{"id":10516,"date":"2020-03-01T18:42:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T01:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10516"},"modified":"2020-03-23T18:48:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T01:48:31","slug":"andy-wizard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/03\/01\/andy-wizard\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Wizard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-wizard-that-was-warhol\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from The Spectator (opens in a new tab)\">from The Spectator<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The wizard that&nbsp;was Warhol<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Blake Gopnik\u2019s monumental biography is a welcome forerunner to Tate Modern\u2019s major Warhol retrospective, opening&nbsp;next month<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>by Duncan Fallowell<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Andy Warhol Documentary Film Part 1 of 2\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UQXpqQO4vaE?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1983 I was sent to New York to interview Johnny Rotten and I took the opportunity to call on Andy Warhol. The Factory was in the phonebook; and the receptionist, Brigid Berlin, said that Andy was in Milan but would be back the following afternoon. \u2018You better give him half an hour. Why don\u2019t you come over at 2.30 p.m.?\u2019 So I did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019d never been part of that New York scene, but wanted to meet someone who had helped me develop my own freedoms almost 20 years earlier. According to Blake Gopnik\u2019s book, I should have found a studio that was triple-locked, with an anxious artist hiding inside. But it wasn\u2019t remotely like that. I just rang up, turned up and started talking to Warhol, and grasped immediately the key to his greatness \u2014 an alert but gentle largeness of soul which freed up everything around him: all was work, all was art, yet all was artlessness. He was the only person I met in New York who was completely natural and not pushing an angle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Warhol was the first truly American artist, the first who didn\u2019t need validation from Europe, the first of consumerism, the media and technology. He revolutionised subject matter, technique, colour, photography. He also invented slow cinema, happenings, installations; pulled rock music into the avant garde via the Velvet Underground and created modern lifestyle journalism with&nbsp;<em>Interview&nbsp;<\/em>magazine. He made being straight and sober a bore from which it never recovered. He recorded everything and kept everything. He died before the digital age, but he\u2019d already sussed its behaviour. We all live in Andy\u2019s world now.There are many conflicting views of Warhol&#8217;s character: he was cold, kind, witty, dumb, knowing and naive<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gopnik\u2019s long biography is much needed \u2014 and it\u2019s not long enough. The text is quite a roller-coaster, as the author attempts to resolve what he sees as the artist\u2019s contradictions, something which Warhol himself never bothered about. At his revolutionary height in the 1960s, when he ruptured art and society through the astonishing liberties taken by his paintings, films and superstars at the Silver Factory, Warhol went home at night to be looked after by his mother. Gopnik sees this as an example of Warhol\u2019s irony, but that is wrong. It\u2019s not his irony, it\u2019s ours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ click to continue reading at Spectator ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Spectator The wizard that&nbsp;was Warhol Blake Gopnik\u2019s monumental biography is a welcome forerunner to Tate Modern\u2019s major Warhol retrospective, opening&nbsp;next month by Duncan Fallowell In 1983 I was sent to New York to interview Johnny Rotten and I took the opportunity to call on Andy Warhol. The Factory was in the phonebook; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}