What profession does Andy Warhol and Mark L. Lester have in common?
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Andy Warhol Andy Warhol ( ; born Andrew Warhola; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist, director and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture, and advertising that flourished by the 1960s, and span a variety of media, including painting, silkscreening, photography, film, and sculpture. Some of his best known works include the silkscreen paintings "Campbell's Soup Cans" (1962) and "Marilyn Diptych" (1962), the experimental film "Chelsea Girls" (1966), and the multimedia events known as the "Exploding Plastic Inevitable" (1966–67).
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Mark L. Lester Mark L. Lester (born November 26, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known as a prolific director of cult films including the disco musical "Roller Boogie", the vigilante thriller film "Class of 1984", the Stephen King-adaptation "Firestarter" (1984), the Arnold Schwarzenegger action film "Commando" (1985), and the action-comedy "Armed and Dangerous" (1986), starring John Candy, Eugene Levy, and Meg Ryan.
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Morris Louis Morris Louis Bernstein (November 28, 1912 – September 7, 1962), known professionally as Morris Louis, was an American painter. During the 1950s he became one of the earliest exponents of Color Field painting. While living in Washington, D.C., Louis, along with Kenneth Noland and other Washington painters, formed an art movement that is known today as the Washington Color School.
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Roberta L. Raymond Roberta L. Raymond, "née" Roberta Wolin (born November 16, 1938 in Oak Park, Illinois) is an American actor, sociologist, civil rights worker, artist, and writer. She is married to mathematician Richard Gustavus Larson, PhD, has one son Charles D. Raymond, and a grandson Trevor William Raymond.
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Peter Anton Peter Anton (born 1963 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American artist and sculptor. His primary subject matter is food with an emphasis on chocolates and other sweets. Often referred to as "Candy Warhol," Anton creates giant realistic sculptures and is best known for his "bigger than life" boxed chocolates.
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The Andy Warhol Diaries The Andy Warhol Diaries is a posthumous work by the American artist Andy Warhol and was edited by his frequent collaborator and long-time friend, Pat Hackett. Warner Books first published it in 1989 with an introduction by Hackett.
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Richard Lester (harpsichordist) Richard Lester (born 1945) is an English harpsichordist, organist, fortepianist and musicologist.
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Andy Johnson (artist) Andy Johnson (born Anders Johannson, 1893 in Hyssma, Sweden - 1971) was a Swedish-American painter. He started painting at age 64 in a coal bin by the light of a 75-watt bulb. He was discovered by Sylvia Dwyer while working as the custodian and superintendent of a local Brooklyn Heights building, and appeared in multiple exhibits in the Brooklyn Arts Gallery. As his career continued, his art and story became the subject of many international expatriate newspapers.
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Andy Warhol filmography The following are the films directed or produced by Andy Warhol. Fifty of the films have been preserved by the Museum of Modern Art. In August 2014, the Museum of Modern Art began a project to digitise films previously unseen and to show them to the public.
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The Autobiography and Sex Life of Andy Warhol The Autobiography and Sex Life of Andy Warhol (ISBN  ) is a 1971 book by the British journalist John Wilcock. It was republished in June 2010 by Trela Media.
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Paul Morrissey Paul Morrissey (born February 23, 1938) is an American film director, best known for his association with Andy Warhol.
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I Shot Andy Warhol I Shot Andy Warhol is a 1996 American-British independent film about the life of Valerie Solanas and her relationship with the artist Andy Warhol. The film marked the debut of Canadian director Mary Harron. The film stars Lili Taylor as Valerie, Jared Harris as Andy Warhol, and Martha Plimpton as Valerie's friend Stevie. Stephen Dorff plays Warhol superstar Candy Darling. John Cale of The Velvet Underground wrote the film's score despite protests from former band member Lou Reed. Yo La Tengo plays an anonymous band that is somewhat reminiscent of the group.
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Mark Stewart (artist) Mark Stewart (born 1951 Dallas, Texas) an American realist artist who paints primarily in watercolor. He is a graduate of Texas A&M University with a Bachelor of Environmental Design and master's degree in Architecture. Upon completion of graduate school he received the American Institute of Architects Medal and Certificate for the Outstanding Graduate for the 1975-76 school year. He is a registered architect in the state of Texas. Since 1975 Mark has pursued dual careers, one in art and the other in architecture. Mark and his family currently reside in Houston, Texas.
