This is America. Гришенкова Е.Г. - 87 стр.

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images such as Coca Cola bottles, dollar symbols, and popular cleaning products. He
took the most everyday objects and turned them into fine art.
Warhol soon started making silk-screen prints. This method of reproduction
permitted the artist to make many images very quickly. He would often repeat the
same picture many times in one artwork. He liked the idea of mass produced art. He
once said that he thought everyone should think alike and be like a machine. In fact,
the place where he created his art was called The Factory. He had many assistants
who helped him produce his art.
Warhol explored many other subjects. For example, he made a series of
paintings on death and disaster. These works showed images of car accidents and
executions. He also made pictures of famous people such as the actress Marilyn
Monroe and the singer Elvis Presley. Warhol was very interested in fame. He
celebrated famous people and they celebrated him.
Andy Warhol once said something about fame that became very popular and is
still repeated today. He said that in the future, everybody will be famous for fifteen
minutes. Warhol certainly enjoyed being well known. He created a very unusual
public personality. He would wear strange wigs on his head made of white hair. He
would go out every night to parties and other social gatherings where there were
beautiful and important people. He would talk to reporters in a very shy manner.
Often he would provide unclear answers to their questions.
Andy Warhol was much more than just a painter. He was also a film maker,
publisher, and manager of a rock band. For example, he produced several low budget
art films in the early 1960s. One was called “Empire”. It showed a filmed image of
the Empire State Building in New York City. The film was eight hours long. In the
movie “Sleep” Warhol recorded a friend sleeping. The film lasts six hours. When
asked about the uneventful nature of these films, Warhol answered that he liked
boring or uninteresting things.
In the middle 1960s Warhol also managed a rock band called The Velvet
Underground. He helped produce one of their records and designed the cover of the
album.
Another of Warhol’s projects was the creation of “Interview” magazine. This
magazine covered many kinds of American popular culture. Andy Warhol was able
to interview the kinds of people he liked best, famous people. A colorful drawing of
a famous person was on the cover of every issue of the magazine. The image was
drawn in the style of Warhol’s paintings.
In 1968 Andy Warhol was shot by a woman who had been in one of his films.
Valerie Solanas was angry with Warhol for not making a movie based on a play she
wrote. The bullet from the gun hit several of Warhol’s organs and almost killed him.
The media’s reaction to this event made him even more famous.

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