Andy Warhol: Redesign

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Before and After III 1962 Acrylic on canvas 72.125 x 99.875 in
life from a distance, he saw it with the eye of a strang- The story of his rise to fame is dotted with anecdotes. “ HE OBSERVED THIS er who notices things which the New Yorker takes for granted. He first started working as a professional graphic Calvin Tomkins, art critic, tells us how Tina Fredricks, then art director of Glamour, contributed to them. She LIFE FROM A DISTANCE, HE SAW IT WITH THE EYE OF A STRANGER... ” designer, creating advertisements for fashion magazines like Glamour, Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar and this was when he changed his name to Andy Warhol. Several times, he changed apartments and studios looking for friends. “I kept living with roommates thinking we could become good friends and share problems, but I’d always find out that they were just interested in another person was thrilled by Andy’s drawings but could not find a commercial use for them. She told him that the drawings were good, but that Glamour could only use drawings of shoes at the moment. The next day Warhol came back with 50 drawings of shoes in his brown paper bag. No one had ever drawn shoes the way he did. Footwear was to be a recurring theme in his work 23 sharing the rent.” His success came relatively quickly and up to the early Sixties and many see this as the most im- the “American Dream” of unstoppable success came true portant era of his commercial phase. Tomkins praises the faster than he had expected. subtlety of these drawings which were done in the style of Toulouse-Lautrec and admires their empirical exactness. “Each buckle was in the right place.” His creative series,
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