Andy Warhol

pretenses of familiarity. The Pop Art style portrait, Marilyn, by Andy Warhol 1964 (see fig 2) depicts one of the most popular sex symbols of all time, Marilyn Monroe. This serigraph technique uses simplified gradients of bright colour to generate multiple prints of the famous Monroe. Warhol made numerous portraits of Monroe after her death, choosing to reprocess famous photographs depicting her at the peak of her career (Whiting p.38). Warhol reduces the structure of the portrait to colour and…

The punishment is to be crushed by a crowd of people who follow every sect, mystical , work leader, such as an excessive force of immunity that discards any quality. There is no time, no more time, Andy Warhol thinks, coming out of poverty background of a Slovak Ruthenian and entering the blinding light of the metropolis, becoming a dream factory, the place where everything could happen, it was enough to want it, as in a fable of identity, where reality…

Assessment 3: Annotated Bibliography By Marcel Duchamp ‘Fountain’ E. Kuenzli, Rudolf & M. Naumann, Francis “Marcel Duchamp: Artist of the Century” Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain: Its History and Aesthetics in the Context of 1917-William A. Camfield (1996): 64-90. William A. Camfield writes about Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Fountain’ as one of the most famous and equally infamous objects in the history of modern art. He goes over the history of ‘Fountain’ in high detail and answers all the questions…

Robert Rauschenberg was a remarkable contemporary artist whose art style makes the name “Andy Warhol” and the like come to mind, developing artwork at similar time frames and sharing similar techniques. Unlike traditional popular culture artists, Rauschenberg created prints with a hybrid technique of photography, printmaking, and papermaking. He refers to his artwork as combines, because of the three dimensional effect observed when viewing these unique prints. Rauschenberg is classified mainly…

It's basically a U-turn back to a representational visual communication, moving at a break-away speed...Pop is a re-enlistment in the world.”-Andy Warhol I have always been drawn towards Pop Art. Pop art emerged in the early 1950’s and ended in mid 1970’s.In between these two decades the world of fine art saw some of the best works from artists like Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist among others. Campbell’s Soup Cans, President Elect, Blam are some of the most recognised pieces…

Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, and especially Andy Warhol (Relf, 2016), all had very similar outlooks on art to Duchamp. You get a sense of Duchamp’s influence on the artists just by looking at their works. For example, Andy Warhol’s representation of a bowl of Campbell’s Soup, which is often compared to the urinal in the sense that it is a mundane object. “You cannot look at a can of Campbell’s Soup in any grocery store and not think of Warhol…Any man standing in front of a urinal will…

Beyonce. Zac Efron. Andy Warhol. What do these three very different individuals have in common? All of them are very famous and well known around the world, and exhibit traits that are starting to be considered unimportant in today’s society. All three are examples of people who thrive in the arts. Now wait a minute... the arts? Andy Warhol was the only artist out of the three? Actually, Beyonce, Zac Efron and Andy Warhol are all representatives of the fine arts because of their professional…

The qualifications for art are very subjective. What one individual may call beautiful or a profound critique on modern society another may completely disregard. Andy Warhol, who has come to be considered “as one of the 20th century’s major artistic innovators” (8-7), was not initially recieved with as much respect and admiration. The general opinion initially given to Warhol’s art is likely similar to the opinion Hap, the dairy farmer in “The soul of Capitalism,” would have held. Although Hap…

Failure is a part of everyones life, it is often looked upon as a bad thing, and for some people, it is. As for others, they take failure and use it as a stepping block, finding ways to improve, looking at it as if it weren 't a failure at all, or to make use of their failure in a different way that wouldn’t be reflected on as a failure. In the art world, critiquing can be quite confusing, some art is considered to have a lack of success, due to the time period it was made created, it wasn 't…

Chapter One: An Introduction to the Purpose of the Essay The purpose of this essay is to research and evaluate the question: In what ways does Shepard Fairey's We the People series and Norman Rockwell's Rosie the Riveter illustration reflect feminist movements in the US during their times? Both artists address the topic of feminism, but in different ways that are influenced by their era. To understand the influences of the artists, as both lived in very different times, it is necessary to…