“Warhol made his entrance with Blondie front woman Debbie Harry, who strode confidently onto the stage. The silver-haired Warhol, clad in black and sporting a pair of oversized pink glasses, trailed behind. Taking a seat, Ms. Harry patted her hair and asked Warhol in a husky voice, “Are you ready to paint me?” “Yah,” Warhol replied. Using the Amiga 1000 and the feed from a video camera, Warhol captured a digital photograph of Ms. Harry. Choosing one of the computer’s 4,096 colors, Warhol then used the “fill” function to “paint” the portrait, creating large blocks of color reminiscent of his signature portraits. The whole process was completed in less than a minute. Later, Warhol described the experience to Pat Hackett, whom he had been paying to transcribe his daily experiences as a way to track expenditures since being audited by the Internal Revenue Service in 1976. Warhol said, “The whole day was spent being nervous and telling myself that if I could just get good at stuff like this, then I could make money that way, and I wouldn’t have to paint.” (via The Next Page: Andy Warhol’s digital palette - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
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“Warhol made his entrance with Blondie front woman Debbie Harry, who strode confidently onto the stage. The silver-haired Warhol, clad in black and sporting a pair of oversized pink glasses, trailed behind. Taking a seat, Ms. Harry patted her hair and asked Warhol in a husky voice, “Are you ready to paint me?”

“Yah,” Warhol replied.

Using the Amiga 1000 and the feed from a video camera, Warhol captured a digital photograph of Ms. Harry. Choosing one of the computer’s 4,096 colors, Warhol then used the “fill” function to “paint” the portrait, creating large blocks of color reminiscent of his signature portraits.

The whole process was completed in less than a minute.

Later, Warhol described the experience to Pat Hackett, whom he had been paying to transcribe his daily experiences as a way to track expenditures since being audited by the Internal Revenue Service in 1976. Warhol said, “The whole day was spent being nervous and telling myself that if I could just get good at stuff like this, then I could make money that way, and I wouldn’t have to paint.”

(via The Next Page: Andy Warhol’s digital palette - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

Source: post-gazette.com

Andy Warhol, Goethe, 1981, acrylic on canvas, 205 x 225 cm, Siegfroed Weishaupt Collection, © Artists Rights Society, New York, photo: Archive Siegfried Weishaupt Collection. Laupheim. “The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves as well. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen accidents, meetings and material assistance that no one could have dreamed would come their way. Whatever you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.”      -Goethe Love Goethe, my only beef with him, at least from historic portraits, is that it seems he never rocked any facial hair.
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Andy Warhol, Goethe, 1981, acrylic on canvas, 205 x 225 cm, Siegfroed Weishaupt Collection, © Artists Rights Society, New York, photo: Archive Siegfried Weishaupt Collection. Laupheim.

“The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves as well. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen accidents, meetings and material assistance that no one could have dreamed would come their way. Whatever you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.”      -Goethe

Love Goethe, my only beef with him, at least from historic portraits, is that it seems he never rocked any facial hair.

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