#the andy warhol diaries

[omg-hellgirl]

She’s so beautiful, everybody looks at her. She’s only twenty, I didn’t know she was so young.

Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries.

[susantyrrell]

In March 1977, Susan Tyrrell held a Bad premiere party at her home. In The Andy Warhol Diaries, he called it "really great".

Lots of people showed up. Photos by Ron Galella.

[indiestreet]

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[verypsbfan019]

"You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you." (2023 vs. 2022)

I sometimes miss my Warhol Era so I remade one of my favorite fanarts from last year to see the improvement...

[jaynedolluk]

Watched some good art documentaries recently. First was Sensationalists (I think it was a 3 part series + should still be up on BBC i-player) that was all about the Young British Artists (like Damian Hirst + Tracey Emin) + how they rose to fame and how the big money got involved in modern art. Really interesting + I especially enjoyed the little bits on Leigh Bowery.

Also saw a documentary called TRAMPS! which looked at London in the late 70s/80s especially the New Romantics but more from the art/fashion side of things than the music side. Loads of original footage plus interviews w/people such as John Maybury, Princess Julia, Phillip Salon, + Judy Blame etc. I loved it + afterwards the director did a short Q + A and said the initial cut was 12 hours long so there’s loads more footage - would love to see a DVD with some bonus footage.

Saw The Andy Warhol Diaries on Netflix which had extracts from his diaries alongside archive footage + interviews (both from now + back then). It was a good indepth look at his life + work.

And finally saw The Black Italian Renaissance on Sky Arts which looked at black representation throughout art in the Renaissance period and how this reflected the culture/society at the time. I love stuff like this that takes an in depth look at a part of history that’s not widely discussed + turns up so much stuff.

[longlistshort]

“The Last Supper”, 1986, Acrylic and silkscreen ink on linen

In the 1980s Andy Warhol created a series of paintings based around Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper. The one above is currently on view at The Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

In 2010 it was on view as part of the Brooklyn Museum’s exhibition Andy Warhol: The Last Decade.

From their website about the work-

The Last Supper series was commissioned to inaugurate a new gallery in Milan, Italy, located across the street from the site of the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic fresco (circa 1495–98) depicting Jesus’s last meal with his followers. Warhol worked obsessively for more than a year on this series, producing more than a hundred Last Supper paintings, both silkscreened and hand-painted, that were some of the largest paintings of his career.

Despite his public proclamations to the contrary, Warhol was profoundly moved by the series. Of these works, he remarked, “I painted them all by hand—I myself; so now I’ve become a Sunday painter. . . . That’s why the project took so long. But I worked with a passion.” These paintings manifest both his religious beliefs—his practice of Catholicism remained private until it was revealed at his funeral—and an irreverence toward the subject, expressed through ironic commercial logos and transgressive repetitions of Christ’s image.

Warhol created many variations using versions and pieces of da Vinci’s fresco and there is some debate as to the meanings behind them. In 2018, curator Jessica Beck wrote Warhol’s Confession: Love, Faith, and AIDs, an in-depth essay exploring possible meanings behind the work. She suggests Warhol was referencing AIDS, suffering, health, and mortality, along with his relationship to Christianity.

In this section of the essay she discusses the imagery from the painting-

The tension between Warhol’s sexuality and his religious life has its fullest expression in paintings such as The Last Supper (The Big C), in which signs and symbols create a private reference to AIDS. Hand-painted via a projection process, like paintings of 1961–62 such as Before and After, Wigs, and Dr. Scholl’s Corns, the canvas is left partly unfinished, and Warhol employs a light touch with an abstract brushstroke. On this canvas the figure of Christ recurs four times, while hands appear repeatedly. Thomas’s finger pointing to the sky, intimating that heaven knows he is free of guilt, appears prominently next to the “eye” in the Wise potato-chip logo.

…The source material for the painting, in the archives of The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, is a collage made up of headlines from the New York Post, motorcycle ads, and clippings reading “the Big C” and “AIDS” cut from a front-page article in the Post. Warhol ultimately left out the AIDS headline while keeping the more covert “The Big C,” but given the direct references to “gay cancer” in his diaries, it becomes clear that this image of Christ was connected for him to the rapid rate at which people were dying around him. “The Big C” was synonymous with AIDS. The Last Supper (The Big C) reflects on sex and shame through appropriated images of Christ’s betrayal, the piercing owl’s eye (the Wise logo), and the numbers 699, appropriated from a price tag—$6.99—but indexing both the sexual position “69” and the “mark of the beast,” 666, in the Book of Revelations. Even the details of Christ’s feet at the far right of the canvas seem to point to the notion of punishment: for Steinberg, writing on Leonardo’s Last Supper, “as [Christ’s feet] rejoin the rest of the body, they foreshadow it glorified; and they foreshadow it crucified.”34  The image of Christ offering his flesh in the Eucharist was a symbol of salvation during a time of suffering, an unusually personal and emotional image for Warhol. In keeping with the complexities of his construction of death in the Death and Disasters, and with its repression in the diaries, the painting speaks of sex and of judgment. It is an allegorical triangulation of mourning, punishment, and fear.

For more on Warhol an his diaries, the Netflix documentary is really informative as well as entertaining. It’s a moving portrait that goes beyond what most people know about Warhol, both as an artist and as a person.

[sittingonfilm]

“The master hides one’s weakness. The grandmaster uses his weakness. He’s a grandmaster, so he uses all his weaknesses.”

– Michael Chow on Andy Warhol

on the documentary The Andy Warhol Diaries (2022).

[normavasquez]

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[tilbageidanmark]

[fayegonnaslay]

The Warhol Diaries

Sunday, February 26, 1978.

[omg-hellgirl]

Oh but Mick and she are going to have beautiful children, and I guess Mick really does want children — he had Jade, and Jade’s pretty, but the kids he’ll have with Jerry will be stunning. Maybe a beautiful boy.

Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries.

[myphotodiaries]

wed mar 1 - day 23/100

these past few days have been busy busy! the first half of the semester ends on friday so i’ve been busy with some finals & today I had an oral midterm exam for spanish. I also got to see some new exhibitions at the art museum today & had a crochet club meeting!! enjoying my last few days before i head home for break :)

📚 - the scarlet letter (nathaniel hawthorne)

🎧 - colors and shapes (mac miller)

📷 - days 19-23

[embryoblast]

Andy warhol's life was so interesting and also he was fucking hilarious

[eentee]

POP ART ROOM

[sixbucks]

Nope. Nobody neurotic here.

Timeless Cool: Andy Warhol and Archie the Daschund