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From Celebrity Fan to Celebrity Magnet
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on April 24, 2014 (go to class or lectures)
Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:
appropriation, photographs, wig, Rosenquist, celebrities, machine, studio, 1928, existing, 1953, Pittsburgh, high
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Andy Warhol's early life
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interest in                        began at a young age
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collected signed portraits of Hollywood stars
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Mae West
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Shirley Temple
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was born in          and grew up in                      where he is now buried (died in 1987)
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made his name as an artist in the early 1960s
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paintings of everyday household objects: Coca Cola bottles, Campbell Soup cans
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probably most well-known for the paintings he produced throughout the 1960s of celebrities including Marylin Monroe, Liz Taylor, Elvis Presley, and Jackie Kennedy
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the celebrity paintings
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used already                  images
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used images repeatedly, e.g. Marilyn Monroe's picture from the          film "Niagara"
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the process of                            is one of the main ways Warhol is connected to the movement called "Pop Art"
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Roy Lichtenstein took images from comic books and blew them up to scale
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James                      would combine images of cares, airplanes, spaghetti, lipstick, etc. all taken from advertising
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unlike abstract expressionist movement of 1950s (e.g. Pollock)
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pop art was concerned with the distinction between popular culture and          art, putting familiar objects into gallery spaces
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challenged the idea of artist as creative visionary
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pop art raised the question: are pop artists really just thieves?
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Warhol's career
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repetition was a key factor
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he said, "he wanted to be a               , everyone should want to be a machine"
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a double Elvis, Marilyn 50 times
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attention is being drawn to the ubiquity of machine mediated images
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with Marilyn repeated 50 times on the canvas, we stop seeing the celebrity and instead notice the silk-screening errors, the smears of paint out of alignment, the minor ways the very same image can be inflected sa versions
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prolific
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1963-1968
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large number of silkscreens
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hundreds of movies
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472 screen tests, short silent films of people who passed through the doors of his             
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shot at 24 frames per second but projected at 16 frames per second, so slowing them down
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screen tests weren't auditions for roles in larger movies,
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he was attempting to create his own system of stars and celebrities by using the same people over and over again in his films
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end of sixties
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visual identity: platinum       , sunglasses, and a persona
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notoriously difficult interviewee
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"uh, yes"
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"uh, no"
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"gee, I don't know, what do you think?"
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70s and 80s
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socialized with major stars
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regular at nightclub Studio 54
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produced portraits of the celebrities around him, worked from                        that he took

People:

Mae West (1893-1980)
American actress and sex symbol known for her bawdy double entendres
  • controversial and had constant problems with censorship and the repetitive sameness of consumer culture
Shirley Temple (1928-2014)
American actress who began who film career in 1932 at the age of three
  • as an adult, she entered politics and became a diplomat, serving as United States Ambassador to Ghana and later to Czechoslovakia

Spelling Corrections:

Niagra ⇒ Niagara

Ideas and Concepts:

Hitherto unknown fact of the day via tonight's Andy Warhol class: "As an adult, Shirley Temple entered politics and became a diplomat, serving as United States Ambassador to Ghana and later to Czechoslovakia."
Significant 20th and 21st century art vocabulary word of the day, via this morning's Andy Warhol class: "appropriation, n. "the taking over, into a work of art, of a real object or even an existing work of art, the use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to them, the act of recontextualizing the objects in the world around us."
From Celebrity Fan to Celebrity Magnet