Street Artist Tysen Knight on the Genius of Andy Warhol

by Bianca Rodriguez Content Creator

When critics judged his Marilyn paintings superficial, Andy Warhol was happy to simulate an even more frivolous attitude in his detractors' eyes. Naive and inexperienced in interviews, he reserved the inspiration of the most refined and eclectic of geniuses to the private individual.

Andy Warhol was much more than that "Prince of Pop Art " we all know. To present a detailed study of his nature, as well as of his multifaceted career, street artist Tysen Knight who highly looks up to the late artist recommends the biography written by Blake Gopnikand published.

Almost a thousand fascinating and amusing pages drag the reader into the maze of those contradictions that led the American painter, screenwriter, film producer, director, and actor to revolutionize our cultural world.

“Based on years of archival research and interviews with hundreds of friends, enemies, and lovers, spread with snappy writing, Warhol: A Life as Art explores the artistic journey of the inventor of repetition, who brought supermarket shelves into museums,” shares Knight.

Knight is an African-American street artist and pop urban artist. His art remarkably depicts Buddha’s teachings which he portrays in the form of pop art. Being an avid fan of pop art, Knight is a keen follower of Warhol as well as Pablo Picasso.

From the origins of Andrew Warhol – the impoverished son of a couple of immigrants from Slovakia who arrived in Pittsburgh in the 1930s. His first success as a commercial illustrator, until his pioneering revolution in art, the story, published by Allen Lane, spreads to the society of the 1970s and Eighties, describing its celebrities and changing cultural and commercial dynamics.

Shy and clumsy, Warhol managed to conquer the most glamorous figures of his time, from Susan Sontag to Mick Jagger, and even behind the glitter of his factory frequented by superstars and eccentric drag queens, it had the merit of having the privacy of a man who lived with his mother until almost the last days of his life.

The Guardian presents Warhol: A Life as Art as a "stupendous" biography, in which Gopnik persuasively assembles pieces of a fascinating puzzle, "straddling the history of art and philosophy."

In this journey through the life of the artist who has experimented with different forms of communication, from music to the cinema, the reader is invited to scrutinize the links between serial production in his pop paintings and avant-garde music; is encouraged to join the Death & Disaster series, experiencing drama as a form of mass entertainment. There is no shortage of voyeuristic films in this clear path that blurs the line between art and life, or even those portraits representing the American elite as a range of luxury goods.

Andy's mind was always buzzing with new and surprising ideas. He opened a nightclub in New York called Area, where he created an invisible sculpture with his person and went on to work on a series on the history of television.