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of a Coca-Cola bottle that is bigger than the viewer. This painting of a coke bottle is globally recognized because no matter who you were you drink coke, everyone from movie stars to poor people in the streets drink coke. With this one painting Andy Warhol successfully translates globalism and iconography. By presenting his work…

By the age of nine, Andy Warhola had taken a deep interest in photography when his mother purchased him his first camera. Photography became so important to him, his parents allowed him to turn their basement into a black room. Andy Warhola’s love for art was so appealing that he attended free art classes at his elementary school. After losing his father in 1942, Warhola suffered…

subject such as comic strips, soup cans, traffic signs and all types of food ( Britannica 1). One of the most notable artists that has been discovering Pop Art at it’s finest is none that Andy Warhol. Warhol’s notable work in the art world has brought many attention as artist, writer, as well as filmmaker. Andy Warhol was born as…

As one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s, Monroe had a glamorous life that every woman envied (Steinem). However, Marilyn Monroe ended up committing suicide, despite the luxurious life she had. Even though she got to live this “amazing” and “luxurious” lifestyle, she was not truly happy. She represents this illusion of happiness that people do not see. She had trouble with her career after returning from a hiatus in 1959. She also suffered pain from gallstones and severe drug…

The Corporate Veil In the Law and Order episode “The Corporate Veil” the standard of morality is cheapened by the insatiable need for easy money. Many characters throughout the episode displayed that behavior in varying degrees. In addition, we also see how laws not being in place allow such activities to go on. In the episode we meet a young boy named Roberto Martinez, who two years ago had an operation for the installation of a pacemaker. Tragically Roberto dies and the police are called…

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,…