Thursday 14 March 2013

Medium/Media


Drawing:   Warhol started as a Commercial Illustrator he was producing drawings in blotted ink style for advertising and magazine articles. His early works that are best known are his drawings of shoes.

Sculpture:  Warhol had some famous Statues but Brillo Boxes and Heinz Boxes are the most famous.  Silkscreen ink on wood there are replicas of the large cardboard boxes used to hold 24 packages of Brillo soap pads

Audio:  Warhol liked to carry a recorder and he would just record everything everybody said or did.

Time Capsules: It was 1973 when Warhol started to save ephemera all his daily life correspondence, newspapers, souvenirs childhood objects, used plane tickets some food items that were sealed in plain cardboard boxes dubbed as time capsules. When he died the collection of these dated time capsules was 600. The boxes are hosed in the Andy Warhol Museum.

Television: Warhol dreamed about a television special about a favourite subject of his, Nothing, he wanted to call it The Nothing Special. Later Warhol did create two cable shows, Andy Warhol’s TV. in 1982 and Andy Warhol’s Fifteen minutes (based on his famous fifteen minutes of fame quotation) these shows were produced for MTV in 1986. Warhol also made regular guest appearances on The Love Boat, and he also made TV, commercials for restaurants in New York City.

Fashion: Warhol also liked to put his touch on fashion he did some silk screening on dresses and he also painted shoes, he also had a short sub career as a catwalk model and wrote books on fashion.

Photography: Warhol was an accomplished photographer he had taken an enormous amount of photographs of visitors to the factory and friends.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have but that he, for some reason, thinks it would be a good idea to give them.” – Andy Warhol

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