Andy Warhol

Good rock albums have the ability to energize you. They grab listeners’ attention and make them rethink what music can be. Here are just 10 of the top rock albums of all time, which have furthered the genre and subsequent subgenres, and inspired other artists to pick up a guitar and jam. Number Ten: Fleetwood Mac, ‘Rumors’ Fleetwood Mac’s second major label album, Rumours saw the recently reformed band at their most emotionally raw. Featuring such hits as “Dreams” and “Go Your Own Way,” many…

Book Review 1: Seven Days In The Art World In the mysterious, capricious and status-obsessed art market, six distinct insiders—artists, dealers, curators, critics, collectors and auction-house experts—are keeping dynamic balance with each other and being a relatively excluded group that is fraught with unknown secrets. As a non-fiction book that to some extent, pry into the secrets in art market, Sarah Thornton’s Seven Days in the Art World offers up a tale of what happens at the height of a…

researched and found out it was actually diamonds, I loved it even more. The obsession I have with diamonds is unexplainable, and I think that is why I was drawn into this piece of art so quickly. Vik Muniz was able to recreate the same spirit that Andy Warhol had in the 1960’s of Taylor, but Muniz had his own twist on his works of art. Using chocolates and diamonds, Muniz was able to differ himself from the other artists in his time period. In “Pictures of Diamonds”, the artist created a…

Clive Bell’s theory of art is a formalist view, appreciating art for its visual aspects and disregarding any context behind the piece. His goal was to find the common trait among all works of art. He believes that for something to be considered art, it has to have specific necessary and sufficient features. It is necessary that the piece has significant form in order for it to be art. Significant form provides us with an aesthetic emotion, which is only brought on by visual art.…

Yoshitomo Nara is a Japanese artist who is well known for the girl character who is bulbous-headed with large eyes and cynical grins. As a contemporary of Takashi Murakami within Japan's Neo-pop movement, Nara is influenced by elements of popular culture from both East and West. Nara creates drawing, painting, and sculpture that express intense emotions while his practices explores themes of isolation rebellion and music. In this essay, I would like to explore both internal and external factors…

November 21, 1898, the greatest surrealist painter to be was born in Lessines, Belgium. Rene Magritte was among the most important and well-known artists during the 20th century. He used very unique and intellectual techniques that not many understood but envied quite so. A vast majority of his paintings hold a mystery that is not the easiest to solve but is pleasing to the human eye. A painting of his that I personally saw at the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas was an oil on canvas painting…

deliberate with his depictions and messages in what he believes. } Banksy is an infamous street artist who similarly uses the Urbanscape as a canvas for their art and opinions but in a very critical way. They have been referred to as “Britain’s Andy Warhol” (Coan, 2008) due to the cultural difference he has made in using Urbanscape. Banksy keeps his identity a secret and this has contributed to the many theories that have developed over who it may be or whether it’s a group of people who spray…

is designed with women in mind through its exceptional photography camera-work, colors, clear and concise vocabulary, and products that showcase what they are and what they do. In a way the new Lancome print ads will be comparable to the work of Andy Warhol on the Chanel No. 5 perfume bottle. The September issue of Vogue will feature an 8-page gatefold impact unit -- the first type of unit the magazine has featured in five years -- which will begin with a leader featuring Lancome's new brand…

The Broad My museum trip can be summed up with the word serendipitous. When I arrived at the Broad Museum in Downtown Los Angeles, I saw the line to enter the museum go down two blocks. I walked into the lobby, intending to ask a museum attendant on the estimated wait time in line. After hearing the line was going to be a three hour wait, we continued our conversation and started bonding over Yayoi Kusama’s work, especially her Infinity Mirrored Room. Unexpectedly, the museum attendant decided…

Have you ever wondered what Michelangelo was thinking or imagining when he painted the Sistine Chapel? Or what fashionistas of history, like Coco Channel or Elsa Schiaparelli envisioned when they first sat at a sewing machine? Was it because they studied so hard on what color contrast goes best with what painting styles or what design would be perfectly matched to a particular shirt? Michelangelo’s parents disapproved of his artistic choice and he refuted that he was a painter and Coco Channel…