Andy Warhol Influence

Although they both were modern artists, Warhol’s paintings led the developments of pop art which is different from Affandi’s realistic paintings. Warhol is famous for the silk-screens he produced of renowned people such as Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, etc. Many of Warhol’s subjects consisted of famous people, soup cans and flowers. The process of the silk screens began with a photograph that will be printed by pressing the paint onto the paintings with colors. His experiment of the silkscreen allowed him to open numerous exhibitions in both America and Europe.

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.

Attention Getter: The American culture is so engulfed into consumerism that we take every day items and objects for granted we don 't necessarily realize the impact and importance to have on our life and how we live vicariously through them. Today I 'm going to talk about one man that took these concepts into his artistic ability and thereby created a whole new culture in what we see is art today. This man who is considered one of the fathers of pop art goes by the name of Andy Warhol.

Warhol became a celebrity of his time. He went to parties and nightclubs, especially Studio 54 and Max’s City Night Club. Warhol was often invited to the White House. He was believed to be gay because of the homoerotic imagery hidden in his art. “If you want to know all about Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films… and there I am. There’s nothing behind it” (Bolton). He never had kids or married. He was very antisocial in his personal life, but very communicative in public.

In the late 1950’s, Warhol began to have the interest in painting. He painted his first well-known paintings, which was based on comics, and ads he found in 1961. The next year the big spots lights came on and he had his big introduction on the Campbell’s Soup Can series, which changed him completely. Shortly after, Warhol got the inspiration and started working on a large variety of movie star portraits, including Elvis Presley, Elizabeth Taylor, and the biggest of all Marilyn Monroe. Using screen-printing process, and knowing that Marilyn was one of the biggest deaths in a while, he decided to take that for granted and come up with this marvilent idea to make him go viral.

When studying artists, styles of art and their respective time period, it is always important to find a few key artists that were responsible for the rise of new art trends. Traditionally, art has often a reflection of the most important elements within its respective time period, such as wars, religions, royalty, culture and expression. This is why the study of art history is needs to look deeper than simply understanding how certain artworks were created. Among the various artists studied in the course, Andy Warhol is definitely one of the most influential. Far ahead of his time in thinking and talented in several media forms, Warhol was a product of his time and defined his era with the use of his artwork, giving rise to other artists within the same time period. This paper will argue that Warhol was not only an influence to modern art, he defined the concept of "pop art", which combined consumerism and pop culture, creating works that questioned the norm of society at the time, while providing a strong influence to future artists. Warhol was hugely successful in his artistic efforts and several of his staple works will be discussed in regards to its significance and representation of its respective period of time, as well as Warhol’s influence on the history of art.

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

In Andy Warhol’s time he was seen as very commercial and not truly a defined artist. Warhol was very popular to average society but never quite Throughout his whole life he has had struggles with Sydenham’s chorea, terrible shyness, and lastly making artwork acceptable to other artists. And as we get farther from his time we see how much value and meaning there was in his work.

When considering the life and works of Andy Warhol, one thing is agreed upon for good or bad, he changed the visual construction of the world we live in. His window advertisements were the beginning of an era, where art would be seen in an array of forms away from the traditional paintings and sculptures of the old world. He made people see everyday material objects in a whole new light; through "Pop Art" he could transform mundane into extraordinary. He was a working man, a social climber, a builder, an acquirer of goods, and a known homosexual. These attributes all contributed to the interesting and complicated nature of his art.

Only living in New York City for a short period of time Warhol had already developed an upscale list of clients such as Columbia Records, Glamour magazine, Harper's Bazaar, NBC, and Vogue.(2) Warhol quickly proved himself as a successful graphic artist which ultimately led to him holding his first solo exhibition at Huge Gallery in New York City.(3) However his first pop art exhibition in 1962, which is some of Warhol's most iconic work, was held in Eleanor Ward's Stable Gallery. This was the first display of some his most acclaimed works of art such as 100 Coke Bottles, Marilyn Dipych, 100 Dollar Bills, and 100 Soup Cans. During the years that followed Warhol began to use the movement of pop art in many of his other paints with a combination of influential celebrities such as Marylin Monroe, Mohmand Ali and Elizbeth Taylor. Then he would also use things in everyday life as well for his works like soup cans and glass

Andy Warhol being not simply a Pop artist, but an American artist who was known as the master of Pop Art, and about two of Warhol’s most famous paintings; Coca-Cola and Campbell’s Soup Cans. Andy Warhol was an artist and filmmaker, an initiator for the Pop Art movement in the 1960s. Warhol used mass production techniques to elevate art into the supposed unoriginality of the commercial culture of the United States. Warhol’s early drawings frequently recalls the Anglo-Saxon tradition of nonsense humor, a characteristically childlike exuberance, and the fact that Warhol was successfully earning a living in the advertising industry at the time was sufficient for many to dismiss his entire artistic output during this period as “commercial art”. Fifty years ago, Pop art captured the spirit of Warhol’s young art, but that basic structure has been (to most people) a revealing profitless movement for years. Pop art was a 1960s movement that focused on everyday objects, comic books and mediated images — now seems quaint and playful, but not Warhol. In the first part of Andy Warhol’s career he was an iconoclast, in the second, the artist as businessman. In 1960 Warhol’s graphic works underwent a fundamental change in terms of subject matter, accompanied at about the same time by a change in technique. Warhol’s graphic work covers areas not normally associated with the art of the twentieth century, and which might even be considered unique. In Andy Warhol’s paintings and prints of

Andy Warhol was the artist who wanted to use the methods around him that were developing. He was the artist who accepted the change of the culture. Similar to his idea about the development of technology, the mainstream of Pop art was to be more positive on creating new forms of expression rather than the Abstract Expression that was the traditional style of art in America at the time using new methods.

With Warhol, all of this changed as Art (as he liked to say) turned into Art Business and he manipulated the mass media. Warhol understood the media’s cult of personality, and he capitalized on it through his incredible ability to attract attention, or by being, in the words of curator Kynaston McShine, “in all the right places at all the right times.” Finally, Warhol is considered by many to have dramatically “helped increase the repertory of moves admissible in the art world, from those who saw him as a visionary. The second group saw Warhol as a sell out and just as a man who was taking pictures. The media has always created "in-style" images that consumers are supposed to follow, but these unknowns showed viewers that it was possible to be whoever they want and still grab their share of the limelight.

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.”

No one screams pop art like Andy Warhol does. Pop art seems to be the definition of making art out of anything or anywhere that is real. And what better way to experience some part of what Andy Warhol saw, than in the middle of an isle in the supermarket. His iconic Campbell’s soup can painting has lived on since ’62. It is there in the supermarket that this particular piece comes to mind. That is if you don’t just stroll by, missing the possibility of being reminded a little about history. Now, there isn’t even the necessity to sit and imagine all these objects created over and over again. All you have to do is to stare at the shelves lined with different varieties of an object to peek a little into Warhol’s head. Any real object, any real person has the possibility of becoming art. What a beautiful thought that is.