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    money he had towards Andy’s college tuition. Andy used to money to enroll in Carnegie Institute for Technology (now called Carnegie Mellon University) where he studied pictorial design. Andy graduated college and later came out with the idea of Pop Art. Pop Art is paintings that focused on mass-produced commercial goods. Andy Warhol also opened his own studio called “The Factory” which locals loved to visit. Andy Warhol was 58 when he died and his legacy will live on for many years after…

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    Andy Warhol's Life

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    Born in Pittsburgh in August 6, 1928. Andy Warhol discovered many things, for one pop art. But before he knew he was good at it, he was diagnosed with sydenham’s chorea. Often he would stay home and lay in bed as he would do that he listened to the radio and collect pictures of movies stars. As he progressed with his mother encouragement he started to be obsessed with pop culture and celebrities. As his father died at the age of fourteen, he left money for his children for higher education.…

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    Andy Warhol was a successful ad and magazine illustrator who became a leading artist of the pop art movement in the 1960’s. Warhol was born on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was always a very quiet and people thought of him as an introvert. Throughout his lifetime, he went into a wide variety of performing arts, including filmmaking, video installation, and writing. He also controversially blurred the lines between fine art and mainstream aesthetics. Andy Warhol died at the age…

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    Dennis Stock was born July 4, 1928, in tThe Bronx, New York City, NY. Stock had a love for photography early on in life but decided to join the army instead of pursuing the art. He joined the U.S. Navy in 1947 through 1951. When he was discharged Stock decided to try and earn an apprenticeship with Gjon Mili. While working, Stock was mostly placed in Holloywood settings after joining Magnum in 1951. Stock began to make it in the industry after his apprenticeship with Life magazine's…

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    “If you would like the job at Lucca’s it is yours, you just need to come in and interview with Ken” Jasmine told me over the phone. “I need to know if you want it by the time I am off of work tonight” she continued, “I have to get back to work, see you at eight when you pick me up.” Do I want to work at this restaurant? For Ken, the guy who keeps Jasmine late and calls her at the last minute? The guy who never gave her the raise? The guy who never cares about requested days off? Why would I…

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    painting “Drowning Girl” is an appropriated image from the 1962 DC comic book, Secret Hearts #83, drawn by Tony Abruzzo. It also incorporates elements of the well-known Hokusai print “The Great Wave off Kanagawa”. In keeping with pop art tenets, Lichtenstein borrows from pop culture while removing it from context in order to make his statement. Initial criticisms accused Lichtenstein of merely copying and not creating. But Lichtenstein made conscious choices about the subject of his…

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    My favorite song is Humble and Kind by Tim Mcgraw its topic is pushes out is to be Humble and Kind to all people. Humble and Kind by Tim Mcgraw explains to treat everybody with kindness and to be humble cause you will regret when you are older if you weren’t. In the song Tim Mcgraw says “Always stay humble and kind” what this line to me is that you need to be humble and kind no matter who you are because people notice that and being a good person can help you in anything. When Tim Mcgraw says…

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    My initial impression of the image is that it is a picture of a race riot copied four times and colored to look like the American flag. By changing the color of the picture Warhol might be commenting on the subject matter of the race riot by saying that it doesn’t matter that the people are black or white everyone deserves to be treated the same. Maybe Warhol feels that this picture is the best representation of America at that point in time. It is most important for Warhol to imbue this image…

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    Andy Warhol was a pioneer of American pop and modern art. He broke the boundaries between popular art, and pure art and led revolutionary changes in visual arts such as film, advertising, and design as well as art. He seems like he had intuitive insights into contemporary culture, society and intuition to visualize it. I think Andy Warhol was one of the artists that expresses his creative business management skills. He chose subjects and materials from generally well known things, such as coke…

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    Pop Art Research Paper

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    He was an artist during the Pop Art era and he mass produced his artwork. Pop Art was speaking about the culture and society around the artists. A few pieces of his artwork are Four Marilyns, Gold Marilyn Monroe, and Twenty Jackies, which were all made around 1962. A good amount of his artwork was very popular because he…

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