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American Artist"pin-headed and contemptible style of gum-chewers, bobby-soxers, and worse, delinquents."1928-1987
One of the leaders of the Pop Art movement, Warhol's aesthetics echoed the democratization of art. Considered as a reaction to the highly refined Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art's initial claim was to refocus art for the popular culture. All cultural artifacts could become artistic icons...soup cans, movie stars, comic books. Pop Art and Warhol as one of its commandants appropriated every and all images. Early reactions were typical. A 1962 critic of the emergent movement wrote about an unsettling invasion of the:
It is ironic that as Warhol gravitated to filmmaking, he began to embrace the old elitist concepts of art. Films like Sleep and Empire did not appeal to the popular culture in the same way that his "Marilyns" and Campbell soup cans did. In fact, as part of the wider American avant-garde film milieu of the 1960s Warhol's films represent films which dealt with and manipulated time as an antagonistic element. Perhaps this is just a convoluted way of describing something that is boring. Many thought watching endless hours of film of the same image was boring. Was that the point? Was Pop art afterall just a visual commentary or pun on contemporary aesthetic values? Warhol was capable of such irony."[I]mages that anybody walking down Broadway could recognise in a split second--comics, picnic tables, men's trousers, celebrities, shower curtains, refrigerators, Coke bottles--all the great modern things that the Abstract Expressionists tried not to notice at all.''On the other hand, in the age of rapid and mechanical reproduction, in an age when anybody could have a print of the "Mona Lisa" hanging on the living room wall, maybe the focus must be on the acquisition of the images. Something deeper than "face value" was searched for. Warhol said that art was about
Andy Warhol
YEAR TEAM POS BA AB H HR RBI
1991 Vanguards if .245 388 95 0 4
1992 Vanguards if .319 251 80 0 4
1993 Pisces if .272 335 91 0 16
1994 Pisces if .254 338 86 0 28
1995 Pisces if .251 606 152 1 43
1996 Pisces ss .260 446 116 0 29
6 Seasons .262 2364 620 1 124
Andy Warhol: Art in the Absence of Self
Cosmic Game Report- Warholocks @ Sedgwiccas
An Andy Warhol FAQ
Warhol- Cosmic Baseball Player Plate
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