Andy Warhol, Gay and Catholic

ANDY WARHOL AS A GAY ARTIST NFLICT WH HIS CATHOLIC FAH
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HE VENTURED TO A WI VARIETY OF ART FORMS, CLUDG PERFORMANCE ART, FILMMAKG, VIO STALLATNS AND WRG AND NTROVERSIALLY BLURRED THE L BETWEEN FE ART AND MASTREAM ATHETICS. WARHOL DIED ON FEBARY 22, 1987, NEW YORK CY.EARLY LIFEBORN ANDREW WARHOLA ON AUGT 6, 1928, THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF OAKLAND PTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, WARHOL'S PARENTS WERE SLOVAKIAN IMMIGRANTS. HIS FATHER, ANDREJ WARHOLA, WAS A NSTCTN WORKER, WHILE HIS MOTHER, JULIA WARHOLA, WAS AN EMBROIRER. THEY WERE VOUT BYZANTE CATHOLICS WHO ATTEND MASS REGULARLY AND MATAED MUCH OF THEIR SLOVAKIAN CULTURE AND HERAGE WHILE LIVG ONE OF PTSBURGH'S EASTERN EUROPEAN ETHNIC ENCLAV.AT THE AGE OF EIGHT, WARHOL NTRACTED CHOREA—ALSO KNOWN AS ST. V'S DANCE — A RARE AND SOMETIM FATAL DISEASE OF THE NERVO SYSTEM THAT LEFT HIM BEDRIDN FOR SEVERAL MONTHS. IT WAS DURG THE MONTHS, WHILE WARHOL WAS SICK BED, THAT HIS MOTHER, HERSELF A SKILLFUL ARTIST, GAVE HIM HIS FIRST DRAWG LSONS. DRAWG SOON BEME WARHOL'S FAVORE CHILDHOOD PASTIME. HE WAS ALSO AN AVID FAN OF MOVI, AND WHEN HIS MOTHER BOUGHT HIM A MERA AT THE AGE OF NE, HE TOOK UP PHOTOGRAPHY AS WELL, VELOPG FILM A MAKHIFT DARKROOM HE SET UP THEIR BASEMENT.WARHOL ATTEND HOLM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND TOOK THE EE ART CLASS OFFERED AT THE CARNEGIE INSTUTE (NOW THE CARNEGIE MM OF ART) PTSBURGH. IN 1942, AT THE AGE OF 14, WARHOL AGA SUFFERED A TRAGEDY WHEN HIS FATHER PASSED AWAY OM A JNDICED LIVER. WARHOL WAS SO UPSET THAT HE ULD NOT ATTEND HIS FATHER'S FUNERAL, AND HE HID UNR HIS BED THROUGHOUT THE WAKE. WARHOL'S FATHER HAD REGNIZED HIS SON'S ARTISTIC TALENTS, AND HIS WILL HE DICTATED THAT HIS LIFE SAVGS GO TOWARD WARHOL'S LLEGE TN. THAT SAME YEAR, WARHOL BEGAN AT SCHENLEY HIGH SCHOOL, AND UPON GRADUATG, 1945, HE ENROLLED AT THE CARNEGIE INSTUTE FOR TECHNOLOGY (NOW CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSY) TO STUDY PICTORIAL SIGN.POP ARTWHEN HE GRADUATED OM LLEGE WH HIS BACHELOR OF FE ARTS GREE 1949, WARHOL MOVED TO NEW YORK CY TO PURSUE A REER AS A MERCIAL ARTIST. IT WAS ALSO AT THIS TIME THAT HE DROPPED THE "A" AT THE END OF HIS LAST NAME TO BEE ANDY WARHOL. HE LAND A JOB WH GLAMOUR MAGAZE SEPTEMBER, AND WENT ON TO BEE ONE OF THE MOST SUCCSFUL MERCIAL ARTISTS OF THE 1950S. HE WON EQUENT AWARDS FOR HIS UNIQUELY WHIMSIL STYLE, G HIS OWN BLOTTED LE TECHNIQUE AND BBER STAMPS TO CREATE HIS DRAWGS.CAMPBELL'S SOUP CANS IN THE LATE 1950S, WARHOL BEGAN VOTG MORE ATTENTN TO PATG, AND 1961, HE BUTED THE NCEPT OF "POP ART"—PATGS THAT FOCED ON MASS-PRODUCED MERCIAL GOODS. IN 1962, HE EXHIBED THE NOW-INIC PATGS OF CAMPBELL'S SOUP NS. THE SMALL