Andy Warhol

Many artists explored art as a sellable product including Shepard Fairey, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Jeff Koons. Through their artwork, they were not only focused on the appeal it had, but the marketing aspects of it. They often used their art is a way that made them rich and famous. Their art pieces were art, but also something that could usually be mass produced. Shepard Fairey became an artist at a young age when he started making designs for his own shirts and skateboards.…

portraiture’s evolving processes and uses, it is clear how it has consistently given a face to the abstract or untouchable. The arc of this growing flexibility of perception is apparent when juxtaposing the Daguerreotype portrait of Frederick Douglas (1847), Andy Warhol’s silkscreen Self-Portrait (1967) and Juliana Huxtable’s ink-jet photograph titled Untitled in the Rage…

Pop Art versus Abtract Expressionism The Pop Art movement can be considered as a rejection or critique on it’s predecessor Abstract Expressionism. It differs both conceptually, and in its subject matter; and just like most art movements, it borrows and expands on all previous movements, creating its own path and style. While the the one evoked emotion simply with color and very little subject matter, the other veered away from the personal feeling but rather commented on the societal…

Andy Warhol has said “I want to die with my blue jeans on.”(Brainyquote, n.d.). A lot of people today share Warhol’s affection for jeans. Denim is a staple of the modern wardrobe. It is comfortable, practical, and fashionable. However, jeans weren’t always common and popular. Denim has first been popularly used when designer Levi Strauss figured out a way to make denim affordable in 1936. Since then, denim has been through an interesting revolution. All kinds of people, including cowboys in…

Marisol also appeared in several movies by Andy Warhol, “The Kiss” and “13 Most Beautiful Girls”. Marisol started to accept that her fame could help her status and help boost her art career. But in 1968 she started to travel the world and in five years time she experimented with her art. Marisol started…

Danto initially felt that Andy Warhol’s art deprived of an artistic respectability. Due to Warhol’s subject matter, Danto considered his art to be unsophisticated and insignificant. Prior to Brillo Boxes Danto felt that Warhol’ art was a mere ‘copy’ of ordinary objects and that it lacked any significant meaning or value. After being exposed to Warhol’s Brillo Boxes, Danto’s perception and understanding of Warhol’s art was completely reconstructed and reversed. Danto detected that Warhol’s work…

as the first successful pop artist, Warhol first began creating paintings based on comic strips. Quickly, Warhol “began to concentrate on the subjects derived from advertising and commercial products” (476). Among these products was Coca-Cola, and in 1962 Warhol arranged a grid of 210 Coca-Cola bottles, “literally presented, and arranged as they might be on supermarket shelves or an assembly line” (476) to create 210 Coca-Cola Bottles. Similar to Duchamp, Warhol had not created Coca-Cola, nor…

directly related to the amount consumers value them. The first product is a picture of the soup in the original color. Tomato soup is a staple food for the American people. The fact that Andy Warhol and many Americans found beauty in this reveals something about this time period. This shows that, in 1968 when Warhol make this art, there was something about everyday items that need to be recognized. This could be because in the sixties many households had made it through the Great Depression and…

Jean-Michel Basquiat and the Neo-Expressionism Movement The neo-expressionism movement arose in the 1980’s as a way to speak out against mass media, history, or society through paintings (Kantor 14). The paintings of a neo-expressionist are usually harsh and have an aggressive subject. It gave a sense of freedom in the art world because it did not have any order to it. Neo-expressionists describe their art process as not really focusing on the painting, but on their thoughts and thinking. The…

Andy Warhol once said, “it does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.” It reflects the process of learning, where hardships are anticipated and slows down the adaptation process. With determination, improvement can be expected. Kolb's theory of learning is important to assist one in adjusting to a new environment. Through my experience to use Kolb’s learning theory to adapt my university life. There are four different stages in the process of learning. Firstly, the…