on art and life solidified: “Before I was shot,” he said later, “I always thought I was more half-there than all there—I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life…Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television. The channels switch, but it’s all television.”.Andy Warhol died from complications associated with a routine gallbladder surgery on February 22, 1987; he was fifty-eight. #lgbthistory #HavePrideInHistory #AndyWarhol (at New York, New York) -- source link
Tumblr Blog : lgbt-history-archive.tumblr.com
#haveprideinhistory#andywarhol#lgbthistory