John Warhol's 'The Factory'

Warhol wanted to capture the moments of protesters being attacked by police force to draw the issue to the public’s attention. He wanted his art piece to preserve a portion of these black protesters lives; what exactly they went through to receive the equality they now have today.

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.

The Bowery is known for being a place of sleazy and sketchiness, riddled with punks, bums,con men, and other colorful folk. It was a dark neighborhood to be at, figuratively and literally– for the neighborhood was darkened by the shadow of the trains that ran above it. The blurring of gender was out in the open at the Bowery. Murderers and prostitutes in dance halls and dives claimed the neighborhood by the 1890s. (Moss, 86) What made the Bowery what it was, was it’s music scene. Famed punk venue CBGB was located there and in 2006 was made to shut its doors forever due to raising rent prices. For the Bowery had become the new “it” spot, with it’s edgy allure and overall toughness. CBGB was a landmark and the locals and true lovers of the venue wanted it stay and stand in the face of gentrification. Alas, it was not meant to be for the punks lost to John Varvatos who put his boutique in what was CBGB. What seemed to attract Varvatos to the space was its legacy, how it was a place for “others” to take refuge from the world and create. He had a “real reverence for the history of the space”, and yet in the next sentence Moss goes on to say how Varvatos would serve a “cleaned-up” version of the venue. (Moss, 82) A cleaned-up

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.

Secondly, the medium that Hoch and Rosenquist use witnesses how mass media, industrialization, and mass consumption marched. The photomontage is like a poster or a magazine page while the oil painting is like most large-scale billboard paintings. The Beautiful Girl and The Light That Won’t Fail I are given the feel of an advertisement. In Hoch’s photomontage and Rosenquist ‘soil painting, we see Hoch and Rosenquist were engaging with the new forms of mass media of their time periods. Hoch, as Dadaist, made a great contribution to developing photomontage as medium of representation. Dada artists replaced paint all together, making use exclusively of ready-made

Brian Wimer, a local filmmaker, proposed the idea of transforming an industrial site of a closed Frank Ix and Sons factory into a “communal cultural space for art,

The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Warhol’s birthplace features his legacy on seven floors of gallery and exhibition space. The museum features an art collection which includes 900 paintings, more than 1,000 prints and 4,000 photographs, an archives collection containing Warhol’s papers and collectibles, and a film & video

On W 27th Street in New York City there is a small building among the masses that included the Aperture Gallery. After taking the stairs up to the fourth floor I began to feel a unique type of youthfulness that was felt throughout the gallery. As I walked into a bright white room surrounded by windows and the smell of fresh white paint  I quickly took began to take in Doug Dubois’ “In good time” which included a mixture of three series he compiled over the year.  was hanging throughout the gallery. As someone who is used to visiting museums such as the Renwick, Moma and the MET this work was a little different then I was expecting. In simple terms it was real.

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.”

Between 1962 and 1984, Andy Warhol had three different locations for his studio; the 5th floor at 231 East 47th Street in Midtown Manhattan, the 6th floor of the Decker Building at 33 Union Square West, and 22 East 33rd Street. It was where his workers would assemble silkscreens, making its moniker as “The Factory”. The Factory was more than just the place where Warhol worked. It was also his breeding ground of ideas, where he surrounded himself with a strange collection of people who served as his inspirations, collaborators, and movie stars: fellow artists, musicians, actresses, socialites, drug addicts, drag queens, free thinkers, and many more, All of them were to be known as “Warhol’s Superstars”. I’ve researched one of Warhol’s quotes to see if i can relate to him and seems like I can.

Andy Warhol was an American artist during the 1950’s and 1960’s, who became one of the most influential icons during the Contemporary Art Movement also known as “Pop Art.” Warhol is a man of many traits who's talents where extraordinary, he used many different types of media in his work. Which include; photography, painting, drawing, sculpture, silk screening, and many more. He started out with his ink drawings for a shoe advertising company where he gain a lot of his fame for his work. Then later started to silkscreen paintings.

Andy Warhol paper / Period 6 Andy Warhol was definitely an intriguing and controversial character. He paved the way for an entirely new art style, pop art; he even went on to take the title of the “Pope of Pop”. There were many reasons why people were drawn to him and the controversy that surrounded him.

When a person goes out a gets a new record or cd, they do not really think about who designed it. Andy Warhol has designed many album covers. One of his most significant is for a band called The Velvet Underground. Interesting enough, Warhol was also the bands manager for about eighteen months. It all happened by chance that they met. At the time, Andy Warhol and film director Paul Morrissey had talked about the money involved in managing a band. One night, Morrissey went to a place called Café Bizarre, where the group was playing and knew that that was the band they needed. They fired Warhol after eighteen months because they felt he was not getting them anymore than initial fame by association. Their first album, The Velvet Underground &

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