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Andy Warhol has been famously quoted and misquoted for his ideas about pop culture and the future of humanity – maybe his 15 minutes of fame has turned out to be 15 seconds. Either way, most people love a taste of the limelight. In many ways Facebook satisfies this most basic craving. The Facebook connected photobooth introduces this to live events. Stand in front of the photobooth, pout like a celebrity, and watch it publish automagically to the Facebook News Feed. Your personal fan base sees it, “likes” it, “shares” it. Despite separation by space and time, instant FAME!Andy Warhol has been famously quoted and misquoted for his ideas about pop culture and... more
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An iconic portrait of Elvis Presley by pop artist Andy Warhol went for $37 Million when it hit the auction block tonight at Sotheby’s. The life-size 1963 painting, “Double Elvis (Ferus Type),” epitomizes Warhol’s obsessions with fame, stardom and the public image, according to Sotheby’s. Previously estimated to sell for $30 million to $50 million, it was included in the auction house’s May 9th sale of post-war and contemporary art.
Art auctions have turned into freak-show casinos, spectacles where the uber-rich can act out as much in public as possible, trying to buy immortality, become a part of art history, make headlines and create big profits. They are despicable for what they do to art, for the bad magic of making mysteriously powerful things turn into numbers.
This piece includes a number of vintage photographs, two videos and a documentary about Warhol's art and life.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/05/09/another-freak-show-big-money-art-auction-warhols-double-elvis-brings-33-million/An iconic portrait of Elvis Presley by pop artist Andy Warhol went for $37 Million... more
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“Before They Were Famous: Behind The Lens of William John Kennedy” is an extraordinary collection of images by the photographer William John Kennedy, which is currently on exhibition at the new gallery Site/109 in New York City. The collection presents a number of never-before-seen photographs of Andy Warhol and Robert Indiana, among them Warhol’s “Marilyn Monroe” and Indiana’s “LOVE,” taken by Mr. Kennedy in the mid-60′s when they were both just emerging American artists.
The fact that these early images of the two iconic American artists happened isn’t necessarily the exciting part. It’s that the amazingly early, naïve portraits of the artists with their own works were created before they were famous. These early images sat untouched for over 50 years, until Kennedy uncovered them within his archives and decided it was time to finally print this project.
This piece includes a number of photographs, a photo-gallery and two documentary short films.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/05/04/never-before-seen-photographs-of-the-young-andy-warhol/“Before They Were Famous: Behind The Lens of William John Kennedy” is an... more
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An iconic portrait of Elvis Presley by pop artist Andy Warhol is poised to go for as much as $50 million when it hits the auction block in May at Sotheby’s. The life-size 1963 painting, “Double Elvis (Ferus Type),” epitomizes Warhol’s obsessions with fame, stardom and the public image, according to Sotheby’s. Estimated to sell for $30 million to $50 million, it will be included in the auction house’s May 9th sale of post-war and contemporary art.
The silver background of “Double Elvis (Ferus Type),” along with the subtle variations in tone give the serial imagery a sense of rhythmic variation that recalls the artist’s masterpiece, “200 One Dollar Bills,” completed the previous year. That work soared to nearly $44 million or four times its estimate in 2009 and achieved the highest price of any work at the fall auctions. But it was a work from Warhol’s “Death and Disaster “series that set the artist’s record, which still stands. “Green Car Crash (Green Car Burning),” also from 1963, more than doubled its estimate and sold for $71.7 million in 2007, at the height of the art market boom.
In the “Double Elvis” work, Presley is dressed as a cowboy, shooting a gun. Sotheby’s describes him in the work as “a Hollywood icon of the sixties rather than the rebellious singer who shook the world of music in the sixties.” The double in the title refers to a shadowy image of Presley in the same pose that appears next to him in the work.
