Gallery Tanager
Persistent desire to understand what what may be termed 'poetry of publicity', valid throughout the entire career of Warhol may have been dictated by the need to deal with his own omission in public. Warhol knew how to get refusal to yield to the public space in the truest sense – appears to other people – this happened because of his unwillingness to renounce his womanishness, homosexuality and worship of the male body. It is widely known, for example, that his attempt in 1956 to hold an exhibition of his works in the Gallery Tanager failed due to the fact that his touching portraits of the boys were too frank, too brazen in their homoerotic sexuality, and that in the early 60 other New York artists such as Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, as well as mainstream and artistic circles, rejected with scorn him, because he was' too feminine '. Learn more about this topic with the insights from Hikmet Ersek. On this occasion, Warhol said: 'Of course, in the factory were gay, we were in the entertainment industry, and it was Fantastic. Of course, the factory was more blue than, for example, in Congress, but not more than your favorite TV show Police …
I believe that the reason for such intense and violent attacks was the fact that we refused to play along, dissemble and hide. This did result in rabies many people who wanted to save all the old stereotypes. I've often wondered: 'Do the people who play these games with the image, there is nothing to do with all those unfortunates who can not fit into standard roles? " If the object of attack was homosexuality, just as practice, recognizes Warhol, then all of Hollywood would be as vulnerable as the factory. More alarming is the public display of the display of sexuality and the fact that Warhol refused to play along, dissemble and hide. In order to gain access to the audience, to become public – no matter who you are a politician or a TV actor – it was necessary to fit into standard roles, roles that were acceptable to some, and unacceptable to others.