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Sixty Four Tombstones
( A Dada Tribute to Andy Warhol )
c. Michael St.Mark, 2006
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To be offered for sale as one signed 50 X 50cm print.
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NB; If you feel this is in poor taste, you’ve yet to research the high antics of the man himself, including having a hidden camera installed in the washroom of his NYC apartment to snap visiting celebrities’ obulations and nose-powderings.
You gotta admit, the boy had style
In any case salutations are surely due, for the sheer genius of someone who engineers his own artistic legend on the back of producing a silkscreen of 100 Campbell’s soup cans, in an appropriately ironic and Dadaistic manner.
MStM
One Hundred Cans
by Andy Warhol, 1962
LONDON DADA 
Thank you St Mark…
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interesting…
what do I think of the man A-W?
hmmm…He was Powerful…to sum it up in 1 word!
His Films…total Crap! I watched one on Film 4 a few months back – abot some Junky who was looked after by some strangers…wierd!
Clever Influencer!
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Yeah he started out as quite a talented commercial artist and later on experimented with photography and film – the latter very experimentally. . .paint-dryingly so for some.
But he was backed by the entire art establishment who bought everything he did, in some ways it was a license for them all to print money, so he was no struggling Vincent VG.
Brian Eno did something along Warhol lines in the early 1990s I think, by pointing a video camera out of his NY high rise and leaving it to run for hours. Only it was mounted sideways to the horizon so as you had to turn the television on its side as well, to watch. . .
BTW Congratulations on your exhibition successes Dean.
Here’s to a lot more of that.
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Yes Kiki, on one level Andy was new, but really, when you look carefully at his works, it was all on a very surfacey level, as Hektor is insinuating, with little depth or enduring meaning to it.
That’s, in a way, what I’m trying to re-enforce and highlight with the 64 Tombstones image, the utter vacuuity and total lack of spirituality that, at the end of the day, he was really about.
The perfect icon for a brutal materialistic age.
( and yes, the arts and media Jewish people worldwide do look after and promote their own. . .big time.)
BTW. I don’t think this is anit-Semitic, it’s just how it is.
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And you showed it well, also explained it2me in a great way, thanks š
No, it’s not anti-semitic, i love all the world and cultures,as you to, we are all humans but is the Reality indeed.. i think everyone is aware of it!
Cloudy but hot huh? Today i’m going to the Brit.Museum.
See you Mike and hugs2you
kiki
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š Wow Mike, this is a great one! Poor taste or not, it depends on the person always, BUT YES we have to admit he had style and did a LOT of different and great work, some of which are really great pieces of art! In his time he was a Dada one too! š wasn’t he?
I’m in London town just now š Yes! I love this place as well as my country too :))
Hugs2u Mike
kiki
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I suppose you could call Andy a “commercial Dadaist”. He quite ruthlessly exploited and manipulated the media of the day and used others around him and in his circle of “pets” ( albeit in a gentler and even supportive way).
His Jewish background and the fact that the New York art scene and especially the galleries were (and very much still are) Jewish-owned and controlled, certainly helped him to become established by offering him his first exhibitions in the very early days.
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Yes! you are so right! That’s it! wow, didn’t know he was Jewish, that’s new to me that one, thanks š
Yes, he did the toilet camera from what I have already read about him. He really was a weird guy huh? :)) hahaha yes he was, but wow how commercial..I don’t like commercialism even on songs, movies,etc… but he had new ideas.. I mean different ones for his time.
Yes, he had lots of strange ‘ pets ‘ :)) hahahaha u made me laugh with this one!
Yes, always and for a long time Jewish people always helped themselves a lot! They aren’t like others indeed, they really only ever help their own!
Hugs2u Mike
kiki
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” I noticed Andy went through a lot of people. And I was darned sure he wasn’t going to going through me, so I quit the Velvets”
Lou Reed
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quoth eye in 100 per cent. the lyrics here of David Bowie (father of Zowie Bowie):
Andy Warhole:
(this is andy warhole and its take one, take one)
Its, its warhol actually
(what did I say)
Whole, its whole as in wholes
(andy warhol)
Wah, andy war hol, andy war hol (he)
Like whole hub
He
Ha
Are you ready
(yeah)
Ha ha ha ha ha ha
Like to take a cement fix
Be a standing cinema
Dress my friends up just for show
See them as they really are
Put a peephole in my brain
Two new pence to have a go
Id like to be a gallery
Put you all inside my show
Andy warhol looks a scream
Hang him on my wall
Andy warhol, silver screen
Cant tell them apart at all
Andy walking, andy tired
Andy take a little snooze
Tie him up when hes fast asleep
Send him on a pleasant cruise (hm hm hm)
When he wakes up on the sea
He sure to think of me and you
Hell think about paint and hell think about glue
What a jolly boring thing to do
Andy warhol looks a scream
Hang him on my wall
Andy warhol, silver screen
Cant tell them apart at all
Andy warhol looks a scream
Hang him on my wall
Andy warhol, silver screen
Cant tell them apart at all
(handclaps)
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