Andy Warhol

I chose ‘Electric Chair’ by Andy Warhol. The scene Warhol hand-printed on the canvas was an empty room with an electric chair at its center. It seems to be a pretty far away shot of the chair in the room, really showing how large the room is. There is nothing around the chair except for a cable…

Bruegel and Warhol: Paving the Way to Morality in their Respective Times Artists, Pieter Bruegel and Andy Warhol are geniuses in their own rite. Bruegel lived in an era, where religion, warring, and class were in constant tension. His paintings depict the societal ills of his time, masked in mythology, and religious themes. I imagine he utilized this method so that he would not be sought out as an open critic—risking his life. Warhol, on the other hand, grew up in the United States, during an…

only after the death of Mao Zedong. He then traveled to and lived in New York for a time between 1981 and 1993. During this time, he studied at Parson’s School of Design. It was in New York were he began to draw inspiration from artists, such as, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and the likes. While in New York, he began making conceptual art with random objects. Ai eventually found his way back to China,…

After this first room, there is a room featuring mostly cubist and futurist art, which is an interesting segue considering the female nude as used by cubists are seen by feminists as patriarchal forms because it shows women as passive and faceless and the superiority of the male gaze and sexuality (gouda). Next, there is a room featuring just the art of John Heartfield. After these rooms is the room on “Feminism and Media.” The main panel in this room is smaller than the ones previous, eleven,…

In 1964, artist Ellsworth Kelly painted two simple rectangles of blue and yellow. Tim Nobel collects trash from the streets of London and refers to the trash piles as contemporary art. The Museum of Modern Art displays a folding lawn chair chosen by well-known artist Joseph Kosuth. Each of these representations of art provokes the debate discussing what is technically considered to be a piece of art work. Even though Kelly, Nobel, and Kosuth claimed to create different pieces of art, what…

Many younger peoples wear his clothing brand, and have seen one of his more famous posters, “Hope.” Many people, however may not know who the person is, that is behind what they wear and what they see. Shepard Fairy is an American street artist, graphic designer, activist, and illustrator. His clothing line, OBEY, emerged from the skateboarding scene. He was also hugely recognized during the 2008 presidential election after his poster of former President Barack Obama. At forty seven years old,…

Postmodernism/ Modernism Modernist artists can be viewed as a new way of thinking that started in the 1860’s and ended in the 1970’s that sought to view art thru fresh eyes. Modern art focused on actual items in nature but sought to abstract it. Post-Modernism is almost the anti-modernism. It went to go against anything modernism stood for. Asking more questions than it answered postmodern artists sought to simplify and recreate past styles and converge low and high art into one. In this essay…

Basquiat, as it makes him constantly re-evaluate the nature of his personal relationships and pushes him further into his drug addiction. Additionally, the media’s frequent gossip and scrutiny of his life leads to Basquiat becoming paranoid that Andy Warhol is manipulating him, despite there being sufficient evidence suggesting the opposite to be true. While their screen time together is sparse, many, if not all, of the interactions Schnabel shows between the two artists appear to be genuine and…

defines art since art started to become a bit more abstract and restrained from imitating life. For example, a very controversial artist from the 1980s, Andy Warhol was often looked down upon by others seeing that his pop art included much repetition of the same photograph with slight differences such as words or color. Keith Haring, friends with Andy Warhol, was another popular artist during the 1980s who was neglected for his work. His art was simplistic in nature due to its use of stick…

As I swished the paddle through the lake and back up, I felt the warm sunshine against my face, and cold little sprinkles of water on my hand, it felt as if someone sprinkling a salt shaker on my hand. I looked up from the water to see the air filled with beautiful green trees staring back at me. I could just smell the aroma of bushy pines. I could hear the voices of other kids and parents talking. I looked back down at Glendale lake and saw a bundle of small gray fish swimming through the…