...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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...Andy Warhol was one of the most imaginative, thought-provoking, and influential artists of the twentieth century. He was a key figure in the development of Pop Art, an artistic movement originating in the 1960s. Pop Art was an alternative to the art style Abstract Expressionism. Abstract Expressionism was serious, philosophical, and most people found it hard to understand. Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko where stars of this style. In Pop Art, common objects are the subject of the artwork. Artists like Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein took inspiration from comic strips, commercial goods, and advertising. Warhol's art was a commentary on our consumerist society and would inspire both outrage and delight alike. He was also fascinated by fame and the famous, creating silk-screen images of celebrities. Warhol challenged accepted ideas of what art should be and was responsible for breaking down the barrier between art and commercial design. When Andy Warhol was alive he was very mysterious about his origins. He would often make up a different story every time he was asked. After his death the truth's about where he came from was released. Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Slovakian immigrants Ondrej and Julia Warhola. He had two older brothers John and Paul. In 1929 Andy's father had his gallbladder removed. The surgery didn't immediately kill him but it did lead to his death years later. It was an ironic sense of foreshadowing...
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...Julia, father Andrew, and two brothers John and Pavol Warhola. Warhol was a different child, perhaps being mildly autistic, though he showed a natural talent for drawing at a young age. Warhol was unusual, small and sickly, and at the age of 6, he incurred Sydenham's chorea provoking spontaneous movement in his hands and feet; consequently, Warhol became bedridden. Throughout his months of recovery, his father spent most of the time working in the coal mines so Andy's mother and brothers would occupy and interest him endlessly by showing him how to trace, print images and draw. After his recovery, he attended Schenley high school and graduated at the juvenile age of 16, finishing 51st in his graduating class of 278 students. On his 17th birthday, a nuclear bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and instantly killed 80,000 people. “For the rest of his life, Warhol shared his own birthday with the birth of the nuclear age.” (https://blog.oup.com/2017/08/andy-warhol-nuclear-apocalypse/) Whereas most of his paintings are subtler in their message, the painting of Red Explosion 1963 provides direct reference to the atomic...
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...of desire in people. And many believe that being in tune with the people who’ve made them famous guarantees a place at the top. For business owners who’ve also hit celebrity status tweets go a long way in getting people’s attention and advertising themselves or their ideas. Paolo Coelho helped many fans follow their dreams through his writings, often communicating with them via twitter. His recent tweet – “If you are in Cannes during the film festival, you are welcome to meet me. I will stay in the same hotel as the main character of my new book.” Not only did the prominent author offer 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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...The name George Robert Twelve Hewes probably isn’t one that would be recognized by many people. Most people that start life poor and eventually orphaned and work a dead end job don’t get much more recognition than a passing nod on their way to work. Yet famous figure Andy Warhol seems to have a valid statement in saying, “…everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.” Because in George Hewes’ situation, that is the case. George R. T. Hewes, although a lowly Boston shoemaker, participated in many key events of the Revolutionary crisis. Growing up as a strong willed boy in a broken home, he seemed to have a lot of pent up anger that was released after witnessing the five deaths in 1770. After the Boston Massacre, he continued to get into altercations with Loyalists and British soldiers. However, he was all but forgotten by history until over half a century later when he described his experiences to Benjamin Bussey Thatcher and James Hawkes, who wrote detailed biographies on him. Hewes' life was no more extraordinary than anyone else’s at that time in history. His story is a common one of many lower class citizens at the time. Not until the writing of the biography “A Retrospect of the Boston Tea Party”, was there any spark in Hewes' popularity. Even then as he toured Boston like a celebrity, it was short lived. Hewes’ popularity wasn’t due to the fact that he had been involved in such a historic event, as much as it was due to the exclusiveness of him being one of the last known accomplices...
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...|[pic] |Course Syllabus | | |College of Humanities | | |ARTS/125 Version 2 | | |Pop Culture and the Arts | Copyright © 2010, 2007 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course explores the interactions between the arts, advertising, media, and lifestyle and cultural trends in contemporary American society. Familiarity will be gained with the various art forms and their relationship to mass media, personal and professional life, and in particular to how they contribute to the current conception of fine art and popular culture. Students are asked to examine current trends and cultural changes, assessing both the role the arts have played in creating them and the influence these cultural trends have on art itself. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view...
