Hello Again! This time I will be talking about Andy Warhol!
As some of you know, last term there was an Andy Warhol exhibition in Brisbane.
Here is a little informatiion about him:
Andy was born as Andrew Warhola on 6th August, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He later became a well-known artist and participant in the artistic movement known as 'Pop Art'. He studied at the Carnegie Mellon University and his works include Chelsea Girls (1966), Exploding Plastic Inevitable (1966) and Campbell's Soup Cans (1968).
On June 3rd 1968, Andy Warhol and art critic Mario Amaya were shot by Valerie Solanas (a separatist feminist) at Andy's studio. Mario received minor injuries, walking out of the hospital the same day, whereas Andy suffered terribly, surviving only after doctors opened his chest and massaged his heart to stimulate movement to save him from an almost certain death. Even years after the shooting incident, Andy was limited by his physical injuries.
Andy Warhol died aged 59. He had allegedly suffered a sudden heart attack while successfully recovering from a routine gallbladder operation at New York Hospital. He died at 6:32am on February 22nd 1987.
Andy's brothers took the body back to their home town of Pittsburgh for a burial. The coffin was a solid bronze casket with white upholstery and gold plated rails. Andy wore a black cashmere suit, a Paisley tie, a platinum wig and sunglasses and was holding a small bible and a red rose. The coffin was covered in white roses and asparagus ferns. Before the coffin was lowered into a grave beside his mother and father at St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Cemetery, Paige Powell, a guest at the service, dropped a copy of Interview magazine, an Interview T-shirt and a bottle of 'Beautiful' perfume by Estee Lauder down into the grave.
And there he lies today!
Here are some of Andy Warhol's works:
