Warhol worked across a wide range of media, says Wikipedia – painting, photography, drawing, and sculpture.
In addition, he was a highly prolific filmmaker. Between 1963 and 1968, he made more than 60 films[45], plus some 500 short black and white "screen test" portraits of Factory visitors.[46]
One of his most famous films, Sleep, monitors poet John Giorno sleeping for six hours. The 35-minute film Blow Job, is one continuous shot of the face of DeVeren Bookwalter supposedly receiving oral sex from filmmaker Willard Maas, although the camera never tilts down to see this.
Another, 1964's Empire, consists of eight hours of footage of the Empire State Building in New York City at dusk. The film Eat consists of a man eating a mushroom for 45 minutes.
Warhol attended the 1962 premiere of the static composition by LaMonte Young called Trio for Strings and subsequently created his famous series of static films including Kiss, Eat, and Sleep (for which Young initially was commissioned to provide music). Uwe Husslein cites filmmaker Jonas Mekas, who accompanied Warhol to the Trio premiere, and who claims Warhol's static films were directly inspired by the performance.[47]
His most popular and critically successful film was 1966's Chelsea Girls. The film was highly innovative in that it consisted of two 16 mm films being projected simultaneously, with two different stories being shown in tandem. From the projection booth, the sound would be raised for one film to elucidate that "story" while it was lowered for the other. The multiplication of images evoked Warhol's seminal silk-screen works of the early 1960s.
Other important films include Bike Boy, My Hustler, and Lonesome Cowboys, a raunchy pseudo-western.
These and other titles document gay underground and camp culture, and continue to feature prominently in scholarship about sexuality and art.[48][49]
Blue Movie, a film in which Warhol superstar Viva makes love and fools around in bed with a man for 33 minutes of the film's playing-time, was Warhol's last film as director. The film was at the time scandalous for its frank approach to a sexual encounter.
After his June 3, 1968 shooting, a reclusive Warhol relinquished his personal involvement in filmmaking.
His acolyte and assistant director, Paul Morrissey, took over the film-making chores for the Factory collective, steering Warhol-branded cinema towards more mainstream, narrative-based, B-movie exploitation fare with Flesh, Trash, and Heat.
All of these films, including the later Andy Warhol's Dracula and Andy Warhol's Frankenstein, were far more mainstream than anything Warhol as a director had attempted. These latter "Warhol" films starred Joe Dallesandro, who was more of a Morrissey star than a true Warhol superstar.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Essay on Picasso: use specific examples such as the famous She-Goat sculpture
- 15 pt essay of about 1 page, Google Doc, under the general heading of What made Picasso so Successful?
- Reference and describe at least 2 of his pieces.
- Refer to at least 2 other artists.
- Refer to the geography.
- Due Mon.
Pablo Ruiz Picasso threw a slab of clay onto a board. He grabbed wood lathing and fashioned an animal-like armature. He began to smack lumps of clay onto the frame. A goat began to take shape.
Today, that animal has been cast in bronze and resides in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC.
PIcasso saw himself as a minotaur, a bull-headed creature, not a goat. But because he lived so long - to age 93 - he had to confront the fact that he was, in some ways, a horny and simple goat.
This multi-faceted artist was enormously successful - the most powerful name in 20th century painting and sculpture, says Wikipedia.com. What was the ingredient that catapulted him past Matisse and Man Ray and Dali? It was his sense of the magical in life.
On the one hand, Picasso was a serious student of what worked in art. He was a steady consumer of the best European art as seen in the great museums of Paris, Madrid and Barcelona. He knew what worked for his predescessors: among them Velazquez, El Greco and Michelangelo.
But it was his ability to release the playful inner child in his sketches that proved to be the spine of his upright gorilla.
- Reference and describe at least 2 of his pieces.
- Refer to at least 2 other artists.
- Refer to the geography.
- Due Mon.
Pablo Ruiz Picasso threw a slab of clay onto a board. He grabbed wood lathing and fashioned an animal-like armature. He began to smack lumps of clay onto the frame. A goat began to take shape.
Today, that animal has been cast in bronze and resides in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC.
PIcasso saw himself as a minotaur, a bull-headed creature, not a goat. But because he lived so long - to age 93 - he had to confront the fact that he was, in some ways, a horny and simple goat.
This multi-faceted artist was enormously successful - the most powerful name in 20th century painting and sculpture, says Wikipedia.com. What was the ingredient that catapulted him past Matisse and Man Ray and Dali? It was his sense of the magical in life.
On the one hand, Picasso was a serious student of what worked in art. He was a steady consumer of the best European art as seen in the great museums of Paris, Madrid and Barcelona. He knew what worked for his predescessors: among them Velazquez, El Greco and Michelangelo.
But it was his ability to release the playful inner child in his sketches that proved to be the spine of his upright gorilla.
Picasso in the Dallas Museum of Art
The recent scouting trip by your teacher and family encompassed extensive visits to the DMA, the Nasher Sculpture Center, Crow Museum of Asian Art and the Meadows @ SMU.
See slide show here.
See slide show here.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Fernande, Eva, Gaby, Olga: Picasso's numerous consorts
Picasso had two wives (Olga and Jacqueline) and four children by three women.
