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    carnival of consumption and the thousands of marketing messages our minds witness every single day. Andy Warhol is a household name when it comes to the movement. He is widely recognised for his bold celebrations of the celebrity and branding obsessed world we live in today. Fashion and Art are two markets in which are becoming increasingly more intertwined. Within this essay, the work of Andy Warhol and the images and media created as a result of his existence will…

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    to each other. Pop art was widespread reaching countries from the United States to Japan. This rising culture of pop art gave way to two of the greatest artists of the modern era, Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol. One of the most notable and well known artists of this period was Andy Warhol. Warhol had humble beginnings, coming from an Eastern European immigrant family. He quickly rose to high society though as an adult and was the highest paid commercial illustrator in New York city before he…

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    artists: they have something to say. One of these artists is Andy Warhol, who uses the theme of death in his. Pieces like Electric Chair, Skull, and Self Portrait (1986) show Andy Warhol exploring the theme of death. Andy Warhol was the most successful and highly paid commercial illustrator in New York even before he began to make art destined for galleries. Nevertheless, his screen printed images of Marilyn Monroe, soup cans, and sensational…

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    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…

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    Andy Warhol Was A Big inspiration to the Pop Art movement that started in the 1950’s. His Campbell’s Soup and Marilyn Monroe Paintings Made him a really famous painter in the Twenty First Century. Andy Warhol changed the world by Showing color in his paintings and showing what would happen if it was a different color in every different painting he did. He made it iconic and popular especially with his marolyn and campbell’s soups. Born in August 16, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was the…

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    Andy Warhol Pop Art

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    artists were Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. Pop art was often used back then in newspapers and magazines and advertising. This created a challenge to artists who used traditions of fine art because Pop art used imagery from popular culture. Andy Warhol was a famous pop artist from New York. He was born on August 6, 1928. He died a while later on February 22, 1987. He came up from a Middle Eastern European family in Pittsburgh. He was the one of the most successful highly paid commercial…

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    War II ended, and our economy was in a major boom, along with our population, after the end of the war, Abstract Expressionism was discovered. The counterculture movement was important, it set the stage for social movements. During the 1960’s, Andy Warhol created Pop Art, considered to be artificial, detached, rebellious, ironic and funny. For artists of the 20th Century, locating to a city in America and having the ability to gain freedom to create topics that are justified through everyday…

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    piece. There were many great artist's in this era such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. Andy Warhol is famously known for painting the Campbell's Soup can but he didn't stop there, he created some of the most famous pieces of pop art today. Andy Warhol was born in Pittsburgh in 1928, he was the youngest of three siblings. Growing up he attended free art classes at the Carnegie Institute,Which is now called Carnegie Museum of Art.1 Warhol earned a bachelors degree in Fine Arts Pictorial…

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    Andy Warhol was notable as a gay man who lived openly before the gay liberation. He was born on August 6th, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Warhol was an American artist influenced by several other artists. Some artists would be Jean-Michel Basquiat, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Truman Capote. He was mostly known for his famous pop art but also did printmaking, painting, cinema, and photography. One of the nicknames that were given to him was “The Pope of Pop”. Some of his most famous…

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    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…

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