Andy's Film Career

Andy was a renowned artist but he was also a silent film maker. Certain elements that Andy used such as repetition became very popular in the underground film industry. The major key to all of Andy’s work was that one can see his use of repetition in the painting that he creates. He repeatedly uses figures such as Marilyn Monroe and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, along with his abundant use of flowers in his paintings. Much like Andy’s repetition in the art world he used the same techniques in the films he constructed. People became very familiar with Andy’s art creations and film creations because of his use of repetition. If necessary one could spot his work out of a crowd of works because of the numerous times Andy created each of his works but made them slightly different to be appealing to people each time.
Andy bought his first film camera in 1963. The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh contains about 350 tapes that Andy created. He created many different genres such as soap-operas, music videos, and his personal video diaries. Some of the full length films that the museum holds of Andy’s are The Chelsea Girls and Empire. The Chelsea Girls was originally a six hour long movie of people in the Factory doing their everyday things. His film is slightly sexual and contains a full frontal male nudity scene. Andy created many other films but decided that his true calling was in the art industry so he went back to painting.


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"Andy Warhol - Biography." National Gallery of Art. Web. 13 Dec. 2010.

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