#ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM TORONTO PROFESSIONAL#

He returned to the male-and female-nude in the 1970s with his Sex Parts and Torso series. Edward Wallowitch, Ted Carey, John Giorno, Jed Johnson, and Jon Gould were some of Warhol’s business associates with whom he also had intimate relationships. A new Andy Warhol exhibit partly focused on his personal life and sexuality is heading to Toronto.

#ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM TORONTO PROFESSIONAL#

Throughout his career, Warhol blurred the lines between his romantic and professional relationships, mixing business and pleasure. One of Warhol’s earliest films featured his then-boyfriend, poet John Giorno, sleeping nude in the nearly six-hour-long Sleep (1963). His films included scenes of sexual escapades, explicit and not-from turning tricks to sleeping. During his foray into film in the 1960s, Warhol did not shy away from sexuality. Warhol filled sketchbooks in the 1950s with drawings titled Boy Portraits, which were loving, humorous depictions of the male form and studies of feet, torsos, and genitalia. Warhol was a gay man, and homosexuality was criminalized in 1950s America. Combining artworks, images, and objects from Warhols colorful life, the museum takes visitors on a tour of Andy Warhols personal and professional lifefrom. In the early 1950s, many of Warhol’s friends and fellow artists were accepted to show at the Tanager Gallery in New York City, but the works he submitted were rejected because of their subject matter-two men embracing. The most comprehensive single-artist museum in the world, The Andy Warhol Museum illuminates the art, life, and times of one of the most influential American artists of the 20th century.

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