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The Life and Art of Andy Warhol
July 18 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Temple Beth Or Members and the community are invited to join the Adult Education Committee for an upcoming lecture examining artist Andy Warhol’s life.
Carol Salus, professor emerita of art history at Kent State University, will present “The Life and Art of Andy Warhol” Thursday, July. 18, from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. in Levin Hall at Temple Beth Or (5275 Marshall Road). Join us at 6:30 p.m. for Drinks and Hors-D’oeuvres, 7:00 p.m. for the presentation.
At the age of 8, Warhol contracted Chorea—also known as St. Vitus’s Dance—a rare and sometimes fatal disease of the nervous system that left him bedridden for several months. It was during these months, while Warhol was sick in bed, that his mother, herself a skillful artist, gave him his first drawing lessons. Drawing soon became Warhol’s favorite childhood pastime. He was also an avid fan of movies, and his mother bought him movie magazines. She bought him a camera at the age of nine, he took up photography as well, developing film in a makeshift darkroom he set up in their basement. From these beginnings, to the artist we know, Warhol continues to fascinate the public long after his premature death.