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...Celebrity Culture Has Taken Over Our Lives with Reality Television, YouTube and Social Media Michael Van Gaasbeck Excelsior College Celebrity Culture Has Taken Over Our Lives with Reality Television, YouTube and Social Media The top news of the day no longer involves wars, government issues or natural disasters. More often then not when you sign onto the internet, your home page is filled with celebrity gossip or the latest viral video of someone’s pet doing something funny. Whether you like it or not the celebrity culture has consumed our lives. We buy things because someone famous told us to, we watch something because the hottest stars are in it, and we cant wait to hear about the latest celebrity separation or legal battle. Does that make us bad people? Of course not. The news of today is much different then in times past. News channels rely on viewers to keep them in business and they battle to be the first one with the breaking story. News today is instant, we no longer read about yesterdays events when we grab the newspaper off the driveway. Millions and millions of dollars are spent to figure out what we want to hear about and news channels must continue to feed our need in order to survive. Scientists say that humans are hardwired to be fascinated with celebrity, and familiar faces create pleasurable chemical stimuli in our brains. The news companies realize this and celebrity journalism has taken over. A study from Halls Reports showed that from...
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...|[pic] |SYLLABUS | | |College of Humanities | | |ARTS/125 Version 2 | | |Pop Culture and the Arts | Copyright © 2010, 2007 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course explores the interactions between the arts, advertising, media, and lifestyle and cultural trends in contemporary American society. Familiarity will be gained with the various art forms and their relationship to mass media, personal and professional life, and in particular to how they contribute to the current conception of fine art and popular culture. Students are asked to examine current trends and cultural changes, assessing both the role the arts have played in creating them and the influence these cultural trends have on art itself. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view...
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...MEDIA UND GSELLSCHAFT(media and society) 1) Imagined Community Benedict Andersen (politcal scientist) Without papers there is no such a scene. Nation is a community. Propaganda People who living big citi -monopolisierung -kanalisierung Most famaous propaganda poster comes from Russian Revoluation America kriegspropaganda Kalten Krieg 2)theory of propaganda a)selective perception and selection retention b)die meinungen der gruppe,zu der der empfanger gehört c)interpersnoal dissemination des kommunikationsinhaltes d)you have to convince important people opinio-formers kausalitat zwischen Konsum von Massenmedien und konkretem sozialem Verhalten ist kaum nachwiesbar. Bestenfalls können Korrelationen bewiesen werden, aber nicht Kausalitat. 3)culmination Theory George Gerbner (Media theoretiker) Mean world syndrome. People who watch a lot of tv have this syndrome. Law and Order Status Quo We can prove there is a mean world syndorme.people with this syndrome are convinced world is a bad place also they are convinced vice versa because police always wins. 8)Medieninhalt als ‘Text’ Marxisten, Strukturalisten und post-strukturalisten Roland Barthes Michel Foucault Jaques Derrida Slavoj Zizek Text is important 9) Der kulturelle Kode(key concept!) Symbols we learn and we use it culture. it helps us to communicate it can be anything. Sign, book... different culture -> different code. 10)Mytos Roland Barhes Cultural code are products of ideology...
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...COLLEGE ESSAY PROMPTS -- TOPIC OF CHOICE 1.What work of art, music, science, mathematics, or literature has influenced your thinking, and in what way? (University of Virginia applicants to the College of Arts and Sciences) 2.Discuss how a particular work of music, literature, or art has inspired your life. (William and Mary) 3.Tell us how a particular book, play, film, piece of music, dance performance, scientific theory or experiment or work of art has influenced you. If you choose a novel, film or play, assume we know the plot. (University of Notre Dame) 4.Consider the books you have read in the last year or two either for school or for leisure. Please discuss the way in which one of them changed your understanding of the world, other people, or yourself. (Duke University) 5.Tell us about a situation where you have not been successful and what you have learned from the experience. (William and Mary) 6.First experiences can be defining. Cite a first experience that you have had and explain its impact. UPA 7.Recall an occasion when you took a risk that you now know was the right thing to do. (University of Penn) 8.Tell us what you think about a current scientific or social controversy. (William and Mary) 9.Most people belong to many different communities groups defined by (among other things) shared geography, religion, ethnicity, income, cuisine, interest, race, ideology, or intellectual heritage. Choose one of the communities to which you belong, and describe that...