This piece includes a number of vintage photographs, a video about the Elvis portrait and a documentary about Warhol's life.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/04/29/andy-warhols-cowboy-double-elvis-could-bring-50-million-at-auction/An iconic portrait of Elvis Presley by pop artist Andy Warhol is poised to go for as... more
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In film director Aaron Rose’s Warhol-inspired and farmyard-centric “Chicken Screen Tests,” a collection of exquisite California chicks and a charismatic duck mug for the camera, all the while posing for their portraits to the music of Dean and Britta’s cover of Bob Dylan’s “I’ll Keep It With Mine.” Rose’s bewildering chicken screen tests were shot with 16mm film in line with the standard formula of Andy Warhol’s 1960s “Factory Screen Tests,” with the finely feathered thespians obtained from a farm in San Pedro.
This piece includes photographs, as well as the perplexing short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/03/10/sexy-screen-tests-a-big-cock-and-hot-chicks/In film director Aaron Rose’s Warhol-inspired and farmyard-centric... more
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The Future of Cannabis: How Are We to Move Forward?
Andy Warhol Exhibit at Affirmation Arts
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“Series of Portraits: A Century of Photographs” is an exhibtion of 20th century portrait photography, which is presently on display at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg. Portraiture is one of the traditional genres in art and was a driving force behind the invention of photography in the 19th century. Portrait photography continually redefines itself, between dissolution of the traditional concept of the subject in the masses, toward the pursuit of individuality and identity. The image of the human being is subject to constant change, which is also reflected in photography, sometimes with spectacular results.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution photographs and a photo-gallery.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/06/30/series-of-photographic-portraits-a-century-of-photographs/“Series of Portraits: A Century of Photographs” is an exhibtion of 20th... more
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During the course of his artistic career, David LaChapelle was hired by Andy Warhol, fired by Madonna, photographed Pamela Anderson, Lady Gaga, and Hillary Clinton, and made a star of the transgender personality Amanda Lepore. He earned millions and spent much of that on his self-financed movie about an urban dance form created in the rough neighborhoods of South Central Los Angeles. When the film, “Rize,” failed to attract a large audience, the weary LaChapelle packed up his career and disappeared.
Now, many years later, LaChapelle is back in New York briefly, overseeing his one-man show at a Madison Avenue art gallery and a separate commissioned installation that is opening in the lobby of the Lever House on Park Avenue. With their erotic gloss, their sizzling aesthetics and their slick production values, the photographs at Michelman Fine Art are recognizably the work of a man who in his editorial work for “Vanity Fair,” “Interview,” “Rolling Stone” and others photographed David Duchovny dressed in Lycra bondage trousers, Kanye West as Black Jesus, a turbaned Elizabeth Taylor looking like a $5 fortune teller, Eminem naked but for a well-placed prop and other stars like Tupac Shakur (wearing soap bubbles), Angelina Jolie and Lady Gaga baring their souls for the camera, along with a good deal more.
At the Lever House, however, the artist has returned to techniques he employed when, at the very beginning of his career, long before he became the go-to video director for pop music divas, he used naïve, childlike forms like linked paper chains to make his work. In the space that in the past has presented exhibitions of works by artists such as Barbara Kruger and Damien Hirst, Mr. LaChapelle has hung the chains from walls and ceiling in looping festoons. At first glance, the stapled links only look like colorful decorations for a children’s party, but when viewed more closely they reveal images of naked bodies, as an allegory for human connection.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution color photographs, a photo-gallery and two music-videos with artwork by LaChapelle.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/05/29/david-lachapelle-the-fellini-of-photography-returns-to-fine-art/During the course of his artistic career, David LaChapelle was hired by Andy Warhol,... more
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Hedge fund billionaire Steve Cohen put his iconic 1963 Andy Warhol silkscreen portrait of Elizabeth Taylor on the block at Phillips de Pury’s Manhattan auction house on May 12, 2011, and it sold for $26,962,500 Million.
