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the phone when there were suspicions of Minnijean going to Central High School. I walked over to the phone in the kitchen. A deep voice, a man’s voice came on. “If anyone in your family comes to that school, I’ll come to your house myself, and shoot all of you“, I ended the call, and stood there for a couple minutes, stunned by what just happened. And ran to mom and dad’s room. “Um, m-mom. We got a phone call “, I stuttered. “I’ll be there in one second honey.“ she didn’t understand. She…

Museum Research Essay For this research trip, I attended a contemporary art museum in Los Angeles down town which called “The Broad” which has around thousands piece of contemporary art collections. Also we can easily find the many different kind of pop art pieces in there. On the second floor, there have many arresting pop art collections, like Roy Lichtenstein’s portrait paintings, Andy Warhol’s soup cans, Keith Haring’s untitled acrylic work, etc… Each one was play the most important role in…

known author, life coach, popular for his principles. The ideas mentioned in the books of the late 1800’s, and the early 1900’s about the idea of “creating a reality” got her started. A whole new world, a whole new way of thinking, even thought it was so new, a part of her was deep inside that was resonating with it, like intuitively there was something to this, she knew this to be too true, except she just really don’t know it yet basically because she was operating on a different plane of…

used their art to influence the development of society. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s commentary of this piece stated, “What made these works significant was Warhol's co-opting of universally recognizable imagery, such as a Campbell's soup can, Mickey Mouse, or the face of Marilyn Monroe, and depicting it as a mass-produced item, but within a fine art context. In that sense, Warhol wasn't just emphasizing popular imagery, but rather providing commentary on how people have come to…

Born with the original name of Andrew Warhola, he was from a humble background, with Slovakian immigrant parents—a construction worker as a father and an embroiderer as a mother. When Warhol was once asked where he was from, he replied with a cryptic “I am from nowhere” with this nowhere being Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Warhol has always been private about the details and said he “never like to give my background” because he “preferred to remain a mystery” (Kattenberg, 1). Warhol does not talk…

My paper focuses on appropriation and how the progression of appropriation continued into Pop Art and what that could’ve translated into American society. I will look at appropriation in art to compare to the cultural values at the time and to go in depth about what it meant to Americans during the 1960s. During the 1960s, the time Pop Art was emerging in America, a war-consumed society was transitioning into a mass cultural embrace of media and art. Pop Art was the art of popular culture. It…

was unexcitable and even more so in a church community. Two years after Andy’s father died he received news that his mother was sick and had cancer. This was another future inspiration because while his mother was sick his brother had cooked Campbell’s soup and sandwiches for him to eat every day for the six weeks that their mother was sick. One that has heard of Andy Warhol may know that his Campbell soup pictures were monumentally famous in the 60’s. Since Andy used so many different mediums…

Artwork from Andy Warhol can now seen be classified as high art for it’s iconic standing and high price tag. While works from Jackson Pollock are still deemed as high art, aspects of mass reproduction of the image in the form of everyday objects such as prints, t-shirts, totes and coffee mugs demain the work by making it available to the masses for a relatively cheap price. Number 1 (Lavender Mist), 1948 by Jackson Pollock is one of the classic art pieces that can be defined as high art. 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 bottles, soup and other everyday objects, and popular masterpieces of…

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 colorful. It draws…