1986: Andy Warhol Interview — Transcript

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1. 0:01warhol's arrival at his London Gallery
2. 0:03is like a royal progress the onform
3. 0:05terrible become grand old man of Modern
4. 0:08Art but would he reveal much of what is
5. 0:10behind the enigmatic image
6. 0:13this is the first major series of
7. 0:15self-portraits for quite a long time
8. 0:17what prompted this one
9. 0:21[Music]
10. 0:22it's just
11. 0:23I ran out of ideas
12. 0:27but the one thing Warhol has not been
13. 0:28short of is ideas he's generated enough
14. 0:31critical comment to fellow forest or two
15. 0:33having first shocked the art World in
16. 0:351962 with his images of Campbell's Soup
17. 0:38tins I should have still been painting
18. 0:40it it would have been a better thing
19. 0:42really yeah
20. 0:44then somebody can just be like a store
21. 0:47and they just come in and ask you for a
22. 0:49can of soup and you just it was just the
23. 0:51easiest way to do something
24. 0:54I guess everybody Paints the same mature
25. 0:56over and over again anyway so
26. 0:58so you could have stuck with the soup
27. 1:00tins and the Brillo boxes oh well just a
28. 1:03soup can
29. 1:04what was the interest to you then in
30. 1:06that Campbell souped in what gave you
31. 1:08the idea of doing that
32. 1:09oh I used to eat it every day I still do
33. 1:12so
34. 1:14and Mr Billy boy I think has some too
35. 1:16are you American Master Billy boy no
36. 1:19from Mars I think on Mars
37. 1:23and Christopher Marcus is I work for
38. 1:25interview magazine Andy's magazine
39. 1:28how much are you involved within to be a
40. 1:30magazine oh a lot I give a cover away
41. 1:33every minute
42. 1:34and then I have to
43. 1:36go and hide
44. 1:39it's not the more important to you at
45. 1:41the moment than your own work than your
46. 1:42silver screens or what's most of your
47. 1:44time spent doing
48. 1:46most of my time is just to get up in the
49. 1:48morning
50. 1:50after the Soup cans came a series of
51. 1:52warholized photographs of leading Rock
52. 1:54and Movie figures notably Elvis Presley
53. 1:57and again proving that he had a gift for
54. 1:59selecting his images that other screen
55. 2:01Immortal Marilyn Monroe
56. 2:03and always concerned with the grocery
57. 2:05store another American archetype the
58. 2:07coke bottle how much do you think of
59. 2:10your success as an artist probably the
60. 2:12best known in the world at the moment is
61. 2:14as a result of your own personal image
62. 2:17yourself as a work of art
63. 2:22well that's what everybody says I don't
64. 2:24know I work I I work all the time
65. 2:26and work often seems to involve being
66. 2:28the apparent calm at the center of a
67. 2:30storm that his presence creates which of
68. 2:33course contributes to the art itself but
69. 2:35is Warhol still doing interesting work
70. 2:39I think it's an image of our time
71. 2:42I think that it's
72. 2:44um
73. 2:45it's a paradoxical image isn't it it's
74. 2:48blank and yet it's extremely intelligent
75. 2:51it's frightening and yet it's uh
76. 2:55romantic in a way
77. 2:57it's all sorts of opposites combined in
78. 3:01one image but that is Warhol after all
79. 3:04there's one nice picture painted about
80. 3:06100 times different colors but I mean I
81. 3:08think it's just a bit boring to be
82. 3:09honest but he was always sort of
83. 3:11particularly Adept at capturing a time
84. 3:13and you know possibly the time isn't
85. 3:15really interesting anymore and that's
86. 3:16why the artist isn't really particularly
87. 3:18interesting I'm excited by them I think
88. 3:20they're good I think and is one of the
89. 3:23greatest artists of this century
90. 3:25meanwhile Warhol is collecting between
91. 3:2810 000 and sixty five thousand dollars a
92. 3:30picture but is he really making some
93. 3:32hidden comment at our expense no I just
94. 3:35do whatever I do you know just get by