Andy Warhol
Born 1928 - 87
American
painter, film-maker and author. Born in Pittsburgh, originally named Warhol.
Studied pictorial design at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh,
1945-9. Moved to New York in 1949 and worked as a commercial artist; awarded
the Art Directors' Club Medal for his shoe advertisements 1957. First one-man
exhibition of drawings at the Hugo
Gallery, New York, in 1952, and published six books of reproductions of his own
drawings 1954-9. Interested in American popular art, film stars, etc. and in
silkscreen and other reproductive processes. Began in 1960 to make paintings based on
newspaper title pages, advertisements and other mass-produced images, and from
1962 to use silkscreen for the largely mechanical production by himself and
assistants of series of easel paintings of 'Campbell's Soup Cans', 'Coca-Cola
Bottles', portraits of Marilyn
Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Elvis Presley, Jackie Kennedy, and later also car
crashes, the electric chair, flowers and so on, sometimes with rows of repeated
images.
In the early 1960s, he began to
experiment with reproductions based on advertisements, newspaper headlines and
other mass-produced images from American popular culture such as Campbell's
soup tins and Coca Cola bottles. In 1962, he began his series portraits of
Marilyn Monroe, this became a very popular piece of art. Other subjects given
similar treatment included Jackie Kennedy and Elvis Presley. The same year he
took part in the New Realists exhibition in New York, which was the first
important survey of Pop Art.
The
Idea of his Art
Warhol's early commercial illustration
has recently been acclaimed as the arena in which he first learned to
manipulate popular tastes. His drawings were often comic, decorative, and
whimsical, and their tone is entirely different from the cold and impersonal
mood of his Pop art.
Andy Warhol
I like the way Andy Warhol presents his art work as he uses lots of
colours. What makes me interested in his art work is that everything that he
does goes in patterns. If you look at all the images I posted of his paintings
you can see that he has patterns. He also has different colours in his paintings;
his art work is a good example of experimental works. He repeats his work and
then does something different in each of them. What I could recognize is in his
paintings is that when he paints it in a different colour this then expresses
their mood or feelings.
His art amazes me because of the way
he started drawing celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe. If you look at his
paintings again you can see that his paintings relates to the way they colour
or draw comics. This is what mostly made me drawn towards his work; I liked how
he uses the change of tone from dark to light, this then expresses the colour
which then relates to cartoon or comic. I think that is what Andy Warhol was
intending to do in some of his works because he even said it himself in an
interview that he enjoyed cartoons, and that cartoons have different ways of
expressing their self.
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Andy WarholBorn 1928 - 87
Andy Warhol
I like the way Andy Warhol presents his art work as he uses lots of
colours. What makes me interested in his art work is that everything that he
does goes in patterns. If you look at all the images I posted of his paintings
you can see that he has patterns. He also has different colours in his paintings;
his art work is a good example of experimental works. He repeats his work and
then does something different in each of them. What I could recognize is in his
paintings is that when he paints it in a different colour this then expresses
their mood or feelings.
His art amazes me because of the way
he started drawing celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe. If you look at his
paintings again you can see that his paintings relates to the way they colour
or draw comics. This is what mostly made me drawn towards his work; I liked how
he uses the change of tone from dark to light, this then expresses the colour
which then relates to cartoon or comic. I think that is what Andy Warhol was
intending to do in some of his works because he even said it himself in an
interview that he enjoyed cartoons, and that cartoons have different ways of
expressing their self.
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