“Liz #5” (1963) has been described as is a rare and exquisite example of the world renowned images of feminine grace that catapulted Warhol to prominence nearly 50 years ago. This glamorous portrait of the legendary actress, Elizabeth Taylor, embodies the most important themes of Warhol’s body of work, including his fascination with celebrity, real-life drama and the fleeting nature of beauty. One of the artist’s most instantly recognized images, “Liz #5” is said to be a testament to Warhol’s unique and unrivaled contribution to the visual arts. “Liz #5” was created at the height of the Taylor’s fame, which also coincided with the most significant and creative period of Warhol’s career. The epitome of old-world Hollywood style and glamor, Elizabeth Taylor, who died on March 23rd, was one of Warhol’s most famous inspirations, along with Marilyn Monroe and Jackie Kennedy.
Taylor captured Warhol’s attention early on with her life’s high-profile romances and tragedy, a vibrancy and pathos that so attracted Warhol to her and ensured she was a formidable influence on his work throughout his career. It has been said that the power of her attraction has never been as evident as it is in this Warhol painting, which is a dazzling tribute to Elizabeth Taylor. This striking portrait is a testament to the legend and beauty of one of the world’s most beloved and iconic actresses, both capturing her very essence and transcending the limits of time.
Warhol’s 1962 Elizabeth Taylor work, “Men in Her Life,” went for $63.3 Million, the highest auction price paid in 2010 for a contemporary artwork and the second-highest auction price ever paid for a Warhol painting, behind the $71.7 Million paid in 2007 for his “1963 Green Car Crash, Green Burning Car I.” In 2009, Andy Warhol’s 1962 silk-screen painting “200 One Dollar Bills” sold for $43.8 Million at Sotheby’s, more than four times its estimated selling price. Unfortunately, Warhol wasn’t around to enjoy the fabulous joke of his pictures of money grabbing so much money. The seven-and-a-half-foot-wide canvas, one of Warhol’s first silk-screen paintings, looks like just what you’d think: 200 one-dollar bills. Yes, if you just take a wide look at today’s contemporary art world, that confection of bucks, puff and street smarts, you realize anew that Andy Warhol was the big daddy of it all!!
This piece includes a number of high-resolution color photographs, a photo-gallery and three documentary short films.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/05/12/warhol’s-iconic-liz-taylor-portrait-gets-26962500-million-at-auction/Hedge fund billionaire Steve Cohen put his iconic 1963 Andy Warhol silkscreen portrait... more
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The iconic 1963 Andy Warhol silkscreen portrait of legendary actress Elizabeth Taylor will be auctioned on May 12, 2011, and is expected to sell for $20 Million to $30 Million. “Liz #5” was created at the height of the Taylor’s fame, which also coincided with the most significant and creative period of Warhol’s career. The glamorous portrait embodies the most important themes of Warhol’s body of work, which include celebrity, wealth, scandal, sex, death and Hollywood.
Elizabeth Taylor, the queen of American motion picture stardom, who enthralled generations of moviegoers with her stunning beauty and whose name was synonymous with Hollywood glamour, died on Wednesday in Los Angeles at the age of 79.
During a theatrical career that spanned six decades and more than 50 films, the legendary beauty won two Academy Awards as best actress, for her performances as a call girl in “BUtterfield 8” (1960) and as the acid-tongued Martha in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” (1966). Long after she faded from the motion picture screen, Taylor remained a mesmerizing figure. She was a child star who bloomed gracefully into an ingenue; a femme fatale both on the screen and in real life; a shrewd entrepreneur of high-priced perfume; and a pioneering activist in the fight against AIDS.
Taylor had many gay friends and, as the AIDS epidemic mushroomed, some of them were dying. In 1985, she became the most prominent celebrity to back what was then a most unfashionable cause. She agreed to chair the first major AIDS benefit, a fundraising dinner for the nonprofit AIDS Project Los Angeles. Taylor began calling her A-list friends to enlist their support, but many of Hollywood’s biggest stars turned her down. Undaunted, Taylor redoubled her efforts, aided along the way by the stunning announcement that Rock Hudson, the handsome matinee idol and her co-star in “Giant,” had the dreaded disease. She stood by Hudson, just as years later she would stand by pop-idol Michael Jackson during the latter’s struggle to defend himself against child abuse allegations.
