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As Watney says, “Little, queer, mommy’s boy Andrew was predictably teased, bullied, hurt, and humiliated…,” contributing to his inhibitions and lifelong problems with shame, lowered self-image, and feelings of alienation.
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For these and other things, he was taunted and tormented by his father and brother and constantly put down by his dominating mother. In his adolescent and early adult years, he wore unmatched shoes, walked around in his mother’s clothes, and painted his fingernails.
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Born in 1928, as the child of Slovakian immigrants, he partially learned English from listening to the radio and watching movies and TV shows. He supported and promoted those in the social scene around him, he brought them into his “factory,” introduced people with talent to people with money, and opened many doors for the next generations of queer artists to find a place for themselves and their work in the art world.Īndy Warhol began his life as an outsider, a viewer, to the society around him.
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His art is extremely accessible and visible in some places, while some is hidden in out of the way places-his “popular” art is shown in large museum exhibitions, whereas his prints of male on male sex acts, such as the series “Sex Parts,” is relegated to a dark wall in the back of a gay bar. He made art that represented icons of gay or fringe culture, such as Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor-while being bright and glam, it was also drab and static. In addition to the collective nature of the work and the space, the art made there defied those fine art critics notion of “The Artist”, by being printed over and over, reproduced like mass media. Watney explains that Warhol had constructed “a safe space in which everyone and everything is queer.” The Factory, as the name implies, was a place of collaboration on his works, which was not, at the time, considered by critics as the appropriate way for a fine artist to work. One indicator of queer art may be how the art is visible in some contexts and invisible in others, or where you can see the art-is it easily accessible, or do you have to research where to find it? Queer art is art that opens door for others to explore their own queerness, makes art accessible to those who don’t feel they have a place, and, hopefully, is gradually normalizing “extremes.”Īndy Warhol’s art, as a whole, represents and addresses every one of these facets that Doyle would say constitute the label “queer.” His art was done in one of the most welcoming places to all forms of expression, The Factory. Queerness can be due to how that art happens-is it made in a room covered with aluminum foil, with a team of half-naked models? The art can address subjects that are queer, outside of the sexual realm-makeup, drag queens, idols, or hairdos.
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Art can be considered “queer” art, if outside of the ordinary political or socially accepted systems, or queer things happen where the art is made or a performance is happening.
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Queer art and expression does not just have to be made by a LGBT or gender non-conforming artist, nor does the subject have to display scenes that are homoerotic. In other words, art is “queer,” if the work and the artist are living outside the conventional or established societal norms, at odds with the mainstream. "When we use the word “queer” to describe art or criticism, we are certainly saying something about the importance of sexuality to art-but we are not always ‘outing’ the work of an artist or writer as “gay.” We often use the word “queer” to signal the things that can come with being gay or lesbian, with being a member of a lesbian and gay community, but which are not exactly reducible to sexual identity." What makes art “queer?” According to Jennifer Doyle, in her article Queer Wallpaper,