S ol last year, the big Warhol was decreed as the greatest innovative artists of the twentieth century, more than Salvador Dali, Picasso and other .
has already made the pop art born in the first half of the '60s, the biggest revolution ever happened in the history of contemporary art.
The birth of comic books "educated" as conceived by Jean Claude Forest Barbarella, make people aware of the technique erotic comics and graphic that will mark an epoch, thus allowing for the comics field, and then earn a place forbidden to read the genre, considered alienating or worse.
Those covers filled with bright colors, intense, lysergic acid, and those drawings so persuasive and also certainly daring, are starting to play, while a young Warhol, sees in the objects dearest to him and that mass consumes more and more, a new type of communication, but to be immediate, absolutely must break off all the paint scheme used then, from the great.
The oil paints, give way to glazes, tempera and ink, and painting techniques that have become "classic" give way to the stencils, used to play multiple times without having to redesign the same figure.
The can of Campbell's Soup becomes a true icon, a huge relief for the eyes and the stomach, as if to fill it only to see her, growing larger and more frequently repeated in the canvas, replaced by the map , panels of wood, plastic and vinyl.
Coca Cola, another great temptation irresistible to Warhol, who must also have a podium, a dominant position, making not so large in size but in its endless repetitions on huge panels, as if it will never end (you have to think that the bottles were then 21 cl, little more than a sip, and then bound to end in a hurry.)
two fears are exorcised by the artist which he tries desperately to escape: hunger and thirst.
Then after you are satisfied, wants to have fun, so make copies of the most famous music stars and especially the cinema, so unattainable for the bulk of the time, to make it appear as if they are not even human.
Warhol offers then magnified, (sometimes reaches the size), and repeated in color imagery, and lysergic dream as a child he dreamed of them, as that age is no longer, but as a spirit and ingenuity continues to remain unchanged over time, they plays and makes them accessible to all, as if they had more mystery or rather as if anyone could have a James Dean, Elvis Presley or a staff, a greenish or a Marilyn Lennon multicolor, only for himself.
But this is not enough, the passion to create and give free expression to the fire that burns inside him, Warhol Factory will base that will change several addresses over the years, a true innovation in those years.
The Factory is a real factory, where you create, destroy, remodels and changes everything and gives shape to everything: movies are shot, which will then underground short films inspired by Lou Reed to form his first band "Velvet Underground" becoming a part of the great machinery of the business of art that was forming and that seemed would never come to an end.
Dozens of people went in and out of that place all the time, often did not even know who they were, but everyone left something of himself!
This is the defining memory of the Factory, as Warhol said, stesso in un’intervista.
Non c’è una sola direzione artistica in cui Warhol non si cimenta, anche servendosi di altre persone che spesso fanno poi le spese di questo grande momento veloce che porta al consumo di beni che diventano sempre più necessari, e delle persone, che diventano sempre più obsolete a velocità vertiginosa, come grandi meteore che bruciano nell’atmosfera dell’artista, ma che poi si riducono velocemente in cenere.
È un’anarchia controllata, o forse che ancora non esplode, quella che regna in quella grande fucina di arte, letteratura e musica, e tutto quel che può essere riprodotto su pellicola o pannello o vinile.
Accanto alla prima copertina per Lou Reed, trova posto quella dei Rolling Stones, così come la pubblicità della Esso con il marchio sbavato dalla troppa vernice sullo stencil, o dalle tele con inserti in rame e ottone su cui veniva orinato da giovani pagati per bere litri di birra, in modo da dare strane sfumature al metallo che si ossidava.
Le persone non possono essere riprodotte come gli oggetti, e così quando non funzionano più, quando non si possono più mutare, allora bisogna sostituirli, senza pensarci nemmeno un po’, come nel caso di quella che fu la sua storica e forse unica musa vivente Edy Sedgwick.
Venne inglobata, mangiata e digerita the Factory, as if the throbbing life of its own, an extension of Warhol, a creature from another world, that feeds the soul of that girl who died at 38 years of overdose, after trying from prison to home care for mental illness.
Edy was the muse that inspired many films, hundreds of photos, and more, making it next to Andy, a star of the firmament, he drew the character, changed his hair style, shape, substance and inevitably absorbs 'soul, making it full of frustrations, fears and insecurities, making her fall from the sky full of stars to the pavement, where he was found.
Warhol used the young beauty of Edy, to promote the factory to increase production, as in a factory that grew bigger, and where now no longer even knew who he was this or that, but everything was all, but it was no one.
Edy which was well saved by the road where inevitably it would end sooner or later, was put to sit on a throne of velvet, gold, champagne and glossy pages of popular magazines, that would not have even thought about by accident to her, if he had not known Warhol, arriving to become a kind of drug, which was added to the use of which was plentiful, and when he came to know Bob Dylan, dropped everything to go with him, follow that icon, now in flesh and blood that was presented, and when he swerved, as one of many, she felt betrayed and retracing his steps, he felt completely abandoned in the face of rejection Warhol's take it again with him.
His time had expired and could not return.
The music begins a new era called Glam, which includes Marc Bolan, David Bowie and inspiring, that it becomes a true icon of that era so turmoil.
are rediscovered books and literature, hitherto not considered, beginning the era of whriters city, a sort of damned poets who write on the walls of their truth, rather than on paper.
Horwell George's book "1984" inspired by David Bowie that will draw an entire album "Diamond Dogs", the very first track "Future Legend" where he says:
Fleas the size of sucking the blood of rats, rats as big as cats and ten thousand
humanoids, divided into small tribes,
struggled on the highest among the sterile skyscrapers.
humanoids, divided into small tribes,
struggled on the highest among the sterile skyscrapers.
Just These words seem to give inspiration to a young black man named Jean Michel Basquiat, who from sleeping on park benches because they do not even have a house, became one of the best examples of what an artist is called, the graffiti.
Samos, as blacks signed on large walls, where he wrote his poems, he met by chance and met Warhol, and manages to sell some of his work, the size of a postcard, which he always carried with him, then begins to attend what for him will become in a few years a veritable gold mine, painting canvases of that ever-larger universe known to him, where the huge skyscrapers, seem even more impressive if they look at the bottom of a bench, and where the fleas seem as big as rats when they bite you relentlessly because you can not change and wash for weeks.
Basquiat follows wahol worldwide to become his shadow, his mistress, his muse and something so essential that when Warhol died, Jean Michel will soon get an overdose of heroin and loneliness of those you eat inside, only a year later.
Warhol comes to Ferrara (his first Italian stage) in 1975 where he remained physically with all its "short" for three days, presenting one of the most important exhibitions of the artist "Ladies and gentlemen."
will run movies like "lonesome cowboy" the first real movie about the film and in the case alleged, ostentatiously that homosexuality has always been regarded as the class more "macho" that may exist, and will influence the director Ang Lee for his film much discussed " Brokeback Mountain."
Warhol died in 1987 from complications caused by a gunshot that Valerie Solanas shot him, too regular at the factory, but which has never felt part of it, so taken by the Charge frustration and the sentence of Warhol himself, who said that in the future everyone would have had his fifteen minutes of fame, she gets to shoot his own myth, as it did in '79 for John Lennon.
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Maurizio Ganzaroli
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