Word: warholism
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...This final issue of FM takes inspiration from Andy Warhol as we shamelessly self-reference and glamorize, albeit briefly, a new cast of characters--15 people not our friends...
...modern art what Robert Mapplethorpe is to family values--a slap in the face to all serious standards. So much the worse that for decades he was the best-loved American artist, at least until he was usurped by an even shrewder judge of the national disposition, Andy Warhol. To the art world Rockwell was an exasperating holdout, the man who didn't care that in the 20th century it was simply uncalled for to paint sweet-tempered vignettes in a representational style at something like a molecular level of detail...
DIED. HORST, 93, photographer of the rich and fashionable; in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. Born Horst P. Horst, he infused his dramatic, stylized shots of such glitterati as Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel and Andy Warhol with ashtrays and other everyday details, assuring worried fashion editors that "my best pictures always have a little mess...
...moment of the Warhol Effect was back, inspirited by the cash of the swelling Wall Street plutocracy that seemed to live inside the Pop artist's reverie of an endless spree of sensations and spectacles acquired, used up and instantly replaced. This is not to say that work harkening to the spiritual, to quieter introspection, wasn't being done. Such abstract artists as Bill Jensen, Sean Scully and Christopher Wilmarth were making some of their best work, but their belief in the poetic possibilities of doubt were no longer the currency...
...American century. But just to make sure the point is numbingly clear, she leaves one last reminder, one last relic of the exhibition's patron saint, by the elevators that take visitors down to the street. There, lined up neatly, is a group of 10 small Warhol silkscreens. In neon-bright inks on contrasting fields, a familiar symbol is emblazoned again and again. Dollar signs...