@hyperallergic: When asked about his origins, Andy Warhol would often say, “I am from nowhere.” Yet he was very much from somewhere: Warhol was a product of working-class, industrial, Pittsburgh, the son Julia Warhola, a Carpatho-Rusyn immigrant who saved money she earned cleaning houses so he could attend art school. When he moved to New York, Warhol took Pittsburgh with him, quite literally: Julia, a pious Byzantine Rite Catholic and widowed wife of a coal miner and construction worker who spoke mostly Rusyn, went with him, and lived with him for two decades. An embroiderer, illustrator, sculptor, and calligrapher, she is finally getting her due for the major impact she had on her son’s work as the subject of scholar Elaine Rusinko’s new book, “Andy Warhol’s Mother: The Woman Behind the Artist” (2024). Read Ed Simon’s review through the link in bio. . . . #AndyWarhol #ArtHistory #ModernArt #Slovakia
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Thursday 13 February 2025 15:10:56 GMT
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Sunglasses C :
I judge if a Andy Warhol bio is any good by how it decribes his mom cuz his upbringing is basically why his art is how it is
2025-02-13 15:39:52
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DapplegrayManor :
I had no idea and I love it!!!! 😍 I especially love her sketches & can see her influence in his early work like his shoe illustrations.
2025-02-13 16:47:15
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jade 🐈⬛ :
need to read this 🥺
2025-02-13 17:49:52
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reddog___1 :
My Grama Is from Slovakia She was the most beautiful soul I ever met🫶🏹👩🎨🎨
2025-02-13 17:05:50
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Holidazey :
thank you🥰
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Liz Brooks Austin :
stage mom to him
2025-03-08 17:10:19
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grasshopper records :
wow!!
2025-02-13 19:02:54
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millennialmisty :
what a beautiful story
2025-02-14 21:18:49
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Dani ☮️ :
FANtastic!! Thank you, HA!! 🌹🌹🌹
2025-04-03 17:26:08
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Based Taste :
their drawing style is so similar
2025-02-13 20:47:26
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UFeelLikeIdo :
Extra cool
2025-03-11 09:20:44
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reddog___1 :
🔥🔥🔥
2025-02-13 17:02:06
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Liz Brooks Austin :
🥰
2025-03-08 14:27:59
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Pipsyco :
@Veronica and the Baby Boo
2025-02-13 16:05:59
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…just me kat :
There is a AW museum in Slovakia in their hometown, in Medzilaborce: https://www.muzeumaw.sk/en
2025-02-13 19:08:44
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PostThisBaby :
I'm 50% sure their relationship wasn't at all healthy
2025-02-13 17:02:26
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✨Blue✨ :
Hopefully she gets an art showing. I'd go see it.
2025-02-13 17:48:49
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1Z3N4LL :
RIP🌸
2025-02-14 13:06:30
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Liz Brooks Austin :
I'm his real daughter🥰
2025-03-08 17:12:00
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TBERRY369 :
Bravo 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
2025-02-14 20:13:37
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