Andy Warhol Influence

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.

Regarding the piece and the traditional roles of artists, in my opinion, the role that is most important is “artists help us to see the world in new or innovative ways”. Warhol wanted people who viewed his piece to understand the injustice and inequality African Americans faced in a new light. Rather than just identify the historical tension of race, he presented a violent and powerful piece as a need to tell the story of both sides.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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 was declared one of the most influential artists in America.

He had clients like Columbia Records, Glamour Magazine, NBC, Tiffany & Co., and Vogue. “I’m painting this way because I want to be a machine… anyone else can reproduce the design as well as I could” (Bolton). Warhol became known for his use of repetition. In fact, his most famous piece, 32 Campbell’s Soup Cans, was made up of thirty-two paintings of Campbell's Soup cans. The paintings were made with synthetic polymer paint on 32 canvases. Each canvas was 20”x16”. “I used to drink it. I used to have the same lunch everyday, for 20 years, I guess the same thing over and over” (Andy Warhol Art). 32 Campbell’s Soup Cans was first shown in the Ferus Gallery in 1962. They were displayed as if they were on a grocery store shelf. The general reaction to this piece was generally disappointing, especially in Los Angeles, but reactions were fantastic in New York. The cans are painted in chronological order in which each soup flavor was released. In my opinion, Warhol did a great job covering every detail and making sure each can was the same as the other. His use of silk-screening in this piece really made it stand out. I also love this piece because it is of Campbell’s Soup and Campbell is my last name. In 1964, Warhol moved to 231 East 47th Street, which he named The Factory. Here he hired assistants, painted, made sculptures, and even made

was Andy Warhol. He can be seen as the high priest of pop art and he began his career in commercial art. He was a successful magazine and ad illustrator. He focused on mass-produced commercial goods and in 1962 he exhibited the new iconic of the Campbell soup can. Warhol’s iconic series of Campbell’s soup cans painting was not celebrate for its shape of form like that of an abstractionists painting.

Andy Warhol, born 1928-1987, was a very successful commercial artist. By the year of 1960, Warhol had found his style, the “fine art” style of commercial images. The rare, large scaled mass production of Mao in 1973 by Andy Warhol, was one of the most reproduced images and widely known all over the world. Mao Tse-tung was a Chinese Communist chairman.

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.