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Define "actual art". Apart from what he did during the Amiga launch, per the article "He later made a series of digital drawings including a Campbell’s soup ca
by vidarh 2y ago
Define "actual art". Apart from what he did during the Amiga launch, per the article "He later made a series of digital drawings including a Campbell’s soup can, Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus, and flowers." There are pictures at the end of the article, and more in the video. One might reasonably argue whether those are "actual art" or just experiments that don't meet whatever your definition is - this isn't a trick question, but it is a tricky question especially with respect to Warhol. E.g. the Botticelli drawing is mostly some cut and paste of parts of a digital copy of the Botticelli by someone else, that'd be easy to dismiss as someone toying with it and learning, and maybe that's all it was. But a lot of Warhol's art was also very simple reframing and modification of things.
He also made a "music video" which was long thought lost [1][2] consisting of 20 painted frames a soundtrack.
So he didn't do much with the Amiga, but also remember he got it the summer 1985, with the software still in a rough, early state, and died in February 1987. In that period he reportedly acquired a "battery" of Amigas.
During that same period he was busy with finalizing his exhibition with Basquiat in September 1985, and his final exhibition (Milan, January 1987), and it seems that other than the silk screens for those, he didn't produce much else in that period.
He at least seemed interested. Whether that interest would have continued had he lived longer and led to more artworks, or whether it was just a curiosity about something he was paid to represent or genuine interest is something we probably won't get an answer to.
[1] https://artdaily.cc/news/18091/Lost-Warhol-to-Premiere-at-Museum-of-New-Art https://artdaily.cc/news/18091/Lost-Warhol-to-Premiere-at-Mu...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmVJurXyN0k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmVJurXyN0k