I know that The Band have met Andy Warhol in the early 80's. But I'am not aware that anything substantial has come out of that. I have found this image, not sure if it's a legit work of Andy Warhol. It is his style for sure, but legit or not, I think it's not very remarkable. Just some Fan-Art, or an AW official piece of work ?
My insecure about this subject is because of those Pics. Warhol is taking a picture of Freddie. The clothing and the posing are different, no doubt about that, but the period would fit.
^This. And not only because it looks like a Photoshop job, but also because Warhol wouldn't going around using the same artistic effects he used for the famous Marilyn Monroe artwork. If he did, it would cease to be artwork and become kitsch.
Putting that sort of stylistic effect to photos is something done recently on the internet - reproducing stuff in Warhol's style.
You do realize Warhol used the same approach for a number of portraits, not just Marilyn, right? They're all subtly different, but they all use the same approach, the same silk-screen method and have the same overall look.
"If he did, it would cease to be artwork and become kitsch."
That was kinda one of the 'things' with pop-art: it was taking the Bauhaus concept of integrating art into everyday industrial design and applying it to, basically, kitsch.
He did quite a lot of 'silkscreen' artwork, but the Freddie one looks to be based on the Marilyn one, and I'd say it's the specific style most reproduced nowadays. But yes I agree about his work actually itself being kitschy.
^That's pretty cool - Warhol making computer graphics in the 80s on his Amiga... quite ahead of his time. Here's some info and photos of the computer art he made: link.
...by a coincidence :) there is a new book with polaroids taken by Andy Warhol, it is just called "POLAROIDS 1958 - 1987"
If someone could get his hands on it, please let us know if Freddie or the whole band is in it. Thanks.
I've heard before that the 'warhol' is used humorously as a measure of length of time someone is famous (of course derived from Warhol's line about everybody having 15 minutes of fame)
15 minutes = 1 warhol, so I guess Freddie's had about 40 years of fame, so that would be approximately 1.4 megawarhols, if my calculations are correct! :P
The King Of Rhye wrote:
I've heard before that the 'warhol' is used humorously as a measure of length of time someone is famous (of course derived from Warhol's line about everybody having 15 minutes of fame)
15 minutes = 1 warhol, so I guess Freddie's had about 40 years of fame, so that would be approximately 1.4 megawarhols, if my calculations are correct! :P
That's the best I have heard yet to describe the selfie me too culture. How many warhols do Kardashians clock?