Again, these are a bunch of questions that I answered in the following documentary.
1 How much did one of Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe works of art sell for? $28,000,000.
2 How many versions are there? More than 20.
3 What prediction did he make about being famous in the future? That everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
4 Where was he born? Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, America.
5 What year was he born? In 1928.
6 How did Warhol describe his childhood home? The most terrible place he’d ever been.
7 What were the two childhood passions of Andy Warhol? Catholic religion and the movie stars in his magazines.
8 What age did Warhol move to New York City? He was 21 years old.
9 How much money did he have? $200.
10 How much did he sale his first illustrations for? $25.
11 What did people call him? Raggedy Andy.
12 What was Andy Warhol obsessed with when he looked around? The 50s consumer revolution.
13 What art movement is Warhol associated with? Pop art.
14 When did Warhol finally break into the fine art world with an exhibition? A solo exhibition in 1962.
15 What was the name of his studio? The Silver Factory.
16 What industrial technique did Warhol discover in the early 1960s? Silkscreen printing.
17 What were Warhol’s favourite themes? Death and celebrity.
18 Warhol said that shopping stores would become the new what? Museums.
19 What phrase did Warhol invent to describe very famous people? Superstar.
20 What happened to Warhol in June 1968? He was shot by Valerie Jean Solanas, who Andy had actually used in one of his films. She was an immensely unstable feminist, and the founder, and only member of SCUM.
21 What does SCUM stand for? Society For Cutting Up Men.
22 How much did Warhol’s Green Car Crash work of art sell for? $72,000,000
23 How did Warhol describe good business? He said that it was the best art.
24 What age did Warhol die? He was 58 years old.
25 What did he die of? A routine operation.
Here’s a list of some of the people that were mentioned in the documentary.
Mick Jagger
Sir Michael Philip Jagger is an English singer, songwriter, actor, and film producer who gained worldwide fame as the lead singer and one of the founder members of the Rolling Stones.
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong, also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who became the founding father of the People’s Republic of China, which he ruled as the Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976.
Jackie Onassis
Jacqueline Lee Kennedy Onassis was First Lady of the United States during the presidency of John F. Kennedy and was regarded then and afterwards as an international icon of style and culture.
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, model, and singer. Famous for playing comic “blonde bombshell” characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s and was emblematic of the era’s changing attitudes towards sexuality.
Paris Hilton
Paris Whitney Hilton is an American media personality, businesswoman, socialite, model, singer, actress, fashion designer and DJ. Hilton is a great-granddaughter of Conrad Hilton, the founder of Hilton Hotels.
Denis Hopper
Dennis Lee Hopper was an American actor, filmmaker, photographer, and artist. He attended the Actors Studio, made his first television appearance in 1954, and soon after appeared alongside James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause, and Giant.
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