Analysis Of Andy Warhol's Pop-Art

Post-impressionism and Pop Art resulted as an artistic reaction on both sides. Post-Impressionism groups diverse pictorial tendencies that arose in France surroundings to 1880-1905 like reaction to the impressionism. In the other hand pop art was an artistic reaction to abstract expressionism. It can seem surprising the fact that in so short space of time, as soon as a quarter of century, so many evolutions and involutions in the land of art have taken place, mainly considering that until second half of century XIX, the great

The following essay will be analysing the artwork Marilyn Diptych by Andy Warhol which is an acrylic on canvas, silkscreen print. The artwork measures 2054 x 1448 x 20mm and the artwork was painted in the year 1962. The analysis will be done by discussing the following in detail: the formal elements, the size, materials and techniques used, line, shape/form, colour, tone as well as the function and meaning of the piece. The analysis will also cover the historical significance of the piece with the connotative meaning but mainly focussing on the denotative meaning of Marilyn Diptych by Andy Warhol.

Does Pop Art form a critique of post-WWII society and culture or is it a celebration of high

In the same manner that capitalism has been heralded as the “end of history,” has art under the current age of capitalist globalization come to an end as well? In an exchange between two artists, rapper M.I.A and portrait painter Kehinde Wiley for Interview magazine, art has come to its demise, at least in the United States. In claiming such a death of art, both artists used their personal experiences and observations to make a comparative evaluation of the state of art in New York and in developing countries they have visited. This paper analyzes the rhetorical techniques used by both artists – ethos, pathos, and logos – in problematizing what is wrong with the contemporary art scene at the moment.

American art, and its countless mediums, evolved equally with the capitalist country. This is a visual medium and a form of self-expression, where an artists is free to turn a canvas into anything he or she would like. They are not bound by grammar, words or other aspects of written communication and could freely As the old saying goes, "A picture is worth a thousand words”; and in America, their work served as mirrors of the social and political climate. The many painters, architects, and photographers themselves could be considered the archivists that shaped the “all-American” identity.

Warhol often used every day, common images, that were often pointless in our lives but we cannot deny their presence in our lives. Warhol took the most basic of the human needs, for example, appetite for food and made a reproduction of a “Campbell’s Soup Can” to show us how even our simplest of human desires can be replicated by a machine. Warhol also did works that included many repeated images of the same can of soup, suggesting the art of the assembly line. This brings us to the question which

I was looking at a bunch of Warhol’s paintings and I was confused. I was just staring at them and I’m thinking “why don’t you look like a Warhol?’ Then I realize that these paintings are from when he was younger. This was before he defined his aesthetic. I believe this was his discovering phase then he goes into his silk screening phase. Andy Warhol used current icons from the world for his work. One of the famous icons was the Campbell’s soup can. In 1962 Warhol displayed his Campbell's soup piece, one canvas for each 32 types of Campbell's soup. In 1960, Warhol began producing his first canvases, which he based on comic strip subjects. In 1961, he started using the method of silk screening. Silk screening starts with a stencil drawing then transferred with glue onto silk. Warhol's first silkscreen was Campbell’s Soup cans. Campbell’s Soup was an icon in the 1960s that gave you a sense of comfort. In spite of that, Warhol’s Soup Can paintings were to provoke concern about value. At first glance it may seem like a joke but it’s actually a sophisticated and thought-provoking artistic statement. In the 1960s Andy Warhol made a sculpture that was extension of what Warhol had done with the Campbell's Soup Cans, Brillo Boxes. The Brillo Boxes were made out of wood but made to look accurately like the boxes found in the

One of his jobs was to design the weather map for NBC’s morning news. In 1952 Warhol held his first exhibit, it was not a financial success, but it enhanced Warhol’s reputation as a commercial artist. But his spare time was now taken up with pop art, inspired by Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, two young pop artist, Warhol had come across in 1958. He began to paint, draw and print everyday objects such as, dollar bills, soup cans, postage stamps, comic strips, and soda bottles. According to Warhol, these were some of the consumer products “on which America is built.”

When one compares Duchamp’s process of producing these objects to Koons, it is easy to view Koons as an adaptation of that theory, yet an adaptation that almost carelessly and haphazardly capitalizes on the art world’s increasingly confused worship of artists like Duchamp, Rauschenberg and Warhol. In observing this group of artists, we begin to see a neatly unfolding chronology that places Duchamp at the top whom subsequently influences Rauschenberg and Johns who then propagate the emergence of Warhol who then directly begets Koons. These artists both criticize and celebrate commercial culture making it the subject of their work. It is Koons however, who emerged to artistic prominence in an era of extreme media saturation, and therefore presents a body of work that capitalizes on commercial

Andrew Warhola was born August Sixth, 1928, in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. He was the youngest son of Julie and Andrej Warhola, both immigrants from Czechoslovakia. After a quiet childhood spent alternately alone and in art classes, Andrew went to college. He then got a job doing commercial art, largely advertisements for large companies. Over time his name was shortened and Andy Warhol changed the face of modern art. Through his silver lined Factory and the many people who frequented it a revolution was born. This paper will discuss some of these people and examine the impact they all made on modern art.

The Campbell's Soup Can series, along with his other series, provided Warhol with a chance to express his positive view of modern culture. It is also clear that Warhol relished his popularity and fame. Warhol personifies a new type of start, a creator, producer, actor, and businessman. This is an idea that hadn’t been blunt in my mind until now. It is clear to me that pieces like “32 Soup Cans” be created not only for the sake of art but for the sake of business and

In order to discuss pop art I have chosen to examine the work and to some extent lives of Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol who were two of the main forces behind the American movement. I intend to reflect the attitudes of the public and artists in America at this time, while examining the growing popularity of pop art from its rocky, abstract expressionist start in the 1950s through the height of consumer culture in the 60s and 70s to the present day.

Warhol’s work separates execution from concept, attesting that it is the artist’s mind that matters. The greatest

Some of the communicative theories produced by these pictures are very meaningful. “The Gun” shows us what Andy Warhol may have felt in his life at the time of the painting. Warhol sees his life

pop art, is a type of art that came to the americas in the late half of the 1950’s. It was introduced i britain earlier. The artists that introduced it to britain were, Richard Hamiliton and Eduardo Paolozzi. The artists who introduced america to pop art were, Robert Rauschenberg and jasper johns. While the british did pop art before the americans, europeans predated both of them. Founded in London of 1952, the independent group is referred to as the fathers of pop art. Pop art, can be found all over the world in many different countries, it truly went global.