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Andy Warhol is one of the most relevant artist of the 21st century. He was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. Warhol was considered “the gifted one” for his ability to paint and draw at such a young age. Not to mention he was a highly paid commercial illustrator in New York even before he began to make art destined for galleries. He was the son of a an Eastern European immigrant family in Pittsburgh. with their support andy was a successful…

AHEAD Andy Warhol started to become successful in the late 40’s creating illustrations for Glamour magazines. By the early 60’s Warhol began to be known for his comic like painting of subjects derived from advertisements. Subjects like the Campbell soup can or Coca-Cola. Warhol was rather shy and always observed, he would carry a camera to capture objects or famous people. Later he would turn those photographs into silk screen prints and reproduce them as his iconic pop art canvases (Marilyn…

Artwork from Andy Warhol can now seen be classified as high art for it’s iconic standing and high price tag. While works from Jackson Pollock are still deemed as high art, aspects of mass reproduction of the image in the form of everyday objects such as prints, t-shirts, totes and coffee mugs demain the work by making it available to the masses for a relatively cheap price. Number 1 (Lavender Mist), 1948 by Jackson Pollock is one of the classic art pieces that can be defined as high art. The…

Maya Alexandra Robinson Mrs. Ditanna AP Language and Composition 15 December 2017 The Influence of the Pictorialist Movement on Modern Photography The release of the “snapshot” by Kodak in America lead photography to be more about the documentation of events and reality of the world. Many photographers began to realize that the photos they produced were very comparable to the beauty of painting or sculpting because they manipulated their negatives and prints in order for the photo to have the…

Jim flora was a commercial artist active in the 1940s and 50s you designed a series of album covers for Columbia records and rca Victor. His work is known for its play images of animals, parties and musical instruments. Although his work is synonymous with 1940s and 50s America. His work is influenced by earlier art movements such as cubism, in particular the work of Pablo Picasso has been seen as a huge influences on Flora. Flora and Picasso’s work had a lot of similarities like dysmorphia of…

Warhol’s silk screens are seen to heavily focus on that of the Celebrity and the cult of celebrity worship. Warhol was well known from an early age to have a strong interest in celebrity culture, with his obsession coming from reading glamour magazines in his childhood. Warhol believed in celebrity cult worship as akin to that of religious worship, with Warhol believing that the use of repetition brought forth this idea of truly knowing his subjects and that by capturing the person on film this…

Andy Warhol exploring the theme of death. Andy Warhol was the most successful and highly paid commercial illustrator in New York even before he began to make art destined for galleries. Nevertheless, his screen printed images of Marilyn Monroe, soup cans, and sensational…

Savannah Price 4th Period Compare and Contrast of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein Throughout the past centuries, different styles of art have risen to the surface. The art style that came into focus from the mid 1950s in Britain, even into the 1990s in Russia, was Pop Art. Pop Art was a way for modern artist to challenge what tradition told them, and to be able to create a parallel where art could be included in such things as advertisements and posters. Pop Art…

The question about these movements is: What exactly are they, who lead them or played a part in them, where did they take place, when did they happen, why did they happen, and so what? What's so important about it? It started in the 1950's. World War II ended, and our economy was in a major boom, along with our population, after the end of the war, Abstract Expressionism was discovered. The counterculture movement was important, it set the stage for social movements. During the 1960’s, Andy…

Andy Warhol was born on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and died on February 22 of 1987 at the age of 58. In his 58 years on this Earth, Warhol was recognized for his incredible artistic abilities. Although he is known as the godfather of Pop art, Warhol also dabbled in a wide variety of art forms, including performance art, filmmaking, video installations and writing. Warhol’s father noticed Warhol’s’ artistic talent at an early age, and paid for his college education at Carnegie…