15 Things You Didn't Know About Andy Warhol

Who is Andy Warhol?
Why are Andy Warhol paintings so expensive?
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[alux]

Hey Aluxers, who is your favorite artist?

[madarab]

The guitar track is so bad it distracts from the narrative

[showyourvidz]

I am so glad you mention that Andy was a mass going catholic & worked in a soup kitchen feeding the poor. Opens up an interesting perspective on his work & his relation to the materialism of the modern world.

[shitheadgarrett]

about #2 his hair wasn't dyed Grey that was a wig

[darkpoetik]

Andy was proud that he was successful at the business of art, rather than being an artist...He brought contemporary art to the mainstream and he knew how to promote himself...

[Kidfromthemidwest]

I have some things you didn't know
1:His name isn't Andy Warhol, it's Actually Andy Warhola
2:He help the Velvet Underground become a famous rock band
3:He helped David Bowles Alter Ego Ziggy Stardust
4:He was albino
5:He was gay

[rereduce]

I think the tagline: the place where future billionaires go is sad.

[shessomethingelse]

My art teacher brought me here. We have to paint pictures of different celebrities, in the style & influence of Andy Warhol!

[SuperGreatSphinx]

Andy Warhol (born Andrew Warhola; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist, director and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.

His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture, and advertising that flourished by the 1960s, and span a variety of media, including painting, silkscreening, photography, film, and sculpture.

Some of his best known works include the silkscreen paintings Campbell's Soup Cans (1962) and Marilyn Diptych (1962), the experimental film Chelsea Girls (1966), and the multimedia events known as the Exploding Plastic Inevitable (1966–67).

Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Warhol initially pursued a successful career as a commercial illustrator.

After exhibiting his work in several galleries in the late 1950s, he began to receive recognition as an influential and controversial artist.

His New York studio, The Factory, became a well-known gathering place that brought together distinguished intellectuals, drag queens, playwrights, Bohemian street people, Hollywood celebrities, and wealthy patrons.

He promoted a collection of personalities known as Warhol superstars, and is credited with coining the widely used expression "15 minutes of fame."

In the late 1960s, he managed and produced the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground and founded Interview magazine.

He authored numerous books, including The Philosophy of Andy Warhol and Popism: The Warhol Sixties.

He is also notable as a gay man who lived openly as such before the gay liberation movement.

After a gallbladder surgery in 1987, Warhol died in February of that year at the age of 58.

Warhol has been the subject of numerous retrospective exhibitions, books, and feature and documentary films.

The Andy Warhol Museum in his native city of Pittsburgh, which holds an extensive permanent collection of art and archives, is the largest museum in the United States dedicated to a single artist.

Many of his creations are very collectible and highly valuable.

The highest price ever paid for a Warhol painting is US$105 million for a 1963 canvas titled Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster); his works include some of the most expensive paintings ever sold.

A 2009 article in The Economist described Warhol as the "bellwether of the art market".

[bowie-rocks]

I actually had a dream where Andy hugged me and called me beautiful. He also kissed my nose, kinda ironic how he hates his nose in reality and in a dream he apparently loved mine.

[lubbi]

He was also the manager of The Velvet Underground when they did their first album

[silenceofthehills]

why didn't they mention anything about him and The Velvet Underground?

[slimedog]

Best and most important artist of the 20th century in my view. The still controversary over his worth just adds to the fact for me.

[macforme]

You missed the story on how Warhole was shot by Valerie Solanas in 1968... his check bounced to the doctor (Dr Giuseppe Rossi who saved his life).

[erika]

1965, first public viewing of video art. It took the rest of the art world a long time to catch up! Even more shocking is the the Tate Gallery in London has only in the last ten years or so started to recognise photography as art and started adding it to their collections! Andy was so far ahead of the rest of us!

[kalamitinauseous]

I came here from American Horror Story: Cult!!!

[CaptCrewSock]

In my opinion he seems like a smart artist with ACTUAL talent that’s not ripped off someone else.

[AndrewB]

Mind what you insist! I’m an avid Warhol fan and I’m from Pennsylvania and lived in Pittsburgh for years and I’ve been to the Byzantine Church he devoutly attended and his Museum numerous times and everything? I know quite well about him

[abhishekssbisht]

#16. He was working in the Men In Black.

[hinder]

My comment would be number 17 and that would be that this wonderful most talented genius in the art world had ever lived and dwelt Among Us and may you rest in peace forever Andy and may your spirit live on in the hearts of many.