Van Gogh And Warhol : Post Impressionism And Pop Art

Vincent van Gogh is one of the world’s most well-known artists. He was the son of a pastor and was brought up in a religious atmosphere. He thought his true calling was to preach the gospel like his father. He became a preacher in a small coal mining town. This is when he starting becoming very interested in the people and things that surrounded him. He became an artist at the age of 27.

Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet are two highly influential contributors to the art world. Both are renowned artists whose creations are on display in several art museums throughout the world. They are two artistic geniuses who are more alike than they appear to be. While there are many similarities between the lives and art of these two prodigies there are numerous differences as well in their technique/style, subject matter, and personal lives.

While the painters after the Impressionism period were collectively called the “Post-Impressionists,” the label is quite reductive. Each artist had their own unique style, from Seurat’s pointillism to Signac’s mosaic-like divisionism, Cezanne, Émile Bernard, and others. These artists were all connected in that they were reacting to the aesthetics of Impressionism. Two of the more influential painters from this movement were Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, who aimed to connect with viewers on a deeper level by access Nature’s mystery and meaning beyond its superficial, observable level. However, each artist’s approach to achieving this goal was different. In close examination of Vincent van Gogh’s Self-Portrait (Dedicated to Paul Gauguin) and Paul Gauguin’s Self-Portrait with Portrait of Émile Bernard (Les misérables), one may clearly see the two artists’ contrasting styles on display.

In this essay, I will be comparing and contrasting artists Pablo Picasso and Van Gogh, considering their intentions with their artwork. Van Gogh and Picasso two of the most famous artists out there and still are to this day. Uncountable books have been published and dedicated to them and their lives and careers of being true artist. Their art has changed the way people view things and the world around them.

When someone is asked to name the most famous artists in history, they usually point out all the classics; van Gogh, da Vinci, Monet, and Picasso. However, even though they are all extremely renowned, Andy Warhol is right up in that list of top guns. His style of art was a major influence on art today; in fact, Andy Warhol is one of the most significant artists of the 20th century.

The message found in Andy Warhol’s artwork is there is more to life than what is seen with the naked eye and that there is value in every aspect in life. By creating a grocery store as well as items found in a grocery store Warhol was showing that even the most basic of items can hold value depending upon how you perceive them. Andy Warhol’s artwork does hold a mirror up to society the repetition and simplistic style in his artwork makes you question the meaning of the art and makes you take a deeper look into your life to see.

Andy Warhol (1928-1987), was born Andrew Warhola to Slovak immigrants. He was an artist from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who later in life, went on to move to New York city to pursue his career. (video reference) Some of Warhol’s’ early pop art images included the 210 Coke Bottles, 200 One Dollar Bills, Campbell’s Soup Cans, and Marilyn Monroe prints that were produced onto a large canvas using the repetitive technique of print making. This particular type of work that Warhol produced is something that had contributed to America’s sudden infatuation with consumerism. (Tate Org, n.d) The pop art movement was effective because people who lived everyday lives were able to relate to Andy’s artwork, as well as formulate their own opinions to what they think the ideas and reasoning behind Warhol’s artwork were (Kearney, 2012) What influenced Andy to create artwork that included film stars who were apart of popular culture, was the interest he took in film stars

What he created and brought upon the art world transformed it forever, which is a change that many weren’t and still aren’t eager to accept. William be Kooning, an abstract artist from Warhol’s time never held back on how much he disliked Warhol, even right after Warhol’s assassination attempt he was seen shouting, "You're a killer of art, you're a killer of beauty, and you're even a killer of laughter.” There’s many accusations of lack of originality in his work as pointed out by literary critic Frederic Jameson who pointed out that Warhol’s “Diamond dust shoes” shared far too many similarities with Van Gogh’s “A pair of shoes” as the only difference being is Warhol’s piece seems more commercialized. Criticisms haven’t faded away with time either, the blogger behind current blog Legally irrelevant recently shared their opinion on Warhol’s art when they revealed,” I tried to keep an open mind (about attending a Warhol exhibit), but as it gradually got filled with pompous crap created with little effort or skill, I couldn't help but become perplexed at Andy Warhol fans.”. Contrary to Warhol’s famous words, pop art may not be for everyone after

