Tuesday, August 23, 2005

A Visit with Andy Warhol



SJ and I visited the Warhol Museum as summer's last hurrah before going back to school. She is pictured in a room recreated from one of Warhol's installations using helium- filled mylar pillows. The room was intended to be a space of clouds floating in the sky.

It was interesting to see how so much of Warhol's iconoclastic vision has become commonplace in our contemporary visual world.

The Warhol Museum is one of the Carnegie museums of Pittsburgh and is bringing revitalization and vigor to a neglected part of the city. Definitely worth the trip!

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PURLS OF WISDOM

"Color is the real substance for me, the real underlying thing which drawing and line are not."
--Sam Francis

"The great man is one who never loses his child's heart."
-- Philosopher Mencius

"We wear our attitudes in our bodies."
-- Patti Davis

Colour embodies an enormous though unexplored power which can effect the entire human body as physical organism.

Colour is a means of exercising direct influence upon the soul.
--V. Kandinsky
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way.. things I had no words for.
--Georgia O'Keeffe

Nothing is really work unless you'd rather be doing something else.
--J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

Faith is like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
--E. L. Doctorow

Somebody once said that people become artists
because they have a certain kind of energy to release, and that rings true to me.
--Dale Chihuly