Andy warhol museum ny8/11/2023 ![]() He was no longer on the outside of the windowpane. A New York show soon followed, and by 1964, the year he exhibited the “Brillo Soap Pads Box” sculptures, he was being written up in Time. This was “32 Campbell’s Soup Cans”-thirty-two paintings of soup cans, each a different flavor. Warhol’s big break finally came in 1962, with a one-man exhibition at the Ferus Gallery, in Los Angeles. They, too, were cool Warhol later decided that he was too “swish” for them. “A very boring person, but you have to be nice to him because he might buy a painting.” In 1958, after Jasper Johns’s exhibition of the “Flag” paintings, at the Castelli Gallery, rocked the New York art world, Warhol became obsessed with Johns, and with Johns’s collaborator and (many have assumed) lover Robert Rauschenberg. Truman Capote, with whom he was briefly infatuated, called him “a hopeless born loser.” “A terrible little man,” the director of the Tibor de Nagy gallery, where the poet Frank O’Hara hung out, is said to have described him. Warhol was regarded as a slightly embarrassing groupie. ![]() His fey, slightly spacy air of ingenuousness was not a liability at advertising agencies and fashion magazines, but it was a problem in literary and artistic circles, and especially among gays. He drew, with a distinctive and recognizable line, magazine illustrations, advertisements, book jackets, and album covers, and he owned a four-story town house on the Upper East Side. After he graduated, in June, 1949, he moved to New York City, where he found work as an illustrator.īy 1960, Warhol had become one of the most successful commercial artists in New York. He had an ethereality that was oddly charismatic-“like an angel in the sky” is the way one of his classmates remembered him. But he eventually became an admired, and sometimes controversial, figure at the school. He was younger than most of the other students, many of whom were veterans attending on the G.I. Warhol entered the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon) when he was seventeen, and majored in pictorial design. Warhol’s father was a construction worker, and he died, of peritonitis, when Andy was thirteen but he had saved enough money for his son to go to college, since it was obvious that Andy was an unusual and talented child. They immigrated to Pittsburgh, where, in 1928, Andy was born, the youngest of four children. ![]() Photograph by Richard Avedon / © 2010 the Richard Avedon FoundationĪndy Warhol’s parents came from a village in the Carpathian Mountains, in what is now Slovakia. ![]() Andy Warhol, New York City, August 14, 1969. ![]()
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