High Museum: ANDY, I LOVE YOU! ^_^

Hola Everyone!

Just encouraging everyone to go to the High Museum of art to experience their

Picasso to Warhol exhibit as well as their KAWS: Down Time exhibit. There are other things going on at the High Museum but these are the two that interested me the most. I LOVE Andy Warhol! As kind of evil as it seems, he become famous for his ability to explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement. To me, he was genious and I know this is going to sound horrible but he exploited and cashed in on how simple minded we are as consumers. Read the quote below and tell me he didn't apply that same thought process to his work.

"What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coca-Cola, Liz Taylor drinks Coca-Cola, and just think, you can drink Coca-Cola, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the cokes are the same and all the cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it."

 

Sorry I only took pictures of Andy's work, he's just one of my faves and what I really went to see! He's just so WIERD and I love it!  okay last quote from him and i'm gone like a criminal at a crime scene. All quotes are from Wikipedia and both quotes are links to the Wikipedia's link about Andy Warhol.

 

Warhol had this to say about the attempted murder attack: "Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there – I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. People sometimes say that the way things happen in movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television – you don't feel anything. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television. The channels switch, but it's all television."