Andy Warhol being one of the biggest influences in my work made him the obvious choice for this assignment. I see Warhol's influence on the world we live in everyday and strongly believe he helped in creating the pop culture obsession in America.
Andy went from rags to riches and defines the American dream. His work has inspired many and continues to be recognized by people throughout the world.
Born August 6, 1928 to Andrej and Julia Warhola, Andy was the youngest of three brothers. Andy's father emigrated from Mikova, Czechoslovakia in 1913. Eight years later Julia joined Andrej in Pittsburgh where he had found work in construction. The following year, 1922, Paul Warhola was born. Then in 1925 came John. Andy's older brothers both grew up as typical American boys and followed in their father's footsteps. (Koestenbaum 20) In 1942 when Andy was all of thirteen years old, his father died. Before Andrej's death he made the decision to put his saved money towards Andy's education. From early childhood Andy demonstrated artistic skill. Andy would sketch and color in books that his mother bought for him. He copied many of the images he saw in comic books. These sketches foreshadow Warhol's career and the work he would go on to do. Andy decided to attend Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, PA. There, he majored in pictorial design. However, he flunked out after only one year due to his lacking English skills. Warhol's life and work would later be summed up by the fact that he had such trouble with words. Andy was a visual person
from day one. He went most of his life without writing anything down, including his signature, which was often signed by apprentices. Andy managed to get back int...
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... much more than the first and feel that I have learned a lot more about one of my favorite artists.
Similar to most of Warhol's work I simplified the objects I was working with to large shapes filled with flat color. The simplictic style is what I believe draws viewers to the work. Although it may appear to be very easy to create such images I found that without silk-screens or alternate print methods it is very hard to create such realistic work that is also visually pleasing. Warhol will continue to be seen as not only one of the greatest pop artists ever but also as an individual who has sculpted America into a very visual society.
Works Cited List
1.) Koestenbaum, Wayne. Andy Warhol. Penguin Lives, 2001.
2.) Andy Warhol, The Complete Picture. Director, Chris Rodley. Narrarator, Julian Rhind-Tutt. American Home Treasures. No date provided. DVD
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how andy warhol's "after the party" is a contrasting black and white image with minimal white and colored highlights. the color transitions are effective in bringing out the curves throughout the image.
- Explains that andy warhol, the complete picture, chris rodley, julian rhind-tutt, american home treasures, no date provided.
- Explains that andy warhol was one of the biggest influences in their work and strongly believes he helped in creating the pop culture obsession in america.
- Explains how they created a similar contrasting white and black image with the help of modern technology, using adobe photoshop cs to alter the image.
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- Describes andy warhol's crazy, quirky, unconventional style of producing works of art from normal, everyday subjects ranging from inanimate, normally unnoticed objects to pop culture celebrity icons.
- Describes how they were drawn to andy warhol's art when they saw a poster in the mall and hung it in their bedroom.
- Opines that warhol's work immortalizes pop culture icons. his use of repetition and same image makes for a timeless retro futuristic feel that they look for not only in art works but also in their own home/furniture designs.
- Analyzes how warhol exploits mass media and commercial products by over-glamorizing them. his duplicating the same image over and over again signifies the redundancy corporate america uses to persuade us to crave certain products or celebrities.
- Opines that andy warhol's marilyn is one of their favorite pieces. the repetition in the work gives them a startling look into the fame and misfortune of some of the world’s largest icons
- Analyzes how warhol's thirty-two soup cans depicts sameness (though with different labels): same brand, same size, and same paint surface.
- Opines that they admire warhol's boldness in making movies that are about nothing. he started producing and directing when he bought his first 16 mm movie camera in 1963.
- Describes andy warhol as one of the most enigmatic figures in american art. his work became the definitive expression of a culture obsessed with images.
- Explains andy warhol's impact on american "pop"ular culture and the pop art movement began in the 1950s when he enjoyed great success as a commercial artist.
- Narrates how andy created his first serial work with 32 small campbell's soup cans, while warhol experimented with silk screening images onto painted canvas in 1962.
- Explains that andy warhol was one of the first artists to understand the importance of mass media by isolating, monumentalizing, and using a projector to put them on canvas.
- Explains how andy warhol influenced the music scene. he designed several album covers for the velvet underground and the rolling stones' sticky fingers album cover.
- Explains that warhol had a prolific television influence in the 1980's. he produced music videos for the cars, ric ocasek, miguel bose, walter steding, and curiosity killed the cat.
- Opines that warhol's unique approach to nothingness and obscure observations of everyday life may have influenced hollywood today.
- Explains that the popular phrase "in the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes" refers to people who do something of questionable distinction or are involved in a minor scandal.
- Opines that warhol's creative juices were not driven by any pain that he may have encountered in childhood or later in life.
- Opines that andy warhol's motivation is not derived from pains because he had a fairly normal childhood and was not abandoned, molested, beaten, or left for dead by his mother or father.
