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Andy Warhol Was A Big inspiration to the Pop Art movement that started in the 1950’s. His Campbell’s Soup and Marilyn Monroe Paintings Made him a really famous painter in the Twenty First Century. Andy Warhol changed the world by Showing color in his paintings and showing what would happen if it was a different color in every different painting he did. He made it iconic and popular especially with his marolyn and campbell’s soups. Born in August 16, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was the…

artistic mediums like portraits and more abstract ones like jewelry and metal work. On the more painting orientated side of things, he was also brilliant at religious history oriented paintings, altarpieces, miniature portraits, illustrations and printmaking. He had a very strong hold on creating three dimensional form and space with realistic detail. Moving onto his most prominent medium portraits, his styled was centered around objective precis on where he reflected his subjects’ inner…

She shares how to tap into children’s innate creativity. Also emphasized are the six basic media including: drawing, painting, collage, clay, printmaking, and construction. Beal discusses all the aspects of teaching art including, how to introduce materials, classroom set-up to encourage exploration, what supplies to get, and how to ask questions that help the students make meaningful and personal…

Pablo Picasso was one of the most influential Spanish artist of the twentieth century. Picasso was so great at what he did that his art work, still lives on today and influences artist all around the world. Even though, Picasso was best known for his great paintings and sculptures, he also was one of the people that created one of the art movements known as cubism. Picasso painted people and events in his life. He was good for showing diversity in his paintings. At a young age many people knew…

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Warhol was an American artist influenced by several other artists. Some artists would be Jean-Michel Basquiat, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Truman Capote. He was mostly known for his famous pop art but also did printmaking, painting, cinema, and photography. One of the nicknames that were given to him was “The Pope of Pop”. Some of his most famous artworks from 1962 are the Campbell’s soup cans, Marilyn Diptych, Green Coca-Cola Bottles, Gold Marilyn Monroe and…

Pop art is one of the defining art movements of the twentieth century; now being promptly recognisable and generally understood, it is much a part of popular culture as art history. Pop Art had a great number of artists who explored their work through this movement. One artist being David Hockney, who is an English Pop/Modernist Artist, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer born in 1937 Bradford, UK. During the Pop Art movement, Hockney painted his most recognisable and…

the early 20th century, best known for his expressive color and form of his Fauvist style. Henri Matisse was born December 31, 1869, in Le Cateau in northern France. During a 6 decade career, he worked in all media, from painting to sculpture to printmaking. Although his subjects were traditional—nudes, figures in landscapes, portraits, interior views—his revolutionary use of brilliant color and exaggerated form to express emotion made him one of the most influential artists of the 20th…

the Twenty-Five Colored Marilyns is one of the silkscreened paintings he created. He made this painting after Monroe’s suicide. His source for the painting came from a close-up of Monroe in the movie Niagara. Warhol used a type of commercial printmaking to duplicate Monroe’s face. The pictures on the left side are brightly colored and the ones on the right side of the painting are black and white. Some people think the bright color pictures represent Monroe’s life; the black and white…

Art, defined by Merriam-Webster, is the “conscious use of skill and creative imagination, especially in the production of aesthetic objects, acquired by experience, study or observation”. Such a basic definition for the broad aspects of what art really is and who creates it. Artists, though out time, have defined what art is. They did not define art just by the skill of it though. They defined art in such a way that it related to life, morals and movements, and still does to this day. Art came a…

The thing that stands out in MC Escher is the fictitious reality that grasps our imagination when we experience his art. Escher’s art consisted of woodwork, optical illusions and printmaking. Most believe that Escher must have had a complex mind to be able to conjure elaborate two and three-dimensional planes that falsely tickle our mind. When art critics have interviewed Escher they try to pick his mind to see how he developed ideas that had so much depth and perception, finding out about his…