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Galison Salutes Andy Warhol
We at Galison are very happy to work with The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts to create note cards, holiday greeting cards, notebooks, journals, and other stationery gifts based on designs and using quotations by Andy Warhol.
Please have a look at some Andy Warhol gifts from Galison.
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Biography of Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1928. In 1945 he entered the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) where he majored in pictorial design. Upon graduation, Warhol moved to New York where he found steady work as a commercial artist. He worked as an illustrator for several magazines including Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and The New Yorker and did advertising and window displays for retail stores such as Bonwit Teller and I. Miller. Prophetically, his first assignment was for Glamour magazine for an article titled "Success is a Job in New York."
Throughout the 1950s, Warhol enjoyed a successful career as a commercial artist, winning several commendations from the Art Director's Club and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. In these early years, he shortened his name to "Warhol." In 1952, the artist had his first individual show at the Hugo Gallery, exhibiting Fifteen Drawings Based on the Writings of Truman Capote. His work was exhibited in several other venues during the 1950s, including his first group show at The Museum of Modern Art in 1956.
The 1960s was an extremely prolific decade for Warhol. Appropriating images from popular culture, Warhol created many paintings that remain icons of 20th-century art, such as the Campbell's Soup Cans, Disasters and Marilyns. In addition to painting, Warhol made several 16mm films which have become underground classics such as Chelsea Girls, Empire and Blow Job. In 1968, Valerie Solanis, founder and sole member of SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) walked into Warhol's studio, known as the Factory, and shot the artist. The attack was nearly fatal.
At the start of the 1970s, Warhol began publishing Interview magazine and renewed his focus on painting. Works created in this decade include Maos, Skulls, Hammer and Sickles, Torsos and Shadows and many commissioned portraits. Warhol also published The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (from A to B and Back Again). Firmly established as a major 20th-century artist and international celebrity, Warhol exhibited his work extensively in museums and galleries around the world.
The artist began the 1980s with the publication of POPism: The Warhol '60s and with exhibitions of Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century and the Retrospectives and Reversal series. He also created two cable television shows, "Andy Warhol's TV" in 1982 and "Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes" for MTV in 1986. His paintings from the 1980s include The Last Suppers, Rorschachs and, in a return to his first great theme of Pop, a series called Ads. Warhol also engaged in a series of collaborations with younger artists, including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Francesco Clemente and Keith Haring.
Following routine gall bladder surgery, Andy Warhol died February 22, 1987. After his burial in Pittsburgh, his friends and associates organized a memorial mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York that was attended by more than 2,000 people.
In 1989, the Museum of Modern Art in New York had a major retrospective of his works.
The Andy Warhol Museum opened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in May 1994.
--This biography and the following selection of Andy Warhol quotations are courtesy of
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
All Andy Warhol artwork and quotes ©/®/TM The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
Andy Warhol Quotes
“If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface: of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There’s nothing behind it.”
“I think everybody should be a machine. I think everybody should like everybody.”
“In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.”
“Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art.”
“If everybody’s not a beauty, then nobody is.”
“When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums.”
“I never read, I just look at pictures.”
“But I always say, one’s company, two’s a crowd, and three’s a party.”
“I never fall apart because I never fall together.”
“I think we’re a vacuum here at the Factory, it’s great. I like being a vacuum; it leaves me alone to work.”
“I’m not more intelligent than I appear…I never have time to think about the real Andy Warhol, we’re just so busy here…not working, busy playing because work is play when it’s something you like.”
“Anything a person really wants is okay with me.”
“Wasting money puts you in a real party mood.”
“The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting.”
“People should fall in love with their eyes closed. Just close your eyes. Don’t look. And it’s magic.”
“You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.”
“There should be a course in the first grade on love.”
“The world fascinates me.”
“Just dress to mingle.”
“It usually happens so slowly that you don’t even notice it.”
“I broke something today, and I realized I should break something once a week to remind me how fragile life is.”
“Everyone is rich, everyone is interesting.”
“Everybody must have a fantasy.”
“It takes a lot of work to figure out how to look so good.”
“Fashion wasn’t what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.”
“If you can convince yourself that you look fabulous, you can save yourself the trouble of primping.”
“She really has class because she’ll go anywhere.”
“I tried and tried when I was younger to learn something about love, and since it wasn’t taught in school I turned to the movies for some clues about what love is and what to do about it.”
“I really do live for the future, because when I'm eating a box of candy, I can't wait to taste the last piece.”
“Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job.”
“Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person goodnight.”
“I am a deeply superficial person.”
“They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
“Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.”
“Art is what you can get away with.”
“Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?”
“When I die I don’t want to leave any leftovers. I’d like to disappear. People wouldn’t say he died today, they’d say he disappeared. But I do like the idea of people turning into dust or sand, and it would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a big ring on Elizabeth Taylor’s finger.”
“I never understood why when you died, you didn’t just vanish, and everything could just keep going the way it was only you just wouldn’t be there. I always thought I’d like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph and no name. Well, actually, I’d like it to say ‘figment’.”
“It doesn’t matter what you do. Everybody just goes on thinking the same thing, and every year it gets more and more alike. Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a few years it may be the other way around. Some day everybody will think just what they want to think, and then everybody will probably be thinking alike; that seems to be what is happening.”
All Andy Warhol artworks and quotes ©/®/TM The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
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