Andy Summers

Roy Lichtenstein was a famous artist. So in this biography I shall teach you about about Roy Lichtenstein. Roy Lichtenstein was born in New York in the year of 1970s. His father was Milton Lichtenstein, who was a successful real estate and he had a passion for comics and science. When he entered his teenage years he became interested in art. He then graduated from Franklin school and was drafted in ww2. After ww2 he went back to college and finished up his college career. After college, he went…

The Ultimate Confrontation: The Flower and the Bayonet photographed by the French photojournalist Marc Riboud was captured on October 21, 1967. The location was an anti- Vietnam war protest that took place in the American capital at the Pentagon. The girl in the photo is 17 year old Jan Rose Kasmir. The protest involved 100,000 participants’ vs 2,500 soldiers. Riboud captured a fleeting moment, that of a girl offering a flower to the soldiers and the spirit of…

Takashi Murakami, born on February 1, 1962 is a well-known contemporary Japanese artist based in Tokyo. Murakami’s style of art is based on popular culture using a Nihonga-style of modern Japanese painting. He uses colorful graphics and manga style cartoon to show a darker subject material. He uses “hopelessness”, as his main subject with all of his art work. He shows this through the use of sculptures, paintings, drawings, and animations. The “Hustle ‘n’ Punch by Kaikai And Kiki”, was made in…

The name of Keith Haring needs no introduction. The American artist, often titled among the most influential figures of the 20th century art, was born in 1958 in Reading (Pennsylvania) and died in 1990 in New York. Haring started his art education at the Ivy School of Professional Art in Pittsburgh, later continued at the School of Visual Arts in New York (1978). There it became possible to young Haring to irreversibly transform visual arts and erase the borders between fine and street art. The…

Erin Hicks Professor Daniel Quiles Art history 1002 20 April 2018 On Number One and Little Race Riot Andy Warhol is notoriously well known as one of the pioneers of pop art. His legacy continues to live on today for his ability to de-symbolize well known objects and strip them of their meaning or purpose. “He exposed and exploited a new way of being in a world of commodity-images where frame is often subsumed by celebrity, newsworthiness by notoriety, aura by glamor, and charisma by hype: a…

The title of this art piece is called Marylin Diptych. The craftsman for this piece is Andy Warhol. He made this art bit of silkscreen print, in the year 1967, for Marilyn Monroe within three or four years since she had passed away. This piece was distributed through Factory Additions, an organization he made so he can make and appropriate his prints. The original piece is presently claimed by Tate Modern. On the left side are twenty-five pictures that are printed in color while on the right…

Influence of Pop Art in Graphic Design Graphic Design during the mid 1950s and early 1960s focused on mass production, celebrities, and the expanding advertising industry of television, radio and print media. This emerging visual art movement became known quickly as Pop Art. “Pop Art was inspired by mass consumerism and popular culture. Its roots can be traced back to the late fifties, but it wasn’t until the following decade that it achieved the status of a design style (“Raimes”).” It…

Arts can be separated into different branches and Hap in the story prefers realistic art. Hap in “The Soul of Capitalism” by Robert Collins would likely appreciate Warhol’s art mentioned in “When Canada Met Andy” by Nancy Tousley on a superficial level, but not the abstract message. Hap would praise some of Warhol’s art because his work matches Hap’s definition of art. Hap loves traditional art but not modern or abstract art as he claims that “it’s not art if he can’t tell what it is” (1),…

First of all, I could instantly notice how this image is different than that of Andy Warhol’s, whose painting was clearly the inspiration for this one. From the very first glance I felt weird because I kept comparing the original painting to this one. The main thing that was odd to me was the gender swap. Instead of Marilyn Monroe’s face, you could see an old man. It made me feel quite uncomfortable, even though everything else besides that was exactly the same as the original. The painting uses…

The Modern art movement was started by many people and has had a major impact on not only on our modern lives but has also made an impact on history itself. One of the artists that helped pushed the movement was a man called Clive Bell, who believed that art should be made with aesthetic emotion and “Significant forms,” instead of Renassiance like artwork. Clive Bell was not only famous for his artwork but also for his critiquing of other artworks that were being made during his era. The ideas…