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In celebration of Andy Warhol’s birthday, born on this day in 1928, I wanted to share this interesting short documentary about him and his most famous creation the Marilyn Diptych. Enjoy!
Andy Warhol made Marilyn Diptych in 1962, right after Marilyn Monroeâs death. By the 1960s Marilynâs film career as a sex symbol was all but over. Warhol would effectively immortalize Marilyn as the sex symbol of the 20th century. The seductive blonde Marilyn with the heavy-lidded eyes and parted lips is frozen in time. She is transformed into the personification of the allure and glamour of Hollywood’s Golden Age.
Marilyn would make Warhol a household name, and Warhol would make Marilyn an icon.
Marilyn Diptych is perhaps his greatest canvas, bringing together celebrity, death and exposure. It is both a warning and a love letter to America. Warhol, who is often criticized as vacuous or superficial, produced art, that is profoundly subversive and quite simply a perfect mirror of our times.
Andy Warhol and Marilyn Monroe were both the embodiment of the American dream. They also, both projected a vacant persona that made sure nobody knew the real person behind the mask.
The Marilyn Diptych is a silkscreen painting by American pop artist Andy Warhol depicting Marilyn Monroe. The monumental work is one of the artist’s most noted of the movie star. The painting consists of 50 images. Each image of the actress is taken from the single publicity photograph from the film Niagara. The underlying publicity photograph that Warhol used as a basis for his many paintings and prints of Marilyn, and the Marilyn Diptych, was owned and distributed by her movie studio. Marilyn Diptych was completed just weeks after Marilyn Monroe’s death in August 1962.
Silkscreen printing was the technique used to create this painting. The twenty-five images on the left are painted in color, the right side is black and white.
The Marilyn Diptych is in the collection of the Tate.
It has been suggested that the relation between the left side of the canvas and the right side of the canvas is evocative of the relation between the celebrity’s life and death. The work has received praise from writers such as American academic and cultural critic Camille Paglia, who wrote in 2012’s Glittering Images lauding how it shows the “multiplicity of meanings” in Monroe’s life and legacy.
In a December 2, 2004 article in The Guardian, the painting was named the third most influential piece of modern art in a survey of 500 artists, critics, and others. The artwork was also ranked ninth in the past 1,000 years by Kathleen Davenport, Director, Rice University Art Gallery, Houston.
A youthful Leonardo da Vinci studies art under his master Andrea del Verrochio in Florence, Italy in 1473. While working as an apprentice Leonardo learns about color, shading, sculpture, and painting. In 1498, Leonardo is under the service of the Duke and Duchess of Milan. He is commissioned to sculpt a statue of the Duke’s father and paint The Last Supper. The Duchess asks Leonardo to produce a play about stars, planets, and space. During the play, Leonardo sees a young boy, Salai, steal some money from the stagehands. Salai tells Leonardo that he is homeless. Leonardo invites Salai to live with him and teaches him how to paint. Leonardo then meets a young Michelangelo and it becomes apparent that their thoughts about training in the arts are very different: Passion and creativity versus discipline and rules.
Leonardo da Vinci was a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. He was a true genius who graced this world with his presence from April 15, 1452 to May 2, 1519. He is among the most influential artists in history, having left a significant legacy not only in the realm of art but in science as well, each discipline informing his mastery of the other. Da Vinci lived in a golden age of creativity among such contemporaries as Raphael and Michaelangelo, and contributed his unique genius to virtually everything he touched. Like Athens in the age of Pericles, Renaissance Italy is a summit in human history. Today, no name better seems to symbolize the Renaissance age than Leonardo da Vinci.
Oh, tell me what you see oh wanderer of wanderers As you happily stroll into town with nothing but an eagerness for adventure And a coin in your pocket. Oh, how the wondrous pastel shops line the cracked and broken streets of the village Full of precious objects patiently crafted by the townspeople, The pleasant scents of fresh baked bread wafting from a nearby bakery, And pies cooling in windowsills, the warm smiles of strangers as I saunter pass, The curiousness of children and the queer games they play, The hot coffee and home-cooked meals, The beautiful women planting their gardens, The books in the library, The sun casting shadows in the street, The community of strangers working for a common goal, A friendly conversation, And a ride on a horse and buggy Are the things that I see that have brought me to this village. I have had a great adventure across this land, And I have seen the vast wilderness from here to there, For I have been everywhere, But now I long for the touch of another, To reach out to someone, And to be heard, For a life on the road is much too lonely, And I wish to make my home here. Oh, I see oh great wanderer, That a life on the road is much to painful and hard, But I too hope to find my own road of misery to the happiness I seek.
