"The conflation of consumption and worship is rampant in Warhol's work because that is the language America uses to express desire and reverence. They eat what they worship. Celebrity is communion." WOW. Who wrote this ep? It's fantastic!
i know! i loved that line, it has expressed something that's been on my mind a lot lately, very well, and i haven't been able to put words to it until i heard that!
@Timothy McCaskey "'Everybody gets their 15 minutes of fame, buddy.' Excuse me? That’s an average. Yeah, that’s zero for you, you, you, you. Zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, 20 years, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero." - Daniel Tosh
One event I remember is Andy Warhol was commissioned to paint a digital portrait of Debbie Harry on stage as part of the launch of the Amiga computer. It inspired me to get an Amiga and start a career in computer graphics.
I'm not sure if they were able to recover the images but I remember reading a newspaper article years ago saying that the original floppy disc or whatever with the Debbie Harry images had been unearthed and Carnegie Mellon University was analyzing them.
You should do some videos on early Hollywood directors, producers, actors, and tycoons. D.W. Griffith, Cecil B. DeMille, Irving Thalberg, Louis B. Mayer, Adolph Zukor, Rudolph Valentino, Warner Brothers, Rex Ingram, Eric Von Stroheim, etc.. I would love to see some videos on Mid- 20th century Hollywood figures like John Wayne, Hitchcock, Clark Gable, Marlon Brando, James Dean, and David O. Selznick too.
I’ll never be famous on social media or any other media for that matter because I’ve seen it’s effects and the way it changes people and the way they think. So I stay away from it as much as possible
@@colbywood8113 the people who crave the attention are usually don’t have the will power to think for themselves but I get what ya mean. Social media is honestly the most toxic thing in modern humanity.
@@YodaSmokes Couldn’t concur with you and Colby more mate! Even the ‘influencers’ got cut off! 😂 I like RUclips, but unfortunately the comments are quite ugly and relentless. Which is why I rarely comment, but just had to now to let you know I agree with you both highly! Love & Light from Miami🦚✌🏼 Stay safe everyone🌎🙏🏼
2:33 & 14:35 & 17:00 - OK hold the phone. Did he just call her “Lisa” Minnelli? Someone who’s signature song is literally “Liza With a Z”? And Liza was at her peak in the 1970s, not in decline.
@Behavior & Handwriting Reveal the Truth true, but that wasn’t the argument. Lie-sa or Lie-za would be more acceptable than Lisa, which is not her name.
@@argusfleibeit1165 I realize the accent can be misleading, but watching him on Business Blaze will confirm any lingering doubt as to Simon's heterosexuality.
1:05 - Chapter 1 - Bringing modern art to the modern age 5:10 - Chapter 2 - Success is a job in New York 7:05 - Chapter 3 - Boys & other headaches 8:25 - Chapter 4 - 15 rejections 10:30 - Mid roll ads 11:55 - Chapter 5 - Pop & circumstance 13:00 - Chapter 6 - Soup, there it is ! 16:25 - Chapter 7 - Can't spell "factory" without U ! 17:30 - Chapter 8 - Never trust a playwright
Hey Simon, can you do a biographic on Bruno Sammartino? Escaped the Nazis, fled to Pittsburgh, PA USA, became world record holder in bench press, and then greatest pro wrestler of all time with record of longest time holding the belt. Also, did this all natural without steroids
My father KNEW Bruno! They worked out together. My father even got Bruno to sign a picture to ME! But I had NO idea about his background. Dad and he liked each other because they were a couple of"WAPs!"
He's one of my favorite artists ever. Not to be basic or anything, but I just love his style and the silkscreen printings. I got to see one of his works in person before and it was crazyyyy. I like how he was weird and different from other artists. He made a name for himself.
It's amazing that a mediocrity like Any Warhol went so far and was taken so seriously, considering that everything he did was boring pedestrian drivel.
