...Abstract This essay employs a visual analysis to compare and contrast Andy Warhol’s ‘Blue Marilyn’ with Roy Lichtenstein’s ‘In the Car’ in association to the postmodernist theme of Consumer Culture and more explicitly, the introduction of Pop Art, born from post-war consumerist societies. The argument refers to eight scholarly research sources, three of which are scholarly journal articles. POSTMODERNITY AND CONSUMERISM: WIT, INVENTION AND THE AFTERMATH OF WAR Research Statement: Using a visual analysis, compare and contrast Andy Warhol’s Blue Marilyn with Roy Lichtenstein’s In the Car in association to the postmodernist theme of Consumer culture and more explicitly the introduction of Pop Art; born through post-war materialisation. The Postmodernist Cannon of the latter twentieth and twenty-first Century Art is a crucial anthology, signifying radical and innovative movements that differentiated from Modernist art practices. It signifies a period of time whereby practitioners sought to contradict the rebellious experimentational aspects of Modernist art through re-visioning and revitalising media to fit the metamorphosing culture. Incorporated within the Cannon were several movements that were heavily influenced by the rise of Consumer cultures, dictated by the post-war explosion of advertisement in the 1950’s, compelling practitioners to manipulate and transform their style in either awe of the perpetually adapting society or in rebellion towards the mass produced...
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...Andy Warhol is an American artist who led the pop art movement that was prevalent in the 1960s. He is known for his paintings of ordinary everyday objects like a Campbell’s Soup Can. Andy is famous for his artwork, but little know about the films he made which did not appeal to the mainstream population. In addition to films he was also a writer. To say that he was he not obsessed with fame and fortune would be an understatement. He was well known to all celebrities in New York for three decades. He had also previously been on famous magazines like the Vogue and Glamour for his drawings of shoes. I choose to write about Andy Warhol because his artwork has a simplicity to it that I appreciate since it is mostly over everyday objects that...
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...A quick look at how artist thru the ages have portrayed shoes. A quick look at how artist thru the ages have portrayed shoes. Look at your feet, you are probable using some kind of foot wear and if not you must definitely own at least three different shoes. Some artist found that this common piece of clothing that we take for granted is a master piece on its own. From Vincent Van Gogh to Andy Warhol, they all painted shoes in different forms and environments. Take for example Van Gogh “A pair of shoes”, they seemed kind of depressing, yet heavily use, the viewer can create the character that used these boots by simply looking at this picture. A worker perhaps or even the artist himself, they must feel comfortable with them, even love them since they look as if they had been used quite frequently. Then we have Dali´s painting of shoes, I know you were expecting a crazy painting this one is very tame. Once again we see a pair of shoes that are very worn out, it even looks as if they are melting, this time however the views sees the feet and since its Dali we have a nice reference of the snake; that could either a symbolism of the evil forms that we are enslave to or the sin that chases us all through life. With or without surrealism Dali´s paintings are exquisite, it is a known fats that feet and hands are some of the hardest things to paint, yet here Dali´s foot looks breathtaking, and as for the shoes they also tell a story. When going back to the renascence shoes were...
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...to meet his admirers but also popularised his book. Although a lot of stars use twitter only to stay famous, many have spread awareness and asked for help for many charities and causes that they believe in. Demi Moore’s tweet that helped thwart a distraught Californian woman’s suicide attempt is a thing to applaud. But some stars still burn bright long after their talent has faded. Courtney Love recent claim to fame is not her music but her seemingly alcohol/substance-induced tweets. Lindsey Lohan is in the news for tweeting a topless picture of herself. The entire concept seems circular because it is – prominent people stay popular for a longer time. The reason for Kim Kardashian’s inexplicable fame is simply that she’s famous. Andy Warhol once prophesised that everyone will be famous for 15 minutes and with...
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...Andy Warhol’s Subject Matter of the 1960s During the 1960s, Andy Warhol decided to experiment with pop art, a style of art that developed in England during the mid-1950s and produced realistic variations of well-known, everyday objects. He moved away from his technique of the blotted line and instead used canvas and paint. At first he had difficulty choosing what he was going to paint, but throughout the course of his pop art era he focused on four main subjects: product paintings, cartoon paintings, movie stars, and death. His first versions of pop art were called product paintings. These paintings showed popular consumer items that were familiar to the average American person, such as Brillo soap pads, Coca-Cola bottles, and the most famous of all, Campbell’s soup cans. He chose products such as these because they were top-selling products in the United States and they were considered important, useful, and economical by consumers. He drew his inspiration from the leftover Campbell’s soup cans and Coca-Cola bottles that he used at lunch. Andy Warhol’s second type of paintings was drawn from comic strips and comic books. Examples of these cartoon paintings include Dick Tracy (1961) and Superman (1960). Although he had begun to produce these before the product paintings, this phase lasted only a short period of time – once he discovered that Roy Lichtenstein was also painting characters from comic strips (seen in Castelli’s Gallery), he decided that he needed to find a different...
