During his early years in the Steel City, Warhol fully immersed himself in his passion for art. Looking for more reasons to add the wonderful Warhol to your #PABucketList? Let’s dive in!Īs an incredibly talented and globally recognized artist, Andy Warhol’s story began in Pittsburgh’s South Oakland neighborhood in 1928. The museum is so immersive that it earned a coveted spot on Discoverer’s 10 Coolest Museums in the US list. With work around the globe, Happy Travelers should know they can experience some of his best work at the largest, single-artist museum in the world right here in PA. The picture doesn’t need more.Of the many talented creators with Pennsylvania roots, one of the most famous modern pop-artists is Andy Warhol. I think she decided she had what she needed, and she stopped where she was ready to stop. I think part of the soulfulness of this picture is the fact that it might seem unfinished. And so in a sense he’s doing a brave thing, but he’s also―he’s getting through it by shutting his eyes and being very focused internally. He, Warhol, in a sense is rising to her challenge to sit for her, to be painted and to take his clothes off. He wanted to be a kind of brand-name Pop artist, and he certainly is that now, long after his death. He was very much invested in famous artists. Trevor Fairbrother: She shows him-I think it’s this kind of essence of loneliness and vulnerability, but at the same time I think she knows that he knows that everybody is looking at him. He also bares his aging body, his chest sagging so that he almost appears to have breasts. In posing shirtless for Neel, he exposes the corset that he was required to wear for the rest of his life. He’d been shot two years before Neel painted this portrait-an attempted assassination by a member of his artistic circle. Narrator: The late sixties were much harder on Warhol. And suddenly she was a forebear for a whole new generation of feminist artists and writers. She’d had an incredible career since the thirties, but she hadn’t really had much recognition until the wave of feminist interest in the arts in the sixties. Alice Neel was actually seventy years old when she painted it, and in a sense was just hitting her stride as an important American realist. Trevor Fairbrother: It’s an interesting year for both of these artists. Narrator: Fairbrother discusses Alice Neel’s 1970 portrait of Pop artist Andy Warhol. Trevor Fairbrother: My name is Trevor Fairbrother. The background is spare, with only the outline of a couch, thereby emphasizing what she described as the picture’s "hypersensitive economy." Depicting Warhol as isolated, wounded, and withdrawn, Neel shows us an unexpected, and perhaps more profound, side of her fellow artist. The canvas is limited to cool hues, such as a swatch of light blue surrounding Warhol’s head and upper body, whose fragile, androgynous contours are outlined in Neel’s signature aquamarine pigment. He once remarked, “Nudity is a threat to my existence.” Neel painted the Pop artist provocateur with his eyes closed and shirt removed, exposing his pale, scarred torso and the supportive corset he was forced to wear after being shot in 1968 by Valerie Solanas, a former member of his studio entourage. When in public, Warhol typically cloaked himself in a variety of guises-wigs, makeup, sunglasses, and a practiced air of disinterestedness. Here, Neel captures the vulnerability of an artist whose work and public persona were famous for their cool detachment. Dubbed by an art critic a "collector of souls," Alice Neel portrayed an extraordinary variety of sitters, from the anonymous to the highly recognizable, as in this portrait of the renowned Pop artist Andy Warhol.
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