#warhol muse

[bitter69uk]

“This was the first time I had ever traveled with Ultra Violet. She was still a big mystery; nobody knew what her scene was – she kept her life very secret (as opposed to everybody else we knew who were always telling you the most intimate things about themselves). I’d met her one day in ’65 when she walked into the Factory in a pink Chanel suit and bought a big Flowers painting that was still wet for five hundred dollars. Her name was Isabelle Collin Dufresne then and she hadn’t dyed her hair purple yet. She had expensive clothes and a penthouse on Fifth Avenue, and she drove a Lincoln that was the same as the presidential one. She was past a certain age, but she was still beautiful; she looked a lot like Vivien Leigh. Ultra would do almost anything for publicity. She’d go on talk shows “representing the underground” and it was hilarious because she was as big a mystery to us as she was to everybody else … she’d tell journalists “I collect art and love.” But really what she collected were press clippings. Gradually we pieced together that she was from a rich family of glove manufacturers in Grenoble, France, that she’d come to America as a young girl to visit the painter John Graham (coincidentally in the same building where the Castelli Gallery was), who introduced her around the New York Art world, and then when he died she met Dali, and then she met me, and then she became Ultra Violet. She was popular with the press because she had a freak name, purple hair, an incredibly long tongue and a mini-rap about the intellectual meaning of underground movies.”

/ From POPism: The Warhol Sixties (1980) by Andy Warhol and Pat Hackett /

In memoriam: Warhol Superstar Ultra Violet (née Isabelle Collin Dufresne, 6 September 1935 – 14 June 2014) died on this day ten years ago. Pictured: portrait of Ultra Violet by Jack Mitchell, 1971.  

[vintagevamp876]

The incomparable Edie Sedgwick🔥🔥

[vintage-tigre]

Nico and Edie Sedgwick photographed at Andy Warhol’s The Factory, 1966

[kulturegroupie]

Candy Darling photographed by Jack Mitchell in 1971 💌

[hannahleah]

Young, 23-year-old Nico before becoming a 1960s icon and Andy Warhol's muse, photographed by Jerry Schatzberg

[undergroundrockpress]

Ultra Violet (aka Isabelle Collin Dufresne), late 60s.

[willowylady]

Candy Darling, 1971, Polaroid by Andy Warhol

[the-cricket-chirps]

Edie Sedgwick

Self Portrait

1965

[timmurleyart]

Tangerine citrus trio.🎵🪘🎻🍊🍋‍🟩🟥🟧🟨🟪

[fayegonnaslay]

Andy Warhol and Candy Darling by Cecil Beaton, 1969

[hislittleraincloud]

She reminds me of Edie Sedgwick. She too had million dollar dimples and a bright smile/spirit.

✨📷📸🎥🪷💕✨

[bitter69uk]

“... oh it isn't fair / how her ermine hair / turned men around / she was white on white / so blonde on blonde / and her long long legs / how I used to beg / to dance with her / but I never had a chance with her …”

/ From the poem “edie sedgwick (1943 – 1971)” by Patti Smith in the book Babel (1978) /

Died on this day: doomed, utterly magnetic Warhol Superstar, muse, scene-maker and socialite Edie Sedgwick (Edith Minturn Sedgwick Post, 20 April 1943 – 16 November 1971). Caution: if you’re interested in Sedgwick’s story, for the love of God avoid the terrible, wildly inaccurate, tone-deaf and frankly homophobic 2006 biopic Factory Girl and read Jean Stein’s 1982 book Edie: An American Biography instead. It’s a shame it’s virtually impossible to watch the underground Andy Warhol films Sedgwick features in, because that’s how best to understand her allure. Years ago (like, in the 1990s I think!) I managed to see Outer and Inner Space (1965) at the Institute of Contemporary Art. Experiencing the radiant Sedgwick onscreen was like seeing Louise Brooks in a silent movie for the first time! Pictured: portrait of Sedgwick by Larry Fink, 1966.

[vintagevamp876]

Edie Sedgwick - Girl Of The Year 1965

[higherentity]

[donaiocell]

Warhol versus De Chirico

[seriously-mike]

Look at this ICONIC PIECE by RENOWNED ARTIST ANDY WARHOL!

This is ART! It cannot be surpassed by ridiculous machine that can only copy existing images and maybe change some colors on them, and badly so!

Meanwhile, this, somehow, is not art. It's theft. Disregard it. Leonardo da Vinci was not supposed to paint a portrait of Marilyn Monroe in his own style.

This is how you sound whining about "AI art". Cunts.