1. Nov 19, 2015

2. Ingrid Bergman 315 (With Hat) by Andy Warhol The Ingrid Bergman series is made up of three types of screen prints of the Academy Award winning actress in 1983. The source images used for these portrait pieces include movie still from her role in Casablanca (‘With Hat’), a movie still from the movie The Bell of St. Mary’s (‘The Nun’) and also a publicity photo (‘Herself’).

3. “My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat — or in film’s case ‘run on’ — manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing.” Warhol felt that we view celebrity on a purely superficial level — seeing famous individuals on a movie screen or in a magazine, but not observing the truth or depth of that person. There is some debate as to whether Warhol’s art celebrates or satirizes the idea of/obsession with celebrity. Does his art critique the public’s obsession with money and star power, or does it celebrate that lifestyle “Making money is art and working is art, and good business is the best art.”

4. The Factory was the hip hangout for artistic types, amphetamine (speed) users, and the Warhol superstars. It was famed for its groundbreaking parties. In the studio, Warhol's workers would make silkscreens and lithographs under his direction.

5. The world’s most successful living artist — Jeff Koons — is working on a new series of paintings inspired by the Old Masters, using lasers and stencils and an army of low- paid assistants. Surrealist painter Alex Gardega responded to a help- wanted ad and was given a tour of Koons’ factory on West 29th Street. “It was beyond insane,” he told me. ARTICLE http://pagesix.com/2015/03/25/jeff-koons- churns-out-new-factory-art/

6. Based on what you have seen of Andy Warhol’s artwork and or/films, would you consider his art effective? Why/why not? Is the personal life of an artist relevant? Why or why not? How do you think social media has changed the way we absorb celebrity information, and the way we present ourselves through the many social-media outlets/platforms? Andy Warhol not only made portraits from photographs he shot himself, but also from images he appropriated from mass media. What portraits/icons do you see all the time on the television and in magazines and newspapers? Is there a single, or multiple, images than define your generation? Create 1-2 pages of notes images and research in your sketchbooks Creatively record your thoughts on Andy Warhol and collect iconic images, logos etc. for your art work

7. Andy Warhol, Mao, 1972-1974, ©AW “The contradictory fusion of the commonplace facts of photography and the artful fictions of a painter’s retouchings was one that, in Warhol’s work, became a particularly suitable formula for the recording of those wealthy and glamorous people whose faces seem perpetually illuminated by the aftermath of a flash-bulb” Robert Rosenblum, Andy Warhol Portraits, Thames and Hudson (New York:, 1993), p. 143.