I am best known for my reputation,
ironically Andy Warhol. Like many works
contemporary, hers falls elsewhere
within the limits of a given culture.
If you do not know who Elvis Presley
or Marilyn Monroe, if you never
ate Campbell's soup, you will have some
difficulty understanding his painting.
But it is true that he was the first
after artist Marcel Duchamp to take
has a new consumerist order located
the exact boundary between fiction and
information, between documentary and implementation
abyss of our society. Even denounce
then this order to take refuge in the privacy
a workshop. Serigraphs of Andy
Warhol celebrated the cult of banality
captivated an entire society
by the spectacle of his alleged success.
If much of contemporary artists
have rushed behind him in this
impasse, Warhol has at least the merit of
was the leader of the band. Still,
it is THE first reference all
those who are struggling to locate art
relative to their car or their watch.
The great breakthrough of Pop Art in 1962 in New
York also reflected less a spirit
satirical by its inventors that
reaction to the aesthetics and the so-called
preciousness of the Abstract Expressionists,
chief among them Jackson Pollock.
A closer examination, no Pop artist has
the makings of a theorist, although Claes
Oldenburg and, to a lesser extent, Warhol
himself, have sometimes tried to give
exchange. I want to be a machine, proclaimed
and Warhol, but I have a feeling it
especially trying to justify its use
systematic strand, economic and lazy
Screen printing of the reproduction. The only
Pop art theorist linked to is actually
Valerie Solanas, and yet its main
is it is weapons, in addition to the publication
a manifesto calling for the emasculation
Men, have fired gun
Andy Warhol, puncturing his lung, spleen,
stomach, liver and esophagus.
What do you get the flavor of soups
Campbell ... But still, after Magritte
and This is not an apple or
This is not a pipe, Warhol is one
artists who has best demonstrated the
fatuity of the image and the difficulty for
the common man, to access the object
itself. Unique images representing
one object of the Belgian surrealist painter,
Warhol opposite the many reproductions,
establishing at the same time, much more
a critique of consumer society,
a cold distance with its excesses. But
I ask the question: if it has so many
trumped the absurdity of the world, was it
not primarily for the ward? For this
Because, perhaps, Andy Warhol wanted
with all his might abolish intervention
the artist in the art. But how
when he realized he had committed
in an impasse of painting? The encounter
with the pure talent of Jean-Michel Basquiat
will mitigate some time a melancholy
become deep, although the work
jointly is among the best
neither one nor the other.
In Time of avant-garde, a collection
texts on art published by end of 2012
editions of the difference, the essayist
Jean Clair wrote about this: Refugee
in his silence, Andy Warhol was watching a
gloomily changes in the small courtyard
who never leaves, jesters, friends, lovers
and bodyguards. Even here in Paris, we
knows this improbable that his inventory
work has developed consumer goods
a civilization without culture. alienation
than by having it. Of the substance by
the appearance. But it remains the darling
or cursed the Pop movement, and his face dominates
the sixties. Andy Warhol made
Pop folk ... I would even add that with
Campbell's 32 boxes, made soup
People!
