Warhol, Andy

Repetition and Movement. When visual elements repeat, we find a movement and energy associated with that repetition. In Andy Warhol s 200 Campbell Soup Cans, the repeating cans seem to vibrate and move with unending energy. 

Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe Series, 1970s... 

Twelve Cadilacs (silk screen on canvas), Andy Warhol, 1962... 

Back in Pittsburgh s steel mill days, the city was infamous for both its high pollution levels and its public health problems. Nowadays, Pittsburgh has cleaned up its act and is becoming known as one of the safer US cities in which to live. It is also the proud home of the Andy Warhol Museum, a must-see for fans of Warhol s unique brand of pop art. 

The position of that planet tells you a great deal. In Andy Warhol s case, Virgo, the sign on the cusp of his second house, is ruled by Mercury. It can be found in flamboyant Leo — a perfect placement for an artist who literally painted money. 

Known for his silk-screened portraits and provocative paintings of Campbell s soup cans (and electric chairs), Andy Warhol is also remembered for his prescient statement, In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. ... 

The ki Another successful restoration was the Andy Warhol painting called The Bathtub. It was damaged when a lipstick-wearing viewer kissed the canvas, as shown in Figure 2. Most conventional restoration techniques would have driven the lipstick deeper into the painting, leaving a permanent pink stain. When atomic oxygen was applied to the stain, the pink color vanished. 

This famous Andy Warhol painting was spot cleaned by using a beam of atomic oxygen. 

In 1960, Kliiver aided his friend the Swiss-born artist Jean Tinguely in the construction of Homage to New York, the machine featured on IEEE Spectrum s cover, which self-immolated at a happening at the Museum of Modern Art. Collaborations soon followed with Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol. Kliiver also began to fashion himself as a cultural critic, arguing in the art-house review Hasty Papers that system builders had drifted from societal service and thus had to reconnect with the individual realities of users. ... 

Among the many celebrated victims of methamphetamine abuse, Johnny Cash, the American singer, survived. He found God. Others were not so lucky. Amphetamines contributed to the deaths of Judy Garland and Edie Sedgwick, Andy Warhol s muse. 

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