...Andy Warhol Looking back over the past century or so, there were few artists that really stood out and became household names. One of these people was Andy Warhol— “the soup can guy.” To set the tone let me give you a quote to chew on: “What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.” –Andy Warhol Now, right off the bat, you can tell what kind of guy Warhol is, and his attitude toward life. Yes he took his art seriously but if you read his book The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again) you will see that’s pretty much the only thing he really took seriously. Warhol, born Andrew Warhola on Aug. 6, 1928 , to Slovakian parents didn’t come from a well off family. His parents were working class immigrants in Pittsburgh. When Warhol was in third grade, he came down with St. Vitus’ Disease, a nerve disorder that causes involuntary movements and thought to be a complication of scarlet fever, which “changed his appearance and his life forever.” Despite this complication...
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...Andy Warhol Andy Warhol was born in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on August 6, 1928. In 1945, he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Carnegie Institute for Technology, where he studied pictorial design. He quickly moved to New York City, where he would develop the 1960s Pop art movements. He landed a job with Glamour magazine in September 1945, doing drawings. He also drew advertising for Vogue, Harper's Bazzar, book jackets, and holiday greeting cards. His first solo exhibition was held at Hugo Gallery, New York, in 1952. It featured drawings to illustrate stories by Truman Capote. (Hou, 1990) He received many accolades for his work, including the 35th Annual Art Directors Club Award for Distinctive Merit in 1956, and the 36th Annual Art Directors Club Medal and Award of Distinctive Merit in 1957. (Hou, 1990) In 1962, he exhibited the paintings of Campbell's soup cans, which has become a “Pop Art”icon. His most famous celebrity models include Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Mick Jagger and Mao Zedong.(Hou, 1990) His portrait " Eight Elvises" sold for $100 million dollars in 2008. It is known as one of the most valuable paintings in world history. (Hou, 1990) Warhol began to make his first paintings in 1960, based on comic strips and Coca-Cola bottles. In November 1964, opened his own art studio known as "The Factory",became know to frequent nightclubs like Studio 54 and Max's Kansas City,and began his self portrait series. (Hou, 1990) (Warhol...
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...the other panel is in black and white, providing a severe contrast to the bright colours on the other panel. According to how heavily or thinly the screens were inked, some of them reproduce her facial features behind a black fade. In order to create its final coloured paintings, he would have built up the images in reverse. First he would have under painted the background and some of its colourful areas, like the pink face, the red lips and the golden hair, then over printed the silk-screened photographic image of the actress. It was constructed 4 months after Marilyn committed suicide in august 1962. Upon hearing the news of the stars passing, Andy Warhol began to construct a work of art in dedication to her, which some have come to believe represents the mortality of her glamorous life. It has been suggested that Andy Warhol wanted to touch on both the frailness of human life, and the presence that celebrities can have in the everyday life. Marilyn Monroe was a common name and the repetitiveness of her image in Marilyn diptych reinforces the fact everyone knew who she was. The colour scheme in both the hand panels reminds me that she, like all of us, will eventually fade away and that as bright as we may be at one point in our...
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...Andy Warhol was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1928. His parents were Russian immigrants from Slovakia. When Andy was in 3rd grade, he was diagnosed with “scarlet fever”, which causes colored skin blotches. Repeated trips to the doctor caused Andy to become a “hypochondriac” (someone afraid of doctors, medicine, and hospitals). Often stuck in bed for days at a time, Andy was entertained by the radio and television, which he later described as an important influence on his artwork. In 1945, he entered the Carnegie Institute of Technology where he majored in graphic design. Upon graduation, Warhol moved to New York where he worked as an illustrator for several magazines including “Vogue”, “Harper's Bazaar” and “The New Yorker” and did advertising and window displays for many department stores. Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as a painter, filmmaker, record producer, author, and public figure known for his social circles of friends which included Hollywood celebrities, politicians, and wealthy families. In the 1950’s, the record industry was quickly expanding with vinyl records and hi-fi stereo equipment. Around 1950, RCA hired Andy Warhol and his artist friend, Sid Maurer, to create vinyl album covers and poster advertisements for the newest recording artists. This led to many important meetings with influential businessmen. Throughout the 1950’s, Warhol enjoyed a successful career winning several awards from the Art Director's Club and the American...
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...ReAnna Mancil Professor Delaney-Thomson Fine Arts Appreciation May 1, 2013 Andy Warhol Andy Warhol, who was born Andrew Warhol on August 6, 1928, was a very unique artist. He used many mediums, including writing, film-making, sculpture, and photography. But he became known as a pop artist using printmaking, particularly silkscreen printing. The prints are extraordinarily colorful and vibrant, which is what catches the onlookers eye. The artworks known as “Marilyn” and “Skulls” are two works that catch my eye. I love bright and colorful, very visual art work, yet I am a very plain and “gray” type of person and I think that is why I love it. As a child, we were poor and lived in a shabby house and nothing was colorful so when I do see colorful objects, I find myself drawn to them. The above two art works mentioned of Andy Warhol inspire and draw something in me. When Marilyn Monroe died, Warhol decided to use her photo for silkscreen art. He was interested in morbid things so upon her death, he began the process of taking the blown up photo and transferring it in glue onto silk, then rolling ink across it creating the images. It is easy to see that Warhol may have felt kindred to Marilyn; they both were ”Hollywood” and yet odd. Both had a care free type of life. To me, the colorful interpretation “Marilyn” of it has make Marilyn Monroe immortal. I have always liked Marilyn Monroe because of how timeless she was. I do not like Hollywood, and though she is Hollywood, it seems...
