Steven Arnold Net Worth is
$14 Million

Mini Biography

Steven F. Arnold (1943-1994), trend-setting American designer and protégé of Salvador Dali, was a visionary filmmaker, professional photographer, painter, illustrator, place and costume developer, and assemblage musician. Steven Arnold was created on, may 18, 1943, to a seamstress mother, and a hardware clerk father in Oakland California. At 4 or 5 years of age, he discovered a upper body of theatrical outfits and make-up owned by his uncle in the attic of his parent’s home, and after that devoted himself towards the artwork of transformation, continuously dressing to amuse himself, his style model sister, and his babysitter. His parents inspired his fantasies, and allowed him to construct pieces and puppets to put up shows for a nearby kids, to whom he stated, he hardly ever related. In nov 1958 Arnold got into Oakland Technical SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, where he fulfilled his lifelong friend, muse, and collaborator, Pandora. The set became inseparable, and would spend hours in Steven’s bedroom consuming champagne and Romilar cough syrup, smoking cigarettes opium, weed, and cigarettes, dressing, and using make-up. Steven’s bedroom in 1959, as Pandora remembers, was “like LOUIS XIV – beyond perception for a kid”. Steven and Pandora’s senior high school artwork teacher, Violet Chew up, was the pair’s coach and main way to obtain inspiration. Chew trained her college students by ancient Chinese language methods, which worked well from the within out, encouraging college students to confront complications on the soul-level, also to make use of their artwork as a way of discovering and resolving these complications. She also released the youthful Steven to classic and junk buying, artwork history, cutting-edge style, and Eastern religious traditions, which produced a lasting effect on Arnold’s beliefs and artwork. She noticed great potential in her college student, and organized for Arnold to drop homeroom and physical education to be able to spend three intervals with her every day. It had been also for this period that Violet Chew’s friend, designer Ira Yeager pointed out that “it had been Steven who in fact initiated ‘hippie’ clothe themselves in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, before it had been fashionable.” After graduating senior high school in the Springtime of 1961, Arnold earned a complete scholarship towards the San Francisco Artwork Institute. In the springtime of 1964, after generating perfect grades for just two years in the Institute, Arnold required a break to review overseas in Paris and enrolled at Ecole Des Beaux Arts. Disappointed using the stiff, traditional curriculum at Ecole Des Beaux Arts, Arnold and several American classmates rented villas on the tiny isle of Formentera from the coastline of Spain. For another almost a year the group resided communally, acquiring LSD each day, tinkering with paints and outfits, taking up home in caves, and discovering the small isle. Returning to SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA in the Planting season of 1965, Arnold resumed his research at the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Art Instuite, turning his eyesight on filmmaking: composing, directing, and creating three short motion pictures over another 2 yrs. By past due 1967 Arnold was for the verge of graduating from the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Artwork Institute, and his last student film, Text messages, Messages, was sketching crucial attention, and continued to earn invites to Cannes’ Director’s Fortnight, the Chicago International FIlm Event, as well as the Toronto Film Event. Because of the crucial achievement of their film, Arnold and collaborator Michael Wiese made the decision that Messages, Communications was worth a more sophisticated hometown premier compared to the San Francisco Artwork Institute could offer, so in Feb of 1968, quickly before their graduation, the set rented the Palace Theater in San Francisco’s north seaside for the event. Furthermore to Messages, Text messages, Arnold also curated “a uncommon assortment of early surrealist movies by Guy Ray, Melies, and outdated French animations.” The night time was such an enormous achievement that theatre’s owner wanted to enable Arnold to keep keeping screenings. This resulted in the March 1968 inauguration of Arnold’s Nocturnal Dreamshows, the 1st from the every week midnight film showcases that became nationally popularized in the 1970s. The Nocturnal Dreamshows also released The Cockettes, an important, groundbreaking psychedelic SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA pull troupe, into underground popularity. Since 1967, Arnold got been illustrating posters for regional businesses, and was among the initial group of rock and roll poster performers in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, creating a number of the initial handbills for the famed Matrix nightclub, that was afterwards acknowledged for originating the “SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA sound” from the psychedelic ’60s. In 1969, Arnold began filming Luminous Procuress, which continued to win him the 1972 New Director’s award on the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA International Film Festival, a protracted exhibition in the Whitney Museum of American Artwork, another invite to Cannes’ Director’s Fortnight. Salvador Dali was therefore impressed using the film, that he organized a private testing in the St. Regis Resort, to which he asked New York’s top notch, including Andy Warhol, who also praised the film’s genius. Arnold became a preferred of Dali’s, and in 1974 visited study using the get good at in Spain, assisting Dali to embellish and inaugurate his Museo-Teatro Dali. After time for California, and failing woefully to make any improvement on various other film tasks, Arnold was powered to find brand-new modes of appearance. By building his LA photography studio room and west-coast salon Zanzibar, Arnold do just that. From 1982-89, Steven Arnold found his market, designing and taking pictures tableau vivants for four books, leaving a large number of living tableau photos and negatives unpublished. He also left out a interpersonal legacy in LA which, according to numerous who noticed Zanzibar at it’s elevation, hasn’t been equaled. Arnold adored the huge cross-section of culture symbolized at his nightly Salons, but also culled motivation from his dreams, globe religions, sexuality, artwork masterpieces, Jungian archetypes, cultural attitudes, surplus, and artifice, functioning forever, and waking each evening to sketch dreams and visions into his developing assortment of sketchbooks. Furthermore to his pictures, Arnold also translated these drawings right into a huge body of paintings and assemblage sculpture between 1990 and his his early loss of life in 1994. This prolific period resulted in brushing shoulder blades with famous brands Vogue’s Diana Vreeland, celebrity Ellen Burstyn, psychedelic explorer Timothy Leary, Simon Doonan, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jay Leno, Warhol Superstar Holly Woodlawn, The Vehicles, George Harrison, Blondie’s Debbie Harry, and John Waters’ superstars Divine and Susan Tyrell, amongst others. Arnold was identified as having Supports 1988 on the elevation of his reputation and died in 1994. His functions are in the series from the Whitney Museum of American Artwork in NY, Frankfurter Kunstverein in Germany, the Museum of Contemporary Artwork (MoMA) in NY, Cinematheque Francaise in Paris, the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Museum of Contemporary Artwork (SF MoMA), the Oakland Museum of California, the main one Lgbt Archive and Museum in LA, as well as the Cincinnati Artwork Museum. Steven Arnold’s vast artistic catalog is still exhibited worldwide, and may be the focus from the upcoming documentary Heavenly Body, slated for release in 2014.

Known for movies