Alan Becker is an American online animator, YouTube personality, and artist, best known for creating the Animator vs. Animation web series, its shorts, and its spin-offs Animation vs. Minecraft, Animation vs. YouTube, Animation vs. League of Legends, Animation vs. PokĂŠmon, and Animation vs. Super Mario Bros. on both Newgrounds and YouTube.
âThere are very, very few people who occupy the ground that Leonard Cohen walks on.â
-Bono
The Flame is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the revered poet and musician whose fans span generations and whose work is celebrated throughout the world. Featuring poems, excerpts from his private notebooks, lyrics, and hand-drawn self-portraits, The Flame offers an unprecedentedly intimate look inside the life and mind of a singular artist.
A reckoning with a life lived deeply and passionately, with wit and panache, The Flame is a valedictory work.
âThis volume contains my fatherâs final efforts as a poet. It was what he was staying alive to do, his sole breathing purpose at the end.
“Each page of paper that he blackened was lasting evidence of a burning soul.â
-Adam Cohen
Leonard Cohen died in late 2016.
Excerpted from Leonard Cohenâs Acceptance Address for the Prince of Asturias Award.
Animation by Astral Studio
Felix Colgrave is an Australian director, animator, cartoonist, filmmaker, artist, and musician. Distribution of Colgrave’s work has, to date, been focused on YouTube where his channel has 1.38 million subscribers. Colgrave mainly uses Adobe After Effects for his animations.
Haida are an Indigenous group who have traditionally occupied Haida Gwaii, an archipelago just off the coast of British Columbia, Canada for at least 12,500 years. The Haida are known for their craftsmanship, trading skills, and seamanship. They are thought to have been warlike and to practice slavery. Anthropologist Diamond Jenness has compared the Haida to Vikings while Haida have replied saying that Vikings are like Haida.
Like Beat writers who composed their work by shredding and reassembling scraps of writing, artist Jean-Michel Basquiat used similar techniques to remix his materials. Pulling in splintered anatomy, reimagined historical scenes and skulls, he repurposed present day experiences and art history into an inventive visual language. Jordana Moore Saggese explores the chaotic and prolific art of Basquiat.
SAMO was a graffiti tag which started as an inside joke when Jean-Michel Basquiat and a few of his friends were still teenagers. They tagged funny, thought-provoking lines all over New York City from 1977 to 1980. It accompanied short phrases, in turns poetic and sarcastic, mainly painted on the streets of downtown Manhattan.
You will need:
– A drawing board
– An easel
– Pastel paper
– Hard pastels
– Soft pastels
– Conte pencils
– White liquitex gesso
– Black or dark grey acrylic paint
– A wide paintbrush
– Fixative
– Masking tape
– A selection of props
All of the materials are available online or at your local art supply shop.
“I think that if you do pictures, theyâre about what’s inside you as much as whatâs outside you.”
Paula Rego
Artist Paula Rego, is known for her paintings and drawings based on folk tales. Her work often reshapes traditional stories to reflect personal experiences, and focuses on female roles within the family.
In 1994, she began to experiment with pastels and has continued to use them ever since. She describes working in pastels âlike painting with your fingersâ. The scenes in her drawings almost always take place in domestic settings and are filled with mystery.
“As you are drawing something, it very often turns into something else, and you can go with it. It develops in a completely different way. Itâs organic and itâs done with the hand.”
Paula Rego
In the video, you also get to experience the world premiere of an animation technique, which Hockney himself calls âtime-based brush painting.â
David Hockney is a British painter, printmaker, photographer and stage designer, who is considered among the most influential and versatile British artists of the 20th century. Hockney is a notable contributor to the pop art movement in Britain, both in its foundation and growth, beginning with his participation in an annual exhibition called âYoung Contemporariesâ in 1960, which also marked the start of his recognition in the art world. Hockney is the recipient of several prestigious awards including the Praemium Imperiale for Painting (1989), and the Lifetime of Artistic Excellence Award (Pratt Institute) in 2018. His work can be found in numerous collections worldwide, including National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, National Portrait Gallery and Tate Gallery in London, Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Centre Pompidou in Paris, De Young Museum in San Francisco, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in HumlebĂŚk, and Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo.