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Larry Janiak Larry Janiak (born 15 February 1938) is a Chicago filmmaker, animator and designer. Janiak was born in Chicago, Illinois and attended Lane Technical College Prep High School where he collaborated with Wayne Boyer and Ronald Larson to create animated cartoon shorts. These high school films were recognized by the Chicago Tribune, Hollywood and the IIT Institute of Design. Janiak then attended the Institute of Design and learned under the influence of László Moholy-Nagy's principles of the "American Bauhaus". After school, Janiak began work in advertising, where he employed these principles of design, and the experimental practices he learned at I.D. in his industrial filmmaking. Janiak not only made advertising films, he also created documentaries, experimental films, animations, graphic design pieces, and worked as a professor at the Institute of Design from 1968 to 1980. Much of his work was inspired by his spiritual practices with the Vivekananda Vedanta Society in Chicago, which he was a member of beginning in 1965.
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Tony Martin (artist) Tony Martin (born 1937) is an American multimedia artist and painter.
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Larry Lee (artist) Larry Lee (born August 7, 1962) is an American multimedia artist, curator, and professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). He works primarily in video, installation and sculptural projects with a strong conceptual approach. His work focuses on political, cultural and historical issues concerning the Asian American experience. He calls this "Orientalia" which he describes as "[having] to do with... the physical and nonphysical, with what people associate with being oriental." He is deeply involved in the Chicago Asian American community through affiliations with FAAIM, Molar Productions, Destin"Asian""," the Asian American Artist Collective, Center for Asian Arts and Media at Columbia College, Association of Asian American Studies, Diasporic Asian Artists Network and the Chinatown Centennial Celebration Committee.
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Robert Lepper Robert Lepper (1906-1991) was an American artist and art professor at Carnegie Institute of Technology, now Carnegie Mellon University, who developed the country's first industrial design degree program. Lepper's work in industrial design, his fascination with the impact of technology on society and its potential role for artmaking formed the background for his class "Individual and Social Analysis", a two semester class focusing on community and personal memory as factors in artistic expression, which with his theoretical dialogues with his most promising students outside the classroom fostered the intellectual environment from which such diverse artists as Andy Warhol, Philip Pearlstein, Mel Bochner, and Jonathan Borofsky would later build their art practices.
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Buddy Lester Buddy Lester (January 16, 1917 – October 4, 2002) was an American comedian and actor who played dozens of character roles in films and television. Though probably best known for his appearances in Jerry Lewis's comedy films, he was also regularly seen on popular television shows (such as "The New Phil Silvers Show" and "Barney Miller") in the 1960s and 1970s. As a comedian, he was a fixture on the international nightclub circuit for several decades and was the brother of comedian Jerry Lester.
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Lester Johnson (artist) Lester Johnson (January 27, 1919 – May 30, 2010) was an American artist.
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Andy Warhol (song) "Andy Warhol" is a song written by David Bowie in 1971 for the album "Hunky Dory". It is an acoustic song about one of Bowie's early artist inspirations, the American pop artist Andy Warhol.
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Lester Lanin Nathaniel Lester Lanin (August 26, 1907 – October 27, 2004) was an American jazz and pop music bandleader. He was famous for long, smoothly arranged medleys, at a consistent rhythm and tempo, which were designed for continuous dancing. Lanin's career began in the late 1920s and his popularity increased through the advent of the LP era. Starting with Epic Records in the middle of the 1950s, he recorded a string of albums for several labels, many of which hit the US "Billboard" 200.
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Tribute to Lester Tribute to Lester is an album recorded in 2001 by the Art Ensemble of Chicago and released on ECM in 2003, their first release on the label since "The Third Decade" (1984). It features performances by Roscoe Mitchell, Malachi Favors Maghostut and Don Moye. The album was recorded following Joseph Jarman's temporary retirement from the group and the death of founding member Lester Bowie to whom it is dedicated.