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- Analyzes how andy warhol remained on the forefront of what was "cool" in the 60s and 70s.
- Analyzes how s of this biography do a great job presenting warhol's life and art, and include photos of many of his famous paintings.
- Analyzes how andy warhol used overlooked objects to express his thoughts about society and contribute to the revolution of the pop genre of art.
- Opines that warhol boldly presented himself to society as an artist, yet kept value to his private life. andy's mother was a firm believer that no matter how little you own, being good will make you happy.
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- Explains that andy warhol was born in 1930, in mckeesport, pennsylvania. his parents were czech immigrants. after his father died, andy worked his way through carnegie tech., pittsburgh where he studied commercial art.
- Explains that warhol began producing "pop" pictures in 1960 with works based on popeye, nancy and dick tracy comics. these early works were first shown as back drops for department store windows.
- Analyzes how andy warhol's next series, depicting the mass-produced goods of compels soup cans and coke bottles, captured the clean-edged look of commercially manufactured objects and made him famous.
- Explains that warhol was the quintessential pop artist and established and enhanced the status of pop art.
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- Explains that andy warhola was an american artist who was known as a leading figure in the visual art movement in pop art.
- Explains that andy warhol, the founding father of the pop arts, created a movement that began in the late 50’s. his art brought forward the obsession society had with mass culture and allowed it to become the main subject of art.
- Explains that warhol's works defined the main idea of what are should be and what it really means to the world. pop art was influenced by advertising, mass media, comics, and consumer products.
- Explains that andy warhol's art was defined as pop art because of the style and how he made it known for.
- Analyzes how warhol made art that advertised celebrities, and made simple images of items that are well-known today. he challenged "old-fashioned" critics to overcome their ideas of art as complex by using simple, common images.
- Analyzes how warhol used popular culture and pop culture to create his art. the coca cola bottle was an all-around well-known icon that impacted the american culture.
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In this essay, the author
- Explains that andy warhol is one of the most well-known pop artists of 1960's. he strayed away from the emotional painting style of abstract expressionists and was influenced heavily by american pop culture.
- Analyzes how warhol created 32 canvases each hand painted to resemble the image of the canned campbell's brand soup.
- Explains that warhol ate campbell's soup every day for 20 years and was inspired by how the soup tasted the same. he transitioned to print making and wanted his art to have linking qualities with that of advertisement.
- Analyzes how warhol realized that the repetition of images drains them of meaning. campbell's and its red and white label date from the late nineteenth century, and became more familiar in the twentieth.
- Opines that warhol's "campbell’s soup cans" piece is inspiring to them as an artist. it stimulates the mind visually, by bringing about new ideas.
- Analyzes how the artist's work transitioned into ideas about identity in his later life. in "camouflage self portrait", the viewer is still able to recognize who the photo is taken of.
- Analyzes how the camouflage pattern builds on the idea that portraits are masks. warhol created a façade with his identity by wearing wigs and his personal life was very private.
- Analyzes how the use of camouflage and his own picture sends the message that warhol doesn't want the public to know his true internal identity, and that he is a private man.
- Analyzes how andy warhol's works stimulate the viewers mind into thinking about ideas about pop culture. his innovative ways of presenting these ideas were just as interesting.
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In this essay, the author
- Explains that andy warhol was ignored by many trending artists of the century. he was more attentive to his own personal image.
- Explains that andy warhol was born in 1928 in pittsburgh, pennsylvania, and contracted chorea, a rare and sometimes fatal disease of the nervous system that left him bedridden for several months. his father, ondrej, recognized andy's artistic abilities and put him through college.
- Explains that andy warhol's work with i. miller & sons gained him local notoriety and earned him several awards. he was obsessed with the life of fame and hosted parties in east side manhattan.
- Analyzes how warhol's fascination with celebrities and popular portrait style allowed him to collaborate with many big names.
- Analyzes how andy warhol changed the way pop art was regarded through his unique style and painting of popular items and people.
- Analyzes warhol's influence on advertising, pop art, and art as a whole. he didn't hide his sexual preference, but embraced it, which helped him grow as an artist.
- Explains that andy warhol suffered from numerous health issues, eventually leading to his death on february 20, 1987, at the age of 58.
- Describes how andy warhol changed the way pop art was and is looked at and created in his time period. his ever changing style and focus led to his success as an artist.
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- Explains that richard hamilton, one of the founding fathers of pop art, argues that pop has to be following popular, in other words, for the mass culture, transient, expendable and cheep to produce. artists like andy warhol took advantage of these concepts and applied them to their works
- Analyzes how andy warhol took the prevalence of mass production in the pop society to a different level.
- Argues that the most appealing aspect of pop art is the color used in the works of art, which invites the observer and can make the viewer feel exited, intrigued peaceful happy and playful.
