"Dracula"

Andy Warhol's famous quote "In the future everyone will be for 15 minutes world famous his" could hardly be more topical: In a time when the Internet provides any room for self-expression, individuals report on blogs from their daily lives and disseminate Video messages on social media channels , the artistic basis of Andy Warhol appears more present than ever.
Art by Andy Warhol
In the 60 years of Pop Art drew artist after a successful training as a commercial artist, the then available media for his artistic work from. Andy Warhol painted, drew, photographed, filmed, directed, produced music, and laid publications. Andy Warhol's 1962 studio based in New York "Factory", quickly became the meeting place, where convened the creative scene in the city, worked, celebrated and lived. In the "Factory" everything revolved around who was born under the name Andrew Warhola in 1928 in Pittsburgh artist, who knew how to transform the currents of his time using artistic techniques in consumable objects. The then relatively new mode of production of screen printing took Andy Warhol to reproduce photographs from magazines, Life or mail and autograph cards. Of special interest Andy Warhol especially the "glamorous" motives: Marilyn Monroe portraits, image series of car accidents, suicides, electric chairs or Jackie Kennedy, who mourned the death of her husband. Andy Warhol edited images that moved the masses in their morbidity.
It was next to the recording of existing designs and their transformation into the art context, the reminiscent of the operation of Marcel Duchamp and his readymades, especially the functioning of the market, the Andy Warhol made ​​himself available. His factory was turned into a true art factory, using the works of numerous employees and partially produced to order on the assembly line to meet growing by the mid 60's demand for a genuine Warhol, a nearly fetischierten object from the Dream Factory, meet to can. At the same time put Andy Warhol with his work, the mechanisms of popular culture media only. Through their seriality and garish, sometimes very lax execution attention fortune the art, off toward motive to design the templates along with their manipulative character to draw.
Andy Warhol and his films

Seemingly opposite is true of Andy Warhol's films. Known from the period of the 1960s countless underground films such as "Empire", a 8 hours long portrait of the Empire State Building in a single camera setting or "Eat", a 45 minute long film that the pop artist Robert Indiana are the fungal food shows. The focus is deliberately on everyday details that make a stark contrast to sensationserheischenden, fast-paced pop culture in its slowness.

1968 marked the assassination of the radical women's rights activist Valerie Solanas not only a turning point in Andy Warhol's life, but also led to a change in his artistic work. After the films Andy Warhol refocused emphasis on his paintings and silkscreen prints. Andy Warhol's new studio on Union Square, which has since looked more like an office floor was monitored since the assassination of cameras; the business side, he left increasingly its employees.