Andy Warhol & Jean-Michel Basquiat

There have been different art forms that have come and go over the course of time. Hence I will discuss, two significant movements like Post-impressionism and Pop art. Two important artists from these movements are, Vincent Van Gogh and Andy Warhol. There are many differences and very few similarities between these two movements and artists, although more differences. Van Gogh is one of the most captivating artists of post-impressionism. . Throughout his career Van Gogh has painted many works. One of those magnificent paintings is “Starry Night” by Vincent Van Gogh. In the other hand we will discuss one of the popular paintings “ Gold Marilyn” by Andy Warhol. Warhol is also the most famous of the Pop Artists and played a major role in making the art movement popular.

Attention Getter: The American culture is so engulfed into consumerism that we take every day items and objects for granted we don 't necessarily realize the impact and importance to have on our life and how we live vicariously through them. Today I 'm going to talk about one man that took these concepts into his artistic ability and thereby created a whole new culture in what we see is art today. This man who is considered one of the fathers of pop art goes by the name of Andy Warhol.

While the painters after the Impressionism period were collectively called the “Post-Impressionists,” the label is quite reductive. Each artist had their own unique style, from Seurat’s pointillism to Signac’s mosaic-like divisionism, Cezanne, Émile Bernard, and others. These artists were all connected in that they were reacting to the aesthetics of Impressionism. Two of the more influential painters from this movement were Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, who aimed to connect with viewers on a deeper level by access Nature’s mystery and meaning beyond its superficial, observable level. However, each artist’s approach to achieving this goal was different. In close examination of Vincent van Gogh’s Self-Portrait (Dedicated to Paul Gauguin) and Paul Gauguin’s Self-Portrait with Portrait of Émile Bernard (Les misérables), one may clearly see the two artists’ contrasting styles on display.

Graffiti portrays contemporary sub-cultured art through its versatility and bold attractiveness on the communal grounds. In the 1970s, graffiti was blatantly acknowledged as territorial graffiti where

The Black Arts movement refers to a period of “furious flowering” of African American creativity beginning in the mid-1960’s and continuing through much of the 1970’s (Perceptions of Black). Linked both chronologically and ideologically with the Black Power Movement, The BAM recognized the idea of two cultural Americas: one black and one white. The BAM pressed for the creation of a distinctive Black Aesthetic in which black artists created for black audiences. The movement saw artistic production as the key to revising Black American’s perceptions of themselves, thus the Black Aesthetic was believed to be an integral component of the economic, political, and cultural empowerment of the Black

The intersection of social movements and Art is one that can be observed throughout the civil right movements of America in the 1960’s and early 1970’s. The sixties in America saw a substantial cultural and social change through activism against the Vietnam war, women’s right and against the segregation of the African - American communities. Art became a prominent method of activism to advocate the civil rights movement. It was a way to express self-identity as well as the struggle that people went through and by means of visual imagery a way to show political ideals and forms of resistance. To examine how a specific movement can have a profound effects on the visual art, this essay will focus on the black art movement of the 1960s and

Society seems to change and advance so rapidly throughout the years but there has always seemed to be a history, present, and future when it comes to the struggles of the African Americans. The hatred of a skin tone has caused people to act in violent and horrifying ways including police brutality, riots, mass incarcerations, and many more. There are three movements the renaissance, civil rights, and the black lives matter movements that we have focused on. Our artist come from different eras but have at least one similarity which is the attention on black art.

Wiley was born in 1977 in crime-laden South Central, Los Angeles, and was enrolled in weekend art classes at California State, Los Angeles, by his mother to keep him away from neighborhood dangers. He later received his bachelor’s degree in 1999 at the San Francisco Art Institute, and then a master’s degree in 2001 at Yale. His first artist residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem began his practice of street casting black men with attitudes of self-confidence. The casting for his work has spread internationally with his latest body of paintings, The World Stage, to locations such as China, Lagos and Dakar, Brazil, India and Sri Lanka, Israel,

When Jean-Michel Basquiat was invigorating the oppressed art movement of street art, Madonna was an upcoming singer. After a couple of years, and while he was creating amongst, with and for the LA and New York’s art elite, Madonna was still an unknown but aspiring entertainer and they were together.

Jean-Michel Basquiat emerged from the punk scene in New York as a street-smart graffiti artist. He successfully crossed over his downtown origins to the international art gallery circuit. Basquiat’s work is one of the few examples of how an early 1980’s American graffiti-based could become a fully recognized artist. Despite his work’s unstudied appearance, Basquiat very skillfully and purposefully brought together in his art a host of disparate traditions, practices and styles to create a unique kind of visual collage. His work is an example of how American artists of the 1980’s could reintroduce the human figure in their work after the wide success of minimalism and conceptualism.

1) Andy Warhol’s Race Riot a) Andy Warhol’s Birmingham Race Riot exhibits two of the four roles of a traditional artist; he makes a visual record of his current time and he has a hidden message in the artwork. Through this piece, Warhol records a powerful visual of America’s peak of racial tension in the 60’s. This was also a part of the Death and Disasters series, and captured his feelings of disgust for the racial divide. He wanted his audience to realize the riots were the root of disaster in America and would lead to its eventual death.

This standard that has been projected onto him defined what it meant to be a successful hip-hop artist: consistent style and content despite the pressures of comforting to upper-class society’s standards. Decades have passed since the height of Basquiat’s artistic career, yet he is still remembered as a central figure in hip-hop as well as in American popular culture as a whole. His piece “Untitled (1982)” was recently sold for $110.5 million, shattering records for the price of a piece of American artwork (Pogrebin). In the wake of Basquiat’s post-humous achievement, hip-hop is becoming an increasingly accepted part of popular culture. Items associated with urban street culture were inducted into the Museum of Modern Art (Smith).

When I heard that many galleries turned down Basquiat’s artwork down I was puzzled because the art pieces in an art gallery are not supposed to look alike they should be diverse. Jean Michel Basquiat’s paintings are colorful and different from anything I have ever seen and I believe the art galleries should have given him a chance since he was starting off on a good path. Although art galleries would turn Basquiat down, his painting went from “5,000-30,000”. A lady who was a close friend of Basquiat stated that she would go over his house and see money hidden around the house or even laying on the floor. At this point I believe Basquiat did not know what to do with the money since, he was living off the streets, and this is way he reacted the way he did towards it. At this time, he also meets a man named Andy who turns into a colleague and close

A great artist once wrote, “If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced”. This artist was Vincent van Gogh, soon to be an appraised artist known all around the world for his works, such as Starry Night. He is one of the very first artists of the post-impressionist style than is now adored in every continent. However, there is much more to the man than one painting. Creating a full timeline that stretches beyond Gogh’s life, this paper will discuss the life of Vincent van Gogh and the impression he made on the world.

Affected by broad social and cultural change, the way art was sold and displayed. In this case, the work Portrait of Dr. Gachet gained fame under the interaction of a series of collectors, critics and curators. But what I hadn’t expected before reading Saltzman’s book was the truth that initially van Gogh was famous by his mysterious life and