Andy Warhol

Film Review - Exit Through The Gift Shop Exit Through the Gift Shop is a documentary about the emergent and exploitation of the street art genre directed by the reclusive street-art graffiti legend, also known as Banksy. The film came about when the world famous graffiti artist was approached by an eccentric French shop keeper, Thierry Guetta, who records his entire life with a video camera in order to capture the memory out of apparent relevance to the impromptu death of his mother when he…

that were true, would he not stylize his pieces much differently? I think being in a white centric art world it is hard not to have some pull from white artists, but to say that Basquiat was influenced is pushing it too far. Hughes mentions how Andy Warhol was a mentor to Basquiat, but even though he was a white artist his artwork was not necessarily Eurocentric. In Hughes paper, Basquiat was called out for behaving like someone who is white that wants to be black, which brings the…

Billy Squier is an American rock musician who was born May 12, 1950, in Wellesley Hills, MA. Squier grew up playing piano taking lessons for around a period of three years. Once he stopped piano lessons he became interested in guitar and purchased one from his neighbor for 95 dollars, but Squier never took guitar lessons. Although Squier loved to play instruments as a child, he did not look into music until he came across the band the Bluebreakers, and Eric Clapton. He even briefly attended…

Introduction Have you ever wondered how many individuals suffer from a mental illness? In Andy Warhol is a Hoarder : Inside the Minds of History, C. Kalb gives readers an exclusive insight on famous individuals mental illness secrets, and defines the interesting elements of every illness. The novel helps individuals understand the scary, challenging, and emotional aspects of handling a mental illness. Mental illnesses have been stigmatized as “crazy” but in this novel C. Kalb gives…

late teens somewhat of a graffiti artist. His art now reflects the gritty and colorful streets of Lower Manhattan in the 1980’s whilst concurrently remaining contemporary and timeless. Basquiats’ Neo-Expressionist art is in the league of Picasso, Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, and other innovative art legends. His character seduced and enamored those around him. He even befriended Madonna. An average painting is his lifetime went for $5000- $10,000 at the least and just recently his painting…

Parasocial Interaction Horton & Wohl (1956) defined “parasocial interaction” or PSI as the illusion of face-to-face relationship with the performer. Phelps (2011) stated that when the performer (or celebrity) seems to directly address the viewer as if the conversation were private or intimate, the viewer responds as if the received message is personal. The relationship is one-way, without obligation on behalf of the viewer, and controlled by the celebrity, and it may be governed by little or…

Tony Licosati Goyette Digital Photo Essay 6 October 2015 Life and Legacy of Yousuf Karsh Yousuf Karsh was an Armenian–Canadian portrait photographer who lived from December 23, 1908 to July 13, 2002. He is said to be "one of the greatest portrait photographers of the twentieth century, who achieved a distinct style in his theatrical lighting". Yousuf Karsh was born in Mardin, a city in east Turkey. He grew up during the Armenian Genocide, witch was when the Ottoman Government was trying to get…

1:1--- After considering the four roles of the artist that author Henry Sayre notes; I believe that the most important role for Andy Warhol 1963 is to make a visual record of the people, places and events or their time and place. I believe that Warhol was making a records of a specific time in the events of May 1963 Birmingham, Alabama when the police employee dog to attacks and fires hoses against the demonstrators led by martin Luther King Jr. I believe he used the red, white and blue colors…

choreographer Martha Graham. It features the works of Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Harry Callahan, Larry Clark, John Cohen, Elliott Erwitt, Lee Friedlander, Andre Kertész, Danny Lyon, Mary Ellen Mark, Hans Namuth, Nicholas Nixon, Edward Steichen, and Andy Warhol. everyday life is captured and transformed into art; making the mundane a demonstration for the appreciation of everyday actions.…

have fought against the perceived value or at the very least, questioned it critically; we can think back to the postmodern period, as much of the work created was a direct push against focusing on originality, such as illustrator turned artist Andy Warhol (Smithsonian). In 1966, Mel Bochner curated the exhibit Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art where photocopied paper ephemera produced by artists was placed in ring bound folders on…