Andy warhol school of fine arts carnegie institute of technology pittsburgh, At the start of the 1970s, Warhol began publishing Interview magazine and renewed his focus on painting. Works created in this decade include Mao's, Skulls, Hammer and Sickles, Torsos and Shadows and many commissioned portraits. Warhol also published The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (from A to B and Back Again). Firmly established as a major 20th-century artist and international celebrity, Warhol exhibited his work extensively in museums and galleries around the world.
The artist began the 1980s with the publication of POPism: The Warhol '60s and with exhibitions of Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century and the Retrospectives and Reversal series. He also created two cable television shows, "Andy Warhol's TV" in 1982 and "Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes" for MTV in 1986. His paintings from the 1980s include The Last Suppers, Rorschach's and, in a return to his first great theme of Pop, a series called Ads. Warhol also engaged in a series of collaborations with younger artists, including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Francesco Clemente and Keith Haring. In 1989, the Museum of Modern Art in New York had a major retrospective of his works.
Following routine gall bladder surgery, Andy Warhol died February 22, 1987. After his burial in Pittsburgh, friends and associates organized a memorial mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York that was attended by more than 2,000 people.
The Andy Warhol Museum opened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in May 1994.Philip Pearlstein (BFA 1949)
Philip Pearlstein was born in 1924 to a Pittsburgh surgeon, attended Taylor Allderdice High School, and was drafted in the spring of 1943 after one year at Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon University). By then, he was already something of a serious artist, with paintings winning awards from Scholastic magazine and being published in Life. During his World War II army service, he made many sketches and paintings of the Italian landscape. In 1949, he graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology where he was a classmate and roommate of Andy Warhol. He obtained a masters degree in art history in 1956 at the NYU Institute of Fine Arts and mounted his first solo exhibition at the Tananger Gallery. In 1958, he was awarded a Fulbright fellowship to study a year in Rome. His work has been included in ten Whitney Museum of American Art exhibitions between 1956 and 1973. The Milwaukee Art Museum honored him with a retrospective exhibition in 1983 and accompanied the exhibition with a monograph on his complete paintings.
During the 1950s Pearlstein concentrated on landscape paintings of rocks and eroded cliffs, aiming for abstract patterns in the New York Abstract Expressionist style. In the 60s, he began to focus more on realist nudes that still strive for abstractly designed and assertive images. He is considered among the leading American realist painters of the second half of the 20th century. Pearlstein retrieves the complexity of the nude by emphasizing the physical peculiarities of his models while posing them as abstract compositions. Combined with the large format and painstaking detail, Pearlstein's nudes have a monumental strength and richness not seen since Jean-Desire-Gustave Courbet, combined with the hard edged, cool factuality of Pop Art and Minimalism.
His works are in major museum collections around the world including: Appleton Museum of Art, FL; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Hunter Museum of American Art, TN; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, MO; National Academy of Design, NY; Seavest Collection of Contemporary American Realism at Duke University Museum of Art, NC; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Nebraska; and Turman Gallery at Indiana State University.
Pearlstein was an art instructor at the Pratt Institute (1959-63), a visiting critic at Yale University from 1962-63, and a distinguished professor of fine arts at Brooklyn College (1963-87). He continues to paint and exhibit and is represented by Robert Miller Gallery in NYC.
