I was first introduced to Andy Warhol at my old school, Pathways. We were assigned to do some of his artwork on Adobe Photoshop and this is when I became interested in his artwork and the techniques he used. I chose to do my project on Andy Warhol to learn more about him. Andy Warhol was a famous artist born in America on August 6, 1928 and unfortunately he died at age 59 on February 22, 1987, leaving behind an...
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In this essay I will address how Andy Warhol’s religious beliefs shaped and directed his art and why religion matters in the history of American Modernism. Andy Warhol was very much engaged in the material culture of his art and religion, particularly his Catholic faith. Andy Warhol, the modern artist, made hundreds of pictures of religious subjects throughout his busy and complexed career, especially towards the end of his life. More than 100 paintings and drawings, based on Leonardo’s the...
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Andy Warhol was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during the Great Depression. His family was from Slovakia, a country in central Europe. As immigrants, his family struggled to support themselves in America’s time of economic distress. According to Biography, Warhol grew up immersed in his Slovakian culture (“Andy Warhol”). When he was eight, he was diagnosed with a disease called Chorea. Warhol suffered from impaired movement and balance along with physical imperfections. While he was limited of activities due to the...
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Andy Warhol is one of the most influential artists of all time, spearheading the pop art movement, one of his most famous works is “Campbell’s soup cans” from 1962. “Campbell’s soup cans” is an artwork that is comprised of thirty-two 20 by 16-inch canvases, each canvas was hand painted, and they were all identical, save from the flavor of soup. There were 32 cans painted by Warhol in total, one for each variety of soup the Campbell’s soup company produced...
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Through this paper, it was proven that Andy Warhol has influenced the ways that Ed Paschke manifests the creations of his artwork. With Andy Warhol's use of color and style, Ed Paschke used visually similar aspects to portray his style of Pop art. Andy Warhol's artworks of 'The Scream After Munch 1984' and 'Muhammad Ali 1978' influenced the ways that Ed Paschke manifests the creations of his artworks 'Femme Noir 1987' and 'Boxer with Masque 2004' through his use of...
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The conceptual framework is a model designed to represent the four interactive, interrelated and interdependent agencies of the artwork – the world, artist, audience and artwork. Here, the concept of the ‘artist’ encompasses practitioners such as artists, craftspeople, designers and architects. The ‘world’ refers to how interests in the world are represented in art (e.g. art as a representation of experience, class, culture, time, ideology, age, and events of significance). It indicates both the world of the artist and the...
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Andy Warhol’s art piece, Heinz Tomato Ketchup box, is a sculpture and exact representation of a Heinz tomato ketchup box. The sculpture itself was constructed using wood panels and the graphics printed on the sides were done by the use of a silkscreen printing method. The sculpture is free as there is nothing holding it down on the base of it. The graphics printed on the sides are in red paint and consist of the same information a regular Heinz...
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Born in 1928, Andy Warhol made a big impact on the art world. In 1949, he graduated from Carnegie Mellon School of Art, where he studied Pictorial Design. By the late 1950s, he was living in New York, working as a highly in demand commercial artist and later on went on to work in the fine arts as a strong believer of the pop art movement. This paper will compare and contrast two of Andy Warhol’s works of art from...
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Andy Warhol was an influential artist, designer, and printmaker, known for being a leader in the pop art movement of the 1950s and 1960s, which stressed a major shift away from traditional themes in art and toward modernism. With the art of Warhol and his contemporaries, the subject matter became far from traditional ‘high art’ themes of morality, mythology, and classic history; rather, pop artists celebrated commonplace objects and people of everyday life, in this way seeking to elevate popular...
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Artist tried to create art which everyone could understand and corelate. They tried to incorporate imagery and materials from their daily environment; thus, pop art was born. One of the most recognizable and influential development of the 20th century was pop art. It was a strong movement, that emerged from Britain and America in the 1950s. Pop art used everyday objects and mass media influences to produce a relatable sense of contemporary art. Pop art challenges the norm and traditional...
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