Line #49 Creator/AndyWarhol


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2	[[caption-width-right:312:''"Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity Just measure it in inches]].''"]]
3	->''"In the future, [[FifteenMinutesOfFame everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes]]."''
4	-->-- '''Andy Warhol'''
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6	Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 -- February 22, 1987) was a [[RenaissanceMan visual artist, filmmaker, producer, printmaker, icon, author, part-time model and clothing designer]]. And a little bit of a {{painter\|s}} too.
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8	Born Andrew Warhola, Jr. in UsefulNotes/{{Pittsburgh}} to Rusyn[[note]]Not a typo. The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusyns Rusyns]] are a people of the Carpathian region who speak an East Slavic language closely related to Ukrainian, and were once considered to be more or less the same as Ukrainians, but through the passage of time have ended up closer in culture to Poles through a combination of Polish and then Austro-Hungarian (as opposed to Russian) domination and their predominantly Catholic religion.[[/note]]-American parents, Andy Warhol was a sickly child and often hospitalized. He developed a [[ChekhovsGun phobia of hospitals]] and was pathologically shy. Interested in drawing, he had a lot of time to practice. He went to art school and moved to New York. He started in commercial art illustration, but radically changed his style. Andy became famous for his hyper-saturated representations of everyday items, adhering to the concept that the everyday is beautiful. Famous pieces include ''Campbell's Soup Cans'', ''Marilyn Diptych'' and ''Elvis''.
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10	Andy founded [[EccentricTownsfolk The Factory]]: a menagerie of his friends, drag queens, musicians, sexual radicals, models, drug dealers, free-thinkers and other oddities. Many of the "Warhol Superstars" including Edie Sedgwick, Betsey Johnson and Gerard Malanga went on to become stars in their individual fields. Other Factory regulars included Creator/SalvadorDali, Creator/AllenGinsberg, [[Creator/WilliamSBurroughs William S. Burroughs]], [[Music/TheRollingStonesBand Mick Jagger]], Creator/TrumanCapote, UsefulNotes/YvesSaintLaurent and Music/TheVelvetUnderground.
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12	Things changed when [[StrawFeminist Valerie Solanas]] shot Warhol. Warhol survived the shooting but the event had a permanent effect on his life and work. He said of the shooting,
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14	->''"Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there -- I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. People sometimes say that the way things happen in movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen in life that's unreal. [[RealityIsUnrealistic The movies make emotions look so strong and real]], whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television -- you don't feel anything. Right when I was being shot and ever since, [[ArtistDisillusionment I knew that I was watching television. The channels switch, but it's all television.]]"''
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16	After that, The Factory [[LosingTheTeamSpirit was finished]]. In the 70's, Warhol did portraits commissioned by Music/MichaelJackson, Liza Minnelli, and Music/JohnLennon among others. In the 80's Warhol collaborated with younger artists and began exploring the artistic possibilities of computers, even endorsing the [[Platform/{{Amiga}} Commodore Amiga]]. He died in 1987, after delaying a check up on a gallbladder issue due to his phobia of hospitals.
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18	Warhol is also the TropeNamer for FifteenMinutesOfFame.
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20	!! Warhol's notable works include:
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22	(Note that many of his works have the property of being ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, so there's no need to PotHole that trope in this section.)
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24	[[AC:Paintings]]
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26	* "Campbell's Soup Cans" (sometimes "32 Campbell's Soup Cans"), a series of {{paintings}} which consisted of 32 different cans of Campbell's Soup, each of a different variety.
27	* "Marilyn Diptych", his most famous work besides the Soup Cans, consisting of 50 repetitions of a publicity still of Creator/MarilynMonroe, with one half in color, the other in steadily decaying black and white; made two weeks after her death, probably as a meditation on celebrity deaths.
28	* "The Last Supper" (exact title never truly established), a series of paintings and sketches, many not fully completed, depicting UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} at, well, the Last Supper. These devotional works, reflective of Warhol's deeply-held but little-advertised [[UsefulNotes/OrthodoxChristianity Ruthenian Catholic]] faith, were not exhibited in his lifetime, and show Warhol's little-known religious side.
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30	[[AC:Films]]
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32	Warhol made a series of films between 1963 and 1969, which include:
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34	* ''Film/{{Empire\|1964}}'', a 485 minute shot of the Empire State Building.
35	* ''Taylor Mead's Ass'', a 70 minute, somewhat sarcastic response to one critic who complained about "films focusing on Taylor Mead's ass for two hours."
36	* ''Vinyl'', one of the only Warhol-directed films with a plot: A very, very loose adaption of ''Literature/AClockworkOrange'' (predating the Creator/StanleyKubrick movie by about 6 years), done in a single almost-continuous shot.
37	* ''Chelsea Girls'', a somewhat unusual experiment consisting of two sets of sketches, presented side by side, one in color, the other in black and white. Co-directed by Paul Morrissey.
