Andy Goldsworthy

Andy Warhol was a famous artist in the 21st century. He first began as a simple boy living with his parents. He would always win a contest his mother made up to see who could draw better. Andy was a shy boy who wasn’t very confident with his own looks. When he was a child he had Sydenham’s chorea because of this disease he was bedridden as a child most of the time. He believe this was the most important time of his life, because that’s when he discovered entertainment. Later in life Andy…

the 1950’s and 60’s television became very popular, people experienced movie stars such as Marilyn Monroe, and items such as food and house hold items, etc. Pop artists, like Andy Warhol, used bold primary colors and methods such as silk screening to create works of art that presented realism, common imagery, and much irony. Andy Warhol was born August 8,1928 and he passed away November 22,1987. He is from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One famous pop art artist…

food can that is very similar in style to Andy Warhol’s Campbell 's soup cans. I chose this image because 101 Dalmatians is one of my favorite Disney films. I also enjoy some of Andy Warhol’s work and his Campbell’s Soup Cans is one of his more famous works. I found this image is a part of the Disney fine art program. Tricia Buchanan-Benson is the artist of this piece. Many of her works are for Disney and other illustrations works. The image is a parody on Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans. The…

calculation, in as much as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and emotional nature, give balance and harmony to any work of art.” In this report, I will be mentioning Barbara Kruger’s artwork called Untitled (Your Body Is a Battleground) and Andy Warhol’s, Two Marlins. I will be talking a little about the history of each artwork, while comparing and contrasting them. Barbara Kruger has images from the surge of what’s happening in the world of mass media. Utilizing media effects…

Andy Warhol, an American artist who painted post-World War II, once said, “Everybody has their own America, and then they have the pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can 't see” (“Sunbeams: Issue 447”). The American Dream incorporates this sense of imagination and hope: it creates motivation to fully commit one’s time and effort in order to accomplish his or her ambitions. Warhol, however, warns people that aspirations requiring hard work can evolve into…

My paper focuses on appropriation and how the progression of appropriation continued into Pop Art and what that could’ve translated into American society. I will look at appropriation in art to compare to the cultural values at the time and to go in depth about what it meant to Americans during the 1960s. During the 1960s, the time Pop Art was emerging in America, a war-consumed society was transitioning into a mass cultural embrace of media and art. Pop Art was the art of popular culture. It…

Abstract art took centre stage and provided novel experience for the viewer. Leading exponent of the movement was Jackson Pollock who used a stick and dripped paint onto the canvas or sometimes splattered it directly from a can to create seemingly random patterns. People found it difficult to understand his works and hence the nick name “Jack the Dripper”. His most important work remains Blue Poles (1952). Other exponents of abstract art were Lee Kransner, wife of Pollock who created Cool…

“Lyddie” is a novel written by Katherine Paterson in 1991. The novel is a fictional story with situations that are based on the real life events that happened in American factory jobs in the 1800s. In the story, ten year old Lyddie and her younger brother Charlie are children who lived on a farm with their mother and father, however, Lyddie and Charlie are sent out to be hired as servants to pay for the family farm’s debts. Lyddie, being the strong willed and determined girl she is, desires to…

Warhola or famously known as Andy Warhol was one of the most popular painter, printmaker, and filmmaker of his time. Andy’s art was mostly directed towards the pop culture public. People who really took interest in his art were Hollywood’s famous actors and actresses. Also people of modern ideas and innovators really sprung towards his style. He grew up in a very religious family that spent most of their time in church. His parents were Slovakian immigrants and Andy was the youngest of three…

silkscreen image to a cardboard burger sculpture sitting in the middle of the space. The exhibition has a small collection but has iconic pieces that are central to the story of the pop art movement of the 1960s. The works that stood out the most is the Andy Warhol’s 1963 Elvis I and II silkscreen painting. It showed 2 Elvis’ on one side with colour, then another 2 Elvis’ on one side featured in black and white. He is in a cowboy outfit while standing in a gunslinger pose on both sides of the…