Andy Warhol's Album Cover

In the featured pop art piece “Race Riot,” the artist, Andy Warhol, depicts racial tension that often occurred in the mid 20th century. During the 1960s, racism was on a high among the American people, with a particular focus on the African American race that was trying to pass the American Civil Rights Movement. The art piece addresses not only Warhol’s political views, but also the inequality people faced in a land that was meant to be “free”.

The photo I chose was The Beatles abbey road album cover. This photo is iconic because it is the album cover photo for the last album they ever produced in 1969.

Two hands are bound in a golden tape, in the middle of the cover. All the surrounding is very dark so they are the principal subject of the album cover. The only light present in this image comes in front of the hands, and it makes all the particular detailed. All the anatomical details are very visible and they make the hands realistic. At the height of the wrists there are many spider webs that link the hands to the two bottom corners of the album cover.

Andy Warhol was born August 6th 1928, in Forest City, Pennsylvania. His family comes from the Austria-Hungary Empire. His father came over from there in 1912 and then sent for his mother to come over here in 1921.

In the late 1900’s the art world became even more evolved from Impressionism, Fauvism, Futurism, and Abstract styles of art. Neo-Expressionism, a style of painting, and some sculpture, which emerged in the early 1980s, usually characterized by a return to figuration in expressive, gestural, and sometimes brashly aggressive works. This art movement was mostly associated with artist from New York like Julian Schnabel, David Salle, and Eric Fischl (Artsy.com). Of these artist there was one African-American, by the name of Jean-Michel Basquiat, genius of his time, and currently one of the world’s most renounced artist. His shaky upbringing along with his feelings towards situations in his personal life and cultural issues during is time,

When the Rolling stones became famous, they were first known for their controversial clothing style. In 1963, The Rolling Stones acquired a new manager by the name of Andrew Oldham. Oldham was working with the Beatles at the time and saw the Stones as being an “Anti-Beatles. He reported it to the press to give them a “Bad boys” look (Schwartz). This caught the attention of the mainstream media and eventually popularized the Stones beyond belief.

To complete my project I decided to visit the museum of contemporary art. The piece I’m going to focus on is Andy Warhol’s Telephone, which was painted in 1961. I had already chosen to do my essay on this piece because I’d been interested in Warhol and his overarching themes of consumerism and product idolization in America. Although this piece isn’t blatantly judging America and its materialistic mentality, I like the commentary he was attempting to make about traditional and modern forms of art.

ost artists who lived anytime before the 20th century were never truly allowed to have the power to choose what they preferred to paint or draw. Artists were constantly being told what to paint by religious officials or royal monarchies. However, the world during the 1950's and 1960's was going through major cultural changes that it had never experienced before. Finally the world of art wasn't centered around just portraits of the royal family or religious symbols. Artists were allowed to express themselves in anyway they desired which ultimately created a whole new category of art. This transition of art created many openings for people such as Andy Warhol.

Andrew Warhola was born on August 6th, 1928 just outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was the third son of Slovakian immigrants Julia and Ondrej, whom moved to the United States in 1914. Throughout his entire childhood they were very poor, with his father working as a coal miner and mother creating different crafts to sell around the neighborhood. From an early age, Andrew was extremely shy and had trouble making friends. While his brothers and father saw this as a flaw, his mother embraced it. She tried to find activities that he enjoyed that did not involve interacting with other kids. This all culminated in finding out that he loved to draw. At around 5 years old, Andrew and his mother would spend all their free time drawing in their kitchen (Burns et al.). While many thought this could not be good for him, it was ultimately the start of a fantastic career as a distinguished artist that led to him becoming one of the world’s most recognizable icons of the time.

The year Warhol began the Death and Disaster series was also the year of the exhibition of his most notable contributions to pop art, the Campbell’s Soup Cans. Throughout his career Warhol simultaneously worked on different series and projects, but in the early sixties the energy of his Pop works contrasted dramatically with his macabre series on violent death. Henry Geldzahler recalled midnight phone calls from Andy in the mid-sixties when he said he was afraid of dying if he went to sleep. “He wouldn’t fall asleep until dawn cracked because sleep equals death and night is fearsome, and if you fall asleep at night, you’re not quite sure about waking up again.” Andy Warhol’s obsession with death began long before his

Sukripa Ranjit Dennis Boatright Arts 1301 22st February 2017 Viewed at modern art museum of Fort Worth (February 19th, 2017) Twenty-Five Colored Marilyn’s As a student of art, going to an art museum is the best way to completely encounter a masterpiece. Just by looking a sculpture or a painting, we cannot fully experience the work of art.

Artist Robert Williams’ popular, yet controversial artwork was Guns n Roses’ 1987 album cover for Appetite for Destruction. It’s a graphic description of rape and was considered a huge problem for retailers. When they refused to stock the band’s album on their shelves, the record’s cover was changed to a much simpler artwork.

If you look on the cover of Abbey Road you can see Paul is the only one out of step and barefoot, to drawing slightly more attention to Paul. Foreign religions are often buried barefoot. The Beatles, shown walking in a specific order; John dressed in white, as a religious person would be. Ringo dressed as an undertaker. Paul, shabby suited and barefoot, resembles a corpse; and finally George, in old jeans, is a gravedigger. The cover of Abbey Road is a funeral procession. Paul also seems to be holding a cigarette-the nail to the coffin—in his right hand, and any Beatle fan knows Paul is left-handed. These all are all subtle hints as to whom we are seeing on the cover perhaps is not Paul McCartney but in fact a replacement who filled his spot.

The movie “Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol” describes his work as being focused on sex,

Member of Manfred Mann, Klaus Voormann, designed the iconic cover for The Beatles that John Lennon questions about during an interview with Jann Wenner. "Revolver" their album cover title, does not refer to a gun it actually refers to a Ringo Starr pun coming to the conclusion that an album revolves like the revolver gun. I really enjoy how open and triggered to stand out they are with their art, that's why I think the album is beautiful.