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...Name ENGL 2303 ___ 23 Jun 2010 The Life of Andy Warhol Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about Andy Warhol and the artistic contributions he made to society. Thesis: I will accomplish this by discussing his background information, his contribution to Pop Art, and some of his other areas of artistic interest. Introduction I. I will use a statement that draws attention to how much Andy Warhol influenced art in the 20th century. II. I will establish my credibility by how and where I researched the information about Warhol. III. The purpose is to inform my audience about Andy Warhol and the artistic contributions he made to society. A. This will give background information about Andy Warhol’s life and important events. B. This will tell how he was a part of the art style Pop Art and what he did with this. C. This will tell what other types of creative work he did such as fashion and filmmaking. (Transition: Before we get into his art, I’d like to discuss how his life started out and some personal information about him.) Body I. I will tell about Andy Warhol’s upbringing and special events in his life from the print source “The Wigged Out World of Andy Warhol” by Todd Lyon A.Warhol started from humble beginnings: he was born in a Catholic household and was ill so he stayed in his room much of the time with comic books. B. His father died when he was 14 years old and he used the money left behind to attend the Carnegie Institute...
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...Andy Warhol later produced a series of works called “Death and Disasters” where he would mechanically repeat images found from headline newspaper clippings and police archives using silkscreen (Bergin). Warhol’s famous Saturday Disaster 1964 is a black and white, silkscreen image of a morbid car accident. The image includes a battered car with two people dangling out of the car, seemingly unconscious and possibly dead. One person is hanging over the car door resting his hand on the man laying beneath the car on the ground, his feet still resting inside the floor of the car. Warhol chose to repeat this image vertically two times on canvas. Warhol’s choice to utilize these horrific disasters and silkscreen them repeatedly for the public can...
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...The rise of mass media during the 1940’s - 1960’s contributed greatly to the growing presence of popular imagery in society. Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol are two artist who questioned the value of art during this era. They did so primarily by taking an experimental approach to their works, such as using the silkscreen, as well as demonstrated a unique view on artistic authorship. Both Rauschenberg and Warhol shifted from a conceptual outlook and pushed the boundaries on what was considered to be socially acceptable art. Robert Rauschenberg pushed the traditionally established parameters of art due to the experimental approach that he took. This in turn created opportunities as well as influenced the young artists who will come to...
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...markallencam.com/AndyEatingaBurger.jpg The very first subject that intrigues us is a scene from a documentary “66 Scenes of America” to which Andy Warhol is seen eating a hamburger. Why does it captivate our imagination and sparked interest? Maybe because it was layered, to ordinary viewer it might have looked like a simple scene of a man slowly eating a hamburger, but deep down there’s message that the director want to get across that can be analyzed through various theorem taught in the class. The group chose “Post-Modernism”, “Barthes’s semiotics” and “Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation” theorem to analyze the subject in matter. Perhaps we chose these 3 are because the content of the clip is laden with subdued symbols and signs and the relationship between objects in the clip. The segregation of art, between high and low. A model where cultural, political and social progress defines art. A movement that flourished from post world war development and growth in society. The entire characteristic above signifies Modernism, and Postmodernism is standing opposed of that. Postmodernism rises from time of peace, it does not dictate rules or narratives, instead it focuses on contradiction, reality and disorder. Postmodernism mixes the high and low art from the Modernist period as a statement that there is no boundaries to art. The clip of Andy Warhol eating a hamburger was a small section of a larger documentary called 66 Scenes of America by Jorgen Leth. The documentaries itself is...
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...Warhol was an American artist, print maker photographer and film maker who is very well known for his pop art, brightly presented portraits of celebrities like Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley are the paintings we all associate with him. Born in in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1928 to Slovakian immigrants Ondrej Warhola and Julia Warhola, who were a construction worker and embroider. Warhol found his passion and inspiration when he was just 8 years old his mother gave him lessons as she herself was an artist with skill. At the age of 9 his mother encouraged photography when she bought him a camera from there on he went on to finishing school. All artists get inspiration from somewhere, his came from pop culture, he took popular things around him and changed them sometimes he made them look unrealistic but recognisable, he enhanced them by using bold contrasting and bright colours or he would often take an image and duplicate it, for example Andy Warhol’s image of Elvis he took a black and white photo of the star and placed the same image side by side 8 times. Andy Warhol has made it so big that his picture “eight elvises” is the 6th most expensive painting to be sold. And the largest museum to hold one artist work holds his work. Warhol had a plentiful life which some would say ended too soon, he died at the age of 58 in his sleep after having a operation he was then buried next to his mother and father in a coffin made of bronze. Fans of his work pilgrimage to his grave and...
