Keith Haring
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Sur ARTE jeudi 23 juillet à 23.10 : Keith Haring – Le petit prince de la rue Documentaire de Christina Clausen Étoile filante issue de l’underground new-yorkais du début des années 80, Keith Haring a révolutionné le monde de l’art en le démocratisant. Ami d’Andy Warhol, de Grace Jones et de Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring est l’enfant prodige du pop art. Son style épuré et son tracé inimitable lui ont valu un succès instantané et planétaire. Le jeune Keith Haring, pilier gay de la scène underground new-yorkaise, semble avoir toujours su qu’il mourrait jeune. Avant même d’apprendre sa séropositivité, il n’a eu de cesse, pendant sa courte vie, de créer des oeuvres ludiques à la symbolique forte et de les rendre accessibles au plus grand nombre. Dans ce film fort et émouvant, ses amis et complices de toujours – Kenny Sharf, Yoko Ono, Tony Shafrazi et bien d’autres – retracent le parcours hors du commun de ce petit prince de la rue disparu trop tôt, en 1991. Plus d’informations sur www.arte.tv
read comments (1)Andy Warhol “Pop Polaroids”
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Warhol was born Andrew Warhola in 1928 to Slovakian parents. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Warhol studied Commercial Art at the Carnegie Mellon University (formerly known as the Carnegie Institute of Technology) from 1945 to 1949, majoring in Pictorial Design. He then moved then moved to New York to begin a career in illustration and advertising. Warhol achieved success as a commercial artist during the 1950s, achieving commendations from the Art Director’s Club and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. He began to become quite well known for his whimsical ink drawings of shoes. Warhol had work published in popular and widely magazines such as Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar and The New Yorker. He also created window displays for several popular retail shop window fronts. During this time Warhol also began exhibiting his work in fine art galleries and managed to exhibit in a group exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1956. “Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist.” Andy Warhol During the 1960s Andy Warhol produced many of his most famous and iconic images. He had now moved into “the Factory”, a large building located on Union Square in New York City where him and his team of hired workers were mass producing screen prints of popular culture. Famous works from the period included the Cambells Soup Cans, Coke Bottles, Disaster paintings and pop icon portraits such as Marilyn …
Warhol Screen Test
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New song by singer/songwriter Benjie Randall, sampling Andy Warhol Superstar: Baby Jane Holzer from her 60’s hit “Rapunzel”. Rare still images from her private collection and modeling career