Well, he was on point with that quote "In the future, we´ll all be famous for 15 minutes". I am a normal 23-year old dude from Finland who enjoys reading, art, aesthetics and biographies, yet his name rings no bells for me. Maybe that´s why this channel is a welcome subscription for many. So many great people have lived, but you rarely have heard of them and their stories. Thank you Simon and the team, still waiting for a biography on Mannerheim!
Excellent job! One of the best on Andy I’ve seen. It’s not always easy to understand why his work matters so much, but you do a wonderful job explaining it.
Edie Sedgwick was one of those stars in the factory. Unfortunately she got hooked on speed while working with Warhol and was dead 6 years later. Crazy how life works out sometimes.
Most artists, it seems, have complicated and even torturous relationships with their parents, but finally we have a good mother here. Embraced her son for who he was and used her influence for expression and beautiful creation. I can only hope my boys have such a comfort with me and can channel it into positivity.
Well done; more truly retrospective than I’ve heard you do before. I was forced to understand Warhol at his natural core. At first it was uncomfortable, than it was beautiful, than it was sobering.
In Art School, we studied Warhol (Not my favorite artist, actually), and there was a story of how he was out but there was a stack of silkscreened Marilyns, and a would-be killer came in and the prints ended up shot. Instead of destroying them, Warhol decided they were better like that, thus creating the series "Shot Marilyn". Fun tidbit for anyone there. :)
I was fortunate enough to meet Andy once while I was attending the Art Institute of Pittsburgh in 1974. He had come to judge a student art exhibit. I was one of the Runner's up, not a winner of the better prizes, but I did get to say "Hello". I always though he was much older, I guess due to his white hair.
I somehow talked my West Virginia high school art club into going to the Warhol museum in Pittsburgh in 94. As a straight man his work has moved more than any other American artist. I'm not sure if that shows how straight or American I really am.
Yes. Good job all. Great writing. One thing, you made Andy so joyless. His work was fun. He was really full of light, all delivered with a pokerface and fright wig. He also allowed Art to cross over to the real world through music, film, and his prints/paintings. There was no bigger influence, unless perhaps Josef Beuys, on art in the second half of the 20th century. Even cabdrivers knew his name.
@GEORGIA Infantry Yes sir, LSD, obviously stands for Lord Satan of Devil's. So yes, all of use who have used, and/or researched LSD, amongst only the likes of of kind acknowledge, are in fact Satan worshippers, and we've come for, not you, but your children, so take a chill pill, bruh'. As long as your kids submit, they'll be fine, no sweat off your back. And heah, even if they don't, we'll simply devour them and regurgitate them towards a more prosperous earth, as our prince takes his throne. I mean, it's all good man.
@GEORGIA Infantry, Yes, he made the pentagon float. Well I mean, not just him, he used our communist Satanic power, but there's no need to get into all of that.
It was also spelled wrong, 2:32 and the facts they gave were SO far off - 14:34 - she was described as a "star in decline" in the early '60s, when she was a teenager and hadn't even done Cabaret yet! But they said he first painted her "when her marriage and career began to crumble". I have this uneasy feeling they meant Judy Garland, but couldn't tell them apart, or like most YT researchers just rummaged around in their faulty memories/guessed and/or didn't bother to look it up.
@@darmal8770 I don't know who he was talking about, but it sure wasn't Liza Minnelli! Her career hadn't even started when he first came to prominence. And I don't think her career ever really stopped - I think she still performs. If they actually meant Garland, how could they mix them up unless they know NOTHING about pop culture? I'll shut up now.
Andy bitched that he never got paid for producing the Velvet Underground's first album. And while we're on the subject, how about a Biography of Lou Reed? I don't know too much about him, but I read not long ago that when a biographer of Reed approached one of his friends for an interview the "friend" asked "What's it called? The Worst Person Who Ever Lived?"
