Notorious early in their careers and iconoclastic in their eras, both artists are now important touchstones of modern art history. Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) and Andy Warhol (1928-1987) are among the most important and influential artists of the 20th century, and they continue to inspire and influence contemporary artists today. This exhibition presents the ground-breaking work of two masters of 20th-century art. Tickets $50 each day or $80 for two days/ Students/Seniors $10 each day call 412.237.8300 or visit. Twisted Pair: Marcel Duchamp / Andy Warhol Saturday, September 11 & Sunday, September 12, 2010 His persona has been called his greatest work of art, and over the course of his career, he used self-portraits to build and maintain his public image, to ensure his own immortality even long after his death.Further Thoughts on the Twisted Pair Twisted Pair: Marcel Duchamp / Andy Warhol Further Thoughts on the Twisted Pair Warhol did everything he could to make sure his fame lasted longer than fifteen minutes. I think that Warhol’s, quote of… Everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes… I mean, goddamn, that’s just, like, particularly these days, is so accurate. The person was subject to tragedy- addiction, heartache, death- whereas the persona rose above.īut fame, like life, is fleeting. He was interested in the contrast between the person and the persona. His favorite portrait subjects were people whose images were already familiar: Hollywood actors, criminals, politicians, musicians, but also people whose lives were marked by tragedy. Warhol returned again and again to those “brands”: Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, Jackie O, Elvis. I know that his obsession with celebrity started in the early sixties and, you know, was sort of an evolution of the branding of the Brillo boxes and stuff like that, where he was one of the first people to see that, indeed, celebrities were brands, as well. Here’s San Francisco impresario Marc Huestis with his take. He died in 1987 from complications following a routine gallbladder surgery.Īndy Warhol was fascinated by commercial images of all types - Campbell’s soup cans, boxes of Brillo - but celebrity was the central theme of his life and career. In the 1970s and 1980s, Warhol's celebrity arguably eclipsed his art, although he produced several innovative bodies of work during this period. Although his work was initially controversial for its apparent non-art status, he quickly achieved both critical and commercial success. Warhol's Factory - a term for both his studio and the associated network of actors, musicians, druggies, and hangers-on - has become synonymous with 1960s bohemia. An obsession with Hollywood glamour inspired a series of experimental films, often campy in tone and explicitly homoerotic. Warhol's inexpressive painting style was mirrored by his famously flat, monotone persona. His range included consumer products (Campbell's soup cans) and movie stars (Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley), as well as darker aspects of American culture, including race riots, car crashes, and the electric chair. He studied commercial art in Pittsburgh before moving to New York in 1949 and beginning a highly successful career as an advertising illustrator.Ī decade later Warhol started making paintings (at first handmade, later silkscreened) of images lifted directly from the mass media. An iconic figure in twentieth-century art and culture, Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola, the son of working-class immigrants from Slovakia.
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