...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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...The Work of a Favorite Artist The Artist I choose is Andy Warhol. I chose him because he is an Iconic figure in the Pop Art world. I feel he did things his own and was a very creative artist of his time. Here is a little background information on him. Andy was born on August 6, 1928, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was a successful magazine and ad illustrator. He became a leading artist of the 1960s Pop art movement. He ventured into a wide variety of art forms that included, performance art, filmmaking, video installations and writing, and controversially blurred the lines between fine art and mainstream aesthetics. Warhol died on February 22, 1987. Andy Warhol graduated from college with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1949. He moved to New York City to pursue a career in commercial art. His first stuff was published in Glamour Magazine. He went on to become one of the most successful commercial artists of the 1950s. He won frequent awards for his uniquely whimsical style, using his own blotted line technique and rubber stamps to create his drawings. He debut the concept of "Pop Art" the paintings focused on mass-produced commercial goods. He exhibited the now-iconic paintings of Campbell's soup cans in 1962. These small canvas works of everyday consumer products created a major buzz in the art world. This brought both Andy Warhol and Pop Art into the national spotlight for the first time. Warhol quoted, "Once you 'got' pop, you could never see a sign the same way again...
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...on the same canvas as one another, let alone create the image of a movie icon. Yet this was the whole point of Andy Warhol’s, Marilyn, painted in 1967. Breaking away from tradition, this was one of many portraits Andy painted in his artistic lifetime, and a prime example of the ever so popular movement called Pop Art. Not only did he start a movement, but as he became more and more well known, Warhol broke down boundaries, creating the art world we have today. Born in Pittsburgh in 1928, Andrew Warhola lived a simple life. Youngest...
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...Andy Warhol was best known for mass-producing images of mass-produced objects. His work from the 1960s revolved around American Pop culture. He painted dollar bills, celebrities, brand name products and images from newspaper clippings- many of the latter were iconic images from headline stories of the decade. His subjects were instantly recognizable, and often had a mass appeal- this aspect interested him most and it unifies his paintings from this period. Warhol stated that when Marilyn Monroe died ', I got the idea to make screens of her beautiful face the first Marilyns' For him, she symbolised the apex of the beauty that Hollywood glitz and glamour had to offer. She was a household name, and it is clear that, in her fame, Andy Warhol greatly admired and looked up to her. This is why i believe he painted her after her death Xx "...and you said you thought "...and you said you thought that coming so close to death was really like coming so close to life, because life is nothing." - A recount of a dialogue with Andy after the assassination atempt from The Philosophy of Andy Warhol. In the early sixties Warhol became deeply interested in death. Searching for new material Warhol serched the media and became fascinated by pictures of electric chairs, car crashes, and race riots. As a result he created the Death in America series, and the viewers were shocked. Warhol blatantly depicted death over and over again shown off centered, layered, or ripped down the middle, and...
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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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...“Born on August 6, 1928, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Andy Warhol was a successful magazine and ad illustrator who became a leading artist of the 1960s Pop art movements. He ventured into a wide variety of art forms, including performance art, filmmaking, video installations and writing, and controversially blurred the lines between fine art and mainstream aesthetics. Warhol died on February 22, 1987, in New York City. Born Andrew Warhola on August 6, 1928, in the neighborhood of Oakland in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Andy Warhol's parents were Slovakian immigrants. His father, Ondrej Warhola, was a construction worker, while his mother, Julia Warhola, was an embroiderer. They were devout Byzantine Catholics who attended mass regularly, and maintained...
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...ReAnna Mancil Professor Delaney-Thomson Fine Arts Appreciation May 1, 2013 Andy Warhol Andy Warhol, who was born Andrew Warhol on August 6, 1928, was a very unique artist. He used many mediums, including writing, film-making, sculpture, and photography. But he became known as a pop artist using printmaking, particularly silkscreen printing. The prints are extraordinarily colorful and vibrant, which is what catches the onlookers eye. The artworks known as “Marilyn” and “Skulls” are two works that catch my eye. I love bright and colorful, very visual art work, yet I am a very plain and “gray” type of person and I think that is why I love it. As a child, we were poor and lived in a shabby house and nothing was colorful so when I do see colorful objects, I find myself drawn to them. The above two art works mentioned of Andy Warhol inspire and draw something in me. When Marilyn Monroe died, Warhol decided to use her photo for silkscreen art. He was interested in morbid things so upon her death, he began the process of taking the blown up photo and transferring it in glue onto silk, then rolling ink across it creating the images. It is easy to see that Warhol may have felt kindred to Marilyn; they both were ”Hollywood” and yet odd. Both had a care free type of life. To me, the colorful interpretation “Marilyn” of it has make Marilyn Monroe immortal. I have always liked Marilyn Monroe because of how timeless she was. I do not like Hollywood, and though she is Hollywood, it seems...
