Andy 'Pope of Pop' Warhol

Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhol on August 6, 1928, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was an American artist who was a main figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works investigate the relationship between imaginative expression, superstar culture, and promoting that thrived by the 1960s. After a fruitful career as a business artist, Warhol turned into a famous and here and there disputable artist. His specialty utilized many sorts of media, including hand drawing, painting, printmaking

Andy Warhol was a Commercial Illustrator, Artist, Filmmaker, and Author. Andy Warhol’s parents came from a village in the Carpathian Mountains, what we known as Slovakia. Andy was the third child born to his Czechoslovakian immigrant parents in a the social group consisting of people who are employed for wages in the community of Pittsburgh. Growing up, Andy was very intelligent and creative. By the age of eight years old Andy came down with rheumatic an abnormally high body temperature that caused

Andy Warhol: Commercial Illustrator, Artist, Filmmaker, and Author Andy Warhol’s parents came from a village in the Carpathian Mountains, in what is now Slovakia. Andy was the third child born to his Czechoslovakian immigrant parents in a working class neighborhood of Pittsburgh. As a child, Andy was smart and creative. When Andy was eight years old he came down with rheumatic fever causing him to miss two months of school that year. He spent his time at home reading comic books and movie star magazines

This was one of the many famous quotes uttered by the eccentric yet revolutionary artist, Andy Warhol. At first one might think this quote would be the word of an advertising agent and indeed it is. This very idea, however, is what created the commercialized idea of Pop Art in the 1960s. Andy Warhol’s background as a commercial illustrator provided him with the ability to pioneer a new artistic movement. Warhol highlights the American shift towards consumerism through his work by using the techniques

painter. While some say that DaVinci’s painting is the most famous of all created, many of Andy Warhol’s paintings are also easily recognizable. Almost everyone has seen the Campbell’s Soup Can series Warhol painted or his famous Triple Elvis print. This paper will be focusing on his Marilyn Monroe series, which I will be comparing and contrasting to the Mona Lisa. There are many obvious differences between the two

Michelangelo was commissioned in 1501 by the new republican government to carve a colossal ‘David’, symbol of resistance and independence. Later in 1508 Michelangelo was summoned by Pope Julius II, to the Sistine chapel ceiling; this was Michelangelo’s most celebrated work. Panels portraying key stories from Genesis are surrounded by a framework with additional scenes and figured for a 4 year period. The ceiling endured Michelangelo’s

and became rooted in the avant-garde art world. Surrealism was the fashionable art movement after World War I. Surrealism is and the last major art movement to be associated with the Ecole de Paris. The writer Andre Breton (1896-1966), nicknamed "the Pope of Surrealism", was the movement 's founder and chief theorist. He introduced and defined the new style in his initial 1924 manifesto (Manifeste du Surrealisme) and later in his painting bulletin (Surrealisme et la Peinture). Breton deplored the radical

The Last Supper The Last Supper was painted by da Vinci between 1495 and 1498. It is 15 feet wide by 29 feet long and it is not in a museum, it is in a church. This painting depicts the last supper that was celebrated by Jesus and his disciples, as told in the Gospel of John, and the reactions given by each disciple when Jesus reveals to them that one of them would betray him. Starting from the left and moving to right the each individual figure is as follows: Furthest to the left is Bartholomew

needed to "Damn the Man". The Beats, hippies, and punks are evidence that behind the white picket fence of suburbia lay an America that wanted more out of life than the sugar coated portrayals of domesticity and patriotism it received from pop culture. The unfortunate side of authenticity often lead to the

Here 's a suggestion: Why don 't we take a page from Goldilocks and the Three Bears and learn successful editing by processing our images three times to create the "not too hot, not too cold, but ahhh, this is just right" version of our images. For anyone growing up in suburbia, taking Little Red Riding Hood or Hansel & Gretel too literally may not seem relevant; but as an adult, the more images I process, the more the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears rings true. If Goldilocks used Adobe