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This week's cover portrait of Mafia Chieftain John Gotti is Artist Andy Warhol's fifth TIME cover since illustrating "Today's Teen-Agers" in 1965. The others: the Fonda family (1970), Michael Jackson (1984) and Lee Iacocca (1985). Like all TIME cover art, the Gotti print will be donated to the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution. The final selection was chosen from 30 different versions prepared by the artist, who tempered his affinity for vivid hues. "The colors Warhol used are rather somber and threatening," says Executive Art Director Nigel Holmes. "Unlike with Michael Jackson...
...nostalgia. What he liked, as he put it, were images "common enough to pass without notice." Hence the '50s-ish look of his paintings from the '60s, which, ironically, seem more nostalgic now than they did then. Unlike other pop artists with whom he was classed, such as Andy Warhol or Claes Oldenburg, * Rosenquist was not an ironist. "He rendered his blue-collar view of American things without mockery," writes Goldman, "with a deadpan literalness and a directness that suggested innocence...
...problem is their earnestness in pursuit of pop. More interesting and significant was the neo-Dada embrace of pop by artists and independent intellectuals of the 1950s and early '60s. Their approach was off-center, cool in every sense. In Andy Warhol's first shows, in 1962, he exhibited enormous paintings of Coke bottles and Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe. The subject was pop, but determinedly devoid of high-culture anger. Roy Lichtenstein's jumbo cartoon-panel paintings, complete with mawkish dialogue fragments and ersatz Benday dots, were jollier expressions of the same idea...
Critics began popping up alongside college radicals who opposed U.S. intervention in Vietnam. Jabbing commodity fetishism and impersonal TV advertisements, Warhol painted goods larger than life to parody their vaulted importance in the minds of a commercial public...
Crisp says that he looks forward to the glittery end of the world where such high priests of style as Andy Warhol will attend the ultimate cocktail party "where everyone is speaking and no one is listening...