Andy Warhol : Drawings 1942-1987
by Mark Francis, Dieter Koepplin, Andy Warhol, Offentliche kunstsammlu
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Author: Andy Warhol, Dieter Koepplin, Mark Francis, Offentliche kunstsammluEdition: Hardcover
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Published: 1999-09-30
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 319
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Book Review: Imagery + Surrealism = Pop Realism
Summary: 5 Stars
After reading this book, I reckon that Andy Warhol was a man of unpredictable genius. Imbedded in his images is the poetic appeal and the simultaneous pop and avante-garde timelessness of his art. He made the serious and the comic blend well. He balanced the beau monde and the classless. His colour choices evoked and exposed the hidden images within his works, and they simply slither in mind once you stare at them. Unlike some new generation artists or wannabees who only splash their canvasses with colours, sometimes of uncompromising combinations, every artwork of Warhol is alive, moving and his concept comprehensive. Here is a pop artist who is wildly prolific! As a freelance writer and editor doing articles on design and who works within the pop culture, I'd say his works are more than simply decoratives. They speak with you and are nothing less than enthralling. I feel terrific owning a copy! This is a treasureable read.
Summary of Andy Warhol : Drawings 1942-1987
This book offers representative examples of drawings from 1942 to 1987 in all categories and media. Filled with well-known iconic images, humorous portraits, and still lifes, The Warhol Drawings portrays Warhols trademark genius for transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary.Though he is chiefly viewed as a monumental pop-art icon, Andy Warhol was truly a man of many talents. But his component parts don't necessarily match up. He made paintings, prints, sculptures, installations, performances; he produced one of the greatest rock bands of all time, the Velvet Underground; he directed films and wrote a novel as well as a philosophical text. But over and above this massive pile of work is a man who was unpredictable, enigmatic, and impenetrable: ultimately, he would have others think, almost inhuman.
Drawings are the key to many artists' souls. They are personal, immediate, and limiting. Never more so than in the case of Andy Warhol has a book of drawings so brought an artist's humanity forward. He reveals his particular brand of filial affection in an early work titled The Broad Gave Me My Face but I Can Pick My Own Nose--a rebellious youth indeed. His male nudes from the 1950s are passionate and erotic: here is an artist in love with his subject. Warhol was a prolific drawer, and draw he could. Don't forget: he was a very successful commercial artist, an adman, long before his high-art career took off.
Among these 248 color plates rest some wonderful little drawings that stand entirely on their own merit, not their creator's fame. The catalog Andy Warhol: Drawings, 1942-1987 offers rare insight into one of the century's strangest and most interesting artists. --Loren E. Baldwin
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