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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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...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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...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 born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1928. His parents were Russian immigrants from Slovakia. When Andy was in 3rd grade, he was diagnosed with “scarlet fever”, which causes colored skin blotches. Repeated trips to the doctor caused Andy to become a “hypochondriac” (someone afraid of doctors, medicine, and hospitals). Often stuck in bed for days at a time, Andy was entertained by the radio and television, which he later described as an important influence on his artwork. In 1945, he entered the Carnegie Institute of Technology where he majored in graphic design. Upon graduation, Warhol moved to New York where he worked as an illustrator for several magazines including “Vogue”, “Harper's Bazaar” and “The New Yorker” and did advertising and window displays for many department stores. Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as a painter, filmmaker, record producer, author, and public figure known for his social circles of friends which included Hollywood celebrities, politicians, and wealthy families. In the 1950’s, the record industry was quickly expanding with vinyl records and hi-fi stereo equipment. Around 1950, RCA hired Andy Warhol and his artist friend, Sid Maurer, to create vinyl album covers and poster advertisements for the newest recording artists. This led to many important meetings with influential businessmen. Throughout the 1950’s, Warhol enjoyed a successful career winning several awards from the Art Director's Club and the American...
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...Andy Warhol Andy Warhol once said, “Everyone Will Be Famous For 15 Minutes.” Most of Andy Warhol’s childhood dealt with sickness,finding a love for art, and figuring out what sexuality he wanted to be. Warhol lived an interesting life; he has been shot,a film director,and been judged for his work. As an artist, Andy Warhol does not get adequate recognition for his influence on modern pop art. Warhol suffered from several different health problems as a child such as Chorea,Scarlett fever,nerve disorders,and skin blotchiness. When he would stay home from school being sick he collected movie star posters and pictures of models. His mother loved to draw,his mother helped him find a love for art. They would paint pictures of the cat or of what...
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...Introduction This essay will discuss the topic known as Pop art. There will be an understanding about how Pop Art had a relationship with the world of Graphic design. In this essay there will be information about the works of a famous American painter called Andrew Warhola known as Andy Warhol. His work is going to show the use of colours, style and the design as an overall portrait. Further more this essay will be looking at Andy Warhol’s images and they will be mentioning the years they were designed. Most importantly, there will need to be an interest on the topic so there could be a general discussion on Pop art. This essay will explore the styles and effects of Andy Warhol’s work. The essay will also explore the different kind of paper material he uses to design his images. For example most of his work is done through “Acrylic and silkscreen on Canvas”. This essay will discuss the feelings of why he designs his work on such material. As well as discussing general pop art, the essay will also show the attraction of Pop art and the relevance of pop art in the early years of Graphic design. Pop Art + Andy Warhol The research shows that Pop Art was promoted in the 1950’s to the public as a media source. As this information states "The term first appeared in Britain during the 1950s and referred to the interest of a number of artists in the images of mass media, advertising, comics and consumer products.” (http://www.artchive.com/artchive/pop_art.html) Pop Art use...
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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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...Being a printmaking major I was very interested in work done by Andy Warhol. Learning about his history, techniques and why he does some of the things he does was the reason I picked him to write this research paper. I have selected three different authors that have both similar and different opinions for Warhol. They each talk about specific pieces and talk about different aspects that support the reasons they have in their opinion for Warhol. To start off I will be talking about the opinions I have towards this artist. Printmaking is the process of printing on normally paper in which the artist uses ink to convey multiple images that do not necessarily have a photographic look to them. This allows an artist to manipulate images and able...
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