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by Andy Warhol
Acrylic paint and screenprint on canvas
Warhol often asked other people for ideas of what he should paint or film. For his return to painting, his art dealer suggested he depict the most ‘important’ person of the 20th century, such as scientist Albert Einstein. Instead, Warhol decided it should be Mao Zedong, because Life magazine suggested that he was the most famous person in the world and US president Richard Nixon had just visited him. Warhol transformed the official portrait of Mao, the leader of communist China, into a mass-produced product. In this series, Warhol allowed the paint to escape the limits of the photographic image. He developed this idea further in his commissioned portraits.
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Andy Warhol
(March – November 2020)
A new look at the extraordinary life and work of the pop art superstar
Andy Warhol was the son of immigrants who became an American icon. A shy gay man who became the hub of New York’s social scene. An artist who embraced consumerism, celebrity and the counter culture – and changed modern art in the process.
He was born in 1928 as Andrew Warhola to working-class parents from present day Slovakia. In 1949 he moved from Pittsburgh to New York. Initially working as a commercial illustrator, his skill at transforming the imagery of American culture soon found its realisation in his ground-breaking pop art.
This major retrospective is the first Warhol exhibition at Tate Modern for almost 20 years. As well as his iconic pop images of Marilyn Monroe, Coca-Cola and Campbell’s soup cans, it includes works never seen before in the UK. Twenty-five works from his Ladies and Gentlemen series – portraits of black and Latinx drag queens and trans women – are shown for the first time in 30 years.
Popularly radical and radically popular, Warhol was an artist who reimagined what art could be in an age of immense social, political and technological change.
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Over a thousand Chicagoans from all over the city, gathered at Millennium Park to perform "Crowd Out" by David Lang.
Let me explain.
When I choose shots to be included in my "I watch a lot of movies" set, I usually end up choosing between several different scenes.
I snapped up these two shots of actress Jill Schoelen in "The Stepfather", because of her unicorn/checkered-flag t-shirt, the 80's-ness of her bedroom's art direction, and the expression of the dog.
It was only when I looked at it later that I noticed the Life magazine behind her bed. This immediately reminded me of this found photo with the tiny hint of a Life magazine in its corner. Well, obviously, I had to identify this circa 1986-1987 Life magazine too. Obviously.
Actress Robyn Stevan in the foreground.
“A poor but proud girl searches army hospitals for her father, reported dead in the Boer War.” – Google.
Movie trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khyp-Gzi4u4
Barnett, L. "The World We Live In: Part III. The Face Of The Land" (Apr. 15, 1953) Life, Vol. 34, No. 15
archive.org/details/Life-1953-04-13-Vol-34-No-15/mode/1up
For more information about the articles, please visit:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_We_Live_In_(Life_magazine)
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"Life Goes to a Party with the Tombstone Hounds" An article in the August 2, 1943 issue of "Life Magazine" about a group of people dedicated to documenting and preserving cemeteries in New Jersey.
Every year on the anniversary marking the end of World War II, the Times Square Alliance invites couples (though strangers would be more appropriate) to come make out in the same spot this nameless couple did just 62 years ago.
"Couples of all ages and from all walks of life were invited to meet in front of the sculpture “Unconditional Surrender”, which was created by acclaimed artist Seward Johnson, memorializing a famous photo snapped by Lieutenant Victor Jorgenson and evoking the iconic LIFE magazine cover photo taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt.", reported the Alliance website.
Kissers were handed out a sailor cap, roses and... breath mints!
For more, much better pictures, visit the Times Square Alliance website.
For clues that reveal who might have been the passionate nurse and sailor of the picture, read Sewell Chan's article "When a Kiss Isn’t Just a Kiss" in The New New York Times.
Don Bleitz, a nature photographer for Life Magazine, bought a new a 1947 Mercury woody wagon that had been factory-equipped with a Marmon-Herrimgton 4x4 system. Bleitz had California Custom added an ice box and a water tank in the floor with an electric pump to bring water to a valve on the dash, replace the canvas top with a wood deck, and installed chrome steps up the back to access that deck. He used that top platform for bird and nature photography.
This custom woody wagon still exists today and has been fully restored. See it here: www.flickr.com/photos/randy_socal/12040176646/in/album-72...
Sketch by Major Donald L. Dickson U.S.M.C., 1942. Of interest are the Reising model 55 SMG and the trousers cut off just below the knees.
Pima Air and Space Museum
Life Magazine
During the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo space programs, Life magazine signed an exclusive contract with NASA to write articles about the lives of astronauts. This specific issue, dated September 27, 1963, features the "New Nine" astronauts. These "New Nine" represented the second group of astronauts recruited by NASA. On the cover are Frank Borman, Tom Stafford, and Jim Lovell. Borman grew up in Tucson, Arizona, and would eventually command Gemini 7 and Apollo 8, the first manned mission to orbit the moon.
Special Double Issue - The Magic of the Movies. Natalie Wood and a plethora of popular actors and actresses of the time.