MY THESIS IS AT LAST COMPLETE

[jettakd]

Here it is, fell totally free to skip it if you don't wanna read all of it. It's about the influence of gay culture and American cultural homophobia/gender essentialism of the mid 1900s had on Warhol's work

Comments

[sunhawk]

This was a really interesting read, thanks for sharing! :)

[jettakd]

Glad you liked :D

[kittenmommy]

This is amazing!

Years ago, kittendaddy and I went to the Warhol museum in Pittsburgh. We were astounded at the drawings we saw there; until then, we thought of him as that guy who silk screened Campbell's soup cans. But no, he was actually a good artist!

[jettakd]

His blotted line drawings have been really impressive to me, stylistically. I like his more famous work, but I much prefer his earlier drawings.

[kittenmommy]

I was just shocked that he could, you know, actually draw. Like I said, I had him pegged as the Soup Can Guy. LOL

[jettakd]

Oh he did so much more than the soup cans. The soup cans were more philosophical and spiraled into this whole context of culture and commodity. Plus he was a graphic designer long before being a fine artist--that's where screen-printing as an artistic method came from for him. Most of his original graphic design work was done by hand as well.