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Analysis Of Ice Box By Andy Warhol

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Andy Warhol broke the barriers and rules of art at the time and came through with his own style which he helped grow and today is known as Pop Art. In his painting Ice Box he used the artistic values of line with contour and calligraphic, he used a simple monochromatic pallet and uses texture and overlap to add a background and change the way art use to be made from the beginning he created art out of the products around him and his art in one way or another fed into the consumerist market. Ice Box is one of his earlier pieces but the viewer can easily see how this piece contains product consumerism imagery and is leading into his style of mixing mediums. After the war, people tried to return to daily life and a picture of a refrigerator stuffed full of food was an image of prosperity. All of the food in the refrigerator is meant to look appetizing and in some way resemble everyone’s fridge at home. Ice Box was a piece Warhol produced before he became well known for his imagery of commercial products thus letting the viewer know Warhol did not simply paint consumer products to be sold as consumer products he painted these subjects because he found some inspiration in them. This was a piece meant to apply to everyone.
The piece Ice Box painted by Andy Warhol in 1961 was created in the first half or his art career this piece is done with oil, ink, and graphite on canvas. It is a 67 by 53 and 1/8 in. piece and can be found in Menil in the Modern and Contemporary Art section.

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