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...Andy Warhol's soup cans, Brillo boxes, films, wallpaper, and his floating helium Clouds await Boston gallery-goers at the Institute of Contemporary Art through Sunday. November 6. The Institute, at 100 Newbury St. in Boston, is open Tuesday through Sunday, 11-6 and Wednesday evenings until...
...Andy Warhol has no such frame or illusion of space, and its subject matter comes directly out of the viewer's immediate environment. Warhol's subjects are Brillo boxes, movie queens, and the obvious objects of everyday life. His art denies the traditional aesthetic illusion...
...effect and, rather than continuing off into an imaginary pictorial space behind a frame, they stop at the edges of the canvas and are entirely contained within it. In effect, these paintings become objects contained within the room in which the viewer is standing. Though his motives are different, Warhol uses the same technique to form a continuum between the space and environment of his pictures and the proximate surroundings of his viewers...
...origin of Warhol's breakdown of illusionistic subject matter goes back to Robert Rauschenberg, painting in the fifties. Rauschenberg was the first painter to incorporate everyday objects directly into the composition of his paintings. Jasper Johns developed on this approach by focusing on familiar objects individually so that the objects became the center of interest rather than a visual component of a larger composition. Jasper Johns' painting of Three Flags is one of the first completely static paintings in modern art. Its lack of visual movement, makes it an almost emblematic representation. Yet, both Rauschenberg and Johns handle paint with...
Unfortunately, the financial success of the New York Film Festival will probably serve to preserve is status as the "establishment" film festival. But maybe if nobody buys tickets next year, Richard Roud will have to program all eight hours of Andy Warhol's "The Chelsea Girls." And then,, everything will start to be all right...