Amos 'n' Andy

One of the artwork styles is Photorealism which is “create representational images, including pen and ink, pastels, and prints, in the 1980s and beyond” according to Arthistory.net website. The style started in the 1960s with Minimalism and Pop Art and put it together. First of all, the artists began with a camera to take a picture then create their art with pen, ink, and other media to create their own art. One artist, Ralph Goings who painted McDonalds Pickup in 1970 which has an old-fashioned…

paintings, Andy Warhol’s soup cans, Keith Haring’s untitled acrylic work, etc… Each one was play the most important role in the modern history in many ways or has the profound impact in the art, fashion and commercial filed, nowadays. For this essay, the direction is aim to one of the first Pop artists — Andy Warhol and his piece “Campbell's Soup Can”. When people talk…

Modernism and the cold war can be regarded as the twin shaping forces on cultural production in the 1950s. When some ardent practitioners tried to move beyond modernist art, others retreated from it, but it remained the defining aesthetic paradigm of the decade. As historical mode modernism became institutionalised in the 1950s as established by the Nobel laureate trio comprising the modernist writers Faulkner, Eliot and Hemingway. Kitsch and modernism were deeply entangled during the period.…

the remote, and Fred Flintstone appears on the screen, living life in the town of Bedrock. On comes an ad about toothbrushes, then another about saving the local park. Then you see Walter Cronkite reporting his nightly news, and Andy Griffith playing his part on The Andy Griffith Show This is what 1960s TV was all about. Without the era of sitcoms, cartoons, debates, and advertisements,…

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…

Tyler Hicks was born on 9th July 1969. He did his schooling from Staples High School in 1988 and also went to Boston University's College of Communication. He earned a degree in Journalism from Boston University in 1992. He works as a staff photographer at The New York Times. He is basically an American photojournalist, but he was established in Kenya. Hicks was a freelance photographer before established in Africa and operated for newspapers in North Carolina and Ohio as well. He has also…

correlations to each other. Pop art was widespread reaching countries from the United States to Japan. This rising culture of pop art gave way to two of the greatest artists of the modern era, Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol. One of the most notable and well known artists of this period was Andy Warhol. Warhol had humble beginnings, coming from an Eastern European immigrant family. He quickly rose to high society though as an adult and was the highest paid commercial illustrator in New York…

ARTISTS LOOK 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…

society. With the terms used by Richard Hamilton, pop art was the reflection of a superficial American society which set its values in fast paced, easily comprehensible and mass consumer art. (217) Part 2- Two key artists of the pop art movement (Andy…

Keith Haring was a famous artist in Pop Art and Graffiti Art. His works were deemed as quite controversial as it touched on subjects that were seen as a taboo at the time, such as sex. Toward the end of the 1980s, Keith Haring created this painting to face the absurd stereotypes surrounding the AIDS illness. The main spark of this movement is that many of his friends were dying of AIDS. He is strongly committed to fighting this disease and put his notoriety on the line for this cause. He also…