NVAS WORKS OF EVERYDAY NSUMER PRODUCTS CREATED A MAJOR STIR THE ART WORLD, BRGG BOTH WARHOL AND POP ART TO THE NATNAL SPOTLIGHT FOR THE FIRST TIME. BRISH ARTIST RICHARD HATON SCRIBED POP ART AS "POPULAR, TRANSIENT, EXPENDABLE, LOW ST, MASS-PRODUCED, YOUNG, WTY, SEXY, GIMMICKY, GLAMORO, BIG BS." AS WARHOL HIMSELF PUT , "ONCE YOU 'GOT' POP, YOU ULD NEVER SEE A SIGN THE SAME WAY AGA. AND ONCE YOU THOUGHT POP, YOU ULD NEVER SEE AMERI THE SAME WAY AGA." WARHOL'S OTHER FAMO POP PATGS PICTED CO-LA BOTTL, VACUUM CLEANERS AND HAMBURGERS. PORTRASHE ALSO PATED CELEBRY PORTRAS VIVID AND GARISH LORS; HIS MOST FAMO SUBJECTS CLU {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}MARILYN MONROE, ELIZABETH TAYLOR, MICK JAGGER AND MAO TSE-TUNG. AS THE PORTRAS GAED FAME AND NOTORIETY, WARHOL BEGAN TO RECEIVE HUNDREDS OF MISSNS FOR PORTRAS OM SOCIAL AND CELEBRI. HIS PORTRA "EIGHT ELVIS" EVENTUALLY ROLD FOR $100 LN 2008, MAKG ONE OF THE MOST VALUABLE PATGS WORLD HISTORY.THE FACTORY IN 1964, WARHOL OPENED HIS OWN ART STUD, A LARGE SILVER-PATED WAREHOE KNOWN SIMPLY AS "THE FACTORY." THE FACTORY QUICKLY BEME ONE OF NEW YORK CY'S PREMIER CULTURAL HOTSPOTS, A SCENE OF LAVISH PARTI ATTEND BY THE CY'S WEALTHIT SOCIAL AND CELEBRI, CLUDG MICIAN LOU REED, WHO PAID TRIBUTE TO THE HTLERS AND TRANSVT HE'D MET AT THE FACTORY WH HIS H SONG "WALK ON THE WILD SI"—THE VERS OF WHICH NTA SCRIPTNS OF DIVIDUALS WHO WERE FIXTUR AT THE LEGENDARY STUD/WAREHOE THE '60S, CLUDG HOLLY WOODLAWN, CANDY DARLG, "LTLE JOE" DALLANDRO, "SUGAR PLUM FAIRY" JOE CAMPBELL AND JACKIE CURTIS. (WARHOL WAS A IEND OF REED'S AND MANAGED REED'S BAND, THE VELVET UNRGROUND.) WARHOL, WHO CLEARLY RELISHED HIS CELEBRY, BEME A FIXTURE AT FAMO NEW YORK CY NIGHTCLUBS LIKE STUD 54 AND MAX'S KANSAS CY. COMMENTG ON CELEBRY FIXATN—HIS OWN AND THAT OF THE PUBLIC AT LARGE—WARHOL OBSERVED, "MORE THAN ANYTHG PEOPLE JT WANT STARS." HE ALSO BRANCHED OUT NEW DIRECTNS, PUBLISHG HIS FIRST BOOK, ANDY WARHOL'S INX, 1967.READ MORE: HOW ANDY WARHOL AND HALSTON TRANSFORMED ART, FASHN AND STUD 54IN 1968, HOWEVER, WARHOL'S THRIVG REER ALMOST END. HE WAS SHOT BY VALERIE SOLANAS, AN ASPIRG WRER AND RADIL FEMIST, ON JUNE 3. WARHOL WAS SERLY WOUND THIS ATTACK. SOLANAS HAD APPEARED ONE OF WARHOL'S FILMS AND WAS REPORTEDLY UPSET WH HIM OVER HIS REFAL TO E A SCRIPT SHE HAD WRTEN. AFTER THE SHOOTG, SOLANAS WAS ARRTED AND LATER PLEAD GUILTY TO THE CRIME. WARHOL SPENT WEEKS A NEW YORK HOSPAL REVERG OM HIS JURI AND UNRWENT SEVERAL SUBSEQUENT SURGERI. AS A RULT OF THE JURI HE STAED, HE HAD TO WEAR A SURGIL RSET FOR THE RT OF HIS LIFE.READ MORE: LEARN ABOUT VALERIE SOLANAS, THE WOMAN WHO SHOT ANDY WARHOLWARHOL BOOKS AND FILMS IN THE 1970S, WARHOL NTUED TO EXPLORE OTHER FORMS OF MEDIA. HE PUBLISHED SUCH BOOKS AS THE PHILOSOPHY OF ANDY WARHOL (FROM A TO B AND BACK