Andy Warhol. John Lennon. 1985-86. Synthetic polymer and silkscreen on canvas. 40 x 40 1/8in. Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA,(May-October 2005).
The artwork I have chosen to describe by Andy Warhol is John Lennon. It is done with synthetic polymer and silkscreen on canvas. I think this piece of art is very different. It’s a realistic painting in the fact that it is based off of the actual person, John Lennon. It is a little abstract because the colours aren’t how you’d normally see a person in the streets. The hair colours are different than what would traditionally be seen in real life on an actual person. The hair is green at the very bottom. Then, as you go up, you see it starts to fade into a blue colour. After the blue, it starts to go into a yellow colour. Then it fades out completely to the point where it is just an outline of the hair and the …show more content…
When Andy was a young boy he had contracted Chorea, which he was left in bed for several months because of it. During this time, his mother had given him his first drawing lesson which really helped shape Andy’s career as an artist. Andy’s mother had also bought him a camera shortly after this, when he was nine. Andy had taken up photography at this time. Andy Warhol went to primary schooling and took the free art classes at Carnegie Institute, now called Carnegie Museum of Art. When Andy’s father died, he dedicated all the money he had towards Andy’s college tuition. Andy used to money to enroll in Carnegie Institute for Technology (now called Carnegie Mellon University) where he studied pictorial design. Andy graduated college and later came out with the idea of Pop Art. Pop Art is paintings that focused on mass-produced commercial goods. Andy Warhol also opened his own studio called “The Factory” which locals loved to visit. Andy Warhol was 58 when he died and his legacy will live on for many years after
The artwork I have chosen to describe by Andy Warhol is John Lennon. It is done with synthetic polymer and silkscreen on canvas. I think this piece of art is very different. It’s a realistic painting in the fact that it is based off of the actual person, John Lennon. It is a little abstract because the colours aren’t how you’d normally see a person in the streets. The hair colours are different than what would traditionally be seen in real life on an actual person. The hair is green at the very bottom. Then, as you go up, you see it starts to fade into a blue colour. After the blue, it starts to go into a yellow colour. Then it fades out completely to the point where it is just an outline of the hair and the …show more content…
When Andy was a young boy he had contracted Chorea, which he was left in bed for several months because of it. During this time, his mother had given him his first drawing lesson which really helped shape Andy’s career as an artist. Andy’s mother had also bought him a camera shortly after this, when he was nine. Andy had taken up photography at this time. Andy Warhol went to primary schooling and took the free art classes at Carnegie Institute, now called Carnegie Museum of Art. When Andy’s father died, he dedicated all the money he had towards Andy’s college tuition. Andy used to money to enroll in Carnegie Institute for Technology (now called Carnegie Mellon University) where he studied pictorial design. Andy graduated college and later came out with the idea of Pop Art. Pop Art is paintings that focused on mass-produced commercial goods. Andy Warhol also opened his own studio called “The Factory” which locals loved to visit. Andy Warhol was 58 when he died and his legacy will live on for many years after