Warhol Paintings Stolen in Los Angeles
Excerpts from the New York Times article By ANAHAD O’CONNOR
Published: September 11, 2009
A multimillion-dollar collection of artwork by Andy Warhol was stolen from the home of a wealthy art collector in West Los Angeles last week, Los Angeles police said Friday.
The valuable collection included 10 silk-screen paintings of famous sports figures. According to investigators, the artwork was on display in the dining room of Richard Weisman, a businessman and art connoisseur whose well-known collection was featured in a book he published in 2003, “Picasso to Pop: The Richard Weisman Collection.”
The paintings are about 40 inches by 40 inches each, and were created between 1977 and 1979.
Find out more about the theft by Google-ing "Eleven Warhol Portraits Stolen" or you can read more here:
http://blogs.laweekly.com/ladaily/arts-news/11-warhol-portraits-stolen/
First person to tell Ms. Ridlen which 11 portraits were stolen, gets a prize!
Saturday, September 12, 2009
"In the future, everyone will be world famous for fifteen minutes."
After studying Warhol and his use of celebrity in Pop Art, I thought it would be interesting to view a website that talks about his use of color. Andy Warhol did not use local color, or realistic color in his portraits of Marilyn Monroe. Instead he used arbitrary, or non-representational colors, that depicted aspects of popular culture that he felt Marilyn Monroe was a part of. He also experimented with colors that would affect the viewer's mood. Color has a powerful impact on how we respond to an image.
Go to the website below and experiment with the colors on the Marilyn image.
Then scroll down and listen to Andy Warhol discuss his use of color in the 1981 interview. You can also read more about Warhol and his use of another printmaking method, screenprinting.
http://www.webexhibits.org/colorart/marilyns.html
How does the color affect the mood of the Marilyn portrait? Does it change the way you feel about the art work?
Ms. Ridlen asked you to think about how colors and shapes can represent your identity. What expressive mood will you create with your color scheme choices? What do you want the colors to say about you to the viewer?
To earn additional points, create a drawing of an object from pop culture that you think has characteristics in common with your personality. Use arbitrary color to add symbolism and depth to the interpretation of your artwork. On the back, tell how the colors you chose represent a mood or feeling or how they enforce the personality traits you were trying to show. Make sure you put your name on it.
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