AGA) AND EXPOSUR. WARHOL ALSO EXPERIMENTED EXTENSIVELY WH VIO ART, PRODUCG MORE THAN 60 FILMS DURG HIS REER. SOME OF HIS MOST FAMO FILMS CLU SLEEP, WHICH PICTS POET JOHN GRNO SLEEPG FOR SIX HOURS, AND EAT, WHICH SHOWS A MAN EATG A MHROOM FOR 45 MUT. WARHOL ALSO WORKED SCULPTURE AND PHOTOGRAPHY, AND THE 1980S, HE MOVED TO TELEVISN, HOSTG ANDY WARHOL'S TV AND ANDY WARHOL'S FIFTEEN MUT ON MTV.DEATHIN HIS LATER LIFE, WARHOL SUFFERED OM CHRONIC ISSU WH HIS GALLBLADR. ON FEBARY 20, 1987, HE WAS ADMTED TO NEW YORK HOSPAL WHERE HIS GALLBLADR WAS SUCCSFULLY REMOVED AND HE SEEMED TO BE REVERG. HOWEVER, DAYS LATER HE SUFFERED PLITNS THAT RULTED SUDN RDIAC ARRT AND HE DIED ON FEBARY 22, 1987, AT THE AGE OF 58. THOANDS OF PEOPLE ATTEND A MEMORIAL FOR THE ARTIST AT ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL NEW YORK CY.LEGACYWARHOL'S ENIGMATIC PERSONAL LIFE HAS BEEN THE SUBJECT OF MUCH BATE. HE IS WILY BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN A GAY MAN, AND HIS ART WAS OFTEN FED WH HOMOEROTIC IMAGERY AND MOTIFS. HOWEVER, HE CLAIMED THAT HE REMAED A VIRG FOR HIS ENTIRE LIFE. WARHOL'S LIFE AND WORK SIMULTANEOLY SATIRIZED AND CELEBRATED MATERIALY AND CELEBRY. ON THE ONE HAND, HIS PATGS OF DISTORTED BRAND IMAG AND CELEBRY FAC ULD BE READ AS A CRIQUE OF WHAT HE VIEWED AS A CULTURE OBSSED WH MONEY AND CELEBRY. ON THE OTHER HAND, WARHOL'S FOC ON NSUMER GOODS AND POP-CULTURE INS, AS WELL AS HIS OWN TASTE FOR MONEY AND FAME, SUGGTS A LIFE CELEBRATN OF THE VERY ASPECTS OF AMERIN CULTURE THAT HIS WORK CRICIZED. WARHOL SPOKE TO THIS APPARENT NTRADICTN BETWEEN HIS LIFE AND WORK HIS BOOK THE PHILOSOPHY OF ANDY WARHOL, WRG THAT "MAKG MONEY IS ART AND WORKG IS ART, AND GOOD BS IS THE BT ART."{BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS
ANDY WARHOL, GAY AND CATHOLIC

ANDY WARHOL AS A GAY ARTIST NFLICT WH HIS CATHOLIC FAH

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HE VENTURED TO A WI VARIETY OF ART FORMS, CLUDG PERFORMANCE ART, FILMMAKG, VIO STALLATNS AND WRG AND NTROVERSIALLY BLURRED THE L BETWEEN FE ART AND MASTREAM ATHETICS. WARHOL DIED ON FEBARY 22, 1987, NEW YORK CY.EARLY LIFEBORN ANDREW WARHOLA ON AUGT 6, 1928, THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF OAKLAND PTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, WARHOL'S PARENTS WERE SLOVAKIAN IMMIGRANTS. HIS FATHER, ANDREJ WARHOLA, WAS A NSTCTN WORKER, WHILE HIS MOTHER, JULIA WARHOLA, WAS AN EMBROIRER. THEY WERE VOUT BYZANTE CATHOLICS WHO ATTEND MASS REGULARLY AND MATAED MUCH OF THEIR SLOVAKIAN CULTURE AND HERAGE WHILE LIVG ONE OF PTSBURGH'S EASTERN EUROPEAN ETHNIC ENCLAV.AT THE AGE OF EIGHT, WARHOL NTRACTED CHOREA—ALSO KNOWN AS ST. V'S DANCE — A RARE AND SOMETIM FATAL DISEASE OF THE NERVO SYSTEM THAT LEFT HIM BEDRIDN FOR SEVERAL MONTHS. IT WAS DURG THE MONTHS, WHILE