Pop Art: Andy Warhol

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Popular Culture Pop art is one of the most interesting elements in the contemporary world. Pop art is a form of art that depicts object or scenes from everyday life and employs techniques of commercial art and popular illustration. The Pop art played the role of examining legitimacy of the traditional art world since inception. Some of the prominent artist in pop art in 1950s and 1960s include Andy Warhol that attains prominence in this genre (Sayre 226). Warhol ideology entails the concept of art that a person can make regardless of place and method. Some of the critics to Warhol ideology cite that his work is formless, sense of direction, and posterity. Some of the iconic works of art such as the telephone invention has seen artists accumulate much wealth. Telephone is one of the works that has face value and has a simple production. A close analysis of the telephone reveals its brilliance. Popular art has brown in stature in recent years with some examples fetching vast sums of money, works such as the pop art portrayals of Mel Ramos. Warhol’s central theme concentrates on pop art and describes some of the changes in art movement, in his ideology. Warhol’s Telephone work seeks evaluates and elaborates how artists can apply color to portray different themes from the artwork. Warhol is from American decent born in 1928 and resides in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Warhol has influence on pop art and all other related visual art movements and cultures. One of his collections, the “Telephone” appears in 1961 that becomes popular toward the end of the twentieth century (Small 47). His work explores as artistic expression, celebrity culture, and advertisement. Warhol’s life and work inspire creative thinker worldwide that thanks to h... ... middle of paper ... .... All factors have to be considered in analyzing an artistic work and produce for the correct meaning, to be given to it. Work Cited Anderson, Feisner E. Colour: How to Use Colour in Art and Design. London: Laurence King, 2006. Print. Leland, Nita. Confident Color: An Artist's Guide to Harmony, Contrast and Unity. Cincinnati, Ohio: North Light Books, 2008. Print. Sayre, Henry M. “Book review: Andy Warhol, Poetry, and Gossip in the 1960s Reva Wolf, Andy Warhol.” Modern Philology 99.1 (2008): 165. Print. Small, Sabrina. “What’s Eating Andy Warhol? Food and Identity in Pop art.” Appetite 47.3 (2006): 400. Print. Warhol, Andy, Christopher Wool, Barnett Newman, Bruce Conner, Sharon Lockhart, Giuliana Bruno, and Peter Pakesch. Warhol Wool Newman: Painting Real; Screening Real: Conner Lockhart Warhol. Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, 2009. Print.

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