David Hockney was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner at his home in France in March 2019.
Many thanks to David Hockney for providing the works and the animation shown in the video.
New 2020 illustrations!
Francis Bacon was the loudest, rudest, drunkest, most sought-after British artist of the 20th century. Twenty-five years after his death, his canvases regularly exceed ÂŁ40million at auction. Bacon’s appeal is rooted in his notoriety – a candid image he presented of himself as Roaring Boy, Lord of Misrule and Conveyor of Artistic Violence. This was true enough, but only part of the truth. He carefully cultivated the facade, protecting the complex and haunted man behind the myth. In this unique, compelling film, those who knew him speak freely, some for the first time, to reveal the many mysteries of Francis Bacon.
George Condo was part of the 1980s wild art scene in New York. In this video, recorded in his New York-studio, the iconic artist shares his life-long love of drawing and thoughts on his artistic expression, which he describes as âartificial realism.â
âI kind of draw like youâre walking through the forest, where you donât really know where youâre going, and you just start from some point and randomly travel through the paper until you get to a place where you finally reach your destination.â Condo studied music theory at college, but soon realised that it was too formal and rigid for him, and that he needed an art form that would give him more freedom. However, he still approaches his art like a musician, working fast and following the rhythm of the drawing or painting without âmissing any of the notes.â The tempo, he feels, is very important when it comes to art.
Condo wants his work to contain clear references to the different artists â from Picasso to Velasquez â theyâre inspired by, but with a twist. His painting or drawings are about finding a way in which one can capture a personâs humanity through a portrait â capturing not just the outside but also the inside. Moreover, Condo aims to âturn negatives into positivesâ, portraying âthe ordinary characters that make up our lives, whether itâs the janitor or the bus driver or the school teacher or the principal or the mailman or the truck driver. These are not the glamorous people that you see on the cover of Vogue Magazine, but they are what the world is composed of. And to give them a spot in the world is what I always admired about Rembrandt to a certain degree.â
âI love drawing as much as painting, so why not make your paintings from your drawings, but literally have there be no defined sort of hierarchy between the two mediums?â Condo started making âdrawing-paintingsâ, where you canât distinguish paint from pastel, or a line made with a paintbrush or a line drawn in from and thus making the two mediums equal: âThereâs no real difference between figurative painting or abstract painting, âcause itâs all painting to begin with. You don’t have to follow any rules as a painter. If youâre making an abstract painting it doesn’t mean eventually it canât morph into a figurative one.â
When a famous art historian asked Condo what he called the form of work he did, Condo thought of the description âartificial realismâ. Artificial realism gives the painter the opportunity to go back and paint something in a realistic way while still portraying all that which is artificial in our world. In continuation of this, he finds that now everything seems to be âartificial realismâ with the fake news that is all around us: âArt is the truth, and everything else is a lie.â
George Condo is an American contemporary visual artist working in the mediums of painting, drawing, sculpture, and printmaking. Condo mixes input from art historyâs masters â such as Velasquez, Manet, and Picasso â with elements of American Pop Art. He distorts and renews this material so that it stands out and becomes his own: a kind of strange hybrid that blurs boundaries between the comic and the tragic, the grotesque and the beautiful, the classic and the innovative. As part of the wild art scene in New York in the early 1980s, Condo was close to painters such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, and worked for Andy Warholâs Factory, applying diamond dust to silkscreen. Condoâs work is in the permanent collections of MoMA, the Whitney Museum, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Broad Foundation in Los Angeles, Tate Gallery in London, Centre George Pompidou in Paris and Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo, among others. He is the recipient of an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1999) and the Francis J. Greenberger Award (2005). Condo lives and works in New York City.
George Condo was interviewed by Kasper Bech Dyg at his studio in Soho, New York City in September 2017.
Felix Colgrave is an Australian director, animator, cartoonist, filmmaker, artist, and musician. Distribution of Colgrave’s work has, to date, been focused on YouTube where his channel has 1.38 million subscribers. Colgrave mainly uses Adobe After Effects for his animations.
