warhol
na
i'd forgotten how good his stuff was.
lots of his big pictures series. some great self portraits.
a great display of his 50's commercial stuff, which is one of my fav periods
for warhol.
they had a dark green velevet two piece suite that stirling had worn on
stage in the late sixties with the vu.
some of andy's personal affects. zit cream. laxatives. etc etc:)
had a few of andy's wigs, some clothes etc and his kevlar vest...;)
lots of great photo originals including 100 marilyn munroe pix.(i don't get
the big fuss about her to be honest,but hey, whatever)
and most of his movies etc on the vid displays.
even had some of his taped phone conversations at the factory, and they had
that playing thru about twenty silver telephones as a display. brillo.
love how he hardly even did most of the work that was sold as his. that, for
a large part, is his genius.
na
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CynLennin
those of other "factory" regulars. We had a show of the "Warhol Artists" here
(I got to meet Ultra Violet- who is a sweet lady) and they had an example of
each of their works next to a piece of Warhol's from a later date. Really
fascinating. They'd do the exploring and he'd implement it.
Cyn
"Give your dog Basilrathbones....with little bits of Nigel Bruce"
CarnyDC
>sydney MCA had a huge warhol exhibit today.
>
>i'd forgotten how good his stuff was.
>
>lots of his big pictures series. some great self portraits.
>
>a great display of his 50's commercial stuff, which is one of my fav periods
>for warhol.
>
>they had a dark green velevet two piece suite that stirling had worn on
>stage in the late sixties with the vu.
>
>some of andy's personal affects. zit cream. laxatives. etc etc:)
>
>had a few of andy's wigs, some clothes etc and his kevlar vest...;)
>
>lots of great photo originals including 100 marilyn munroe pix.(i don't get
>the big fuss about her to be honest,but hey, whatever)
>
>and most of his movies etc on the vid displays.
>
>even had some of his taped phone conversations at the factory, and they had
>that playing thru about twenty silver telephones as a display. brillo.
>
>love how he hardly even did most of the work that was sold as his. that, for
>a large part, is his genius.
>
>
>na
Yeah, I really like a lot of the modern art that's out there. I'm no
connoisseur, but I knows what I like. I saw some Warhol pieces at MOMA in NYC
and liked them a lot; I think they had some of those Cambell Soup paintings.
Does anyone here remember that Warhol directed the Cars' Hello Again video?
They have a cool modern art museum at the Smithsonian (Hirshorn I think?).
They had this cool exhibit of sculptures, like a chair with a pipe going
through it, and a giant (prob. 4 foot cubed) cube made out of metal filings
which were claimed to slowly move as they were re-orienting themselves.
I much prefer sculpture over paintings, and modern art over more classical
art. I'm not a big fan of large portraits of rich poofs from Britain or France
wearing their powdered Sunday wigs. Or of landscapes or what not. I prefer
"realism" over "romanticism", and in general find the late 19th, early 20th
Century more interesting in most aspects than the eras that came before.
One type of museum that I absolutely love is the military museum. Strangely
enough, there don't really seem to be any of those in the US, and I'm a half
hour from the Smithsonian even. They had this great exhibit at that Ronald
Reagan building (and great idea renaming that airport. From "Washington
National" to "Reagan National". Yeah, just replace George Washington's name
with Ronald Reagan's; hell just put Reagan on the $1 bill while you're at it)
about Soviet artifacts from World War II. They had personal items from Joe
Stalin and Hitler, some real history there. Then they had a reproduction of
Hitlers desk inside the bunker with his personal walking stick (which had a
knife in it), then a globe Mussolini sent him with a giant Swastika over it.
Pretty damn creepy, and some serious history going on there. Europe has some
great military museums. I loved the Irish one which focused on the Easter
Rebellion (but really shortchanged their war of independence, and the civil war
involved). It was cool to see artifacts from the Republic Of Ireland's
"founding fathers" such as handguns and such. Don't really think of George
Washington running around with a handgun; more those big ass duck hunting type
rifles they used back then. Damn, for the number of wars the US has been in,
you'd at least think they could get some museum space. At least as much as the
"gems and shit" exhibits they have at the Smithsonian.
Oh, I also went to the Nixon museum in CA years back. Pretty trippy. Great
President for foreign relations, but could have read the Constitution a bit
more as to domestic matters. Clinton lying under oath about a blow job doesn't
really compare to some of the fun Tricky Dick was up to. And a President
keeping an "enemies list" seems kind of paranoid.
*
-Being brothers now does change things. As kids we became blood brothers, but
we were already brothers
-And in 7th grade I looked up your sisters dress,but it was really also my
sisters dress
-Then remember in 12th grade you had sex with her?
N MacD
Tom
>lots of great photo originals including 100 marilyn munroe pix.(i don't get
>the big fuss about her to be honest,but hey, whatever)
>
Once, when I was in the Museum of Modern Art, I saw a woman hold up her baby
in front of one of Warhol's Marilyns and say "Who is that? That's mommy."
Ehtue
>
> Yeah, I really like a lot of the modern art that's out there. I'm no
>connoisseur, but I knows what I like. I saw some Warhol pieces at MOMA in
>NYC
>and liked them a lot;
I likes Warhol's Lennon portraits. When I first saw them I thought someone was
ripping him off -- it almost looks too Warhol to be Warhol.
na
CynLennin wrote in message <19990109112404...@ng149.aol.com>...
>I really like Warhol, but the truth of the matter is, the ideas were often
>those of other "factory" regulars. We had a show of the "Warhol Artists"
here
>(I got to meet Ultra Violet- who is a sweet lady) and they had an example
of
>each of their works next to a piece of Warhol's from a later date. Really
>fascinating. They'd do the exploring and he'd implement it.
but they wouldn't have been looking if it weren't for andy.
i've read three bios of warhol.
don't know why.
i guess i was just pissed at having missed out on being a factory
regular...;p
he was pretty funny.
he just said ridiculous things and ppl went ,"ok great idea" and went off in
serach of that idea.
brilliant.
and the paintings themselves were, almost totally, really really good.
what a great idea, silk-screening shitloads of the same paintings.
too cool for school.
an
CynLennin
I do, as well. I have to go back to England to see the Imperial War
museum....(my dad just went back and spent four hours there- I've beaten him
with 7 1/2 in the Met)
I loved the Irish one which focused on the Easter
>Rebellion
I'm working on this. It changes. One day I can go, one day I can't.