Please, please, PLEASE do a BioGraphics for Richard Wagner (Composer), Georg Duke of Saxe-Meiningen(recognized as the first director), August Wilson( African-American Playwright who wrote a ten play cycle of plays that won 3 Pulitzer prizes for Drama and include Fences & The Piano Lesson), Konstantin Stanislavski the Moscow art theatre and the birth of the "Method", Anton and Michael Chekhov (Playwright and Actor), George Herman Ruth(The BABE, The great Bambino, the sultan of swat, The GOAT in baseball and the first modern sports superstar), Lou Gehrig( The Iron Man, games streak, and ALS-Lou Gehrig's Disease), Joe DiMaggio(One of the greatest hitters ever, 56 game hit streak an impossible record that will likely never be broken & Married to Marilyn Monroe), Tennessee Williams(eccentric playwright who wrote Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and The Glass Menagerie won 3 Pulitzer prizes for drama), Eugene O'Neill(Playwright who wrote Long Days Journey Into Night, and Desire Under The Elms, won 3 Pulitzer prizes for Drama). Please! Crucial, sorry I know that's a lot but they are just so IMPORTANT!!! Thank you for these videos either way. We love the content!!!
@@thebrotherhood227 yea man, I'd say they were, I'd say anytime somebody leaves a mark and changes the world that they'd be pretty important people to remember.... Chief.
He's the American dream. Its where industrialization meets democracy. Where art becomes a product. Whether Coca Cola or Elvis Presley, you belong to the public. Exclusivity and Elitism are the cardinal sins.
Please do videos on the following people: 1. Dennis Rader 2. Jack London 3. Upton Sinclair 4. Jack Ketchum 5. Jane Austen 6. Anton LaVey 7. Annaliese Michel
Can you put whatever you're hawking at the beginning or end of the videos so it doesn't disrupt the information with a glaring, tedious interruption? This is a dealbreaker decision.
A good "portrait" of the artist if somewhat incomplete. If you like the man and his work check out the magnificent graphic novel Andy The Life and Times of Andy Warhol - it´s worth you time...
I gave a "like" because I enjoyed the narrative and the soft way Simon expresses his observations. (One can see his opinion peeking through here and there, in multiple places, as indicated by certain phrases and comments.) Regardless, Mr. Whistler's observations did nothing to detract from the video, and so it still warranted a "thumbs up". I must commend you for making a video that avoided the toxic subject of drug culture, a trap so many biographers have previously fallen into. Keep up the good work.
One of the modern 'artists' who was among the chief destroyers of art, popularizing banality and blandness thru his factory process. Plus he was a famously abusive degenerate. A couple of years ago there was a movie about Edie Sedgwick, one of his victims.
Agree with your assessment, modern and post-modern art is and can literally be steaming piles of crap and sure seems to be populated by talentless grifters where a painted blue square or a banana duct taped to a wall are bought by posers for millions
@Behavior & Handwriting Reveal the Truth Riiiiiiiggghhht. Let me know when one of your 4 year old's paintings is worth 140 million dollars. Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean that it doesn't make sense or have significant value.
Like him or not, Warhol was an orginal and a human paradox Lou Reed once described him as a "Sphinx without a secret" His birthday would have been this month Cheers Andy wherever you are🎈🎉🎆
He's the American dream. Where industrialization meets democracy. Where art becomes a product. Whether you're Coca Cola or Elvis Presley, you belong to the public. Exclusivity and Elitism are the cardinal sins.
Given Simon's constant reminding of us how he's never seen Star Wars (and other mainstream franchise sci/fi and fantasy media) one wonders if he's actually seen Firefly/Serenity or just reading the script ... (allegedly)...
His obsession with chocolate is highlighted in his "screen test" of Nico where she is filmed eating a Hershy bar. I saw it at the AIC, last year. (2019)
Mmmm--you really think so? I thought it sounded almost like he was a non-English speaker reading it phonetically, with no sense of what the words meant. I know he's a professional narrator who does dozens of these videos every week, and I've never had that feeling about his narration before.
@@beefchillingham6790 "Lord Nelson had a vote." "He had a BOAT." Blackadder. Sorry. I had a friend in Thailand who was telling me that a neighbor girl was autistic, but he got his words confused and told me she was "acoustic."
