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    The use of openness operates as a link to the company seeming ‘open:’ open to diversity, gay rights, transgender rights, etc. The viewer also gets pulled back into time by the use of Andy Warhol’s piece and the sight of Elvis. Using Elvis effectively appeals to the history technique of “the need to belong takes a subtler form of offering the product as a way to become part of a time in the past the audience might look back to with nostalgia”

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    Abstract Andy Warhol was an American contemporary artist and pop art icon who took the world by storm with his mesmerizing and lively creations. He challenged tradition and redefined commonly held standards with his innovative techniques and artistic expression. While Warhol is often associated with his impact on the pop art movement, he was also a highly accomplished filmmaker and commercial illustrator; among other things. However, his journey to a becoming a well-known contemporary artist was

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    Andy Warhol was a Commercial Illustrator, Artist, Filmmaker, and Author. Andy Warhol’s parents came from a village in the Carpathian Mountains, what we known as Slovakia. Andy was the third child born to his Czechoslovakian immigrant parents in a the social group consisting of people who are employed for wages in the community of Pittsburgh. Growing up, Andy was very intelligent and creative. By the age of eight years old Andy came down with rheumatic an abnormally high body temperature that caused

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    Dennis Boatright Arts 1301 22st February 2017 Viewed at modern art museum of Fort Worth (February 19th, 2017) Twenty-Five Colored Marilyn’s As a student of art, going to an art museum is the best way to completely encounter a masterpiece. Just by looking a sculpture or a painting, we cannot fully experience the work of art. I went to Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. This museum is located at Darnell street, Fort Worth. It was big, welcoming and peaceful museum. I went to the

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    Andy Warhol Andrew Warhola is considered to be the “founder and a major figure of the pop art movement”. He was born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania in 1928. He graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology, where he majored in pictorial design. He worked as an illustrator in many magazines including Vogue, Harpers Bazaar and the New Yorker, but, his big break was in 1949, when he illustrated for Glamour Magazine. Andy Warhol was born with the name Andrew Warhola, he dropped the “a” when his

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    effect it had on popular culture at the time. Just like he was successful in his career of commercial art, Warhol also became wildly successful in the world of pop art. Starting in the 1960s, Warhol started to replicate images of mass produced objects (Biography.com). In 1962, he debuted the iconic painting “Campbell’s Soup Cans.” Although these cans look like the mass-produced advertisements that Warhol was influenced by, he actually painted them by hand. The painting consists of thirty-two canvases

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    Andy Warhol: Commercial Illustrator, Artist, Filmmaker, and Author Andy Warhol’s parents came from a village in the Carpathian Mountains, in what is now Slovakia. Andy was the third child born to his Czechoslovakian immigrant parents in a working class neighborhood of Pittsburgh. As a child, Andy was smart and creative. When Andy was eight years old he came down with rheumatic fever causing him to miss two months of school that year. He spent his time at home reading comic books and movie star magazines

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    Pop Artist Andy Warhol

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    Art is a valuable tool for mankind. Art gives man perspective, shows him beauty, and allows him to know himself on a deeper level. Art is life! The world of art is vast and ancient. Artist exist in plenty and the art they create is extensive. This is where my concept paper beings. I feel it important to study the history of art, it’s makers, and it’s trends. One interesting topic idea I have considered is a study into the life of pop artist Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol impacted the art world

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    Andy Warhol - Prince of Twentieth-Century Pop Culture "They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." Andy Warhol, born Andrew Warhola, did, in fact, change times in the second half of the 20th Century. Andy Warhol, the leader of the pop art movement, is considered one of the most important American artists of the 20th century. He helped shape American media and popular culture through artwork based on images taken from pop culture. (http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/95aug/warhol

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    The Marilyn Diptych Essay

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    very famous work of art by Andy Warhol. The Marilyn Diptych was made in 1962, immediately after the actress’s death, of oil, acrylic, and silkscreen on enamel canvas. Although it looks like this piece is all cohesive, it is made of two separate panels, each being 6’-10”x 4’-9”. Warhol used the method of printing from a silkscreen from a photograph of Monroe because it is easy to mass produce the fifty different versions of her face. The Marilyn Diptych (Figure 1) by Andy Warhol appears to be depthless

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