.. is movies was sex.
This was not the sex that was seen in the pornography of the time, but a more erotic and advante-garde style. Sometimes, only bared flesh was seen, and other times, it was full blown intercourse. Homoeroticism was another strong theme in these movies. It wasn’t just man with man or woman with woman, that would be too simple. Many of the scenes featured men as women, drag queens and a-sexual.
This only added to the weirdness and eroticism. His four most famous movies revolved around sexual themes: Sleep, Blow Job, My Hustler and Flesh Bondo, 1998 . Medium Warhol’s art career began with commercial art, in where he created illustrations using a blotedline technique. The blot technique is as follows: a completed drawing is taped and hinged to a piece of paper. The original would be inked and then blotted onto the paper.
One may wonder, why blotted drawings instead of using the originals? Andy stated, I like the style.Well, it was just that I didn’t like the way I drew. I guess, we had to do an inkblot or something like that at college, and, then, I realized you can do an inkblot and do that kind of look, and, then, it would look printed somehow. Bondo, 1998 . This printed look is what made Warhol famous, adding to his admass culture themes. For a brief period, Warhol also used rubber stamps and stencils to achieve the machine made, printed look.
It was in the early 60’s that Warhol began to use the silk-screen method. Looking back, the rubber stamp method he was using to repeat images over and over a Warhol trademark suddenly seemed to home-grown he wanted something stronger that gave more of an assembly line effect. The silk-screening method was done by taking a photo and transferring it in glue to silk, and then rolling ink across the silk so that the ink penatrated only certain spots in the silk. This way, Warhol could accomplish the same image, slightly different each time. The pictures were slightly faded and fuzzy, which resembled the way the media dulls down a story each and every time it is told.
Tiny but important details are lost Bondo, 1998 Film and magazines were two other mediums used by Warhol. His films were considered underground and low budget, with sexual themes. They were produced for only a small period in his career, and were many times initiated by friends and lovers. His magazine, however, would live on even after Warhol’s death. Interview was the name of the magazine that he co-produced with John Wilcock, then editor of an underground newspaper called Other Scenes.
The magazine featured text and edited interviews from cassette tapes. Andy often said that he started the magazine to get free tickets to all the premieres. The magazine quickly turned into a monthly review of popular culture, including movie stars, fashion, art, music, television, gossip and celebrity nightlife especially York the notorious Studio 54 Kakulani, New Times Magazine, 1996 . Another medium that Warhol used in the 70’s was known as Oxidation paintings. These were large canvases created by coating them with copper paint.
Warhol and his male friends would urinate on them while the paint was still damp. The uric acid and copper sulfate combined to produce a green patine. The result was work that varied widely, from Pollock-like drip paintings to misty landscapes Bourdon, 1989, 238 . Organization & Style Organization plays an important role in defining Warhol’s work. His use of colour, treatment of loads and values and use of patterns are distinctly Warhol , separating it from that of the other Pop artists. Colour was key to much of Warhol’s work.
In fact, it was so important, that many times Warhol would produce a work without colour first. Then, he would observe the work and think for days what the colour should be used. Many times, colour was applied by airbrush later to achieve an overlay effect. For the most part, his colour schemes were bright. He also used a dot-matrix method that spread colour out by means of a tiny dot pattern.
This was achieved through the silk-screening process, and added to the mass produced look Bondo, 1998 . He used appropriated and serially repeated images to achieve his machined look. This imagery atrracts the eye, and speeds up the work creating his admass effect Bourdon, 1989, 206 The shape of many of the images in his most popular works had a rounded, aerodynamic look to them. The values did not posses lots of detail either.
This was to give them a fake look. He was quoted as saying that these resembled club life, plastic clothes, plastic jewellery, plastic surgery, plastic feelings. Kakulani, New York Times Magazine, 1996 The centre of interest on a Warhol image is the image itself. The objects were not meant to be storytellers , as did the more classic artworks. The Warhol image was intended to tackle the audience with boredom as an issue itself by making the images superficial. Usually, the objects were surrounded with space rather than pattern, extenuating this centre of interest idea Bondo, 1998 .
Warhol used a separate style, in which little emotional involvement or identification is created. By use of this method, a statement is made, but does not affect the audience on a personal level. Conclusion Andy Warhol was one of the twentieth century’s supreme artists. And like many artists, Warhol saw the world in a very diverse way. However, he was misunderstood as one who ridiculed American Pop culture because he did not agree with or fully understand it.
Nothing could be more opposite of the truth; Warhol loved Pop culture since he was a child gripped with the beautiful people that graced the magazine covers and movies. He became a Pop culture genius, and through his work, he became a part of it as a social observer and visionary. And through his genius, he launched his work to become an icon of America Fig 1 http://imv.aau.dk/~jfogde/gallery/art/13.html Fig 2 http://imv.aau.dk/~jfogde/gallery/art/30.html Pop as art, a survay of the new-super ealesim, Mario Amaya Pop impressions Europe/Usa. Wendy weitman. Andy worhol:the factor years photos by nat finelstien.