So over this week i was told from a teacher from my school that i draw like a child and i have no perspective.This to me was not constructive feedback but an attack on me as an individual artist. I will admit i am not the best drawer in the world but i am trying to become better. At frist my reaction was anger , than came tears. I want everyone to know that no matter what anyone says never stop doing what you love. I always refer back to vincent van gogh , his struggles , his illness yet he still proceeded his passion with at most love. But sadly he took his own life...He never got that chance to see his art flourish the way it has. So when looking at his life and comparing it to my own i understand his struggles and i take his quotes and apply

Andy Warhol was a famous American print artist. He did most of his works in the 1960’s. This was an important time for popular culture. During this period, new kinds of art, music, movies, and books were being created (“Andy Warhol and Color Discovering Design”). This is what inspired Warhol to view art in a different perspective. Andy helped establish a new style of art known as pop art. Starting pop art was as a result of his hatred for abstract expression. He printed images of famous people as well as ordinary objects. His works portrayed what was popular in the American culture at that time. Warhol’s art was different from other works despite the fact that many people did not pay so much attention to his creations.

The movement known as Pop Art derived from Great Britain and the United States during the mid-1950’s. Pop Art presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular culture. The concept of Pop Art refers not as much to the art itself as to the attitudes behind the art. Pop art employs different aspect and views to different cultures. It appeals to many ethnicities and cultures because of the way it is used in advertising such as comic books and video games.

Andy Warhol was a multimedia artist and a prominent figure in the Pop Art Movement. Andrew Warhola was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. From 1945 to 1949, Warhola studied at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. In 1949, he moved and settled in New York and changed his surname to Warhol. He then worked as a Commercial artist. In the earlier years of the 1960’s, Warhol enjoyed experimenting with large mass advertisements, magazines, and other images. In 1962, he started working on the Marilyn Monroe series, which was the beginning of his success as a Pop artist. Then, as Warhol started exhibiting his work, and making films, his studio became a place where fellow artists, musicians and young people could meet. In 1968, Valerie Solanas, one of these people, severely wounded him by shooting him. Warhol’s work started to become largely recognised, well known and exhibited around the world in the 1970s and 1980s. And at the age of 58, Warhol died in a hospital located in New York, in result of a gall bladder operation.

Impressionism began in the mid-1800 's while Paris was the artistic capital of Europe. While Impressionism was rejected by the Salon de Paris, numerous artists grouped together so they could finally paint what they wanted to paint. Impressionists broke away from traditional artists who covered their canvas with dark undercoats versus the Impressionists painted on a white or cream-colored background for a brighter look. What attracted many to impressionism paintings was the shift from paintings focused on religious beliefs, historical moments, and influential people to art that emphasized both beauty and feelings. Two of the most well-known impressionist artists are Claude Monet and Vincent Van Gogh. Even though Monet and van Gogh were

Vincent Van Gogh is one of the most recognized artists in the world. Van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853 in Groot-Zundert, Netherlands. Van Gogh was born into a family of six children in which his father was a pastor and his mother was an artist. He was named after his stillborn brother who died exactly one year before he was born.

Post-Impressionism revealed most crisis traits of the Western culture of that period, painful and controversial artists’ searches for stable ideological and moral values. The period of post-impressionism is characterized by typical active mutual individual areas and individual creative systems. And though a number of post-impressionism areas (Neo Impressionism and partially ‘Nabi’, which is the French version of ‘modernity’) does not come out of the time-frame boundaries, creativity of its leading masters (primarily of Post Impressionists Cezanne, V. van Gogh, Gauguin, A. de Toulouse- Lautrec) with its problematic initiates multiple trends in the fine art of the 20th century. Post Impressionism (from French postimpressionism, earlier from Latin Post meaning ‘after’) is the term adopted in art to denote main line of development in French art starting from the second half of 1880s till the beginning of the 20th. The start point of Post-Impressionism is considered to be the beginning of 1886, when the last Impressionist exhibition was held and the ‘Manifesto of symbolism’ by the poet Jean Moréas was issued (Galenson & Weinberg, 2001).