Andy Griffith

Tom Wesselman, Still Life No. 35, 1963 Erik Bulatov, Glory to the CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union), 1975 Emerging during the economic affluence of the United States post World War II, Pop Art is a movement during the late 1960s that can be characterised by the appropriation of commercial and highly recognisable images, bright colours, and the blurring of boundaries between ‘high’ and ‘low’ art. Tom Wesselman’s Still Life No. 35 may be seen as an example of Pop Art – the use of…

The article, Warhol’s Clones, by Richard Meyer begins with Andy Warhol’s invitation to decorate the New York Pavilion at the 1964 World’s Fair. Warhol chose to create what was to become a highly controversial piece of art, Thirteen Most Wanted Men. The article then quickly summarizes its fate of becoming covered by aluminum paint and later, further covered by a black cloth. This is evidence that supports one of Meyer’s arguments that the artwork was censored due to Warhol idolatrizing and…

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…

created a sense of hopefulness during the post war of the 1950’s and the 1960’s. Pop art was a revolt against abstract expressionism. The goal was to bring art back from it’s obscurity of abstraction into the real world again (www.artfactory.com) Andy Warhol was a famous artist of the Pop art movement. He was against the idea of craftsmanship as a way of expressing an artist personality. He wanted to remove craftsmanship and personality from his work. The reason behind this was because he…

Jean-Michel Basquiat During the 1980’s, the art movement “Neo-Expressionism” was taking the United States by storm and artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat’s big break was just beginning. If you’re not too familiar with him or isn’t really educated on him, you may know or heard Jean-Michel Basquiat from listening to your favorite artist’s songs, because of his unique hairdo that inspired The Weeknd, or for his phenomenal art that convey deep messages. Jean-Michel Basquiat, a high school dropout,…

exist. Consumerism was essential to Pop Art Movement as it gave meaning behind works that would have no significant value such as Andy Warhol’s Soup Can series which without consumerism would just be soup cans with…

Elliot Erwitt is a famous photographer today with many well known pictures, some of war times, beaches, children, hands, and dogs. He was born in France with Russian émigré parents in 1928, where he spent a good portion of his childhood in Italy. His family started getting closer and closer to move to the United States in 1939, where he eventually settled in New York for two years and then moved again to Los Angeles. Erwitt got to New York City with the help of the United States Army in the…

The 19th century American potter George Ohr (1857-1918) is an important ceramic artist associated with the American Arts and Crafts movement. With an emphasis on emotion, gesture and pure form, Ohr’s idiosyncratic clay vessels forecast Abstract Expressionist sculpture. His passionate personal, individual vision and rebellious, theatrical persona distinguish him as one of America’s most original and eccentric artists. Ohr was born in Biloxi, Mississippi to a blacksmith and learned the potter’s…

The printmaker, painter, cinema, and photographer Andrew Warhol was born August 6, 1928 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Also known as the “Pope of Pop.” Andy had his own signature style. People were attracted to Andy Warhol because he was so original in what he did as a artist, Warhol used hand drawings, painting, printmaking, photography, silk screening, various colors, sculpture, and music. Andy’s works reached out to the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture, and…

learned a lot about the artwork there. After that trip, I just had to get more. Next we went to Pittsburgh to see the artwork down there. Eventually, the Andy Warhol Museum caught our eyes.…