Andy Warhol's Influence On Our Culture

Andy Warhol was born on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He had two older brothers, John and Paul. At the age of six, due to an illness, he was confined to his bed. Andy had chorea. Chorea is a disease that causes involuntary movements, that get worse in situations of stress or anxiety. Some cases it only looked like the kid was clumsy, but in Andy’s case it was pretty bad. Woth that disease, it gave his mother the perfect opportunity to teach her son how to trace, draw, take pictures, and things like that. With his mo His mother bought him his first camera at the age of nine. He went to school at Carnegie Institute ( Carnegie Museum of Art), Schenley High

When considering the life and works of Andy Warhol, one thing is agreed upon for good or bad, he changed the visual construction of the world we live in. His window advertisements were the beginning of an era, where art would be seen in an array of forms away from the traditional paintings and sculptures of the old world. He made people see everyday material objects in a whole new light; through "Pop Art" he could transform mundane into extraordinary. He was a working man, a social climber, a builder, an acquirer of goods, and a known homosexual. These attributes all contributed to the interesting and complicated nature of his art.

Andy Warhol was born on August 6, 1928 to Ondrej, who was a construction worker, and Julia Warhola, who was an embroiderer, in Pittsburg Pennsylvania. At the age of 8, Warhol developed Chorea, a rare disease in which it attacks the nervous system and causes involuntary movements of the extremities. It was said that, Warhol got the disease from complications of having Scarlet Fever, an infection that is caused by Strep Throat. Due to the disease, Warhol was bedridden and to pass the time his mother taught him how to draw which soon became his favorite thing to do as a child. Once he got over the Chorea disease, his mother, for his 9th birthday, got him a camera which led to his college career. When Warhol was 14, his father died from a work-related

In the 1950's Warhol gained a little fame for his drawings of shoe advertisements. He was then hired by RCA records to design album covers. Warhol then became an early adaptor of silk screen printmaking. Warhols first New York solo pop art Gallary exhibited several of his famous works of art that included the works of Marilyn Diptchy, 100 soup cans, and 100 coke bottles

Andy Warhol’s family immigrated to the United States from the town Mikova in Eastern Europe. Andy Warhol was born on August 6, 1928, in Pittsburgh. His name was originally Andrew Warhola, and he was the youngest of three boys. He and his family were dedicated Byzantine Catholics and always attended mass. When he was eight years old, Andy Warhol was diagnosed with St. Vitus Dance, which did not allow him to leave home. During this time Warhol began creating scrapbooks of movie stars and fell in love with Hollywood, cartoons, magazines, and photography. Andy Warhol went to Holmes School and took free art classes at Carnegie Institute. Warhol was not only fascinated with art but also movies, and he frequently went to the local cinema. He also found another love of

Pop art was a very popular form of art in the mid 1950’s in Britain and the late 1950’s in the United States. Pop art was mainly used in advertising and in comics. Artists that formed pop art were Eduardo Paolozzi and Richard Hamilton in Britain ,and in the US were Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. Pop art also includes aspects of mass culture. Pop art was also very popular in many other countries as well.

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.”

Andy Warhol, birth name Andrew Warhola, began his life on August 6 1928 with his Czechoslovakian parents in Pittsburgh. Warhol ‘1928-1987’ was an American artist who was an important member of the visual art movement known as pop art. Throughout his career the artist also worked across a number of disciplines including print maker, Draftsman and Filmmaker. His main movements and Styles other than Pop Art were, Video Art and Postmodernism. After Warhol emerged from his life of hardship with his immigrant family in Pittsburgh, he soon become a charismatic figure and ultimately found himself in the mist of the circles of High Society.

In society, people see thousands of commercials and ads every day. Most the time the general public do not stop to think about them, but disregard these promotions as part of the background to our life. We do not usually pause to think about and admire the creative process that goes behind the designing and formulation of these ads. Andy Warhol changed that when he started making paintings of ordinary things like soup cans and delivery crates. His paintings could have been seen as advertising for various companies, and sometimes they are mistaken for just that.

