![]() In 1987, Warhol underwent gall bladder surgery. Art critic Robert Hughes noted that a Warhol portrait “zipped a corpse into a Halston, painted its eyelids and propped it in the back of a limo, where it moves but cannot speak.” Warhol created up to 50 portraits per year, earning approximately $2 million, some tender and some formulaic. Some called Warhol the “court painter of the 1970s.” He received commissions from wealthy socialites, musicians, and film stars. As a social observer hankering for visibility himself, portraits were Warhol’s natural metier and they constitute his biggest surviving body of work. In the 1970s, Warhol returned to portraiture in earnest. Warhol’s Return to Portraiture: I Am Flashed Therefore I Am But Abstract Expressionism, a period of art history I adore, had seen its day.Īndy Warhol, detail of Elvis Eleven Times, 1963 5. The serious and scowling post-Abstract Expressionists scorned him as a shallow philistine and kept their distance. Warhol tried to befriend Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. Despite being labeled a “loser,” a “groupie,” and a “sphinx without a secret,” Warhol persisted, with the voracious single mindedness of a starving animal. He wanted to be a superstar, like Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollack, who appeared in Time Magazine in 1949. His images appeared in the New York Times.īut Warhol had greater ambitions. Warhol invented the blotted line technique, which is actually quite beautiful and distinct from his later and much colder pop art. He worked for magazines, art directors, fashion brands, and magazines. Learning the power of advertising, Warhol made money illustrating everything, especially shoes. One of Warhol’s beautiful shoe adds for I. ![]()
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