Andy Warhol, Liz Silver, June / July 1963
enough four years to the art to revolutionize. has developed between 1961 and 1964, Andy Warhol, a concept for his work that would change the art and made him the most important artists of the second half of the 20th century made. Andy Warhol created the idea for his career, for his public image and the aura his work.
The radical replacement of the existing individualistic, specific gestural imagery through the kindred of his mass-known, high-capitalist and already fully used images presented any category of eligible artists. The exhibition Andy Warhol - The Early Sixties. Paintings and drawings 1961 - 1964 at the Kunstmuseum Basel is dedicated to possibly the most important period of art icon: In addition to 70 paintings and drawings is also working material from his studio to see. This brilliant book from the catalog Hatje Cantz Verlag documented the works. Three very worthwhile essays illuminate this special break moment in modern art history.
Arthur Danto in his paper as chooses Werkexempel Andy Warhol's Before and After to illustrate the extent of change. And this change was long ago not only Warhol's art. It affected all his work, his views, his life and, consequently, the entire art world.
1961 he discovered in a newspaper ad of a plastic surgeon. With two black and white drawings campaigned for the nose correction: left saw the American newspaper reader an ugly long hooked nose, right corrected small, cute snub nose - just two silhouettes. Warhol enlarged the image to be projected to one hundred times and painted it onto canvas.
Warhol was by then a highly successful commercial artist, whose work earned him not only wealth but also recognition. Mainly, he was responsible for a shoe company High-heels in kitschy candy colors. End of the 50's he wanted more. Warhol wanted to be famous with all his strength as an artist.
Arthur Danto writes to Before and After: The reason "that Warhol became the cult figure he was at the end depends, in part to the fact that almost no one at first would have recognized a difference between the two images. Warhol did not simply reproduce a banal advertising graphics. He made the difference between a banal graphics and artwork with an invisible shock and significant. He changed not only with the way we look at art than ever the traditional view of art. In other words, 1959-1961 the germ of a visual and eventually placed and cultural revolution. "
The important issue is proving that to Andy Warhol's not all has been said. In their idea and in its overall concept is outstanding, because it tells a story . It is the story of Warhol Molt, from the highly motivated invention his image concept, in which he invents the image yourself, rather use of existing image templates. The increase in company level is that it is often not even the templates themselves found. He had to rely on ideas from others who told him, why do you take not even a soup can. Warhol practiced this offensively by KUB, asked for ideas for templates.
two sides of the brilliant book by Hatje Cantz catalog
© Hatje Cantz Verlag
© Hatje Cantz Verlag
Sebastian Egenhofer asks in his catalog contribution to "subjectivity and meaning production in early Warhol" . He sees the importance of Warhol's early work, particularly in the alienation of meaning: Warhol had shifted the meaning to the surface of the work.
Stefan Neuner examines Warhol's work in the early 1960s by means of the theory of comedy this time. Warhol had qualified the art like no other painter. Neuner sees Warhol but rather a precursor to an art painting.
The Catalog's book will remind you of this outstanding exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Basel and after their end, and encourage further research.
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Andy Warhol - The Early Sixties .
exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Basel until 23 January 2011.
exhibition catalog:
Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2010, 240 pages with 170 illustrations, hardcover, € 39.80.
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