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Biographics hi can you do one on Michael Jackson please
Hey Simon. I got an ad for *RAID SHADOW LEDENDS* while watching this. I think the algorithm is giving you the finger.
The Factory hosted many trans women, not just drag queens
Jim Morrison!
I was lucky enough to actually be Andy Warhol during an acid acid trip in the late 90s.
"The conflation of consumption and worship is rampant in Warhol's work because that is the language America uses to express desire and reverence. They eat what they worship. Celebrity is communion." WOW. Who wrote this ep? It's fantastic!
i know! i loved that line, it has expressed something that's been on my mind a lot lately, very well, and i haven't been able to put words to it until i heard that!
Not to mention 'Soup! There it is!'
Agreed, that's great writing.
Malt schlitzmann is the author of this one
“When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around”
Andy Warhol
Love this, thanks for sharing. Never heard it before
The philosophy of Andy Warhol has tons of similar thoughts like this one, worth reading if you can make it past the camp fluff. ;)
Pretty much sums up addiction recovery too, it only works if there is consent, and often not even then.
@Timothy McCaskey "'Everybody gets their 15 minutes of fame, buddy.' Excuse me? That’s an average. Yeah, that’s zero for you, you, you, you. Zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, 20 years, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero." - Daniel Tosh
Cole Taylor Your welcome
Fourth life: as an undercover agent of the Men In Black organization.
You are not supposed to talk about. There was no A. That was someone else.
more like that alien vehicle that almost looks like human
"painting soup cans and bananas for christ sakes"
Exactly where my mind went 😂
😂🤣😂🤣
One event I remember is Andy Warhol was commissioned to paint a digital portrait of Debbie Harry on stage as part of the launch of the Amiga computer. It inspired me to get an Amiga and start a career in computer graphics.
I'm not sure if they were able to recover the images but I remember reading a newspaper article years ago saying that the original floppy disc or whatever with the Debbie Harry images had been unearthed and Carnegie Mellon University was analyzing them.
@@ronfroehlich4697 They were able to recover them and went on display back in 2014...
You should do some videos on early Hollywood directors, producers, actors, and tycoons. D.W. Griffith, Cecil B. DeMille, Irving Thalberg, Louis B. Mayer, Adolph Zukor, Rudolph Valentino, Warner Brothers, Rex Ingram, Eric Von Stroheim, etc.. I would love to see some videos on Mid- 20th century Hollywood figures like John Wayne, Hitchcock, Clark Gable, Marlon Brando, James Dean, and David O. Selznick too.
Orson Welles, Billy Wilder, and John Huston would nice also.
Talented classical actresses like Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly, Ida Lupino and Marilyn Monroe would be interesting as well
Crazy how Americans quit naming their kids Adolf, huh?
Do Jean-Michel Basquiat next.
I say Francis Bacon. Both would be good :-)
He was definitely right about in the future we all will be famous for 15min just look at social media
RUclips is famous not Andy Warhol.
I’ll never be famous on social media or any other media for that matter because I’ve seen it’s effects and the way it changes people and the way they think. So I stay away from it as much as possible
@@colbywood8113 the people who crave the attention are usually don’t have the will power to think for themselves but I get what ya mean. Social media is honestly the most toxic thing in modern humanity.
Wow really astute observation there, any other blatantly obvious stuff you wanna point out?
@@YodaSmokes Couldn’t concur with you and Colby more mate!
Even the ‘influencers’ got cut off! 😂
I like RUclips, but unfortunately the comments are quite ugly and relentless.
Which is why I rarely comment, but just had to now to let you know I agree with you both highly!
Love & Light from Miami🦚✌🏼
Stay safe everyone🌎🙏🏼
I was waiting for this one!
I admire his firm determination,........🙂😐
2:33 & 14:35 & 17:00 - OK hold the phone. Did he just call her “Lisa” Minnelli? Someone who’s signature song is literally “Liza With a Z”?
And Liza was at her peak in the 1970s, not in decline.
phone held: yes, he did.
Yes. What kind of gay guy does not know how to say "Liza"? LYE-zuh.