At the site http://www.sapergalleries.com/PicassoWomen.html you will find a summary that will provide a better understanding of eight of Picasso's major relationships.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Exquisite Corpse piece 003
Exquisite corpse (also known as "exquisite cadaver" or "rotating corpse") is a method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled, says Wikipedia, the result being known as the exquisite corpse or cadavre exquis in French.
Each collaborator adds to a composition in sequence, either by following a rule (e.g. "The adjective noun adverb verb the adjective noun") or by being allowed to see the end of what the previous person contributed.
The technique was invented by Surrealists and is similar to an old parlour game called Consequences in which players write in turn on a sheet of paper, fold it to conceal part of the writing, and then pass it to the next player for a further contribution.
Surrealism principal founder André Breton reported that it started in fun, but became playful and eventually enriching.
Each collaborator adds to a composition in sequence, either by following a rule (e.g. "The adjective noun adverb verb the adjective noun") or by being allowed to see the end of what the previous person contributed.
The technique was invented by Surrealists and is similar to an old parlour game called Consequences in which players write in turn on a sheet of paper, fold it to conceal part of the writing, and then pass it to the next player for a further contribution.
Surrealism principal founder André Breton reported that it started in fun, but became playful and eventually enriching.
Wed, Nov 18, 7:30 am: Magnet tour to museums in Ft. Worth
Trip to see the Ft Worth museums as planned by Mrs Wendy Reed:
a) Red River Coach 56-seat tour bus
b) $34
c) depart Magnet at 7:30 am
d) 3 great museums: the Kimbell, Amon Carter & FW Modern
e) self-packed lunch / picnic at the downtown Ft Worth Water Gardens
f) fast food stop on return
g) no museum fees
h) money for trip due Nov 9
i) return about 8 pm
I highly, highly recommend this trip. You may say to yourself, "oh, I've got to work," or "I'm short of money right now," but in the long run it is a serious investment in your education. Therefore, trade out at work. Ask family members to help you with the expense money.
This more than good fun. It's a door that opens, deliciously, on your lovely future.
a) Red River Coach 56-seat tour bus
b) $34
c) depart Magnet at 7:30 am
d) 3 great museums: the Kimbell, Amon Carter & FW Modern
e) self-packed lunch / picnic at the downtown Ft Worth Water Gardens
f) fast food stop on return
g) no museum fees
h) money for trip due Nov 9
i) return about 8 pm
I highly, highly recommend this trip. You may say to yourself, "oh, I've got to work," or "I'm short of money right now," but in the long run it is a serious investment in your education. Therefore, trade out at work. Ask family members to help you with the expense money.
This more than good fun. It's a door that opens, deliciously, on your lovely future.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Andy Warhol, consumerism and irony
It was during the 1960s that Warhol began to make paintings of iconic American products such as Campbell's Soup Cans and Coca-Cola bottles, says Wikipedia, as well as paintings of celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Troy Donahue, Muhammad Ali and Elizabeth Taylor.
He founded "The Factory", his studio during these years, and gathered around himself a wide range of artists, writers, musicians, and underground celebrities. He began producing prints using the silkscreen method. His work became popular and controversial.
Among the imagery tackled by Warhol were dollar bills, celebrities and brand name products. He also used as imagery for his paintings newspaper headlines or photographs of mushroom clouds, electric chairs, and police dogs attacking civil rights protesters. Warhol also used Coca Cola bottles as subject matter for paintings. He had this to say about Coca Cola:
What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coca Cola, Liz Taylor drinks Coca Cola, and just think, you can drink Coca Cola, too. A coke is a coke and no amount of money can get you a better coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the cokes are the same and all the cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.[10]
New York's Museum of Modern Art hosted a Symposium on pop art in December 1962 during which artists like Warhol were attacked for "capitulating" to consumerism. Critics were scandalized by Warhol's open embrace of market culture. This symposium set the tone for Warhol's reception. Throughout the decade it became more and more clear that there had been a profound change in the culture of the art world, and that Warhol was at the center of that shift.
He founded "The Factory", his studio during these years, and gathered around himself a wide range of artists, writers, musicians, and underground celebrities. He began producing prints using the silkscreen method. His work became popular and controversial.
Among the imagery tackled by Warhol were dollar bills, celebrities and brand name products. He also used as imagery for his paintings newspaper headlines or photographs of mushroom clouds, electric chairs, and police dogs attacking civil rights protesters. Warhol also used Coca Cola bottles as subject matter for paintings. He had this to say about Coca Cola:
What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coca Cola, Liz Taylor drinks Coca Cola, and just think, you can drink Coca Cola, too. A coke is a coke and no amount of money can get you a better coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the cokes are the same and all the cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.[10]
New York's Museum of Modern Art hosted a Symposium on pop art in December 1962 during which artists like Warhol were attacked for "capitulating" to consumerism. Critics were scandalized by Warhol's open embrace of market culture. This symposium set the tone for Warhol's reception. Throughout the decade it became more and more clear that there had been a profound change in the culture of the art world, and that Warhol was at the center of that shift.
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