At first he did. Later he started 'The Factory' where lots of assistants worked with him.
I have a feeling he was his own idol.
I own an Andy Warhol serigraph. He used this method because he basically painted to make money first and for his art second. This was a fastest method to supply the growing demand for his work. It was also very cost effective.
Andy Warhol is the artist who does not paint his own paintings.
To put a clear image of something in our minds and let us interpret it our own way
Andy Warhol enjoyed dressing for parties in drag, sometimes in dresses of his own design. He admired the boys who spend their lives trying to be complete girls, so in 1981 he and a photographic assistant, Christopher Mako's, agreed to collaborate on a session portraying Warhol in drag.
In 1987 Andy Warhol graduated at the age of 16 and left and went to art school in new York , he said in his own words " i enjoyed art call although it was heaps of money for my mum i mad her proud "
The owner of the painting is anonymous. British actor Hugh Grant used to own the painting, then sold it for $13 million.
Warhol is known for his pop art, and abstract art, along with his films.Some of his famous work is: Campbell's Soup I (1968),blue flowers, coca-cola bottles, stack of money, Marilyn Monroe, his silkscreen work, mushroom clouds, electric chairs, policeHe quotes that this period as very important in the development of his personality, skill-set and preferences.But it is rumored he did coke and weed. But he disliked many peoples drug uses, especially heroin.Warhol was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as 'Pop Art'.One quote of Warhol describing Warhol he did in 1973: "If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface; of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it… …I see everything that way, the surface of things, a kind of mental Braille. I just pass my hands over the surface of things.from 'Warhol in his own words, - Untitled Statements ( 1963 - 1987)', selected by Neil Printz, in "Andy Warhol, retrospective", Art and Bullfinch Press / Little Brown, 1989, pp. 457 - 467
The cast of Great Artists in Their Own Words - 2013 includes: Weiwei Ai as himself Damien Hirst as himself Andy Warhol as himself
HE INSPIRED HIMSELF! Born Andrew Warhola, August 6, 1928, in the industrial city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Andy Warhol is best known for his exploration of Pop Art, mass producing images of mass produced objects. His most famous works depicted Campbell's soup cans. Enlarged, hand-painted or silkscreened, framed, and hung in an art gallery, Warhol succeeded in turning these mundane images into ironic "art". Warhol experimented in media such as film, sculpture, paint, and silkscreen, but perhaps his greatest work was his invention of himself as an international celebrity and pop culture icon. Everything around Andy Warhol was an influence! But he was an original! It's very hard to say who influenced him!
He found her deep fog horn like voice striking in comparison to her innocent feminine looks and personality. It was a statement putting her in the band, not an obvious statement that's easy to comprehend, like most of his own work. He was smart picking her because she did catch some attention. She had also done the soundtrack to Andy's movie "Chelsea Girls", I guess he thought her sound would work with the sound The Velvets had already established and broaden their horizons.
To make your own luck is to work to get somthing. If you are to work hard at whatever it is you wil reach your goal and " Make your own Luck"