The Andy Warhol Museum

Table of Contents Page 1 Title Page 2 Abstract 3 Table of Contents 4 Introduction 5 “Not since the Titanic ran into that iceberg has there been such a collision as when Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable burst upon the audiences at The Trip Tuesday. For once a Happening really happened, and it took Warhol to come out from New York to show how it’s done.” Novelist and Eastern thought expert Nancy Wilson…

The artists’ collective use reproduction and humour to spread information and to create a dialogue which is often critical of specific institutions (brand). The Guerrilla Girls art work Do women have to be naked to get into the Met[ropolitian] Museum, an example of which is displayed in the “Media Networks” gallery, (see Figure 3) is a type of feminist satire that involves the viewer knowing the original work of art and serves to criticise the original (brand). In this case, the head of a…

In 1964, artist Ellsworth Kelly painted two simple rectangles of blue and yellow. Tim Nobel collects trash from the streets of London and refers to the trash piles as contemporary art. The Museum of Modern Art displays a folding lawn chair chosen by well-known artist Joseph Kosuth. Each of these representations of art provokes the debate discussing what is technically considered to be a piece of art work. Even though Kelly, Nobel, and Kosuth claimed to create different pieces of art, what…

Marisol also appeared in several movies by Andy Warhol, “The Kiss” and “13 Most Beautiful Girls”. Marisol started to accept that her fame could help her status and help boost her art career. But in 1968 she started to travel the world and in five years time she experimented with her art. Marisol started…

portraiture’s evolving processes and uses, it is clear how it has consistently given a face to the abstract or untouchable. The arc of this growing flexibility of perception is apparent when juxtaposing the Daguerreotype portrait of Frederick Douglas (1847), Andy Warhol’s silkscreen Self-Portrait (1967) and Juliana Huxtable’s ink-jet photograph titled Untitled in the Rage…

(David Hockney: The Biography, 1975-2012). Along these lines, "subsequent to going to the review of a nineteenth century French craftsman, Hockney saw uncanny specialized likenesses to illustrations that Andy Warhol had followed from slide-anticipated photos. Realizing that the instruments Warhol had utilized obviously weren't accessible in the 1800's, Hockney started inquiring about. It wasn't some time before he ran over camera Lucida, a little crystal mounted toward the finish of a metal arm…

A. Different museums in the L.A. area i. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art was first established in 1910 in Exposition Park and in 1965 it was opened to the public in its new Wilshire Boulevard location. Since 1965, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has been devoted to collecting works of art is both historic and geographic. Today the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is the largest art museum in the western United States, with a collection that includes over 120,000 artworks dating from…

As I swished the paddle through the lake and back up, I felt the warm sunshine against my face, and cold little sprinkles of water on my hand, it felt as if someone sprinkling a salt shaker on my hand. I looked up from the water to see the air filled with beautiful green trees staring back at me. I could just smell the aroma of bushy pines. I could hear the voices of other kids and parents talking. I looked back down at Glendale lake and saw a bundle of small gray fish swimming through the…

Neo-expressionism movement in the mid 1980’s. Born in Brooklyn, New York of December 22, 1960, Basquiat was born a self-taught artist when he was a young boy. His mother would encourage his artistic talents and inspired him by taking him to art shows and art museums. In the late 1970’s, Basquiat’s started off creating graffiti on public walls under the name “SAMO.” SAMO is a corrupted acronym created by Basquiat himself by him saying “SAMe Old Sh...” (Emmerling 12). This idea was created between…

my Introduction to Art class, a visit to an art museum was required. I decided to visit the Art Institute of Chicago. This was my fist time in an art museum in the United States. Previously, I visited an art museum in Mexico, but my experience was completely different. In the Art Institute, I saw many different types and forms of art. Many of the pieces I saw during my visit to this museum were by authors mentioned during class including Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, Jeff Koons, and Felix…