WARHOL WAS SICK BED, THAT HIS MOTHER, HERSELF A SKILLFUL ARTIST, GAVE HIM HIS FIRST DRAWG LSONS. DRAWG SOON BEME WARHOL'S FAVORE CHILDHOOD PASTIME. HE WAS ALSO AN AVID FAN OF MOVI, AND WHEN HIS MOTHER BOUGHT HIM A MERA AT THE AGE OF NE, HE TOOK UP PHOTOGRAPHY AS WELL, VELOPG FILM A MAKHIFT DARKROOM HE SET UP THEIR BASEMENT.WARHOL ATTEND HOLM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND TOOK THE EE ART CLASS OFFERED AT THE CARNEGIE INSTUTE (NOW THE CARNEGIE MM OF ART) PTSBURGH. IN 1942, AT THE AGE OF 14, WARHOL AGA SUFFERED A TRAGEDY WHEN HIS FATHER PASSED AWAY OM A JNDICED LIVER. WARHOL WAS SO UPSET THAT HE ULD NOT ATTEND HIS FATHER'S FUNERAL, AND HE HID UNR HIS BED THROUGHOUT THE WAKE. WARHOL'S FATHER HAD REGNIZED HIS SON'S ARTISTIC TALENTS, AND HIS WILL HE DICTATED THAT HIS LIFE SAVGS GO TOWARD WARHOL'S LLEGE TN. THAT SAME YEAR, WARHOL BEGAN AT SCHENLEY HIGH SCHOOL, AND UPON GRADUATG, 1945, HE ENROLLED AT THE CARNEGIE INSTUTE FOR TECHNOLOGY (NOW CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSY) TO STUDY PICTORIAL SIGN.POP ARTWHEN HE GRADUATED OM LLEGE WH HIS BACHELOR OF FE ARTS GREE 1949, WARHOL MOVED TO NEW YORK CY TO PURSUE A REER AS A MERCIAL ARTIST. IT WAS ALSO AT THIS TIME THAT HE DROPPED THE "A" AT THE END OF HIS LAST NAME TO BEE ANDY WARHOL. HE LAND A JOB WH GLAMOUR MAGAZE SEPTEMBER, AND WENT ON TO BEE ONE OF THE MOST SUCCSFUL MERCIAL ARTISTS OF THE 1950S. HE WON EQUENT AWARDS FOR HIS UNIQUELY WHIMSIL STYLE, G HIS OWN BLOTTED LE TECHNIQUE AND BBER STAMPS TO CREATE HIS DRAWGS.CAMPBELL'S SOUP CANS IN THE LATE 1950S, WARHOL BEGAN VOTG MORE ATTENTN TO PATG, AND 1961, HE BUTED THE NCEPT OF "POP ART"—PATGS THAT FOCED ON MASS-PRODUCED MERCIAL GOODS. IN 1962, HE EXHIBED THE NOW-INIC PATGS OF CAMPBELL'S SOUP NS. THE SMALL NVAS WORKS OF EVERYDAY NSUMER PRODUCTS CREATED A MAJOR STIR THE ART WORLD, BRGG BOTH WARHOL AND POP ART TO THE NATNAL SPOTLIGHT FOR THE FIRST TIME. BRISH ARTIST RICHARD HATON SCRIBED POP ART AS "POPULAR, TRANSIENT, EXPENDABLE, LOW ST, MASS-PRODUCED, YOUNG, WTY, SEXY, GIMMICKY, GLAMORO, BIG BS." AS WARHOL HIMSELF PUT , "ONCE YOU 'GOT' POP, YOU ULD NEVER SEE A SIGN THE SAME WAY AGA. AND ONCE YOU THOUGHT POP, YOU ULD NEVER SEE AMERI THE SAME WAY AGA." WARHOL'S OTHER FAMO POP PATGS PICTED CO-LA BOTTL, VACUUM CLEANERS AND HAMBURGERS. PORTRASHE ALSO PATED CELEBRY PORTRAS VIVID AND GARISH LORS; HIS MOST FAMO SUBJECTS CLU {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}MARILYN MONROE, ELIZABETH TAYLOR, MICK JAGGER AND MAO TSE-TUNG. AS THE PORTRAS GAED FAME AND NOTORIETY, WARHOL BEGAN TO RECEIVE HUNDREDS OF MISSNS FOR PORTRAS OM SOCIAL AND CELEBRI. HIS PORTRA "EIGHT ELVIS" EVENTUALLY ROLD FOR $100 LN 2008, MAKG ONE OF THE MOST VALUABLE PATGS WORLD HISTORY.THE FACTORY IN 1964, WARHOL OPENED HIS OWN ART STUD, A LARGE