@Behavior & Handwriting Reveal the Truth true, but that wasn’t the argument. Lie-sa or Lie-za would be more acceptable than Lisa, which is not her name.
I also can't find ANY source on Andy's brother making him soup while his mother was hospitalized.
@@argusfleibeit1165 I realize the accent can be misleading, but watching him on Business Blaze will confirm any lingering doubt as to Simon's heterosexuality.
1:05 - Chapter 1 - Bringing modern art to the modern age
5:10 - Chapter 2 - Success is a job in New York
7:05 - Chapter 3 - Boys & other headaches
8:25 - Chapter 4 - 15 rejections
10:30 - Mid roll ads
11:55 - Chapter 5 - Pop & circumstance
13:00 - Chapter 6 - Soup, there it is !
16:25 - Chapter 7 - Can't spell "factory" without U !
17:30 - Chapter 8 - Never trust a playwright
Thankyou for this!
“The same hazard which would later, temporarily, cost him his life”
T…Tem…Temporarily?
He really was a bit ... weird.
I know LOL I about died when he said that and I wondered is a so was the real
Hey Simon, can you do a biographic on Bruno Sammartino? Escaped the Nazis, fled to Pittsburgh, PA USA, became world record holder in bench press, and then greatest pro wrestler of all time with record of longest time holding the belt. Also, did this all natural without steroids
His name is Simon, not Sam
@@pandapotato1617 my bad,
Also was the inspiration for Bruno Mars's stage name. (Really).
Just another way Danny can work communism into Simon's script 😂
My father KNEW Bruno! They worked out together. My father even got Bruno to sign a picture to ME! But I had NO idea about his background. Dad and he liked each other because they were a couple of"WAPs!"
Please Simon, I would like to see more episodes on artists such as Rockwell, Renoir, Rembrandt and Monet
no bigger underdog than the victim in the fight against yourself!!!!
I like that one
Ain't that the truth!
my father always told me your biggest battle will be in your head, i didn’t listen at the time
@@nicholasdepina2944 sooooooooo. 😐 is th
The three lives of Andy Warhol, weird, weirder, weirdest.
creep, creepy, creepiest.
Word
A lot of weirdness gets forgiven in artists and other celebrities.
Once, Warhol gave Bob Dylan a silver velvet Elvis painting and Dylan allegedly used it as a dartboard before trading it for a couch.
Great video, we covered him in my varsity classes. Nice to hear Simon's take on him :)
He's one of my favorite artists ever. Not to be basic or anything, but I just love his style and the silkscreen printings. I got to see one of his works in person before and it was crazyyyy. I like how he was weird and different from other artists. He made a name for himself.
It's amazing that a mediocrity like Any Warhol went so far and was taken so seriously, considering that everything he did was boring pedestrian drivel.
I think one his best work are his writings
*simon mentions Truman capote*
Me: you know... that would be a good idea for a video
Shadow king 13 mentions Truman capote
Me: a video on Philip Seymour Hoffman too!
Well, he was on point with that quote "In the future, we´ll all be famous for 15 minutes". I am a normal 23-year old dude from Finland who enjoys reading, art, aesthetics and biographies, yet his name rings no bells for me. Maybe that´s why this channel is a welcome subscription for many. So many great people have lived, but you rarely have heard of them and their stories. Thank you Simon and the team, still waiting for a biography on Mannerheim!
Excellent job! One of the best on Andy I’ve seen. It’s not always easy to understand why his work matters so much, but you do a wonderful job explaining it.
Edie Sedgwick was one of those stars in the factory. Unfortunately she got hooked on speed while working with Warhol and was dead 6 years later. Crazy how life works out sometimes.
“The words, they go in whichever way I want them too” - Simon Whistler
Most artists, it seems, have complicated and even torturous relationships with their parents, but finally we have a good mother here. Embraced her son for who he was and used her influence for expression and beautiful creation. I can only hope my boys have such a comfort with me and can channel it into positivity.
He didn’t even just “batter down the door” to get into the pop art world, he built a brand new building
Pittsburgh has an 'h' on the end
And yet, somehow, it also doesn't.
