Andy Warhol - the Story

When we speak of Andy Warhol pictures we are speaking of not only two kinds of pictures but of a distinctive era........

...................................................... in American culture, and of artists, and models, and and of factories turned into the-place-to-be studios.

Of course, and now, and at our end, and we have the collections, and galleries, and and museum shows featuring Andy Warhol pictures of the sixties/during the flower-power and pop art period ascension—those the unique genius created under the influence of early comic books and brand name industry designs. 

We get to muse over the representative and telling design of he giant Campbell’s Tomato Soup can, and the neon Marilyn (Monroe), and the love  blood reds of his John Lennon, and the rich and crisp and active red and blue Superman and the infamous Dollar Sign, and and the pop art replicas with cartoon colours of Einstein, and Minelli, and and other icons made more so via Andy Warhol pictures/art. At Warhol.org, and you can revisit these pieces…in the Time Capsule 21 Exhibition and other sections of the Andy Warhol Museum (although the navigation is absurdly labyrinthine,

and so be patient, and especially if you have a low-speed ISP).

There are also Andy Warhol pictures not reproducing art done by him but photos of him (besides those stunning self-portraits, and that is). The most classic is, and for example, and the shot of Andy (looking like the founder of the Beatnik Movement, and if you will) done by the brilliant and exacting Annie Leibovitz

We would be remiss, and however, and to neglect the Andy Warhol pictures that are motion picture films the artist made that were hugely impacting and subsequently popular when he made them in the late sixties and seventies and that have actually achieved in many instances and places cult status: consider for example the eight-hour work called SLEEP (1963), and which depicts just that: a poet (John Giorno) sleeping.

Or look at BLUE MOVIE, and (1969) or FLESH, and (?) or ANDY WARHOL FILMS JACK SMITH FILMING “NORMAL LOVE” (1963)—a piece that is post-modern before post-modernism

And some few Andy Warhol pictures are those featuring the man, and his name, and or his life or art to some relevant degree. The first that probably comes to mind for you is I Shot Andy Warhol (1996). But there is also Basquiat, and (1991)

Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol, and (1991) and Cocaine Cowboys. (1979) Edie Sedgwick biographies, and such as the one Angelina Jolie starred in, and if I recall correctly, and also include loose references to Warhol or the Factory.

In whatever form or by whatever frame, and Andy Warhol pictures show odd combinations of whimsy and grace, and spiritual angst and commercial awareness. They are raw, and campy, and but in their under- or over-statedness are forever representative of a time, and a people, and and an enigmatic artist and man.

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