I know that The Band have met Andy Warhol in the early 80`s. But I`am not aware that anything substantial has come out of that. I have found this image, not sure if it`s a legit work of Andy Warhol. It is his style for sure, but legit or not, I think it`s not very remarkable. Just some Fan-Art, or an AW official piece of work ?
Martin Packer · Member since
Very easy to fake.
mr mason · Member since
Terrible,Andy Warhol was a knob!
Nitroboy · Member since
That's so obviously fake
musicland munich · Member since
My insecure about this subject is because of those Pics. Warhol is taking a picture of Freddie. The clothing and the posing are different, no doubt about that, but the period would fit.
Martin Packer · Member since
I bet "there's an app for that" applies.
Togg · Member since
It's Warhol 'Style' but has been done in photoshop, that pic was not taken by him either.
thomasquinn 32989 · Member since
Unless Warhol had access to secret SOFTWARE to manipulate DIGITAL IMAGES, this is not by Warhol.
Costa86 · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]Nitroboy wrote:[/b]
That's so obviously fake[/QUOTE]
^This. And not only because it looks like a Photoshop job, but also because Warhol wouldn't going around using the same artistic effects he used for the famous Marilyn Monroe artwork. If he did, it would cease to be artwork and become kitsch.
Putting that sort of stylistic effect to photos is something done recently on the internet - reproducing stuff in Warhol's style.
thomasquinn 32989 · Member since
You do realize Warhol used the same approach for a number of portraits, not just Marilyn, right? They're all subtly different, but they all use the same approach, the same silk-screen method and have the same overall look.
"If he did, it would cease to be artwork and become kitsch."
That was kinda one of the 'things' with pop-art: it was taking the Bauhaus concept of integrating art into everyday industrial design and applying it to, basically, kitsch.
Costa86 · Member since
He did quite a lot of 'silkscreen' artwork, but the Freddie one looks to be based on the Marilyn one, and I'd say it's the specific style most reproduced nowadays. But yes I agree about his work actually itself being kitschy.
musicland munich · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]thomasquinn 32989 wrote:[/b]
Unless Warhol had access to secret SOFTWARE to manipulate DIGITAL IMAGES, this is not by Warhol. [/QUOTE]
He used an "Commodore AMIGA 1000" with a Software called "CraphicCraft"
Of course those images look pretty different.
Costa86 · Member since
^That's pretty cool - Warhol making computer graphics in the 80s on his Amiga... quite ahead of his time. Here's some info and photos of the computer art he made: http://www.wired.com/2014/04/an-amazing-discovery-andy-warhols-seminal-computer-art/.
thomasquinn 32989 · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]musicland munich wrote:[/b]
[QUOTE] [b]thomasquinn 32989 wrote:[/b]
Unless Warhol had access to secret SOFTWARE to manipulate DIGITAL IMAGES, this is not by Warhol. [/QUOTE]
He used an "Commodore AMIGA 1000" with a Software called "CraphicCraft"
Of course those images look pretty different.
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Ok, fair point, but I doubt anyone would be able to confuse Warhol's digital stuff with anything silk screened :P
MercurialFreddie · Member since
I'm curious if those photos of Freddie and the band taken by Warhol are gathering dust somewhere in some kind of archive.....
