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 to overcome his challenges such as his hypochondria as a child. He illuminated the world by changing the way people thought about pop art. Warhol created a styles of art where abstract color is added to popular…
essential to Pop Art Movement as it gave meaning behind works that would have no significant value such as Andy Warhol’s Soup Can series which without consumerism would just be soup cans with…
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…
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…
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…
Andy Warhol. John Lennon. 1985-86. Synthetic polymer and silkscreen on canvas. 40 x 40 1/8in. Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA,(May-October 2005). The artwork I have chosen to describe by Andy Warhol is John Lennon. It is done with synthetic polymer and silkscreen on canvas. I think this piece of art is very different. It’s a realistic painting in the fact that it is based off of the actual person, John Lennon. It is a little abstract because the colours aren’t how you’d normally see a…
Dennis Stock was born July 4, 1928, in tThe Bronx, New York City, NY. Stock had a love for photography early on in life but decided to join the army instead of pursuing the art. He joined the U.S. Navy in 1947 through 1951. When he was discharged Stock decided to try and earn an apprenticeship with Gjon Mili. While working, Stock was mostly placed in Holloywood settings after joining Magnum in 1951. Stock began to make it in the industry after his apprenticeship with Life magazine's…
Andy Warhol was a pioneer of American pop and modern art. He broke 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…
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Elia Kazan created a film adaptation in 1958 of Tennessee Williams’s original play titled Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. This film overall offers an expanded role for Big Daddy, and one scene in particular that clearly shows this extended role is the basement scene (interpolated just for the film), that proves to be very incongruent with Williams’s thoughts on the topics of homosexuality, communication, and narcissism seen throughout his play. Homosexuality, a topic evident in…
Tennessee family which include the state’s first governor and first senator, later changing his name to Tennessee because his father hailed from there. Tennessee Williams got his first taste of the publishing world at the age of 16 when his essay, Can a Good Wife Be a Good Sport, won third prize. At the age of 28, Williams moved to New Orleans, where…