Nov 19, 2015
Ingrid Bergman 315 (With Hat) by
Andy Warhol
The Ingrid Bergman series is made up
of three types of screen prints of the
Academy Award winning actress in
1983. The source images used for
these portrait pieces include movie
still from her role in Casablanca
(‘With Hat’), a movie still from the
movie The Bell of St. Mary’s (‘The
Nun’) and also a publicity photo
(‘Herself’).
“My fascination with letting images
repeat and repeat — or in film’s
case ‘run on’ — manifests my belief
that we spend much of our lives
seeing without observing.” Warhol
felt that we view celebrity on a
purely superficial level — seeing
famous individuals on a movie
screen or in a magazine, but not
observing the truth or depth of that
person.
There is some debate as to whether Warhol’s art celebrates or
satirizes the idea of/obsession with celebrity. Does his art critique
the public’s obsession with money and star power, or does it
celebrate that lifestyle
“Making money is art and working is art, and good business is the
best art.”
The Factory was the hip hangout for artistic
types, amphetamine (speed) users, and the
Warhol superstars. It was famed for its
groundbreaking parties. In the studio, Warhol's
workers would make silkscreens and
lithographs under his direction.
The world’s most successful
living artist — Jeff Koons — is
working on a new series of
paintings inspired by the Old
Masters, using lasers and
stencils and an army of lowpaid assistants.
Surrealist painter Alex
Gardega responded to a helpwanted ad and was given a
tour of Koons’ factory on
West 29th Street. “It was
beyond insane,” he told me.
ARTICLE
http://pagesix.com/2015/03/25/jeff-koonschurns-out-new-factory-art/
Create 1-2 pages of notes images and research
in your sketchbooks
Creatively record your thoughts on Andy
Warhol and collect iconic images, logos etc. for
your art work
Based on what you have seen of Andy Warhol’s artwork and or/films, would you consider his art
effective? Why/why not?
Is the personal life of an artist relevant? Why or why not?
How do you think social media has changed the way we absorb celebrity information, and the
way we present ourselves through the many social-media outlets/platforms?
Andy Warhol not only made portraits from photographs he shot himself, but also from images
he appropriated from mass media. What portraits/icons do you see all the time on the
television and in magazines and newspapers?
Is there a single, or multiple, images than define your generation?
“The contradictory fusion of the
commonplace facts of photography and the
artful fictions of a painter’s retouchings was
one that, in Warhol’s work, became a
particularly suitable formula for the recording
of those wealthy and glamorous people
whose faces seem perpetually illuminated by
the aftermath of a flash-bulb”
Robert Rosenblum, Andy Warhol Portraits, Thames
and Hudson (New York:, 1993), p. 143.
Andy Warhol, Mao, 1972-1974, ©AW