Taylor went on to co-found the first national organization devoted to backing AIDS research, the American Foundation for AIDS Research, or AmFAR. In 1991, she formed the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation, which directly supports AIDS education and patient care. Taylor’s AIDS work brought her the Legion of Honor in 1987, France’s highest civilian award, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ awarded her The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1993. In 2000, Queen Elizabeth made her a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, an honor on the level of knighthood. Through her various efforts she would eventually raise more than $270 Million for AIDS research, prevention and care.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution vintage photographs, a slide show and three documentary short films.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/03/30/warhols-iconic-liz-taylor-portrait-could-draw-30m-at-may-auction/The iconic 1963 Andy Warhol silkscreen portrait of legendary actress Elizabeth Taylor... more
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I'm going to be apart of a Group show called Warhol Reimagined: The New Factory in San Francisco @ Project One Gallery this Thursday March 10, 2011.
Here's more info on the show
Warhol Reimagined: The New Factory
March 10th, 2011 – April 20th, 2011
Opening night (All welcome, no cover): March 10th, 2011 – 7pm-2am
Project One Gallery
251 Rhode Island, San Francisco, CA 94103
Here a link of all the Artist taking part in the show http://www.WarholReimagined.com/I'm going to be apart of a Group show called Warhol Reimagined: The New Factory... more
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Andy Warhol's Mao Jan 31th, 2011
Andy Warhol's Mao
Andy Warhol's Mao Tse Tung (1972) is a silk-screen portrait of the Chinese leader that was made in many versions. It is one of the series of silk-screens that he made on the subject of fame. They began in the early 1960s with his many portraits of Marilyn Monroe whose sad death in 1962 led him to contemplation of what it meant to be famous and what it could possibly be worth. The fame of the individuals in these portraits was usually of the Hollywood variety and various representations of Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Elvis Presley, and others are among the best known. Usually the different versions employed the same image--sometimes repeatedly within the same piece. In every instance, however, Warhol's method was to use appropriated images. They were usually taken from the press or from Hollywood promotional materials and adapted for the artist's purposes.
In these paintings Warhol also made many points about applying mechanized methods of reproduction to "fine arts," thereby turning fine art into consumer goods. And, by implication, the people in the 'fame' portraits were, in a sense, consumer goods themselves. He called his studio "The Factory" and he and his assistants turned out as many as 80 silk-screens per day. Despite all this emphasis on mechanical reproduction, however, he always preferred the signs of the human touch in the work.
Please contact the gallery for further information and availability. Appointments are available 7 days a week for private viewing and discussing your collecting needs.
Guy Hepner
300 N Robertson Blvd.
West Hollywood CA, 90048
info@guyhepner.com
Tel: +1 310.979.0011
www.guyhepner.com
www.twitter.com/guyhepnerAndy Warhol's Mao Jan 31th, 2011
Andy Warhol's Mao
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Pop Art Market Stronger Than Ever
Nov 15th, 2010
Last Wednesday evening, November 10th, Christie's New York held an auction of post-war and contemporary art featuring many Guy Hepner artists and recorded oustanding results. Once again, the art world was reminded exactly why the genre was originally deemed 'Popular' art: This past week's showing proved the demand for Pop Art continues to match exactly what is available.
Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, two artists that defined the period, both represented by Guy Hepner, comprised a dominating portion of the lots, and with good reason:
Each work that went to auction by Andy Warhol sold. Warhol's piece, "Big Campbell's Soup Can with Can Opener (Vegetable)," reached an incredible $23,882,500, while his "Marilyn," (pictured below), climbed to $4,450,5000. "Jackie," went for $1,650,500, "Dance Diagram," hit $1,538,500, and "Dennis Hopper," hit $965,500.
