Art Movement : Warhol And Elvis Presley

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.

When we eat a slice of pizza we tend to wash it down with a bottle of Coke when we 're feeling sick we tend to have some Campbell 's chicken noodle soup when we think of rock 'n ' roll the name Elvis Presley comes to mind and for America 's sweetheart and movie actress there is none other than Marilyn Monroe. These for iconic objects and figures all have one thing in common they have stood the test of time and continue to be a part of American culture. Today I 'm going to talk about one man who took these ideas and started a new movement in the early 1960s it movement coined pop art where everyday recognizable images that have stood the test of time and continue to influence and be a part of American culture. This man goes by the name of Andy Warhol.

In the late 1950’s, Warhol began to have the interest in painting. He painted his first well-known paintings, which was based on comics, and ads he found in 1961. The next year the big spots lights came on and he had his big introduction on the Campbell’s Soup Can series, which changed him completely. Shortly after, Warhol got the inspiration and started working on a large variety of movie star portraits, including Elvis Presley, Elizabeth Taylor, and the biggest of all Marilyn Monroe. Using screen-printing process, and knowing that Marilyn was one of the biggest deaths in a while, he decided to take that for granted and come up with this marvilent idea to make him go viral.

The sixties were a time of social and political change in America, and the art world was not left untouched. Early in the decade a new movement focused on popular culture and national icons began to develop. It was aptly named Pop art. "Many critics were alarmed by Pop, uncertain whether it was embracing or parodying popular culture and fearful that it threatened the survival of both modernist art and high culture..." (Stokstad 1101) Pop artists were not the first to make cultural statements with their work, however controversial art always draws criticism and attention. One of the most well known artists of the Pop movement was Andy Warhol, a young commerial illustrator from manhattan. Warhol's use of popular icons and brands as the focus

In Andy Warhol’s time he was seen as very commercial and not truly a defined artist. Warhol was very popular to average society but never quite Throughout his whole life he has had struggles with Sydenham’s chorea, terrible shyness, and lastly making artwork acceptable to other artists. And as we get farther from his time we see how much value and meaning there was in his work.

Andy Warhol created a silkscreen canvas in 1964 of a Campbell’s condensed tomato soup can. He uses the same fonts, colors, and sizes that have caught people’s eyes when they shop. I, myself, have never tried Campbell’s tomato soup. Every time we have any type of tomato soup, my mom makes it from diced tomatoes and adds her own ingredients. Campbell’s tomato soup uses an original logo on every can so when people see it they know what it is. Think of the McDonald’s logo. Every time you see a yellow M in a red background you think of McDonalds. Campbell’s logo is a man sitting with, from my perspective, food around him. You can also see at the bottom of most cans, what looks like the New Orleans sign. It is like a fleer delit.

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.

Campbell’s Soup Cans presents thirty-two duplicate paintings of different flavored Campbell soup cans. All of the paintings were painted on white canvas and displayed in rows as if, “resting on a shelf like groceries in a store” (MoMA). Each piece is nearly identical to the first with the main difference being that each name of the soup’s flavor is different, two specific soup cans with a ribbon across the seal stating, “NEW, GREAT AS A SAUCE, TOO”, and another with the words “Old-fashioned” above the flavor label. Each can has a black outlines and details, red upper half, brown centered seal, while lower half, read flavor name, black and gold “SOUP”, gold printed patterns, and a single red line. The MoMA states, “Warhole assigned a different

Only living in New York City for a short period of time Warhol had already developed an upscale list of clients such as Columbia Records, Glamour magazine, Harper's Bazaar, NBC, and Vogue.(2) Warhol quickly proved himself as a successful graphic artist which ultimately led to him holding his first solo exhibition at Huge Gallery in New York City.(3) However his first pop art exhibition in 1962, which is some of Warhol's most iconic work, was held in Eleanor Ward's Stable Gallery. This was the first display of some his most acclaimed works of art such as 100 Coke Bottles, Marilyn Dipych, 100 Dollar Bills, and 100 Soup Cans. During the years that followed Warhol began to use the movement of pop art in many of his other paints with a combination of influential celebrities such as Marylin Monroe, Mohmand Ali and Elizbeth Taylor. Then he would also use things in everyday life as well for his works like soup cans and glass

