Change Your Problems Into Celebrity Status “If you wear a wig everybody notices. If you dye the wig, everyone notices the dye” and that is exactly what Andy Warhol did. Warhol was born in August of 1928 in Pennsylvania. When he was a child he had to deal with many challenges. For the first seventeen years of his life he had chronic hypochondria and when he was fourteen his father died. Andy Warhol created an abstract colored silk screen of Campbell Soup Cans. He persisted to innovate ways to overcome his challenges such as his hypochondria as a child. He illuminated the world by changing the way people thought about pop art. Warhol created a styles of art where abstract color is added to popular figures. “ Warhol was one of the founders of pop art, a stylistic movement that representationally portrays the collective subconscious psyche of society through the common images of
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He also changed the way people comprehend pop art. “He was a filmmaker, a writer, a photographer, a band-leader (if that’s the word to characterize his involvement with the Velvet Underground), a TV soap opera producer, a window designer, a celebrity actor and model, an installation artist, a commercial illustrator, an artist’s book creator, a magazine editor and publisher, a businessman of sorts, a stand-up comedian of sorts, an exhibition curator, a collector and archivist, the creator of his own carefully honed celebrity image, and so on...Warhol, in short, was what we might loosely call a “Renaissance man,” albeit a Pop or perhaps post-modern Renaissance man.” (Israel, 2013).
Andy Warhol was a very individualistic type of person. Around that time most artists were creating very realistic paintings such as Robert Henri, George Bellows, Everett Shinn, George Benjamin Luks, William Glackens, and John Sloan but he found his own ways to create and improve a new style of art called Pop
He also changed the way people comprehend pop art. “He was a filmmaker, a writer, a photographer, a band-leader (if that’s the word to characterize his involvement with the Velvet Underground), a TV soap opera producer, a window designer, a celebrity actor and model, an installation artist, a commercial illustrator, an artist’s book creator, a magazine editor and publisher, a businessman of sorts, a stand-up comedian of sorts, an exhibition curator, a collector and archivist, the creator of his own carefully honed celebrity image, and so on...Warhol, in short, was what we might loosely call a “Renaissance man,” albeit a Pop or perhaps post-modern Renaissance man.” (Israel, 2013).
Andy Warhol was a very individualistic type of person. Around that time most artists were creating very realistic paintings such as Robert Henri, George Bellows, Everett Shinn, George Benjamin Luks, William Glackens, and John Sloan but he found his own ways to create and improve a new style of art called Pop