Andy Warhol Biography Essay
Andy Warhol was born August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In third grade, Andy had Sydenham’s chorea. He was often bedridden as a child he became an outcast at school and ended up bonding with his mother. At times when he was confined to his bed he drew, listened to the radio and collected pictures of movie stars.When Warhol was at age 13, his father died in a car accident. When Warhol graduated from Schenley High School in 1945 he had planned to study art education at the University of Pittsburgh wanting to become an art teacher, but his plans later changed. He soon enrolled in the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, where he studied commercial art. While there Warhol was art director of the student art magazine Cano.
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Before the shooting Solanas had been an important figure in the Factory seen being an author and actor in Warhol’s movies. Amaya received only minor injuries and was released from the hospital the same day. On the other hand Warhol barely survived the attack. Warhol suffered physical effects that lasted the rest of his life, including being required to wear a surgical corset. The shooting had profoundly affected Warhol’s life and art. Solanas was arrested after turning herself in saying Warhol “had too much control over my life.” Compared to the success and scandal of Warhol’s work in the 1960s, the 1970s were much quieter decade. Warhol devoted much of his time to rounding up new rich patrons for portrait commissions. Warhol also founded, with Gerard Malanga, and published “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol”. Warhol and his longtime friend Stuart Pivar founded the New York Academy of Art in 1979. Warhol re-emerged with critical and financial success in the 1980s, which was partially due to affiliation and friendships with younger artists, who were currently dominating the “bull market” of 1980s New York art.By this period Warhol was being criticized for becoming merely a “ Buiness artist”.In 1979 critics disliked his exhibits of 1970s personalities and celebrities having no depth or indication of the significance of the subjects. However some critics have come to view
Before the shooting Solanas had been an important figure in the Factory seen being an author and actor in Warhol’s movies. Amaya received only minor injuries and was released from the hospital the same day. On the other hand Warhol barely survived the attack. Warhol suffered physical effects that lasted the rest of his life, including being required to wear a surgical corset. The shooting had profoundly affected Warhol’s life and art. Solanas was arrested after turning herself in saying Warhol “had too much control over my life.” Compared to the success and scandal of Warhol’s work in the 1960s, the 1970s were much quieter decade. Warhol devoted much of his time to rounding up new rich patrons for portrait commissions. Warhol also founded, with Gerard Malanga, and published “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol”. Warhol and his longtime friend Stuart Pivar founded the New York Academy of Art in 1979. Warhol re-emerged with critical and financial success in the 1980s, which was partially due to affiliation and friendships with younger artists, who were currently dominating the “bull market” of 1980s New York art.By this period Warhol was being criticized for becoming merely a “ Buiness artist”.In 1979 critics disliked his exhibits of 1970s personalities and celebrities having no depth or indication of the significance of the subjects. However some critics have come to view