Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art

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. Andy Warhol wanted to paint something different, so he started asking suggestions to his friends. His friend suggested him to paint something everyone knows, something

In the 1960’s Andy Warhol was a famous pop artist. He was born on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and died on February 22, 1987 in New York City, New York. Some of Andy Warhol’s influences in art were, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Robert Rauschenberg, and Jasper Johns. Some movies that Andy Warhol starred in were, Chelsea Girls, Sleep, and Empire. Campbell’s Soup Cans, Marilyn Diptych, and Eight Elvises are some of his famous artworks. Julia and Andrej Warhola, had a son on

another, let alone create the image of a movie icon. Yet this was the whole point of Andy Warhol’s, Marilyn, painted in 1967. Breaking away from tradition, this was one of many portraits Andy painted in his artistic lifetime, and a prime example of the ever so popular movement called Pop Art. Known for it’s bright colors and commercial subject matter, the movement was all about being rebellious and cool. Andy shaped Pop Art, as he shaped himself to be the artist that is so famously known today, inspiring

Introduction The museum in modern society is no longer a place for an unchallenged authority to civilize the barbaric masses, but instead a place fraught with conflicting views. Numerous artists and activists’ groups are performing critiques on museums for the ways they are still upholding anachronistic ideals and remain hegemonic, privileged, and patriarchal intuitions in society. This paper will be looking at these issues through the lens of Feminist critique and Institutional critique. This

WHAT IS POP ART? Pop art is a genre of art that uses elements of popular culture; it often uses techniques from commercial art and advertisings. Pop is known as popular, when you join the word art to pop, it makes “Popular Art”. Popular art includes all the things that are famous at a certain period. Pop art was exposed among those artists who called themselves the Independent Group (IG) in the mid-1950s and became famous in the 1960s in America and Britain. The main characteristics of art are paintings

Andy Warhol Andy Warhol is an artist who is known by many. After overcoming many struggles, he pursued his goals and became one of the most recognizable artists in American history. Warhol is known for leading the Pop art movement in the United States. His influence on art in this time period was immense, and it can still be seen in modern art today. Through many popular pieces, Warhol brought art closer to the American people. He made it bigger, brighter, and more relatable. Because of this, he

Andy Warhol was a famous artist known for creating rather odd popular culture art that really posed the question at the time about what was the actual definition of “fine art.” He was born in the 1920s, and his career spanned the decades of the 1960s through the 1980s. Warhol started his career in New York as a commercial illustrator and it seems was quite content with his career in the communications/marketing industry. He eventually did try to become an artist and reportedly had trouble breaking

Andy Warhol “Now and then, someone would accuse me of being evil - of letting people destroy themselves while I watched, just so I could film them and tape-record them. But I didn't think of myself as evil - just realistic.”( Brainy Quotes) This quote from andy warhol shows what kind of artist he truly was. Andrew Warhola was a multitalented artist because of his background or commercial art, film making, and creating pop art. Andy was not just a typical misunderstood artist, he was much more. Andy

idea were there work had its own originality. Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein were very aware of the past however there idea was to connect fine art with pop culture. There ideas came straight from the televisions, advertisements, films, and cartoons. Nevertheless the famous creations of Warhol and Lichtenstein and other artist, managed to stamp the 1950 and 1960 as the pop art era. The pop art first emerged in the in the United Kingdom. When pop art emerged in the 1950, it received its inspiration

Andy Warhol, one of the leading figures in the pop art movement, came into this world August 6 in the year of 1928. At the age 8, he received his first art lesson from his own mother, who herself was a skillful artist, while he was bedridden with Chorea. His father passed in the year of 1942 from a jaundiced liver, causing great distress to the young Andy Warhol. His father, having noticed his son’s artistic abilities, stated in his will that his life savings go towards Warhol’s college education