Andy Warhol's The Factory

Andy Warhol opened up his studio “The Factory” in 1962 as a place for him to create art and mass produce it, the name symbolises what the studio will be used for “A factory is where you build things This is where I make or build my work. In my art work, hand painting would take much too long and anyway that’s not the age we live in. Mechanical means are today, and using them I can get more art to more people” (Warhol, mid-1960’s, 5, Warhol, Michaelson, Buchloh). Soon “The Factory” became a hang-out and a place to work for many elite celebrities, Warhol used “The Factory” as a film set, a place to create art and became a meeting place for musicians to create music,” The year was 1965 became known as the year of the superstar, a word indelibly
While one person was making a silkscreen, somebody else would be filming a screen test. Every day something new. I think he was dipping into anything he fancied. (1968, Jonas). During the 1960’s “The Factory” became a place to be for creative people and most of the Hollywood elite “The place functioned as a combination clubhouse, community center, lounge, and cruising area for some of New York’s more outlandish type-preening fashion models, ranting amphetamine heads, sulky poets, underground moviemakers, and imperious magazine editors and occasional movie personalities and rock stars”. (59,Williett). “The Factory” was one of Warhol’s most successful ventures in his lifetime and gained him access to celebrity culture daily. Andy Warhol began to shy away from the public’s eye after Valerie Solanas attempted to murder him in “The Factory” in 1968, this lead “The Factory” to become less of a party scene that it used
“The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts” was set up after his death and owns all the rights to Warhol’s brand and his works. Andy Warhol’s work on “Pop Art” “closed the gap between an artistic elite and the common person for whom art was seen as distant and mysterious” (Danto, 2002, Brownlie, Hewer, Kerrigan). Warhol’s artworks will always be something that stands out form the crowd, “They stop us on the spot, we recognize them instantly, they seize us as we sink them, it is true that their primary impact is one of a perfectly astonishing visual immediacy” (Koch, 46). Even today a Warhol piece of art will stand out from the rest and is instantly recognisable. This is something that makes Warhol one of favourite and in my opinion most interesting artist to