Andy Warhol, Good for Jews?
ARIZONA REPUBLIC
February 26, 2011
ARIZONA -- A one-man show, "Andy Warhol: Good for the Jews?" is being performed at the Herberger Theater Center this month as part of Actors Theatre's season is a commission of the Contemporary Jewish Museum, which was exhibiting Warhol's series of 10 portraits of 20th-century Jews, from Einstein and Freud to George Gershwin and the Marx Brothers. While researching about Warhol, the playwright found out how deeply religious he was. "His parents were from central Europe and went to Byzantine Catholic church. His mother sometimes took him to church several times a day and he would see these "icons", these gaudy, colorful images of saints arranged on the wall." It's not so far a journey from those images to the adult artist's strikingly colorful portraits of Marilyn Monroe and Chairman Mao. [link]
February 26, 2011
ARIZONA -- A one-man show, "Andy Warhol: Good for the Jews?" is being performed at the Herberger Theater Center this month as part of Actors Theatre's season is a commission of the Contemporary Jewish Museum, which was exhibiting Warhol's series of 10 portraits of 20th-century Jews, from Einstein and Freud to George Gershwin and the Marx Brothers. While researching about Warhol, the playwright found out how deeply religious he was. "His parents were from central Europe and went to Byzantine Catholic church. His mother sometimes took him to church several times a day and he would see these "icons", these gaudy, colorful images of saints arranged on the wall." It's not so far a journey from those images to the adult artist's strikingly colorful portraits of Marilyn Monroe and Chairman Mao. [link]
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