Unless it's in California or 8+ other states
PA. Pittsburgh is spelled with an h.
Yes! This was driving me nuts.
Came here to say this.
Well done; more truly retrospective than I’ve heard you do before. I was forced to understand Warhol at his natural core. At first it was uncomfortable, than it was beautiful, than it was sobering.
Warhol, himself, was/is a much greater work of art than any art he 'produced'.
Yay I’ve been wanting some more biographics of artists on this channel.
In Art School, we studied Warhol (Not my favorite artist, actually), and there was a story of how he was out but there was a stack of silkscreened Marilyns, and a would-be killer came in and the prints ended up shot. Instead of destroying them, Warhol decided they were better like that, thus creating the series "Shot Marilyn". Fun tidbit for anyone there. :)
I was fortunate enough to meet Andy once while I was attending the Art Institute of Pittsburgh in 1974. He had come to judge a student art exhibit. I was one of the Runner's up, not a winner of the better prizes, but I did get to say "Hello". I always though he was much older, I guess due to his white hair.
This is the favorite of several biographies and documentaries I've read and seen about Warhol. Very good.
Man you’re awesome. I enjoy all your videos but this one a bit more than usual. Thanks for your work.
Hey Simon, can you please do a Biographics episode on Jean Michel Basquiat? I would love to obsessively watch that one.
Second this
Yes please
The Warhol Museum here in Pittsburgh is well worth the day trip.
I somehow talked my West Virginia high school art club into going to the Warhol museum in Pittsburgh in 94. As a straight man his work has moved more than any other American artist. I'm not sure if that shows how straight or American I really am.
That part about the soup was really beautiful.
Yes. Good job all. Great writing. One thing, you made Andy so joyless. His work was fun. He was really full of light, all delivered with a pokerface and fright wig. He also allowed Art to cross over to the real world through music, film, and his prints/paintings. There was no bigger influence, unless perhaps Josef Beuys, on art in the second half of the 20th century. Even cabdrivers knew his name.
Do Albert Hofmann, the first man to synthesize and consume LSD
Abbie Hoffman, as well.
Roger smith?
@@danielnugent7046 I'm going to steal that suggestion 🙂
@GEORGIA Infantry Yes sir, LSD, obviously stands for Lord Satan of Devil's. So yes, all of use who have used, and/or researched LSD, amongst only the likes of of kind acknowledge, are in fact Satan worshippers, and we've come for, not you, but your children, so take a chill pill, bruh'.
As long as your kids submit, they'll be fine, no sweat off your back. And heah, even if they don't, we'll simply devour them and regurgitate them towards a more prosperous earth, as our prince takes his throne.
I mean, it's all good man.
@GEORGIA Infantry, Yes, he made the pentagon float.
Well I mean, not just him, he used our communist Satanic power, but there's no need to get into all of that.
**lie-zah** not Lisa bahaha
THANK YOU!!!
Lyzah mennili
It was also spelled wrong, 2:32 and the facts they gave were SO far off - 14:34 - she was described as a "star in decline" in the early '60s, when she was a teenager and hadn't even done Cabaret yet! But they said he first painted her "when her marriage and career began to crumble". I have this uneasy feeling they meant Judy Garland, but couldn't tell them apart, or like most YT researchers just rummaged around in their faulty memories/guessed and/or didn't bother to look it up.
@@ferociousgumby they also misspelled Pittsburgh...very sloppy, this video
@@darmal8770 I don't know who he was talking about, but it sure wasn't Liza Minnelli! Her career hadn't even started when he first came to prominence. And I don't think her career ever really stopped - I think she still performs. If they actually meant Garland, how could they mix them up unless they know NOTHING about pop culture? I'll shut up now.
Everyone play Lou Reeds "Walk on the Wild Side"! He describes all of Andy's friends in the factory....
