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TAPE: EF02/0100 IN_TIME: 21:19:54 DURATION: 4:24 SOURCES: APTN RESTRICTIONS: No re-use/re-sale of art work without clearance DATELINE: London 8/02/02 SHOTLIST: 1. Ext Tate Modern. 2. CU Sign for Warhol Exhibition 3. vs images-Warhol self portraits - silkscreen Marilyn Monroe -WS Coca Cola bottles -Pan -Campbell soup cans & Brillo -CU Brillo Pads 4. sot Jane Burton - curator Tate Modern: "I think probably was one of the most important, significant figures of the second part of the twentieth century. The first is that he showed us the society in which he lived, America in the 60s and 70s particularly. He took popular images that surrounded people, kind of banal things really, like celebrities and consumer products and turned them into art whether through painting or film or photography. And that was part of the pop art movement but he was certainly key in that movement." 5. Vs images: Montage Jackie Onassis- WS Elvis Presley-WS Soupcans-Pan Across Soupcans-View through Couple Kissing -WS Elisabeth Taylor & Elvis Presley- Pan across Elvis-WS room with Mona Lisa-CU Mona Lisa 6. sot Jane Burton: "He has influenced a lot of artists in the sense that he has shown that not only can you make the things that are around you, surround you the subject of your art but you can also work in many media, he didn't just sculpt , he did all these other things as well. In fact he almost became an artwork himself, his image was so crafted and so considered that he was probably one of the first real artist personalities, where this persona was an extension of his art." 7. vs self portraits-ws car crash-cu ambulance with body-Various mug shots FBI America's most wanted-.Cu electric chair- ws electric chair.- pan across abstract paintings. 8. sot Jane Burton: "To my mind what is a revelation is his later abstract works. He made these amazing canvases quite late in life which not only envelop you because they are huge, but they are also very subtle. They are very interesting , they are camouflage, pieces of camouflage material and things he called oxidations which he made with rather a disgusting process. He urinated on canvas covered in copper paint. But despite the process the the end result is really atmospheric and very beautiful. " 9. ws Copper painting -vs camouflage abstracts. 10. sot Jane Burton: " What is does is show you the Warhol you know but also another side to him which is a good thing I think." 11.vs silver balloons STORYLINE: ANDY WARHOL: MEGAPOP AT THE TATE MODERN. The Tate Modern gallery, London, has unveiled its new Andy Warhol exhibition, containing more than 200 works by the pop art icon. Ticket sales for the exhibition, which opened on Thursday, look like already beating the record success of last year's Surrealism exhibition. Among the highlights of the collection are a self-portrait drawn at the age of 14, which has never before been seen in the UK. All 13 of his Most Wanted prints, inspired by New York police mugshots, are brought together for the first time since 1964, while nine of his Camouflage prints are also in the exhibition. It also features his paintings of all 32 varieties of Campbell's soup, created in 1962, and portraits of Elvis Presley, Liza Minnelli and Mick Jagger. The exhibition traces the evolution of Warhol's painting from his first use of crude printing techniques in the 1950s to the monumental canvases scattered with diamond dust that he made in his later years. While focussing on painting, the presentation at the Tate also features sculpture and drawing and has been augmented by a selection of work in other media, including film, video, wallpaper. performance and photography. Andy Warhol (Andrew Warhola) was born on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. He is considered by many as the most influential American artist of the second half of the 20th century. Warhol's signature style used commercial silkscreening techniques to create identical, mass produced images on canvas, then variations in color to give each print of an edition a different look. Warhol first applied his silkscreen techniques as a commercial artist in the 1950s. Window displays of a Fifth Avenue department store featured his comicbook superhero images. His initial forays into the POP ART came in the early 1960s with his Coca-Cola Bottles (1962) and sculptures of Brillo Boxes (1964), which brought worldwide recognition. Condemned as consumerism by many critics, his work was enthusiastically accepted in Europe, Australia and Japan. Later in the 1960s, Warhol produced a series of motion pictures dealing with such concepts as time, boredom and repetition. In 1968, Valerie Solanas, founder and sole member of SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) walked into Warhol's studio and shot the artist. The attack was nearly fatal. Warhol's generally sunny and upbeat artwork turned to more serious subjects in his images of Jacqueline Kennedy mourning the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963, and his 'Birmingham Race Riot' (1964). Warhol died in New York on February 27, 1987 after a gallbladder operation. He had set, and then stretched the boundaries of POP ART. Warhol's depictions of everything from Campbell's Soup Cans to the faces of celebrities provide an often revealing commentary on contemporary American society. Andy Warhol is arguably the most famous and controversial artist of the last 50 years. If anything, our fascination with the man and his work has only grown since his death. There seem to be many Warhols. There are the celebrity fixated society portraits , the painter of carcrashes and and electric chairs, the underground filmmaker, the producer of the Velvet Underground's legendary first album, and the religious artist of the Last Supper series. Warhol has, bizarrely, been hailed both for his shallowness and his depth. The Tate exhibition includes an expanded section on Warhol's abstractions. Usually seen as a late career development, his interest in abstraction can be traced back to his earliest works. Indeed all of his works can be experienced as a late-twentieth -century simulated landscape in which everything is surface and nothing but surface. Through his mediated world, Warhol gave form to the myths - aesthetic,sexual,cultural, political and economic - that continue to fuel contemporary life. The exhibition is on from the 7 of February till 1 April 2002.

Lili Taylor plays Valerie Solanas in the film "I Shot Andy Warhol", which opened last week in theatres.She took Best Actress at the Sundance Film Festival this year, where she was featured in three different entries - "Warhol", "Girlstown" and "Cold Fever".