SILVER-PATED WAREHOE KNOWN SIMPLY AS "THE FACTORY." THE FACTORY QUICKLY BEME ONE OF NEW YORK CY'S PREMIER CULTURAL HOTSPOTS, A SCENE OF LAVISH PARTI ATTEND BY THE CY'S WEALTHIT SOCIAL AND CELEBRI, CLUDG MICIAN LOU REED, WHO PAID TRIBUTE TO THE HTLERS AND TRANSVT HE'D MET AT THE FACTORY WH HIS H SONG "WALK ON THE WILD SI"—THE VERS OF WHICH NTA SCRIPTNS OF DIVIDUALS WHO WERE FIXTUR AT THE LEGENDARY STUD/WAREHOE THE '60S, CLUDG HOLLY WOODLAWN, CANDY DARLG, "LTLE JOE" DALLANDRO, "SUGAR PLUM FAIRY" JOE CAMPBELL AND JACKIE CURTIS. (WARHOL WAS A IEND OF REED'S AND MANAGED REED'S BAND, THE VELVET UNRGROUND.) WARHOL, WHO CLEARLY RELISHED HIS CELEBRY, BEME A FIXTURE AT FAMO NEW YORK CY NIGHTCLUBS LIKE STUD 54 AND MAX'S KANSAS CY. COMMENTG ON CELEBRY FIXATN—HIS OWN AND THAT OF THE PUBLIC AT LARGE—WARHOL OBSERVED, "MORE THAN ANYTHG PEOPLE JT WANT STARS." HE ALSO BRANCHED OUT NEW DIRECTNS, PUBLISHG HIS FIRST BOOK, ANDY WARHOL'S INX, 1967.READ MORE: HOW ANDY WARHOL AND HALSTON TRANSFORMED ART, FASHN AND STUD 54IN 1968, HOWEVER, WARHOL'S THRIVG REER ALMOST END. HE WAS SHOT BY VALERIE SOLANAS, AN ASPIRG WRER AND RADIL FEMIST, ON JUNE 3. WARHOL WAS SERLY WOUND THIS ATTACK. SOLANAS HAD APPEARED ONE OF WARHOL'S FILMS AND WAS REPORTEDLY UPSET WH HIM OVER HIS REFAL TO E A SCRIPT SHE HAD WRTEN. AFTER THE SHOOTG, SOLANAS WAS ARRTED AND LATER PLEAD GUILTY TO THE CRIME. WARHOL SPENT WEEKS A NEW YORK HOSPAL REVERG OM HIS JURI AND UNRWENT SEVERAL SUBSEQUENT SURGERI. AS A RULT OF THE JURI HE STAED, HE HAD TO WEAR A SURGIL RSET FOR THE RT OF HIS LIFE.READ MORE: LEARN ABOUT VALERIE SOLANAS, THE WOMAN WHO SHOT ANDY WARHOLWARHOL BOOKS AND FILMS IN THE 1970S, WARHOL NTUED TO EXPLORE OTHER FORMS OF MEDIA. HE PUBLISHED SUCH BOOKS AS THE PHILOSOPHY OF ANDY WARHOL (FROM A TO B AND BACK AGA) AND EXPOSUR. WARHOL ALSO EXPERIMENTED EXTENSIVELY WH VIO ART, PRODUCG MORE THAN 60 FILMS DURG HIS REER. SOME OF HIS MOST FAMO FILMS CLU SLEEP, WHICH PICTS POET JOHN GRNO SLEEPG FOR SIX HOURS, AND EAT, WHICH SHOWS A MAN EATG A MHROOM FOR 45 MUT. WARHOL ALSO WORKED SCULPTURE AND PHOTOGRAPHY, AND THE 1980S, HE MOVED TO TELEVISN, HOSTG ANDY WARHOL'S TV AND ANDY WARHOL'S FIFTEEN MUT ON MTV.DEATHIN HIS LATER LIFE, WARHOL SUFFERED OM CHRONIC ISSU WH HIS GALLBLADR. ON FEBARY 20, 1987, HE WAS ADMTED TO NEW YORK HOSPAL WHERE HIS GALLBLADR WAS SUCCSFULLY REMOVED AND HE SEEMED TO BE REVERG. HOWEVER, DAYS LATER HE SUFFERED PLITNS THAT RULTED SUDN RDIAC ARRT AND HE DIED ON FEBARY 22, 1987, AT THE AGE OF 58. THOANDS OF PEOPLE ATTEND A MEMORIAL FOR THE ARTIST AT ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL NEW YORK CY.LEGACYWARHOL'S ENIGMATIC PERSONAL LIFE HAS BEEN THE SUBJECT OF MUCH BATE. HE IS WILY BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN A GAY MAN, AND HIS ART WAS OFTEN FED WH HOMOEROTIC IMAGERY