Hailed as the founding father of the Pop Art movement in the late 1950's and early 1960's, Andy Warhol, through his endeavors, brought forward society's obsession with mass culture and allowed it to become the subject of his art. He produced works that defied and challenged the popular notion of what art should be by disputing the "traditional conventions pertaining to the uniqueness, authenticity, and authorship" of art (Faerna 28). However, it is an injustice to say that Warhol's goals primarily included the desire to create such a ground-breaking and salient style of American art or to entertain the public by making his own artistic contributions. Rather, Andy Warhol's interests were more entwined in his own self-interest and greed. Although a fraction of Andy Warhol's inspiration resided in his ambition to create a "unique" and exotic style of American art, his main motivation was purely materialistic and involved acquiring large sums of money and publicity to fuel his obsession with wealth and fame.
Andy Warhol's experiences throughout his difficult and poverty-stricken early life are one among many possible explanations for Warhol's addiction to materialism later on in his life. Born on August 6, 1928 into the slums of Pittsburgh, Andy Warhol was the fourth child of working-class Slovakian immigrant parents who barely spoke English. As a child, Warhol developed chorea, an illness which causes abnormal involuntary movements. Consequently, this contributed to his isolation as a child as he was often bed-ridden and thus became an outcast at school (Gale American Decades). During his early years, he also developed a fascination for fame and recognition as he would constantly amass pictures of celebrities and movie sta...
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...sted in the chemical processes that went into forming Oxidation Painting; rather, he was more concerned with converting these bodily fluids into something precious and valuable. Oxidation Painting was an attempt by Warhol to project his persona into the media in order to garner publicity and attention. Furthermore, Oxidation Painting remains as Warhol’s most economically valuable work.
Now, twenty-three years after Warhol’s death, his face and art are on T-shirts, iPods, blue jeans, sunglasses, Christmas cards, handbags, skateboards and wallpaper. His reputation and popularity are both endless and his works of art continue to fetch enormous sums of money. Even with his death, Warhol’s name continues to be met with both publicity and infamy. Ultimately, Andy Warhol’s legacy lies with his outlandish and exotic style of art and his lust for materialism and wealth.
In this essay, the author
- Explains that andy warhol's only real motivation to turn to film making was to boost the value of his paintings.
- Explains that andy warhol's frequent incursions into a variety of media served to supplement his drive for amassing wealth and fame.
- Analyzes how warhol turned his attention to literature, a stunt aimed at enhancing his popularity and image with the populace.
- Analyzes how warhol's idiosyncratic artistic style brought him notoriety and fueled his lust for recognition and wealth.
- Explains that andy warhol was the founding father of the pop art movement in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
- Explains that andy warhol was an influential figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. he used his status to attain his true goals and aspirations.
- Analyzes how warhol's outlandish and eccentric paintings garnered notoriety and bizarreness through the subject matter they portrayed.
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- 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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- 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.
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- Explains that andy warhol is the godfather of pop art. his window advertisements were the beginning of an era where art was seen in an array of forms away from the traditional paintings and sculptures of the old world.
- 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.
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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.
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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.
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- Explains that memory is subjective, and that artists like isabelle gardner and andy warhol contribute to the collective memory of the atomic bomb by helping us grapple with its meaning.
- Analyzes how isabella gardener's poem "children are game" illustrates the idea of the bomb as a weapon to keep people safe.
- Analyzes how warhol was interested in color and owned many books regarding color theory. the colors are important to notice because of what these two colors typically represent.
- Argues that artists should be able to freely make work that challenges people to reflect on the memory of an event such as the bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki.
- Analyzes how nasm succumbed to the pressure dropped all aspects of the exhibit which were in direct opposition to "official" narrative.
- Analyzes how artists like andy warhol and isabelle gardner challenge the preconceived collective memory of the bomb by using circular memory to reflect what they see going on back into their society.
- Cites lee, c. jason, "seeing is believing: warhol’s spiritualizing of materiality and the need for the historicizing of postmodernism."
- Analyzes how gardner uses the poem's structure to show a cycle of memory and forgetfulness.
- Analyzes how warhol uses a universally known image and distinctive colors together to grab the viewer's attention. the poem and the painting are presented by individuals who are outside the mainstream yet are able to accurately reflect the society in which they lived.
- Analyzes the case of the public opposition to the national air and space museum's atom bomb exhibit.
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- 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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- Compares the subjet matter of george segal's piece, which is a white plaster figure sitting sideways, with her right side closest to the back of the chair. the right leg extends out, bends at the knee, and continues down
- Analyzes how warhol's lavender disaster is made from fifteen square shaped prints in three colums and five rows. the color is the same screaming violet for each, though there is variation in tint, contrast, and clarity.
- Analyzes how the simularities between these compositions come from the artists' techniques used and the meaning behind it. seated woman and lavender disaster have a rushed, unfinished sense.
- Explains that pop art was a modern art movement that emerged in the mid-twentieth century in both england and america.
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- Describes pop art as an experimental art form which surfaced in great britain in the early 1950's. it utilized mass-culture imagery and iconography, in contrast to fine art.
- Describes andy warhol as an american pop artist who was born on august 6, 1928, in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. he attended the carnegie institute of technology, where he studied commercial art.
- Explains that the american pop art movement introduced us to a time when mass-produced commercial imagery, like coca-cola brand, was converted into art.
- Explains that america started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.
- Describes how campbell's soup cans was first exhibited in 1962 in new york. each canvas was hand-painted, and he reproduced the same image on each one, only varying on the label for each can.
- Explains that warhol created works in many different media, including silkscreen. when he began experimenting with screen printing in the 1960s, the medium was not widely-used.
- Describes how warhol founded his studio "the factory" in the 1960s and used the help of the "warhol superstars" to mass-produce his silkscreens.
- Analyzes how warhol utilized photography to produce his silkscreens. he had a large collection of photographs of "the factory" visitors and his friends. artistic photography has been greatly influenced by the artist's photographic approach to painting combined with his snapshot method of taking pictures.
- Explains that marilyn monroe was one of warhol's favorite subjects for his silkscreens. marilyn diptych was completed just after she committed suicide in 1962.
- Explains that warhol's untimely death occurred in manhattan in february 1987. he suffered complications from what appeared to be a routine gallbladder surgery.
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- 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.
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