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...life of touring around the world and releasing my own material, which was amazing to experience with lot's of musicians and respected artists, as well as meeting brilliant every day people who loved the music! About 10 years ago I started to coach kids and adults to sing and express themselves through music, as I realised music has the power to change your mood from negative to positive and really aid in the healing of the mind, body and spirit. So I continued to coach and began gaining lots of new students. Each year we would gather everyone, all ages and cultures together and put on a concert for the local community, often raising funds for people in need. This would be a great goal for each student to over come their fears and anxieties, putting emphasis on helping others. The concerts have all been successes, I'm pleased to say and new relationships formed amongst performers and in the community - it's a really feel-good vibe, where everyone is a winner whatever ability. So, I've been teaching from a very...
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...Early life[edit] Rosso was born in the village of Brugine in the Northeastern Italian region of Veneto. His parents were farmers and he grew up under simple conditions, regularly helping his father after school. Having seen the laborious life required for a farmer, Rosso aspired to do something different from his parents and in 1970 began studying industrial Textile Manufacturing at the Marconi Technical Institute in Padua. There, he produced, at the age of 15, his first self-designed garment, a pair of low-waist bell-bottomed jeans using his mother's Singer sewing machine. He kept experimenting with different jeans models and would give each pair to friends or sell them at school for about 3500 lire[1] (equivalent of 1,80 Euro in current prices).[5] In 1973 he began studying Economics at the University of Venice, where in addition to helping his father on the farm, he also financed his studies by working as a mechanic and as a carpenter. Diesel[edit] Beginnings of Diesel[edit] Diesel logo Rosso dropped out of the University of Venice in 1975 and began to work as a Production Manager at Moltex, a local clothing manufacturer that produced trousers for various Italian clothing labels. Moltex' parent company, the Genius Group, was run by Adriano Goldschmied who would eventually become Rosso's mentor and future business partner. During Rosso's first two years at Moltex the company grew rapidly. In 1978, after Rosso had managed to increase the company's production beyond what...
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...FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHIES OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND ALBERT EINSTEIN, THIS IS THE EXCLUSIVE BIOGRAPHY OF STEVE JOBS. Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering. Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing offlimits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and...
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..." Abelardo Morell – A Book of Books A visual tribute to the printed word, this ode to books will be irresistible to anyone who treasures the touch of fine paper and the special allure of a clothbound volume. A Book of Books showcases Abelardo Morell's elegant black and-white photographs of unusual books - an impossibly large dictionary, illustrated volumes whose characters appear to leap off the page, and water-damaged books that take on sculptural form. Nicholson Baker has written extensively about books and libraries. His preface is the ideal complement to Morell's photographs in this beautifully produced book lover's book. Bookish quotations from literary sources including Hawthorne, Borges, Cocteau, and others accompany the photographs throughout. Birth Date & Place1948, Havana, Cuba EducationBowdoin College, Brunswick, ME: Bachelor of Art, 1977Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT: Master of Fine Arts, 1981Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME: Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, 1997 - Presented by Professor John McKee, (PDF: 4.3kb)- Remarks by Abelardo Morell, (PDF; 3.5kb) Present PositionsProfessor of PhotographyMassachusetts College of Art and DesignBoston, MA Alturas Foundation Artist-in-Residence,south Texas, 2008-2009 Happy and Bob Doran Artist-in-Residence,Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, 2008-2009 Awards2006 The Decordova Museum Rappaport Prize1995 St Botolph's Club Foundation Award1994 New England Foundation for the Arts Fellowship1993...
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...The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience Carmine Gallo Columnist, Businessweek.com New York Chicago San Francisco Lisbon London Madrid Mexico City Milan New Delhi San Juan Seoul Singapore Sydney Toronto Copyright © 2010 by Carmine Gallo. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. ISBN: 978-0-07-163675-9 MHID: 0-07-163675-7 The material in this eBook also appears in the print version of this title: ISBN: 978-0-07-163608-7, MHID: 0-07-163608-0. All trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners. Rather than put a trademark symbol after every occurrence of a trademarked name, we use names in an editorial fashion only, and to the benefit of the trademark owner, with no intention of infringement of the trademark. Where such designations appear in this book, they have been printed with initial caps. McGraw-Hill eBooks are available at special quantity discounts to use as premiums and sales promotions, or for use in corporate training programs. To contact a representative please e-mail us at bulksales@mcgraw-hill.com. TERMS OF USE This is a copyrighted work and The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. (“McGraw-Hill”) and its licensors reserve all rights in and to the work. Use of this work...
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