- Concludes that andy warhol and roy lichtenstein transformed common art into an advertising and marketing industry. they dedicated their lives to pop culture and made it their subject matter.
- Explains that the 1960s was a decade overloaded with life changing events, such as martin luther king jr., the vietnam war, muhammad ali's reign, and the moon landing.
- Explains that andy warhol's works were based around pop culture and the music and film industry. the diptych marilyn monroe was a bright, colorful and realistic painting to emphasise monroe’s personality.
- Analyzes how roy lichtenstein integrated the dot style and the famous comic strip style to create powerful artwork. he was often accused of copying and lacking originality.
1550 wordsRead More - Andy Warhol Essayexplanatory essay“I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money and Campbell’s soup” (Andy Warhol). This quote is very significant to Warhol’s life because the moment he was asked this question, his life immediately changed forever. Andy Warhol was born into his family on August 6, 1928. He was greeted by his two older brothers and their parents. The Warhol family grew up in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania which started Andy’s journey in the world of art. Warhol always loved to draw, paint, cut and glue things ever since he was very little. His mother was also an artist and she was very encouraging. She would always give Andy a chocolate bar after every page he finished in his coloring book. Once Andy was ready for school, he became very, very sick and would miss a significant amount of school. His skin became a pink blotchy color and would shake uncontrollably and he felt as if the other students wouldn’t accept him which lowered his self-esteem quite a bit. However, once he reached high school he started taking a few art classes and he loved them. He was known as the “outcast” who always had a sketch book in his hands, but that didn’t seem to affect him too much. He also loved movies and made a collections of celebrity memorabilia.
In this essay, the author
- Narrates how andy warhol's family grew up in pittsburg, pennsylvania, which started his journey in the world of art.
- Describes andy warhol's bottle-line technique, which required two pieces of blank paper to be taped together to create a picture with irregular lines that he would later color with watercolors.
- Narrates how andy warhol became known for his bottle-line technique in the 1950s, but it wasn't until the 1960s that he began to experiment with pop art.
- Describes how warhol discovered a new technique called silk screening, which allowed one silk-screen to create similar patterns multiple times.
- Explains that andy warhol never let his illness hold him back from his passion of art. from his first technique of bottle-line to pop art, he became a better, more experienced artist throughout his life.
- Opines that andy warhol's art is very attention-grabbing and the silk screening technique is modern and shows how his legacy is being lived on.
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- Narrates how van gogh was born in 1853 in barbant, a hard-spoken dutch clergyman. he showed artistic talent, but neither he nor his parents imagined that painting would take him where it did later in life.
- Explains how van gogh began to focus on art as a career and became dependent on his brother, theo, for money. they regarded vincent's passion for books as the root of all his trouble.
- Explains that van gogh studied at the academy at antwerp during the winter months of 1885-1886, which moved him to what was known as the paris period.
- Explains that vincent van gogh was in paris from march 1886 to february 1888, which allowed him to see and hear artists discuss all the work of almost every artist there.
- Describes van gogh's painting of night café, which he painted in 1888. he was influenced by seurat, but abandoned this for broad, vigorous, and swirling brush strokes.
- Narrates how vincent was confined to saint paul's asylum until may 1890, where he painted the starry night and the extraordinary self-portrait. he shot himself on july 27 and died two days later.
- Describes vincent van gogh as one of the greatest postimpressionism painters of all time. his stormy and dramatic life and devotion to his ideals made him a cultural hero of modern times.
- Narrates auden's self-portrait letter revealing his life as a painter. marlowe and company new york.
- Opines sweetman, david, the love of many things: a life of vincent van gogh, london: hodder and stoughton, 1990.
- Explains that vincent van gogh is the most widely known and highly appreciated person of postimpressionism.
1546 wordsRead More - Andy Warhol Influence On Pop Cultureopinion essayWhile I still feel there is a lot of under appreciation for things that are not fine arts related— Andy Warhol forced us to acknowledge the fact that art is all around us. Without Andy Warhol, there wouldn’t be nearly as many people upon the earth that could look around them, and simply appreciate those behind the making of their comfortable home and the film they’re watching on their beautiful, cozy furniture. Warhol opened us to what was all around us, but what we never really saw before. Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup series was important to the growth of our society, and I’d glad it’s here with us
In this essay, the author
- Opines that although andy warhol was never one of their true favorites, they respect him both for his talent and what he did to change our culture and view art today.
- Explains that andy warhol was one of the first artists to see soup as crude and tasteless in comparison to the prevalent abstract impressionist movement.
- Analyzes how andy warhol shined a light on unrecognised artists and broadened the horizons for what art can and could be.
- Opines that if andy warhol hadn't entered the art world, there would still be many under appreciated artists and efforts hidden under the rug.
- Opines that andy warhol's campbell’s soup series was important to the growth of our society.
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