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    Coca-Cola as a common language. “What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest” (Warhol). Not focusing on the individual things but the share abundance of things is what reflected the spread of mass manufacturing and the growing American consumer culture. In 1962 Warhol painted “Coca-Cola [4]”. This painting is of a Coca-Cola bottle that is bigger than the viewer. This painting of a coke…

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    Change Your Problems Into Celebrity Status “If you wear a wig everybody notices. If you dye the wig, everyone notices the dye” and that is exactly 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…

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    Evaluation of consumerism on the Pop Art Movement The Pop Art Movement began shortly after World War 2 reached its end in 1945. The Pop Art Movement originated in the 1950’s / 1960’s, emerging from a society which was plagued with consumerism. The 1950’s / 1960’s was when consumerism was at its strongest point and the Pop Art Movement was able to be born from this massive level of consumerism that was in America. Consumerism influenced the Pop Art Movement significantly and without consumerism…

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    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…

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    Animals used in circuses spend most of their lives chained inside boxcars and never get to live without restrictions. In zoos, animals often live in enclosures or cages that are many times smaller than their homes in the wild. In marine parks like SeaWorld, orcas are given what is, all in all, a concrete bathtub to live in. Elephants are clever, considerate, and affectionate animals. They have the largest brains of any land animal. They care about each other and can become depressed when they…

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    Pop art is a visual art movement that emerged in the 1950’s. Pop art came out in Britain and The United States culture. The origin of the name “Pop art” is unknown but it’s often credited to a British art critic named “Lawrence Alloway”. In Lawrence Alloway’s essay titled “The Arts and Mass Media”, even though he would not exactly use the words “Pop” and “Art”, he was one of the high level critics to approve Pop Art as a legitimate art form. Characterized by bold, simple and everyday imagery and…

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    Roy Fox Lichtenstein was born in New York City to a German-Jewish family. He grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with his father Milton, a real-estate broker, his mother Beatrice, a homemaker, and his younger sister Renee. Roy Lichtenstein was one of the first American Pop artists to reach well-known notoriety, and he became a lightning rod for condemnation of the society. His early work alternated widely in style and topic matter, and displayed significant empathetic of modernist…

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    existed amongst characters. One main theme and message that I felt was to stay true to yourself and always be who you really are. I feel this is a central theme because it pertains to many different characters, whether it be Prior, Louis, Joe, Harper, or Roy, and also pertains to different themes within the play, such as sexuality and visions for the future. To begin, Prior and Louis go through…

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    so I changed it. My goal was to capture what I imagine was Tony Kushner’s idea of the character and portray him correctly, and also to determine whether I could play a confronting, very stubborn man such as Roy. I did some research on Roy’s character and found he was based off the actual Roy Cohn an American Attorney, well known for his prominent role in The Rosenberg Trials. So I knew it…

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    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…

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