Roy Lichtenstein's results were no less impressive. The apathetic red-head in Lichtenstein's "Ohhh...Alright," from 1964 broke a record for the artist at $42,642,500 while one of Lichtenstein's later works, a fragmented thinker, and "Dennis Hopper," hit $965,500.
An insatiable demand for Pop Art exists and continues to expand the contemporary art market.
Please contact the gallery for further information and availability. Appointments are available 7 days a week for private viewing and discussing your collecting needs.
Guy Hepner
300 N Robertson Blvd.
West Hollywood CA, 90048
info@guyhepner.com
Tel: +1 310.979.0011
www.guyhepner.com
www.twitter.com/guyhepnerPop Art Market Stronger Than Ever
Nov 15th, 2010
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An almost 7-foot-tall Andy Warhol painting of a glass Coca-Cola bottle sold for $35.4 million Tuesday at Sotheby’s in New York.
Only a day earlier, rival auction house Phillips de Pury & Co. sold a 1962 Warhol, with repeating grainy images of Elizabeth Taylor, for $63 million.
The Coke painting was also created in 1962. The seller, curator and artist Elizabeth Richebourg Rea, acquired the piece for $143,000 at Christie’s in 1983.
The sale on Tuesday of 54 works – 91 per cent of which found buyers – totalled $222.4 million including commissions, beating the high pre-sale estimate of $214 million.
Five artists set auction records as collectors continued vying for works in the post-war art sector, an increasingly sought after sector of the art world.
“In this new market, it was a huge success,” said Tobias Meyer, Sotheby’s worldwide head of contemporary art, who also served as auctioneer.
It was the fourth successful sale in two weeks for Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips de Pury & Co.
More: http://www.theblogismine.com/2010/11/10/andy-warhol-coke-bottle-sells-for-35-4-million-at-sotheby/An almost 7-foot-tall Andy Warhol painting of a glass Coca-Cola bottle sold for $35.4... more
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Sleeping in Slavery (created in June and July of 2010)
"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep." Andy Warhol
My intention is to provoke an awareness to the social and human conditions that result from the political and social status quo we live in.
There is a crescent commoditization of everyone's life, time and existence and, in my opinion, the main question is the fact that most of us, sometimes, get exploited without even noticing it. That's why I choose a vulnerable and unconscious state of being -- sleep - and present it as a restless and unquiet state.
All of the "sleepers" and me, never met each other physically (the 9 of us come from 8 cities in 4 countries). I did all the filming using webcam connections between them and me, showing that the today's technology can bring us all closer together. That closeness is the key to the necessary changes in the way we see the world.Sleeping in Slavery (created in June and July of 2010)
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Langston Hughes’ poem “Genius Child” opens the similarly titled documentary “Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child.” In its lines are the suggestion of the enigma and often lonely state of brilliance.
The gift of creativity is undeniably a blessing, but perhaps within the associated uniqueness lies the hint of a curse. Few painters have burned as brightly and expired as swiftly as Basquiat, and this poignant feature is a
fitting tribute to his tremendous talents and extraordinary output.Langston Hughes’ poem “Genius Child” opens the similarly titled... more
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An Andy Warhol portrait of screen legend Dame Elizabeth Taylor has sold for £6.7m to an anonymous bidder at an auction in London.
Silver Liz was created in 1963 and had not been seen in public for more than 20 years before it went on display earlier this month.
In 2007 the artwork sold for £11.4m at a sale in New York.
The portrait was one of 12 paintings of the actress which Warhol created while she was recovering from illness.
Who the hell has £6 million to spend on a painting? they should have taken the money and bought some common sense, you could buy a lot for that amount
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10472539.stmAn Andy Warhol portrait of screen legend Dame Elizabeth Taylor has sold for... more
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