https://www.warhol.org Tue, 02 Aug 2022 19:27:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.warhol.org/lessons-learned-in-pittsburgh/ https://www.warhol.org/lessons-learned-in-pittsburgh/#respond Wed, 25 Nov 2020 18:43:16 +0000 https://www.warhol.org/?p=7425 Twenty minutes up from the Warholas’ house, the Carnegie Institute was an inescapable landmark of downtown Oakland. Its grand concert hall, museums and library (a special favorite of Warhol’s) filled an imposing Beaux Arts building that had the names of the West’s cultural heroes carved into its façade. A painter such as Leonardo got to shoulder up against other titans like Goethe and Beethoven—all three becoming subjects of Warhol’s later art. Given the modest culture of the Warhola home, the immersion Warhol would have needed in the language of art could only have begun in that building. Without knowing what artists and audiences had seen and appreciated and counted as art in the past, Warhol could never have carried his culture’s art forward.

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