Roy Lichtenstein Andy Warhol Comparison

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.

The concept of pop art started to become popular during this time as it was described using simple, bright colors and images to symbolize everyday life.

In the 1952 he got his first solo art exhibit. It was held at the Hugo Gallery in New York. His drawings were illustrations for stories that Truman Capote wrote. This led him to start illustrating books for other writers as well. Like Amy Vanderbilt’s Complete Book of Etiquette. In 1956 he traveled with Charles Lisanby who was a television-set designer. In that same year he was included in his first group exhibition. It was called Recent Drawings USA and it was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. After all this time and work Andy started to receive awards for his hard work that he was putting in. One of the first awards that he won was the 35th Annual Art Directors Club, for Distinctive Merit for an I. Miller shoe

Pablo Picasso, although usually known as just Picasso. His full name though is actually: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso. His signature is worth more than some of his paintings. In fact in some restaurants he just drew a quick face and then signed it (when he was famous). He was one of the most well known people in the 20th century. He was born in 25th of October 1881 in Malaga, Spain, and then died on the 8th of April 1973 Mougins, France. He was a: painter, drawing, sculpture, print making, and ceramics.

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

As a child he had gotten Scarlet Fever as a child and eventually it induced his disease that had symptoms of skin blotchiness, thinning of the hair, and attacks on his nervous system. Andy was known to draw in his house as a child and as he grew up he eventually found work in drawing for ads

Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) is a painter, sculptor, printmaker and decorative artist. He created advertisements inspired from Native Westernize figure. He was one of the well-known contemporary artist who implemented comics strips in his artwork such as ‘Hopeless’ a painting which was about his wife’s relationship from the past using abstract expressionism phase. (Lichtenstein as cited) “Once I have established what the subject is going to be, I am not interested anymore, although I want it to come through with immediate impact of the comics.” (Alloway, 1983, p.73). He implemented the theme Romance and War throughout his artwork. This is essay will briefly discuss Lichtenstein’s background to his work, outline major influences and contribution to the world of Pop-art.

Roy Lichtenstein was born in New York City on October 27th, 1923. He described his childhood as quiet and uneventful. His father was a realtor; his mother was a housewife. Art was not taught at the school Roy attended, but when he turned fourteen he began taking Saturday morning classes at the Parson’ School of Design. After he graduated from high school in 1940 he attended the School of Fine Art at Ohio State University. He was drafted however in 1943 in the middle of his education at Ohio State. While he was in the military he served in Great Britain and Europe. When he returned to the U.S. in 1946, he completed his studies for his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree at Ohio State University in 1949. After he got his

Andy Warhol was the artist that revolutionized art in a way that drew people into the creativity of this new form of art. He was both famous for seeing beauty in everything in his art and yet controversial due to the fact that he was homosexual. There are two classes of people that had different thoughts of Andy Warhol and his work. One group saw him as a Visionary, a person who thought about or planning the future with imagination or wisdom. This shown through his works"Campbell's Soup Cans" and "Gold Marilyn Monroe" which made him famous worldwide.

When you go to an art show do you understand the symbolic interpretation of the pieces? Don’t feel bad, most people don’t. What’s so upsetting about that is that you really miss out on the experience. When I think about interpretation of art I think of Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol’s use of iconography changed not only the art world but the people who came into contact with his art. Once you understand his life and art, you will understand his art as a symbolic representation.

Various famous people come from a modest life and Andy Warhol is one of them. He was born to Slovakian immigrants as Andrew Warhola in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on August 6, 1928. His father and mother were Ondrej and Julia Warhola and he was the youngest of three boys. His father worked in construction while his mother did work as an embroiderer. They were Byzantine Catholics and raised their sons the same. Andy Warhol was a sickly child and would often miss school due to chorea, a disease that is connected to the nervous system. However, Warhol’s mother was an artistic person and introduced him to art whenever he was sick at home and Warhol loved it. When Andy Warhol was fourteen, his father died. In his will, he wanted his youngest son to use the money to go toward a further education. Andy Warhol graduated high school in 1945 and enrolled at the Carnegie Institute for Technology. After graduating in 1949 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Warhol moved to New York City.

Marilyn Monroe’s death (August 4, 1962) inspired Warhol to create a series of paintings and he also produced similar pictures of other famous people such as, Elvis Presley, Mick Jagger, Warren Beatty, Elizabeth Taylor, and himself.

Andy Warhol, U.S. painter, film- maker and figure in Pop Art movement (BBC, 2011). Studied at Carnegie Institute of Technology then moved to New York in 1949 (BBC, 2011). Andy in 1960’s experimented with reproductions on advertisements, newspapers headlines and other mass productions such as Coca Cola bottles and Campbell’s Soup tins (BBC, 2011). Andy started in 1962, portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Jackie Kennedy and Elvis Presley. Andy Warhol’s studio, also known as Factory, that is where he began working on experimenting films establishing a meeting point for artists, actors and musician (BBC, 2011). In 1968 Warhol was shot at the studio by Valerie Solanas (BBC, 2011). Throughout the 1970’s- 1980’s, Warhol’s exhibitions

Pop Art- defined as 'making impersonality a style' by using the imagery of commercial art and other mass media sources. (Hugh Honour and John Fleming, 1991) Pop Art, a movement in the 1950's and 1960's, is based on 'popular culture' and is concerned with such phenomena of modern life as commercial posters, packaged foods,

Andy Warhol is probably the most infamous artists to emerge from this time period. Not only was Warhol a painter, he was also a commercial illustrator, avant-garde filmmaker, record producer, and author. His affection for consumerism and pop culture led him to create pieces of controversial art that is still popular today. Warhol was infatuated by