Andy bitched that he never got paid for producing the Velvet Underground's first album. And while we're on the subject, how about a Biography of Lou Reed? I don't know too much about him, but I read not long ago that when a biographer of Reed approached one of his friends for an interview the "friend" asked "What's it called? The Worst Person Who Ever Lived?"
That was brilliant! Well done. Thank you.
Great Biographics, as usual. How about one on Stanley Kubrick?
Brilliant as always! Please consider doing a bio on Basquiat
Please, please, PLEASE do a BioGraphics for Richard Wagner (Composer), Georg Duke of Saxe-Meiningen(recognized as the first director), August Wilson( African-American Playwright who wrote a ten play cycle of plays that won 3 Pulitzer prizes for Drama and include Fences & The Piano Lesson), Konstantin Stanislavski the Moscow art theatre and the birth of the "Method", Anton and Michael Chekhov (Playwright and Actor), George Herman Ruth(The BABE, The great Bambino, the sultan of swat, The GOAT in baseball and the first modern sports superstar), Lou Gehrig( The Iron Man, games streak, and ALS-Lou Gehrig's Disease), Joe DiMaggio(One of the greatest hitters ever, 56 game hit streak an impossible record that will likely never be broken & Married to Marilyn Monroe), Tennessee Williams(eccentric playwright who wrote Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and The Glass Menagerie won 3 Pulitzer prizes for drama), Eugene O'Neill(Playwright who wrote Long Days Journey Into Night, and Desire Under The Elms, won 3 Pulitzer prizes for Drama). Please! Crucial, sorry I know that's a lot but they are just so IMPORTANT!!! Thank you for these videos either way. We love the content!!!
None of those people strike me as important chief
@@thebrotherhood227 yea man, I'd say they were, I'd say anytime somebody leaves a mark and changes the world that they'd be pretty important people to remember.... Chief.
He's the American dream. Its where industrialization meets democracy. Where art becomes a product. Whether Coca Cola or Elvis Presley, you belong to the public. Exclusivity and Elitism are the cardinal sins.
20:54 I’d love to see an episode on Basquiat
Enjoyed the episode, HATE HATE HATE the commercials!
People are so jeaulous of him especially the nobodies!
I was looking for this like 3 days ago no joke
Excellent! Another one of my heroes. Gone way too early. Can't believe it was so long ago. Thank you.
He didn't survive his *Assassination.* He survived an *Assassination Attempt.*
Big difference.
Semantics
@@4717-b7j
Hardly.
It's like saying he was killed or he was *ALMOST* killed.
@@seariakett4209 survived being killed = assassinate'nt
*Allegedly*
@@seariakett4209 if someone is massaging your heart to keep you alive there's a good chance you weren't alive at some point.
May we have a biographics about Banksy? Please? :)
Please do more artists. All a bit odd,and all inspiring. Loved it...
Please do Orson Welles! It's time!
So excited for this video! Your Great 🤘🏻
Please do videos on the following people:
1. Dennis Rader
2. Jack London
3. Upton Sinclair
4. Jack Ketchum
5. Jane Austen
6. Anton LaVey
7. Annaliese Michel
One on Anton Lavey would be interesting
day 493 of waiting for the BTK Biographics episode....
Could listen to you all day and my mind is happily fed!
Thank you!!😁😁
You should cover Jean Michel Basquiat
Finally more artists!! 😍😍
Simon's seamless segue selling Squarespace is super satisfying
He was brilliant. The Cars video for Hello Again is a masterpiece
To say that the English captions of this video are _delirious_ would be an _euphemism._
Can you put whatever you're hawking at the beginning or end of the videos so it doesn't disrupt the information with a glaring, tedious interruption? This is a dealbreaker decision.
So if the hawking remains in the middle, you are gone? Seems a tad extreme, though only to yourself really.
@@shebbs1 The number of ads we're expected to sit through so RUclipsrs can maintain their lavish lifestyles seems a bit extreme
Throwing this out as a suggestion but Yukio Mishima would be an awesome person for you to cover
A good "portrait" of the artist if somewhat incomplete. If you like the man and his work check out the magnificent graphic novel Andy The Life and Times of Andy Warhol - it´s worth you time...
