Andy Warhol

The printmaker, painter, cinema, and photographer Andrew Warhol was born August 6, 1928 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Also known as the “Pope of Pop.” Andy had his own signature style. People were attracted to Andy Warhol because he was so original in what he did as a artist, Warhol used hand drawings, painting, printmaking, photography, silk screening, various colors, sculpture, and music. Andy’s works reached out to the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture, and…

gallery that features the work of Andy Warhol. The art was displayed so the viewer could experience each piece or collection individually from the others. His prints invoke feelings unlike the feelings I have ever felt when looking at abstract art. The gallery was divided into six sections with each section depicting different ideas that he wanted to create. Some of his most famous prints were displayed like his sets of Marilyn Monroe and the Campbell soup cans. Andy Warhol started becoming…

Compare and Contrast of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein by Sadaja Oliver 4th block  Pop art is a 1950s art movement that began in Britain. In the late 1950s pop art started in the United States. The term pop art refers to the artist’s attitude behind his or her art. It is sometimes referred to as the reaction to abstract expressionism. The people that started the pop art trend in Britain were Eduardo Paolozzi and Richard Hamilton. Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns…

an important role during the decade, because it surfaced pop art, Andy Warhol, and how pop art is still affecting today’s culture. Pop art fully embodied the decade of the 60s because it lifted people’s spirit. The term “pop art” was first used in Great Britain after World War II (Virginia Spivey). America used this term for post-war society, taking the term from Great Britain. (Pop Art). Pop art helped many people express…

period Mrs. Hall Compare and Contrast of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein Rayna Smith 4th block Pop Art Pop art came around in the 1950’s. It is an art movement that uses imagery to advertise. In the United States, artist use pop art to show response on what they feel towards a subject. In contrast, Britain used pop art more academically. Pop art used irony a great bit to show how popular the emphasizing of culture was. Andy Warhol was born August 6th, 1928.. He graduated…

Andy Warhol’s thirty-two canvases titled 32 Soup Cans was created in 1962. This renowned American Pop Artist, known for his repeating reproductions and gaudy colors, produced this piece using the printmaking method. Warhol didn’t want his paintings of mass-produced commercial goods to be conceptually stimulating. He wanted to make his work relatable so that viewers could approach them and have a clear interpretation. Warhol replicated the appearance of manufactured objects and famous icons for…

what Andy Warhol did. Warhol was born in August of 1928 in Pennsylvania. When he was a child he had to deal with many challenges. For the first seventeen years of his life he had chronic hypochondria and when he was fourteen his father died. Andy Warhol created an abstract colored silk screen of Campbell Soup Cans. He persisted to innovate ways to overcome his challenges such as his hypochondria as a child. He illuminated the world by changing the way people thought about pop art. Warhol…

“If Andy Warhol had Instagram, it would boom” says Karol Carstensen, TIFF exhibition expert. Much like our social media crazed generation today, Warhol was obsessed with the idea of 24/7 recording. “I think he really anticipated our surveillance society with its reality TV and social media culture,” says Jon Davies, curator of TIFF’s flagship exhibition Andy Warhol: Stars of the Silver Screen. Different than Andy Warhol Revisited’s exhibit of his well-known pop art collection, Stars of the…

Savannah Price 4th Period Compare and Contrast of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein Throughout the past centuries, different styles of art have risen to the surface. The art style that came into focus from the mid 1950s in Britain, even into the 1990s in Russia, was Pop Art. Pop Art was a way for modern artist to challenge what tradition told them, and to be able to create a parallel where art could be included in such things as advertisements and posters. Pop Art…

invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.” -Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol, icon of his time, and one of the most successful artists of the 20th century, Andy Warhol was truly transcendent. His early works of commercial art and magazine spreads changed the way the world viewed magazines and newspapers. Andy Warhol has made a long lasting impact on the pop culture with his abstract paintings? Born Andrew Warhola on August 6, 1928, in Oakland in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Andy Warhol's parents were…