The Andy Warhol Museum

Modernism and the cold war can be regarded as the twin shaping forces on cultural production in the 1950s. When some ardent practitioners tried to move beyond modernist art, others retreated from it, but it remained the defining aesthetic paradigm of the decade. As historical mode modernism became institutionalised in the 1950s as established by the Nobel laureate trio comprising the modernist writers Faulkner, Eliot and Hemingway. Kitsch and modernism were deeply entangled during the period.…

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…

to each other. Pop art was widespread reaching countries from the United States to Japan. This rising culture of pop art gave way to two of the greatest artists of the modern era, Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol. One of the most notable and well known artists of this period was Andy Warhol. Warhol had humble beginnings, coming from an Eastern European immigrant family. He quickly rose to high society though as an adult and was the highest paid commercial illustrator in New York city before he…

ARTISTS LOOK AHEAD Andy Warhol started to become successful in the late 40’s creating illustrations for Glamour magazines. By the early 60’s Warhol began to be known for his comic like painting of subjects derived from advertisements. Subjects like the Campbell soup can or Coca-Cola. Warhol was rather shy and always observed, he would carry a camera to capture objects or famous people. Later he would turn those photographs into silk screen prints and reproduce them as his iconic pop art canvases…

society. With the terms used by Richard Hamilton, pop art was the reflection of a superficial American society which set its values in fast paced, easily comprehensible and mass consumer art. (217) Part 2- Two key artists of the pop art movement (Andy…

Keith Haring was a famous artist in Pop Art and Graffiti Art. His works were deemed as quite controversial as it touched on subjects that were seen as a taboo at the time, such as sex. Toward the end of the 1980s, Keith Haring created this painting to face the absurd stereotypes surrounding the AIDS illness. The main spark of this movement is that many of his friends were dying of AIDS. He is strongly committed to fighting this disease and put his notoriety on the line for this cause. He also…

the image. Many say he was the first artist during this time to use this technique. Even though he was a well-known Pop Artist, he never saw himself that way. Rosenquist stated that, “What united us [by which he meant other “Pop artists” such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Claes Oldenburg] you might say, was dread of the drip, the splash, the schmear, combined with an ironic attitude toward the banalities of American consumer culture. If anything, you might say we were anti-pop…

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…

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 bottle is globally recognized because no matter who you were you drink coke, everyone from movie stars to poor people in the streets drink coke. With this one painting Andy…

By the age of nine, Andy Warhola had taken a deep interest in photography when his mother purchased him his first camera. Photography became so important to him, his parents allowed him to turn their basement into a black room. Andy Warhola’s love for art was so appealing that he attended free art classes at his elementary school. After losing his father in 1942, Warhola suffered…