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
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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
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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
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The Courage of Jennifer Wright Courage is when you do something even though you are afraid to do it. Jennifer showed courage because even though she was afraid she put her life on the line to save a fellow coworker. When faced with the decision to either be safely secure outside, Jennifer went out of her way putting herself in the line of danger to help. Jennifer and my Sandy (My wife) were coworkers at a convenience store. In December right before Christmas a gentleman came into the store and
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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
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Paper Carnival (Lights come up on the interior of an old office space. Papers clatter the one solitary desk in the Corner of the room a man sits behind it typing away. The tile floors are a dirty shade of lime green and, the walls have yellowed from age. A Delivery man with a low brow expression enters UR. Packages in hand) Delivery man: I have a delivery here for A Mr. Haven can you sign for this? (The delivery man hastily hands the clipboard to an
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8/11/14 TB 133 We are holding a volleyball tournament to raise money and promoting pet awareness for charity for a group called ASPCA (American Society Prevent Cruelty Animals) is founded since April 10, 1866. For the reason is started the charity there a animals who’s feel the same pain as us and experiences like us. Seeing the animals being to cruelty each other it’s making us feels so negative to one another. In addition, we have all the experiences that are not related to the
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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
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Kevin goes to his room thinking of ways that he could maybe get Howie to pay for Cromwell's training classes. Kevin goes down stairs and says to Howie "Can you please pay for Cromwell's training classes, I will do anything, I will even pay you back in the long run." Howie looked very annoyed with Kevin. "Kevin, can you please stop asking me to pay for Cromwell's classes, I am not going to pay." Howie replies. Kevin walks away, Cromwell follows him. Cromwell starts barking and walks to the door.
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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
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