Final Warhol Thoughts

"If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, there I am. There's nothing behind it." Andy Warhol

Personal Note

My personal reasons for choosing to do a museum about Andy Warhol have mainly to do with his career choices. Warhol was successful in bringing a new form of art to the forefront of an ever changing artworld in the 1960's. I am interested in the field of commercial and graphic art and its connection to advertising. Warhol had a unique vision and may have been an extremist but made a mark on American Pop culture. He was a skilled and inventive artist and his paintings have a high visual appeal. I am also fasinated with his obseession with the media and the world of Hollywood and New York celebrities. I can relate to this obsession with the media. Andy Warhol and his paintings surpass generation gaps and will forever be famous and recognizable.

Ethical Statement
When creating a museum on the web the curator has a responsibility to the public and to the topic the museum is representing. A curator on the web must be just as ethical as a curator of a museumin a building. As the curtor of the Andy Warhol Museum I have a responsibility to Warhol and his pieces to show them in an objective a fair manner. I must make my museum open to everyone who has an interest in looking at it. I also have a responsibility to educate my visitors on Andy Warhol and his paintings. In order to be an educator I have completed the proper research on my topics. As a successful curator I have energy, knowledge and enthusiasm for the subject of my museum.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Books:
1. Andy Warhol 1928-1987, Commerce into Art By Benedikt Taschen. Germany 1993,

2. Andy Warhol Prints By Frayda Feldman and Jorg Schellman.New York 1985

3. Andy Warhol By Rainer Crone. Hamburg 1970

4. Andy Warhol:Portraits of the 1970's By Robert Rosenblum.Munich 1984

5. Andy Warhol By Carter Ratcliff.New York 1975

Web Sites:
Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh: Andy Warhol Museum

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