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...Flex.boston.com jpeg Flex.boston.com jpeg Andy Warhol Red Car Crash (Death and Disaster Series 1963) It is important to note that Andy Warhol’s Red Car Crash Piece was part of a series of car crash images produced in different colours and repeated and put in groups of the same image and colour. Warhol was a serial artist that used the same image again and again in different pieces and so the red car crash image can be taken to be self-contained but also as part of a bigger picture. Warhol’s Pop Art style was clearly deadpan; it was often the endless repetition of mass media. He consistently, unlike the likes of Pollock (who ironically died in a car crash) used Commercial images in a commercial way. This somewhat removes him from his work emotionally. The Red Car Crash image is no exception and for me this is what makes it so violent and morbid. Warhol takes a violent subject matter and makes it look like a commercial image. The piece is conventional in form, however Warhol chooses a media image of a car crash; which is a violent subject matter in its own right and then paints over it, removes emotion and turns it into ‘the normal’ everyday image, which alone is violent and disturbed. The actual process of printing can also be seen to remove him from the process and in the same way take away any empathy from him towards the piece, which again is dark. Warhol makes the piece as a whole more powerful by being unconventional in taking himself away from the process. This...
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...Andy Warhol was one of the most popular visual artist in the 1960’s. His art had always suggested something about his life. He was a leading figure in art known as pop art. Andy was known for his printmaking,painting,cinema, and photography. Also he was known for his ¨campbell soup can ¨ and ¨Gold Marilyn Monroe ¨ . When Andy was little his grandma would reward him chocolate when he was done with every drawing he created. As he grew up he began an obsession with Shirley Temple. At nine years old he was enrolled in an art class. The art gallery was his exposure to art there he knew was fine art was. As a child his father had died and his body wasn´t found for 3 years....
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...Both Axel in "The Soul of Capitalism" written by Robert Collins and Andy Warhol in "When Canada Met Andy" written by Nancy Tousley are artists who focus on artistic innovation. Artistic innovation always alone with disputes and it is too perplexing for some people to understand it. Besides, some stereotyped people are mean to new art, because they do not want to make any changes. Andy Warhol is "one of the 20th century's major artistic innovators and most influential artistic". He innovates new arts about printing paintings on soup cans and producing artworks of "icons in American pop culture". However, Canadians dispute his art when he first shows in Canada. No one shows up at his first solo show and his art is not recognized as art. What...
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...The Work of a Favorite Artist The Artist I choose is Andy Warhol. I chose him because he is an Iconic figure in the Pop Art world. I feel he did things his own and was a very creative artist of his time. Here is a little background information on him. Andy was born on August 6, 1928, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was a successful magazine and ad illustrator. He became a leading artist of the 1960s Pop art movement. He ventured into a wide variety of art forms that included, performance art, filmmaking, video installations and writing, and controversially blurred the lines between fine art and mainstream aesthetics. Warhol died on February 22, 1987. Andy Warhol graduated from college with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1949. He moved to New York City to pursue a career in commercial art. His first stuff was published in Glamour Magazine. He went on to become one of the most successful commercial artists of the 1950s. He won frequent awards for his uniquely whimsical style, using his own blotted line technique and rubber stamps to create his drawings. He debut the concept of "Pop Art" the paintings focused on mass-produced commercial goods. He exhibited the now-iconic paintings of Campbell's soup cans in 1962. These small canvas works of everyday consumer products created a major buzz in the art world. This brought both Andy Warhol and Pop Art into the national spotlight for the first time. Warhol quoted, "Once you 'got' pop, you could never see a sign the same way again...
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...Quoc Tran HUM 122 FALL 2009 Andy Warhol - Life and Legends Before taking the Humanities course in the Fall 2009 semester, I didn’t know anything about Andy Warhol. This is a good chance for me to make study about one of our best well-known 20th century American artists whose work is very broad. The Andy Warhol exhibit is located in the new Bank of America Gallery located on the Station's lowest level of the Union Station of Kansas City from October 2, 2009 until January 10, 2010. There are about eighty pieces by Andy Warhol from the Bank of America Collection such as Endangered Species, Flowers, Jews of the Twentieth Century, Myths, Muhammad Ali and Space Fruits spanning his career from the 1950's through 1986. These portfolios provide the viewer a brilliant mirror of postwar America, as well as insight into Warhol’s forms and ideas that continue to influence artists today. According to Christopher Leitch, director of the Kansas City Museum at Corinthian Hall, "this is the largest number of Warhol’s works ever gathered together in one place.” Obviously, Warhol made art to become "commonism" due to taking everyday objects and later newspaper and celebrity photographs and turning them into art such as the Coca-Cola bottles and the Campbell soup cans. I’m interested in the silk-screen process, created by Andy Warhol, in which paint was forced onto canvas through a high-contrast negative stencil attached to the fabric after striking color were added to selected areas, so images...
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