New Works by Andy Warhol
The visual art movement that became popular during the 1950’s, known as Pop Art, had a leading figure in Andy Warhol. Today, Andy Warhol prints can be found anywhere, especially with the advent of the Internet. With the cameras of today, the right picture can be worth millions of words. If that picture is one of Andy Warhol’s prints, it can also be worth a million dollars, if the quality of picture is good enough. This is why art galleries do not allow cameras inside the gallery: to prevent theft and the illegal reproduction of art. If someone can get away with it, they could make a fortune selling fake prints with no money going back to the artist.
Of course, the art community is small and tightly knit. The culprits would be found quickly and honestly, who knows what ticked off arties could do to a person with such a low caliber of scruples!
His popularity was part of his art: he created a celebrity out of himself and then capitalized on it, giving fans enough to make them intensely interested in him while keeping very little of himself to himself. Andy Warhol prints are excellent reproductions of his real work. The authority that has the power to make prints probably has a Red Digital Cinema Camera, the very best of the best of cameras.
Warhol made a twenty-minute long video that consists entirely of him chatting on the phone with someone. It is kind of a one-sided conversation, Andy Warhol did not talk much, but it still lends to the idea of selling oneself for the sake of popularity and to sate the public’s desire to know more, almost everything, about a celebrity. Think of Tom Cruise: was he really cheating on his wife with guys? Or was he doing that to cause waves in the world and to put himself in the public eye? Andy Warhol prints might have been more widely available back when he was alive, but with the technology of today, the quality of those earlier prints probably does not contain the quality of today’s standards.
Part of Andy Warhol prints art was to incorporate himself fully into his art, thus making the artist more part of his art than anything an artist has before attempted in this medium. Musicians, dancers and actors do this on a daily basis. Artists create art because they have to, but Warhol invented full artist immersion into the art. Not only that, but he had the personality to survive the masses of fans, sometimes dangerous (no one knows who really shot Andy Warhol), as he would make impromptu autograph signings with few verbal qualms, if any.
Andy Warhol prints are exactly what Warhol would have wanted done with his art. Now, like the Campbell’s soup that everyone from Prince William to the homeless guy in the alley can enjoy for the same price, everyone can enjoy his art and have a fully similar piece in their own home.
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