About me: Warhol Denied consists of the Denial and Acceptance series by Charles Lutz which is a commentary on the easily reproducible aspect of Warhol’s work and the dilemmas that this incurs. The series forces the viewer to look at works that are identical copies of Warhol’s work and ask themselves amongst other things, is this art? What is art? What is authorship? Is it possible to make conceptual art from something that was already considered art in another context? When looking at Warhol’s work, largely we are looking at reproductions of existing images that have been intended for mass-reproduction and consumption. Warhol and the pop art movement took the everyday banal images of a culture and raised them to the level of fine art. In our current culture these images have come full circle. Warhol’s Marilyn, Campbell’s soup cans, and Elvis, appear on clothing, bags, snowboards, and countless other products as mere decoration. The series Denial and Acceptance brings “Warhol’s work” back into the realm of high art, while also challenging authenticity issues and questioning the artist’s original intent. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Born outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1982, artist Charles Lutz attended the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York where he began dealing with the themes of commerce, luxury, and the art world at large. Soon after Lutz began his collaborative relationship with menswear designer Yoko Devereaux, working on projects for Surface Magazine, Time Out New York, and Terminal 5. Lutz has also worked for such artists as Jeff Koons and McDermott and McGough. In early 2007 Lutz began the series “Denial and Acceptance” which was based on a series of 12 replicated Andy Warhol Self Portraits that were formally sent to the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board to have intentionally denied, stamped, and catalogued. Therefore creating officially denied Warhol self-portraits authored by artist Charles Lutz. From these works, a body of over 400 works were created that will be cataloged on the artist’s website for the series, warholdenied.com. Lutz is currently working on an ambitious series of 15 round paintings that critique the current art culture, through the uses of contemporary photographs, 19th century decorative arts motifs, as well as political cartoons of that period. The artist currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
New works for the series will be available in Spring 2009 and they will be something amazing!!!!
All works are available at warholdenied.com
Nothing like a Nathan’s Frank, lemonade with a crazy straw, and watching the fireworks from your own lazyboy lawnchair.
Wiggie sat and reflected over the past year since Joey Chestnut brought the coveted “Mustard Belt” back home to the good ol’ US of A. What a significant moment in history. Now, as the rules of the contest change we are faced with the possibility that Kobyahshi could snatch it away… but we American’s defiantly cried “NO!” and along with Joey Chestnut we held on to the belt with white-knuckles and sweaty palms. The title and the belt stay in the U.S.!!!
Wiggie could only think of the pride he felt with his core. What a wonderful country. What a wonderful time to be alive. What – IN THE HELL AM I DOING IN PITTSBURGH??? I need to get to Coney Island! So, today, Wiggie makes a pledge to do whatever he can to join the hundreds of Chestnut supporters next year in New York at Nathan’s HotDogs. This is my solemn vow.
It was a sunny day and Andy’s wig thought “Gee,… maybe sitting outside would be nice, …ah …yeah.” So he grabbed a big glass of pink lemonade and his Crazy-Straw and plunked down in the lawn chair.
The smell of warmed plastic cascaded into Wiggle’s nostrils. He loved the smell of warm plastic in the morning, it smelled … like warm plastic.
That lawn chair had been giving him problems last summer but so far so good. If it folded up on him or collapsed he was going to take it to the neighbors yard and junk it. The neighbors had been such a nice couple but they had left their cigarette butts all over the place last Saturday night.
Andy’s wig wondered what was on sale at Sally’s this week and hoped there would be a useful flier in all that mail he got on Friday’s. He couldn’t wait for the mail delivery guy to come. He loved fliers.
Then he heard the unmistakable sound of a mosquito buzzing somewhere in close proximity… and darn it all if he hadn’t just taken an oath not to kill bugs for this new Buddhist guy in the apartment complex. Why didn’t he just give him a donation and shut the door?
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