Andy Warhol, Sordid Affairs within the Art Community and Absolutely Astonishing Information

Personally, pop art has never appealed to me, and the revised definitions of avant-garde stemming from that period are dubious to say the least. I do acknowledge the significance of Rauschenberg, Lichtenstein and others, but nevertheless, my opinion remains. Naturally, I should address Andy Warhol if I am to discuss pop art as a movement, mass production of art as an ideal, artistic license as a questionable concept and/or a fleeting memory, etcetera.

These series of videos are a BBC documentary called Imagine: Andy Warhol Denied. I found the documentary not only shocking and very informative, but rather now I have some further evidence to support my disdain of Andy Warhol, the pop art movement, and the whole idea of appealing to a mass audience of gaping fools, or what is now commonly referred to as popular culture. Perhaps your interpretation of the documentary will slightly differ from my own…

Enjoy,

part I


part II


part III


part IV


part V


part VI


part VII

One evening...

turbulent cathedrals and castles casting tall shadows
grandly elaborate tympanums
symphonic, rhythmic and powerful

perpetuating

I have never been so struck by the work of a single photographer to grant the title of ‘favourite’ to any such artist. Nevertheless, I believe that I recently discovered such a photographer: Helmut Newton. Perhaps is it the erotic undertones of the photographs or, as wikipedia puts it, the sado-masochistic and fetishistic subtexts that are of such particular interest to me. What I find most appealing is that the pieces are usually somewhat surreal, and always elegant – even if it is in the starkest of manners.

Below are a several other photographs,