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...include Dick Tracy (1961) and Superman (1960). * began doing productions of Hollywood movie stars, the most well-known being those of Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, and Elizabeth Taylor * Politics and newsworthy events and imagery were also captured in his art., The Birmingham riots were captured along with several other images of the civil rights movement. Mushroom clouds, electric chairs and police dogs were also depicted. His signature art style was silkscreened, mass-produced canvas art in variations of color in multiple editions. Andy Warhol used commercial silkscreening to create multiple copies of his art pieces. Based on close-up portraits of his subject material, silkscreen techniques enabled him to produce the same image in multiple color variations. He commonly used bright, upbeat colors to portray the images in the silkscreen art work. While silkscreening was his predominant style later in his career, Andy Warhol also made films, sculptures, album covers and...
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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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...Ralph Lauren was the youngest of four children; Ralph Lifshitz was born in New York on October 14, 1941. His father was a house painter. Ralph became interested in clothes when he was in seventh grade. While attending DeWitt Clinton High School in New York, he worked part-time for New York department stores, saving his money to buy clothes. He changed his name to Lauren in the mid 1950. After graduating from high school he worked as a salesman and began studying business at night. He dropped out of school after a few months, spent time in the army, and then went shopping for a fashion job. In 1970, Lauren was awarded many Awards...
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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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...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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...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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...interested in street art. Through the networking of his cousin, he meets other street artists and starts filming them and following them wherever they go. Guetta eventually meets Banksy and Banksy agrees to let Guetta film him. Guetta takes thousands of hours of tape before anyone realizes that hes not actually making a film. They urge him to make a film, and what he produced was 90 minutes of unwatchable clips that were edited together as if someone was channel surfing. Banksy urged Guetta to work on an art exhibit so that he could take the tapes and try to make a watchable film out of it. Guetta’s resulting exhibition was not what I would call art, they were copies of other artists work that he changed to make his own. Mostly Andy Warhol images. He mass produced the images over a short period of time and was able to use Banksys name to promote. Guetta adopted the moniker Mr. Brainwash, and a new street artist was born. Even though it was a guerilla art show, with hardly any promotion, Guetta was able to sell out the venue and profit...
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...For some people, a “bad job” is a lifeline. And if we insist that only good jobs should exist, they will have no job. I think there is another element behind opposition to sweatshops. When people in poor countries are suffering before the arrival of an American company in their backyard, that hideous suffering from poverty is out of sight for us in America. But as soon as the American company arrives to give the opportunity of taking what look like bad jobs to us, if they choose to, the somewhat lesser suffering of their poverty after taking the “bad job” seems like the fault of the American company for not making the jobs nicer. In fact the company has helped them, but we only see the suffering from poverty after, not the hideous suffering from worse poverty before. One factor that can make it easier to blame the American company for the suffering left after providing the job is that some of the corporate executives involved in setting up and running the new factory in a poor country may, in fact, be uncaring, unfeeling people (though I doubt this is true anywhere near as often as people suppose). But even if many of the corporate executives involved in setting up and running the new factory are uncaring, unfeeling people, it doesn’t change the fact that, by their actions of setting up and running the factory, they have made people’s lives better. They could have made people’s lives better still if they had taken a bigger fraction of their personal earnings and donated...
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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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...Andy Warhol is an artist that managed to take something from our everyday's live and depict it into nearly identical pieces of art. One example of this would be his Campbell's soup cans painting. He drew and painted 32 nearly identical cans of soup and managed to make it into art. To me Andy’s Campbell’s soup cans are a different take on art. He found a way to show that art isn’t just people and scenery, it can be anything, even 32 soup cans. In my opinion Andy Warhol’s soup cans is art. It may not be colorful, vibrant, or based off a pretty picture of trees, but it is art. The case may be that when Andy first unveiled this painting people didn’t consider it art, maybe it didn’t fit in with the art types in the era of 1962 but in today's world,...
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