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Now this is what we call face-painting: make art, buy art, see art … but never forget you can be art
Interview, Sept, 2002 by Tony Moxham
People talk a lot about being part of the art scene but rarely ever about actually being art itself. Not often recognized as a master of maquillage, Andy Warhol, who brought home much of his bacon through portrait commissions, elevated many of his subjects to a suitably Warholian aesthetic through painted or silk-screened applications of insouciantly heavy-handed and clashing eye and lip color, leaving them looking like the wildest attendees of one of the artist's parties. Sadly, commissioning one's own Warhol is no longer an option; but studying his art as inspiration for your own makeup masterpiece is. As with most things Warhol, any concern with subtlety is sort of missing the point.
Now, one can immerse oneself in total Warholabilia with the release of Andy Warhol Pop Box, a package of printed tickets, posters, badges and assorted trinkets from Chronicle Books, and photographer Christopher Makos' Andy Warhol (Charta Books), an account of Mr. Warhol's personal experiments with drag in the '80s. Diane von Furstenberg has put her own Warhol portrait on a T-shirt (pictured here); and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has launched a clothing, leather accessories and porcelain line--enough to momentarily quell the Jones for Andy in even the most ardent fans.
Tony Moxham is Interview's Art Director.
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