Eighty years ago, was born man, whose name has become synonymous with pop art. Andy Warhol was not only a brilliant painter, designer and film director. By making the art of mass production, he was able to change the perception of the role of the artist in the modern world, made a real revolution in the art market, and then turned himself into one of the icons of popular culture.

«I am a businessman, I have to feed a lot rtov should bring bacon», - he said once in an interview.

The next step after the Art with a capital letter - industrial art - opened by Andy Warhol. Not without, he wanted to be a machine, and its legendary studio called «Factory». Number made her silk-screen printing is measured by thousands, movies - hundreds.

Dubosarsky Vladimir Vinogradov and Alexander lived in the same world, consumption and art market, in which the artist and the step did not walk without the lessons of Andy Warhol. In the mass luster - inexhaustible source of images and ideas of the value measured by its reproducibility. For contemporary Russian artists, these maxims Warhol relevant today. Vladimir Dubosarsky, artist: «Pop-Art was not overturned. The fact is, he worked around us left ».

Warhol taught artists do not see what inside, not that over, but that literally lie under their feet.

Catherine Degot, art critic: «He has shown that this is the reality of modern man. Oh no feeling, no spirit, nothing, but 99 percent of the world took a debris packing ».

Packages powder «Bril», banks soup «Campbell» and individual stars in the Warhol works like a supermarket shelf. Endless rows of similar items. Someone will see in the criticism of consumer culture, someone - the poetry, and someone - the truth of life.

Catherine Degot, art critic: «He saw in the mass consumer culture is no joy and no happiness, as we all think, but in reality he saw in the monotony, boredom, repetition of the same , unusual leveling of the world. And this boredom, he did his work ».

«Man-enigma», «guru of pop culture», «great seller Air» and «the personification of all the Americas, ranging from Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe to the Coca-koloy tomato soup and Campbell's». Art all over the world to seriously study his creation, saying: «genius of Warhol was born, where life turns into advertising». The famous portraits of Marilyn Monroe, the Statue of Liberty soup and Campbell's. «All pictures must be the same size and same color, so that no one thought that his picture is worse or better», - said Warhol and joking in the works that followed the principle of equalization.

«Today - grin it - even if you complete easy rider, you will continue to be considered. And all this because most people need to be light on stars "».

And yet, who is Andy Warhol? «One of the most famous and controversial figures in the second half of the twentieth century», - to answer nearly all, from art to the ordinary person. His works have become a byword for the triumph and commercial success of American pop art. The painter, sculptor, designer, director, producer, writer, collector, he became the embodiment of Renaissance ideas of homo universale in an era of mass culture. Even the artist has turned his life into a work of art, every minute creating new myths about «the legendary Andy Warhol». He rastirazhiroval banks with soup, Marilyn Monroe, and just - the U.S. dollar. «Nine U.S.»-known as one of Warhol, which is indeed shown, nine icons that denote the United States currencies. But his «Nine U.S.» - this is just the price, exactly the same as one dollar fifty cents. He did not paint price, the artist went a step further - showed price itself.

- Why did you began to draw banks with soup? - ask him.

- Because I used to use them because I used to have the same lunch every day for, I think, twenty years, the same thing over and over again. Someone said that my life is entirely absorbed me: I like this idea. I used to want to live in Uoldorfskoy tower, there is soup and sandwich ...

- And what is your purpose? You draw the same pictures, same silk-screen prints in the technique.

- One of the reasons why I am doing now serigraphy, that I hope that someone in the future will do it for me. I am not in a position to make every image clear and simple, the same as the original. I think that would be wonderful if more people will engage in silk-screen printing, so that no one could have guessed: my picture - it's my picture or someone's someone else. The reason why I draw it in such a way that I want to be a machine, and I feel that what I am doing, and what I do like the car is exactly what I want to do.

Mechanical and Machine repeating «prose life» Warhol at its «Fabrika» (the so-called his studio) in the year produced more than a thousand pictures. Identical pictures. Now everyone can have their homes «Marilyn Monroe».

«Effect conveyor» was also very beneficial in a commercial sense. As noted by Warhol, «working with silk-screen printing, you take a photo, increase it to translate into Klée silk, and then fill the ink that they are imbued with silk, but do not glue. Thus, you get the same image, slightly different each time ... my first experiment with a silk-screen printing was the head Donahyu Troy and Warren Beatty, and when that month is dead Marilyn Monroe, I have an idea to make a picture of a beautiful face - the first Porter Marilyn ». But since the initial phase of this picture - is it correct photo, but not human - not Warhol «painted» person he «made». As a result, «Man» disappears from the process as if it never existed.

Warhol - one of the few American film underground, whose name is known to the public. «Film is easier than painting. A camera has a motor, to include her and leaves, she works », - said Warhol.

Shot fixed stationary camera film Warhol «Dream» (1963) lasted 6 hours, and the film «Empire» - 8 (1964). And only those who inspect it before the end, you will see a leaf in a window, from which the shooting, Warhol melknet reflection. The principle of repetition in these films becomes almost hypnotic effect. The only way - night view Empire State Building or the sleeping man, projected on a screen for many hours more or less unchanged in the absence of sound. In 1969, Warhol created the first feature film «flesh», followed by «Garbage» (1970). And in the films themselves, and in the process of their creation was attended by a significant element of parody in the commercial cinema. Between the years 1966 to 1968 Warhol shot some movies with the group Velvet Underground. Later, he invented his own television channel, has drafted Andy Warhol's TV and became its director

By the 80 th anniversary of Andy Warhol TV channel «Culture» show French documentary «The work of Andy Warhol». See the tape on 9 August at 00:05.

Source: tvkultura.ru