Not P, Warhol

[David Morris]

I understand, but really dislike Andy's mark on the world of art.  It
enshrines cynicism.

On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 8:44 AM Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> https://www.selfmadehero.com/news/inside-typex-s-andy-the-life-and-times-of-andy-warhol
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>
> I bought this massive graphic novel about Andy a while ago (at the last
> TCAF, or Toronto Comic Arts Festival), but I haven't read it yet.
>
> Jerky
>
> On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 7:08 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> "in a little bio published in December 1960, the best Warhol could claim
>> for himself as an artist, {although he had
>> been exhibiting in galleries for years], was that he was doing a bookplate
>> for Audrey Hepburn's nursery."--Gopnik
>>
>> His eureka moment, writes Gopnik, was when he realized the "low-art' of
>> magazine illustration and dressing windows,
>> that popular, commercial art, could glide effortlessly with the right
>> framing and genius choices into that new Pop Art movement
>> using and illuminating the anything of the times. From low puns to High
>> Art.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 6:55 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Speaking of Warhol, thanks David, whose birth family and mine were
>> > parishioners of the same Church in Pittsburgh. (If you go to the Andy
>> Warhol
>> > Museum and look at Andy's grave webcam, where flowers and soup cans are
>> > placed on his stone and plot, average size,
>> > you will see in the upper left a gravestone that reads KOHUT. Yeahp, you
>> > can visit me there with my parents for all eternity soon enough
>> > after paying homage to Andy.)
>> >
>> > Gopnik's Warhol will be, after reading only a little, one of the great
>> > biographies. Because it is so wonderfully detailed, so wonderfully
>> > knowledgeable--he tackles all of the superficial--but many true since
>> Andy
>> > is all human surface---ways of "explaining' Andy's work thru his life.
>> >
>> > I'll give two. He has found out that when his dad bought a new house
>> when
>> > he was still a kid from a relative he paid cash--about 3 Grand if i
>> > remember, which took years
>> > of frugal non-drinking hard work, and which included Andy's mother
>> selling
>> > vegetables and homemade things--but the the sale was recorded as for
>> $1..
>> > Tax avoidance which Andy later also worked hard at......(I actually saw
>> an
>> > example of this when I went one Friday evening to the Warhol Museum
>> > for a Reveal, first time ever, opening of one of Andy's time
>> > capsules...Andy used to periodically sweep everything in his studio into
>> > big boxes and
>> > date and seal and store them......This evening I saw IRS letters,
>> > receipts, maybe even a marked-up receipt, requests for others to send
>> him
>> > letters re his expenses, etc. )
>> >
>> > And, Andy, whom I knew since his later art school years was seen as the
>> > one with the most natural draughtsman's talent any had ever seen, the
>> one
>> > who entered art
>> > school with little to really learn and all his teachers saw it, was "the
>> > one we asked to help draw something when we hung stuff in the classroom"
>> > said HIS SECOND GRADE TEACHER!, whom Gopnik found and interviewed.
>> >
>> > Perfect circles by hand at will from the youngest age. As if hand-eye
>> > coordination was a tautology,  Sometime look up his pen and ink
>> drawings of
>> > street life on the South Side of Pittsburgh, famers selling vegetables
>> via
>> > trucks, etc.
>> >
>> > And there's more.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 8:58 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Years ago I got about halfway thru The Recognitions.  It lost me in its
>> >> depiction of its Pynchon-like whole sick crew. As such, I never dove
>> deep
>> >> into its questions about original Vs copied artwork.  Am I wrong to
>> suspect
>> >> Warhol was his target?
>> >>
>> >> David Morris
>> >>
>> >> On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 6:32 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> https://twitter.com/sarahw/status/1256726554748628992?s=20
>> >>> --
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>> >>>
>> >>
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