Andy Warhol being not simply a Pop artist, but an American artist who was known as the master of Pop Art, and about two of Warhol’s most famous paintings; Coca-Cola and Campbell’s Soup Cans. Andy Warhol was an artist and filmmaker, an initiator for the Pop Art movement in the 1960s. Warhol used mass production techniques to elevate art into the supposed unoriginality of the commercial culture of the United States. Warhol’s early drawings frequently recalls the Anglo-Saxon tradition of nonsense humor, a characteristically childlike exuberance, and the fact that Warhol was successfully earning a living in the advertising industry at the time was sufficient for many to dismiss his entire artistic output during this period as “commercial art”. Fifty years ago, Pop art captured the spirit of Warhol’s young art, but that basic structure has been (to most people) a revealing profitless movement for years. Pop art was a 1960s movement that focused on everyday objects, comic books and mediated images — now seems quaint and playful, but not Warhol. In the first part of Andy Warhol’s career he was an iconoclast, in the second, the artist as businessman. In 1960 Warhol’s graphic works underwent a fundamental change in terms of subject matter, accompanied at about the same time by a change in technique. Warhol’s graphic work covers areas not normally associated with the art of the twentieth century, and which might even be considered unique. In Andy Warhol’s paintings and prints of

Warhol, the son of devout Slovenian Byzantine Catholics, learned art from his mother while he lay bedridden from illness at the age of eight. Movies and photography also appealed to the young artist, who set up a darkroom in the family’s Pennsylvania basement. After graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Art degree, Warhol pursued a career in commercial art. Once in New York, Warhol thrived in the business and earned the title of “the most successful commercial artist of the 1950’s.” (Bio.com) In the early 1960’s, Warhol introduced the Pop Art, which captivated the world with bright colors and common items. Apart from ordinary things, Warhol also painted portraits of celebrities in the same colorful style. Warhol painted popular people and things, hence the name “pop” art. He is most well known for Campbell’s Soup Cans and Marilyn Monroe, both done in the same colorful style. He enveloped himself his own fame and the fame of others, creating artwork that showed the charisma of both the artist and the subject. Later in Warhol’s career, he explored other art forms, creating eccentric movies and even writing books. (Biography.com

I was looking at a bunch of Warhol’s paintings and I was confused. I was just staring at them and I’m thinking “why don’t you look like a Warhol?’ Then I realize that these paintings are from when he was younger. This was before he defined his aesthetic. I believe this was his discovering phase then he goes into his silk screening phase. Andy Warhol used current icons from the world for his work. One of the famous icons was the Campbell’s soup can. In 1962 Warhol displayed his Campbell's soup piece, one canvas for each 32 types of Campbell's soup. In 1960, Warhol began producing his first canvases, which he based on comic strip subjects. In 1961, he started using the method of silk screening. Silk screening starts with a stencil drawing then transferred with glue onto silk. Warhol's first silkscreen was Campbell’s Soup cans. Campbell’s Soup was an icon in the 1960s that gave you a sense of comfort. In spite of that, Warhol’s Soup Can paintings were to provoke concern about value. At first glance it may seem like a joke but it’s actually a sophisticated and thought-provoking artistic statement. In the 1960s Andy Warhol made a sculpture that was extension of what Warhol had done with the Campbell's Soup Cans, Brillo Boxes. The Brillo Boxes were made out of wood but made to look accurately like the boxes found in the

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.”

Postmodernism is an artistic theory and a social mindset that sought to break the shackles of the so called modernist art society. Famous artist kept getting recognition as their pieces were critiqued by famous critics and was deemed ‘High art’, as it was separated and elevated from other art forms. This practice excluded the masses from being a part of the art of that time and reserved it for the high class society. Many artists rose to counteract this movement, one of which was Andy Warhol, who “emerged as specific reactions against the established forms of high modernism… which conquered… the art gallery”. (Jameson 111). Thus the post-modernism movement was in its essence a reaction against modern art ideas. Andy Warhol who gained fame in the 1960’s, characterized his pieces using all the elements from this movement. His work lacked any arbitrary meaning nor any deep ideas about the facets of human life or nature for example, and this exact idea changed the art world and made him a trailblazer of the postmodern art period. His creations embodied post modernistic ideals and illustrated it through his pieces and his use of the media.

Andy Warhol did a lot of paintings, mostly comics of artist or ads. The one that became his favorite one was the Campbell’s soup cans. The idea of him painting this painting came through an ad he saw at a gallery. This painting is different than all the paintings he has done throughout his career because it’s comic-strip painting.