Pop art

Amy, Amy, Amy. Adobe Photoshop, Amy Winehouse portrait. To make this Pop art inspired artwork, I simply used a picture of Amy Winehouse and manipulated it on Adobe Photoshop to make it look similar to the Marilyn Monroe pop art by Andy Warhol. The source of my inspiration was the Pop Art movement, more specifically Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe and Campbell’s soup repetitive pop art. The reason why this movement inspired me to do my artwork is because I like it. It is very pronounced and…

a leading figure for iconic art, was born on October 27, 1923 in New York City to an upper class Jewish family. He was brought up on the Upper West Side of the city, and was enrolled in boarding school until the age of twelve. Because he was vastly interested in the beautiful music of jazz, he started his skill drawing portraits of the musicians and their musically instrument. During his last year of high school in 1939, Roy Lichtenstein for summer classes at an art school, and there, he worked…

boy, Roy Lichtenstein was inspired by advertisements and comic strips. Lichtenstein was able to make his art work look like it was printed off a giant printer. He was recognized as one of the leaders in the Pop Art movement which included Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist, and Claes Oldenbirg. Lichtenstein’s art provoked debate over the ideas of originality and the fine line between fine art and entertainment. Roy Lichtenstein’s most famous works would be his collection of comic strips, which…

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…

and silkscreen on canvas. 40 x 40 1/8in. Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA,(May-October 2005). The artwork I have chosen to describe by Andy Warhol is John Lennon. It is done with synthetic polymer and silkscreen on canvas. I think this piece of art is very different. It’s a realistic painting in the fact that it is based off of the actual person, John Lennon. It is a little abstract because the colours aren’t how you’d normally see a person in the streets. The hair colours are different…

Andy Warhol was a famous artist in the 21st century. He first began as a simple boy living with his parents. He would always win a contest his mother made up to see who could draw better. Andy was a shy boy who wasn’t very confident with his own looks. When he was a child he had Sydenham’s chorea because of this disease he was bedridden as a child most of the time. He believe this was the most important time of his life, because that’s when he discovered entertainment. Later in life Andy…

Andy Warhol is considered to be a renowned artist in the late 20th century. The most iconic piece is his ‘Campbell’s Soup Cans’ and was one of the leaders of the pop art movement. He did everything from painting to filmmaking to modeling. Looking at his life from a development psychological standpoint, would he consider to live a successful and meaningful life? By analysing his physical, cognitive, social, psychological development throughout his life, it can be determined if he lived a…

Andy Warhol is one of the most relevant artist of the 21st century. He was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. Warhol was considered “the gifted one” for his ability to paint and draw at such a young age. Not to mention he was a highly paid commercial illustrator in New York even before he began to make art destined for galleries. He was the son of a an Eastern European immigrant family in Pittsburgh. with their support andy was a successful…

Andy attended Holmes School in Pittsburgh and attended free art classes at Carnegie Institute. Andy loved art, movies, and frequently went to the local cinema. When Andy was nine, he was given his first camera. Andy converted a section of his parent’s basement into a darkroom where he developed his pictures. In 1945 Andy attended Carnegie Institute of Technology where he majored in Pictorial Design and earned a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts degree. In 1949 Andy graduated from college and shortly after…

When he entered his teenage years he became interested in art. He then graduated from Franklin school and was drafted in ww2. After ww2 he went back to college and finished up his college career. After college, he went to work in commercials. His first painting was from mythology books. He would take pictures from mythology books and would paint pictures. He then started working on pictures that were from comic books. Lichtenstein most famous art piece is "WHAAM" and that is my…