Andy Warhol - The Most Influential Artist In Contemporary Fashion World 

In the twentieth century, Andy Warhol, an American artist who led the visual art to a new movement - pop art, dominated the world of contemporary art. Andy Warhol had an eccentric personality because of his experiences and personal life. His unconventional behaviours and styles are influenced by many people in 1900s. Meanwhile, as a visual artist, Andy Warhol had gotten huge effect to the trend of fashion, his career as an artist was closely tied to fashion due to his iconic and unconventional dressing preference and style. This paper will introduce the influence of Andy Warhol on the development of visual art in his period, and in the contemporary fashion world.

Intro

As a genius artist, Warhol’s peculiar behaviours are defined as a quirk side-effect of his smart and creative brain. His art corresponds to his eccentric lifestyle, and there are backstories behind his actions - the fact that his life is full of fascinating stories and unconventional quirks. And the most contrast thing he had to his creative mind is that he is a devoted Catholic. It is hard to believe that such a unique person who is loyal to the catholic. Andy Warhol’s works combined both art and mass culture, it tends to be said that Andy Warhol is not only a painter, he is also a star, a creator, an introducer and even an actor. In any case, he had a strange personality, which had been constantly covered up in the back of a safe house. Against his achievements, he usually experienced an inner anxiety which was with him until he died.

Analysis

Andy Warhol’s eccentric can be demonstrated from various aspects, not only his personality, but also some unusual habits. The first strange thing separated him from other artists in the twentieth century was, he has been called “trash man”, which is coming from he habits of collecting daily and meaningless objects such as pizza dough, pornographic pulp novels, and unpaid invoices. Andy Warhol thought that these objects he owned were valuable, and for him, trash can turn into art, and art is not only a canon, but also a point of view. After he died, those “trash” had been placed in 610 cardboard boxes, which named as the time capsule by people, as archived in the Andy Warhol Museum in his hometown Pittsburgh.

The other significant eccentric habit was that he “treated feet first”, which means that he had serious foot and shoe fetish. One of the unusual things he owned was a mummified human foot from ancient Egypt, and he also did a huge amount of drawings of feet and shoes in his artworks. Warhol started to be bald in his early 20s and he started to wear wigs to conceal his baldness. After that, his silver wigs became an icon of him, and one of his most remarkable pieces was a series of self-portraits called Fright Wig, which he used fake hair to construct the picture.

As many prominent artists, Andy Warhol suffered from autism. His surprised craftsmanship was the famous pieces like the repeating Campbell's Soup cans, his creativity on art, alongside his spectacularly eccentric styles, let Warhol become an outstanding culture milestone. However, the diagnosis of neuroses, Warhol had faced obstacles in social circumstances, and got captivated with the order of those soup cans. Nevertheless, we believe that it was this fascination made his successful. Moreover, Andy Warhol enjoyed the beauty in others, however, he couldn't see it in himself. His exhibition reflects how Warhol’s insecurity of appearance converted to his artwork.

Warhol's insecurities about his own appearance were established in his childhood and because of his untimely hair sparseness, the forbidden of homosexuality, and the scarring from the gunshots injures. “In Warhol’s work and writing, he points out, over and over, that beauty has this close relationship to pain,” Beck notes. “His own anxieties become manifested into the work. ” “His connection to Pop art starts with the body,” Beck says. The other significant fact that disassociated Warhol from other artist in 20th century was that he is a homosexuality man, and homosexuality was illegal in America in the 1950s. However, Warhol did his sketchbooks with adoring, clever illustrations of the male structure and investigations of feet drawing named Boy Portraits during 1950s. Forward to the 1960s, Warhol started to do film, and he wasn’t shy to present sexuality.

Furthermore, Andy Warhol not only has the eccentric personality, but also the unique dressing style, especially in the 20th century, his own signature style changed the fashion industry a lot, he like to wearing wide stripe tees, layering jackets, clear glasses as accessories, and he is always appearing with all black look.

Andy Warhol’s iconic look was definitely is simple black wear, it might be a jacket with a turtleneck inside, pair with the skinny jeans in dark or natural washes colour. As we can see from his portraits, he is likely wearing a black motorcycle leather jacket or double-breasted lounge suit, and with Chelsea boots almost all the time. We can also see that he had a deep love for the long-sleeved tee with horizontal stripe on, and sometimes he is more likely dressed black suit with a tie or bow. With the regards to the Pop Art development of the sixties and seventies, Andy Warhol was less of an artist and a greater amount of an orchestrator. During that time, he made some of his most remarkable works, we can notice that

Andy Warhol are dominated on gathering things together. Regardless of he was combined famous people and people who with less power and influence joining his art and business, Warhol had a talent for discovering mutual understanding between two apparently contrasting theories. This was also demonstrated in his own style, which conservative and urban avant-garde, but the style and look were still into today’s fashion.

For instance (insert photo), Warhol in his iconic black tie and oxford shirt, however rather than sport coat, he chooses a field jacket. In addition to the fact that it is likewise a rebellious way to transform a standard look into something much more than it. As prominent as his art is in constructing fashion trends, his dress sense was characterized by a boundlessly unique aesthetic to that of his peculiarly graphic prints. While his work was symbolic by colour, he was wearing leather jackets, dark jeans, and black sunglasses all the time.

Warhol was aware of his existence in such a self-conscious world and is quoted as saying: 'Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace…it was the whole reason for going. ' He was a voyeur surrounded by exhibitionism and famously fascinated by notions of celebrity. For someone so fixated on physical appearance, his antithetical minimalist approach to fashion was perhaps a statement in itself.

Other that Warhol’s stylish with his most signature accessory, his blonde wig, he has another iconic accessory which was the bold-framed glasses. Warhol mostly wore his transparent eyeglasses which in tortoise-shell frames. He usually complemented his coat based with a floppy, butterfly-style bow or a traditional tie, which may have striped pattern on it or just a plain geometric decoration. In addition, his artworks influenced many of designers after him and had been used on many current garments, featured with screen-printed of the images of his artwork.

Warhol’s work Campbell’s soup can and “Marilyn Diptych” are used wisely in the contemporary fashion industry. His intense commitments to pop art had, and keep on having, huge impact in the fashion industries, Versace's 1991 dress painted with those archetypal screen prints of Monroe and Dean. More than a long time since his passing, it's normal to experience entire fashion articles devoted to him, which filled with graphic prints, using of exaggerate primary colours and consumerist logos. His eccentric aesthetic is installed in our concerning and valuation of fashion, and his stylish for fashion will apparently remain for a long time.

A lot of Warhol’s style are got into the unisex wear, for instance, his turtlenecks, striped shirts and glasses. Warhol wrote in The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, which is his collection of reflections and aphorisms in 1977, “A good plain look is my favourite look. If I didn’t want to look so ‘bad,’ I would want to look ‘plain’. That would be my next choice. ” We can see through his outfit preferences obviously, ‘plain’ doesn’t equivalent to wear something boring. Literally, the classicality of his style preferences is versatility and eternity, his easy way to combination of rose trends will survives for around 50 years on. The style of wearing the plain long-sleeved tee, dark pants, with the studded boots all together is till to present day of fashion, and which is hard to go wrong with wearing it.

Conclusion

Andy Warhol turned into a symbolic, and an iconic person of his time period, and even a revolution. His mechanized artwork reflected modern demands, the latest types of utilization, and new ways of lifestyles. He took the character of the artist from being a particular craftsperson to somebody appreciable, an eccentric person with a special perspective on the world, and let the artist becoming the art itself.

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