AND MOTIFS. HOWEVER, HE CLAIMED THAT HE REMAED A VIRG FOR HIS ENTIRE LIFE. WARHOL'S LIFE AND WORK SIMULTANEOLY SATIRIZED AND CELEBRATED MATERIALY AND CELEBRY. ON THE ONE HAND, HIS PATGS OF DISTORTED BRAND IMAG AND CELEBRY FAC ULD BE READ AS A CRIQUE OF WHAT HE VIEWED AS A CULTURE OBSSED WH MONEY AND CELEBRY. ON THE OTHER HAND, WARHOL'S FOC ON NSUMER GOODS AND POP-CULTURE INS, AS WELL AS HIS OWN TASTE FOR MONEY AND FAME, SUGGTS A LIFE CELEBRATN OF THE VERY ASPECTS OF AMERIN CULTURE THAT HIS WORK CRICIZED. WARHOL SPOKE TO THIS APPARENT NTRADICTN BETWEEN HIS LIFE AND WORK HIS BOOK THE PHILOSOPHY OF ANDY WARHOL, WRG THAT "MAKG MONEY IS ART AND WORKG IS ART, AND GOOD BS IS THE BT ART."{BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS

Like the early le drawgs, “Sleep” implicly suggts Warhol’s dual rol both as an observer of gay life and a member of . “By makg so formally avant-gar, he saved himself om havg to worry about whether people would be up arms about s gay ntent, ” Gopnik ntrast, the ntent of Warhol’s “Ladi and Gentlemen” seri, which Marsha P. “It was rare for women who weren’t naked to be the subject of art; was extremely rare for people of lor to be the subject of art by and for the mastream world; and my gus is ’s one of very few imag of transgenr people, and certaly the only signifint reprentatn of transgenr people of lor by a major whe artist, ” Gopnik Italian art aler Luciano Anselmo missned the seri om Warhol after the artist brought him to the Gild Grape, a bar Midtown Manhattan that attracted gay and transgenr people, along wh drag queens.

But the exhibn’s foc on the artist’s fah touch on the nflict, and sometime the horror, of beg a gay man a tradn that eply disapproved, and adds dimensn to what we know about Warhol’s relatnship wh his mother. Livg openly and unapologetilly gay durg a time where wasn't as socially accepted, Warhol was also fond of the nightlife scene the '70s and '80s, equentg inic spots like Stud 54 often. Pictured: Amerin film producer Lter Persky wh Warhol and Capote 1978 Warhol beme one of the world's most fluential artists by llapsg the ia of high and low culture and brgg nsumerist art to the was obssed wh celebry and ed the phrase that turned to a prophecy, that one day everyone will be famo for 15 on a personal level, Warhol has built up a reputatn for beg aloof om others, pecially when me to wr this wasn't the se and tails his nquts pth, ncludg the perceptn of Warhol as beg asexual relat to 'some remag homophobia our culture'.

The tails are revealed the new book Warhol by Blake Gopnik, a 900-page book about the Pop Art geni Gopnik wr: 'If we've fally e to accept that one of our artistic ins was gay, we still prefer not to picture him ught the act wh men.

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