More artists please!
This was great
Im pretty sure more people know who Andy Warhol is than Truman Capote.
Thank you
any chance of doing a biographics on Basquiat?
I gave a "like" because I enjoyed the narrative and the soft way Simon expresses his observations.
(One can see his opinion peeking through here and there, in multiple places, as indicated by certain phrases and comments.)
Regardless, Mr. Whistler's observations did nothing to detract from the video, and so it still warranted a "thumbs up".
I must commend you for making a video that avoided the toxic subject of drug culture, a trap so many biographers have previously fallen into.
Keep up the good work.
This couldn’t have come with a better timing - right now I am editing the Armenian translation of This is Warhol. Now I know what I will watch later🙂
One of the modern 'artists' who was among the chief destroyers of art, popularizing banality and blandness thru his factory process.
Plus he was a famously abusive degenerate. A couple of years ago there was a movie about Edie Sedgwick, one of his victims.
Agree with your assessment, modern and post-modern art is and can literally be steaming piles of crap and sure seems to be populated by talentless grifters where a painted blue square or a banana duct taped to a wall are bought by posers for millions
I read that he slept with his mom as an adult. No sex but sleeping in the same bed.
Fantastic video!!!
I loved him as Agent W in Men in Black 3
Great video! Andy Warhol fascinates me.
The fact that we'll never get a chance to watch Andy Warhol and Nick Bostrom have a conversation IS despair itself .
9:55 Jackson Pollock was part of the abstract _expressionist_ movement not abstract impressionism.
@Behavior & Handwriting Reveal the Truth Riiiiiiiggghhht. Let me know when one of your 4 year old's paintings is worth 140 million dollars. Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean that it doesn't make sense or have significant value.
Love this. I Didn’t know I needed this in my life but am so glad I found it in my feed. Thank you.
Warhol's talents were and are overblown. But he's truly American in every way. His ability to court the rich and to use people were his real talents.
His family is still in Pittsburgh and has a recycling buisness, Warhola Recycling. And that is Pittsburgh with an "h".
I'd love videos on Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat
Thank you 🌺
i wish you would show more of warhol's work.
Met Warhol in 86’ at an Adam Ant show in NYC
I love your videos! Thank you!
Like him or not, Warhol was an orginal and a human paradox Lou Reed once described him as a "Sphinx without a secret" His birthday would have been this month Cheers Andy wherever you are🎈🎉🎆
Simon, have you guys done an episode on August von Mackenson?
Well he’s clearly a fan. I personally have never “gotten” Warhol. Great video, but I still don’t.
He's the American dream. Where industrialization meets democracy. Where art becomes a product. Whether you're Coca Cola or Elvis Presley, you belong to the public. Exclusivity and Elitism are the cardinal sins.
Joe Elven I am also a fan.
all there is to get is that there is no avoiding him. no liking or hating it.
Great biography Simon.
Given Simon's constant reminding of us how he's never seen Star Wars (and other mainstream franchise sci/fi and fantasy media) one wonders if he's actually seen Firefly/Serenity or just reading the script ... (allegedly)...
Allegendly 😉
He is just reading a scripf.
Can I put in an enthusiastic vote for Keith Haring?
Simon, on average, how many scripts do you read and record per day?
His obsession with chocolate is highlighted in his "screen test" of Nico where she is filmed eating a Hershy bar. I saw it at the AIC, last year. (2019)
Your delivery is smooth borderline poetic.
Mmmm--you really think so? I thought it sounded almost like he was a non-English speaker reading it phonetically, with no sense of what the words meant. I know he's a professional narrator who does dozens of these videos every week, and I've never had that feeling about his narration before.
It’s Abstract Expressionists, not Impressionists.
It's been suggested that Warhol was autistic.
He was artistic
@@beefchillingham6790 "Lord Nelson had a vote." "He had a BOAT." Blackadder. Sorry. I had a friend in Thailand who was telling me that a neighbor girl was autistic, but he got his words confused and told me she was "acoustic."