Andy Warhol, one of the leading figures in the pop art movement, came into this world August 6 in the year of 1928. At the age 8, he received his first art lesson from his own mother, who herself was a skillful artist, while he was bedridden with Chorea. His father passed in the year of 1942 from a jaundiced liver, causing great distress to the young Andy Warhol. His father, having noticed his son’s artistic abilities, stated in his will that his life savings go towards Warhol’s college education. Upon entering the Carnegie Institute for Technology in 1945, he decided to study pictorial design. After he graduated in 1949 with a Fine Arts degree, he moved to New York to become a commercial artist. He got a job at Glamour magazine and became one of the most successful commercial artist in the 1950’s. "I loved working when I worked at commercial art and they told you what to do and how to do it and all you had to do was correct it and they'd say yes or no,” Warhol remarked (Warhol). In 1961, he debuted the concept of “pop

At the time of the album, the band worked with artist, Andy Warhol, renowned for his post-modernist take on mass-produced culture: Pop Art. Warhol was responsible for their now iconic record sleeve of the “peel slowly and see” sticker on the front that alluded to hidden sexual deviances but it fact only unleashed a pink banana. Their aesthetic was pure sexual subversion before you had even opened the record. This leftfield innovation would on most noticeably to inspire artists like Factory Records’ Peter Saville and many others.

After that he got a job with the “ Glamour” magazine, then he went on to become one of the most successful commercial artist. He won multiple awards for his unique style, using blotted line techniques and rubber stamps to create his techniques. In the 1950’s Warhol dedicated more time to painting, then in 1961 he debuted the style of “ pop art “ these paintings focused on mass-produced commercial goods. In 1962 he presented the now-iconic paintings of Campbell’s soup cans. The small canvas of consumer products created a major stir in the art world, bringing Warhol and pop art into the national spotlight for the first time.

Many people believed Andy Warhol’s personality to be very plastic, fake and odd. Warhol constructed the image of a cold, manufactured person which he portrayed as himself to the public eye. Was this however his true personality or perhaps one of his most successful art performances? I intend to discuss how Warhol’s fascination with Hollywood had such a large influence on his work and his appearance. Warhol wanted his persona to become as plastic and manufactured as his mass produced works. He confined his daily wardrobe to black and white, so even when his photograph was printed he would be as easily recognisable as the black and white figure seen in public. A lot of the time

There are few people in this world who can be called an american painter, printmaker, sculptor, draughtsman, illustrator, film maker, writer and collector (Livingstone). In fact, there is only one man who can be called all of those, and that man is Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol was born in 1928 (Rodgers). Andy had many pieces of art by the time of his death in February of 1987. 32 Campbell’s Soup Cans was one of Andy’s most famous works of art. In these pieces, he painted thirty-two soup cans which seemed to look the same but if the viewer looks at each painting closely, tiny differences in the paintings come to light. “The tiny variations give the viewer hope that, despite the monotony of mass-produced society, glimpses of originality can still break through” (Fallon 34). People who came to see Andy Warhol’s 32 Campbell’s Soup Cans were shocked a gallery would show such dull, emotionless art. A few years later, Warhol became known as the “Prince of Pop,” and owes his fame to the 32 Campbell’s Soup Cans painting set which, although dull and emotionless was the beginning of Andy’s legacy (Edward 7-8). Andy Warhol rejected the idea of emotion in his artwork and his passion for art was never reflected in his many pieces of art.

Andy Warhol was a famous artist known for creating rather odd popular culture art that really posed the question at the time about what was the actual definition of “fine art.” He was born in the 1920s, and his career spanned the decades of the 1960s through the 1980s. Warhol started his career in New York as a commercial illustrator and it seems was quite content with his career in the communications/marketing industry. He eventually did try to become an artist and reportedly had trouble breaking into the fine art scene, but he was able to break in with likely the biggest statement of all and one that was brand new to the art scene of his time. His message was that all of his art both written and drawn were his way to “prove that all