Andy Warhol has been the icon of American Pop Art Culture. This trend was in the field of visual art. Andy Warhol, born on August 6, 1928, was, in addition to being an American pop artist, also a producer and director.
The works of the artist discuss the connection that thrived during the 1960s between advertisement, artistic expression, and the celebrity culture. Warhol’s works include a variety of media such as silkscreen, animation, painting, drawing, and sculpture.
Among the artist’s best works are:
• Marilyn Diptych (1962),
• Campbell’s Soup Cans (the silkscreen paintings of 1962)
• Chelsea Girls (the experimental films of 1966)
• Exploding Plastic Inevitable (the multimedia events of 1966-67)
Warhol was born in Pittsburgh and educated. Originally he had sought a commercial illustration career. His work, which was displayed in several galleries during the 1950s, gained him a prominent but controversial artist’s reputation.
He set up his own New York workshop, which became a common centre for people from Bohemian Street, drag queens, respected intellectuals, playwrights, wealthy patrons, and celebrities from Hollywood. Andy also gave rise to a group of celebrities dubbed’ Warhol Superstars.’ The popularly used phrase “15 minutes of fame” is also attributed to him.
Warhol was most notable for his groundbreaking drawings of Pop Art soup cans by Marilyn Monroe and Campbell. However, as famous as the artist was, there are five obscure, interesting facts about him that you may not have yet discovered.
1. Andy’s Nickname was Drella
Warhol has been dubbed’ Drella,’ a Cinderella and Dracula portmanteau. The creative partner of the industry and his friends gave him this name. It was a difficult feat to explore the true thoughts of Warhol. This was due to its flippant characteristics and often insincere. His true inner self could never be measured accurately. For this purpose, to express the Jekyll-Hyde, a passive-aggressive side of his personality, the portmanteau nickname was developed. The founders of the Velvet Underground, mainly two of them, also wrote an album dedicated to the memory of Warhol. They named it’ Drella material.’
2. Warhol Received a Grammy’s Award Nomination
Warhol had provided freelance business services during the 1950s and 1960s to corporations such as the RCA Records, Columbia Records, and Harper’s Bazaar. Andy has also produced album artwork for Aretha Franklin, John Cale, and Rolling Stones in addition to Velvet Underground. His’ Sticky Fingers ‘ cover was nominated for the 1971 Best Album Cover Award in the Grammy’s for Rolling Stones ‘ album. The image was risky and lost to the brand ‘ Pollution.’
3. Addressed as a Loser by Truman Capote
Truman Capote, the playwright, did not reciprocate Warhol’s appreciation for the lifestyle and work of Truman. The playwright, in truth, was quite hostile to the pop artist. Capote had claimed that he had been stalked by a pre-fame Andy and remembered an artist meeting. Truman then described Warhol as “one of those hopeless people, and you know for certain that nothing good will ever come out of them. Only a worthless, nice and lonely born loser I’ve ever met in my life.
Nevertheless, after Capote had resolved his initial impression of Warhol, he eventually warmed up to the artist, and the two men even saw joint lunches and collaborated on an interview magazine. However, they can not describe their relationship as a friendship. Frenemies would be a more appropriate description of the portmanteau. It is recorded that Warhol once commented as terrible on Capote’s script and also said that the author in 1980 had become quite unfriendly and distant.
4. Andy Warhol was Nearly Murdered by a Radical Feminist
Valarie Solanas and Mario Amaya shot Warhol in 1968. Warhol struggled to survive and was hospitalized for two months, healing from the wounds of the abdomen. Solanas was an author of radical feminism. She was a proponent of the removal of people and the overthrow of governments. She was eventually diagnosed with schizophrenia and also appeared in Warhol’s movie’ I, a guy.’
In revenge for the undue influence she felt Warhol had taken over her life, Solanas fired at Warhol. Although her attempt to kill him with a knife was not as successful, Warhol died in 1987 as a result of a heart attack. The heart attack came as a result of surgery with the gallbladder and is suspected to be a complication caused by the gunshot wound.
5. Andy Warhol had produced his own cookbook- As Bizarre As Could Be
As Warhol teamed up with his friend Suzie Frankfurt in 1959, he also wrote his own cookbook. Suzie was an interior decorator, and together they created a cookbook called’ Wild Raspberries.’ Suzie and Warhol of friends wrote recipes that were a blatant parody of the French cookbook genre.
A couple of friends wrote dish recipes such as Andalusian Roast Iguana, Omelet Greta Garbon (meaning to be eaten alone), and Fighting Fish Gefilte. Despite the fact that cookbooks were handmade, the cookbook was a commercial flop and featured 19 drawings from Warhol.
