Andy Warhol Alcoholism

Andy Warhol was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on August 6, 1928. He was one of the leaders of the Pop art movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Through his work, Warhol broke down the barrier between fine art, celebrity culture and American commercialism. Many of his works feature culture icons and name brand products. Some of his most famous works include his Marilyn Diptych and his Campbell’s Soup Cans and his Shot Marilyns. The artwork that I emulated in my painting was Warhol’s collection of prints titled Marilyn Monroe. Warhol used screen printing to create this collection. The prints in this collection vary in color and scale but all bare the same iconic photograph of actress Marilyn Monroe. Warhol created a stencil and then pushed ink through the stencil to create an image. Warhol repeated this process with various colors on each print, with each color being a layer on the print. This created a layering effect in his prints. Because of the repeatability of the silkscreen, Warhol was able to make multiple prints of the

I used his iconic color-blocked look as a model for my painting. His prints also feature a culture icon at that time so I used a culture icon of our time: Harry Styles, former member of the British boy band, One Direction. Each portrait in my painting consists of either five or six colors as was similar to Warhol’s prints. I created portrait as a mini painting within a larger one. I traced a photograph of Harry Styles from his cover shoot of Vanity Fair magazine. I traced this photograph divided it into areas of similar colors and created a sort of color-by-number puzzle. I then traced this tracing onto the canvas on top of a piece of carbon paper. I traced over the carbon paper six times to fill up the area of the canvas. Once I had gotten the simplified tracing of the photograph, I began painting, using a different color for each