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39	[[AC:Films associated with Warhol]]
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41	Paul Morrissey wrote and directed two films, produced by Warhol (some claim that Warhol's involvement only amounted to allowing his name to be used):
42	* ''Film/FleshForFrankenstein'', released in the US as "Andy Warhol's Frankenstein"
43	* ''Film/BloodForDracula'', released in the US as "Andy Warhol's Dracula"
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46	!!Works about Warhol include:
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48	* ''Scenes From The Life Of Andy Warhol'' 1990 Film by Jonas Mekas
49	* ''Film/IShotAndyWarhol'', 1996 Film
50	* ''Songs For Drella'' 1990 album by Music/LouReed and John Cale
51	* ''Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol'' 1996 Documentary by Chuck Workman
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53	!!Works where Andy Warhol appears as a character include:
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55	[[AC: {{Comics}}]]
56	* A robot Warhol with a [[BrainUploading technological copy of his personality]] was the viewpoint character in an issue of Creator/NeilGaiman's run on ''[[Comicbook/{{Miracleman}} Marvelman]]''.
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58	[[AC: {{Film}}]]
59	* ''Cocaine Cowboys'' (1979) -- Warhol appears AsHimself.
60	* ''The Doors'' (1991) -- Played by Creator/CrispinGlover.
61	* ''Film/{{Basquiat}}'' (1996) -- Played by Music/DavidBowie.
62	* ''[[Film/AustinPowers Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery]]'' (1997) -- Played by Mark Bringelson.
63	* ''54'' (1998) -- Played by Sean Sullivan.
64	* ''Film/FactoryGirl'' (2006) -- Played by Creator/GuyPearce. [[note]]Of note, Music/LouReed lambasted the movie for portraying him completely wrong[[/note]]
65	* ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'' (2009) -- Played by Greg Travis in the opening credits.
66	* ''Film/MenInBlack3'' (2012) -- Played by Creator/BillHader. No, he wasn't an alien, but he was an undercover MIB agent who hated the assignment and begs K to get him reassigned. The famous soup cans came about because he was apparently running out of ideas.
67	* ''Film/YvesSaintLaurent'' (2014) -- Played by William Abello in a non-speaking role
68	* ''Film/SaintLaurent'' (2014) -- Played by Benjamin Crotty
69	* ''Film/WeirdTheAlYankovicStory'' (2022) -- Played by Creator/ConanOBrien
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71	[[AC: {{Literature}}]]
72	* "Andy Warhol's Dracula", an ''Literature/AnnoDracula'' novella by Creator/KimNewman. (See below for the RealLife Warhol-associated work this refers to.)
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74	[[AC: LiveActionTelevision]]
75	* ''Series/TheLoveBoat''. He appeared AsHimself on an episode of ''The Love Boat''.
76	* ''Series/NoelFieldingsLuxuryComedy'' has an inexplicably robotic Warhol as Noel's cleaner.
77	* ''Series/{{Vinyl}}'' [[note]]Played by John Cameron Mitchell[[/note]]
78	* An occasional offscreen character in ''Series/MadMen'', as Peggy occasionally interacts with the early Factory through her artier friends.
79	* The seventh episode of ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryCult'' deals with the assassination attempt by Valerie Solanas. Played by Creator/EvanPeters, whose resemblance to Warhol has often been noted prior to it.
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81	[[AC:Music]]
82	* Music/DavidBowie's [[Music/HunkyDory "Andy Warhol"]] is an ode to the artist, right down to the name.
83	* Music/LouReed and Music/JohnCale's 1990 collaborative album ''Songs for Drella'' is a RockOpera about Warhol's life and career, written in the wake of his death. Most of the album is sung from Warhol's point of view, him having mentored both musicians during their time in Music/TheVelvetUnderground.
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85	[[AC:MusicVideos]]
86	* Warhol directed the video for Music/TheCars' "Hello Again", where he cameos as a bartender.
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88	[[AC: NewspaperComics]]
89	* It's hinted in ''ComicStrip/SafeHavens'' that 'Andy Warhol' is one of the many identities [[spoiler: Creator/LeonardoDaVinci]] assumes-or, technically, ''will'' assume-to release more of his work to the public. This is possible thanks to his TimeTravel abilities.
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91	[[AC: {{Opera}}]]
92	* ''Jackie O'' 1997
93	* ''Theatre/ThePerfectAmerican'': Warhol appears in the second act, visiting the dying Creator/WaltDisney.
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95	[[AC: VideoGames]]
96	* ''VideoGame/TheSims''. In The Sims 1: Superstar expansion, Warhol is depicted as the main photographer.
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98	[[AC: WesternAnimation]]
99	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', "All The President's Heads"
100	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Homer has a dream where he is attacked by works of art. Andy Warhol pelts him with soup cans.
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102	!!! "In the future, these tropes will be famous for 15 minutes":
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104	%%* TheBurlesqueOfVenus: ''Birth of Venus''
105	* InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt: ''Andy Warhol's Dracula'' and ''Andy Warhol's Bad''.
106	* TheScreamParody: One of his paintings was a silk screen print that imitated the painting, titled ''The Scream (After Munch)''.
107	%%* VirginSacrifice: Seen in ''Andy Warhol's Dracula''.

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