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    Andy Warhol's Impact on Art Andrew Warhola was born August Sixth, 1928, in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. He was the youngest son of Julie and Andrej Warhola, both immigrants from Czechoslovakia. After a quiet childhood spent alternately alone and in art classes, Andrew went to college. He then got a job doing commercial art, largely advertisements for large companies. Over time his name was shortened and Andy Warhol changed the face of modern art. Through his silver lined Factory and the many people

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    Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein are very well known pop artist. Some people consider them to be very similar and others think otherwise. From my perspective I can see that they are quite different when you look more deeply into their work. These differences include themes, techniques, style and influences. Firstly for a while Andy Warhol made art pieces on consumerism. The Oxford Dictionary defines consumerism as “the protection or promotion of interests of consumers”. Andy Warhol began to paint

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    Julia Gutman Z3415928 In the mid 1980’s iconic pop artists Andy Warhol & Jean-Michel Basquiat teamed up on a series of highly influential untitled paintings. Situating this body of work within Neil Brown’s model as adressed in “Paradox and Imputation,” (Brown) can provide a comprehensive consideration of this series of collaborations, placing the pieces within a wider historical & socio-political context. In considering this body of work, it is important to situate it within the broader practice

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    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

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    Andy Warhol was considered one of the best artistic geniuses of his time period. He had a unique style in his artwork that many people found attractive and new. Andy loved to do screen printed images of famous celebrities and different objects which were one of his greatest types of art he did. This new trend became known as pop art, which many people across the country found very interesting. Everyone was drawn to Andy Warhol because he found the human to be more inspiring than other artists. Almost

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    Andy Warhol Consumerism, business and authenticity. Considered one of the most glamourous figures in contemporary art. An eccentric figure he became infamous for his eccentric way of seeing and experiencing the world. As I find is often the case, Duchamp said it best - “What 's interesting is not that somebody would want to paint twenty-seven soup cans.  What’s interesting is the mind that would conceive of painting twenty-seven soup cans.” Fascinated with commerce and celebrity Warhol bridged

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    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

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    Andy Warhol, with his revolutionary idea of pop art, is arguably one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Warhol’s unique view of the world and how he developed his definition of art is what changed the world. The creativity that Andy Warhol displayed was due to him having such a strange sense for obscure and fashionable things. Even his appearance, which consisted of his classical silver wig, clearly shows that he is no ordinary person, but instead that he is a cool, classical

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    Andy Warhol was loved by everyone due to view and of course his art. Andy Warhol rose to become famous in several ways and soon became the most controversial artist of the 21st century. His views, as well as his art, was associated with the Pop Art Movement in the 1960s. The famous art made by Andy didn’t just changed our view on art, it change art entirely. People were drawn to Andy Warhol for a multiple of reasons. One reason was his complex view on art. Andy’s art was involved a sense of

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    silkscreen piece created by Andy Warhol in America during 1964. Andy Warhol is known for transforming contemporary art, with his new techniques, along with his unique style of using ubiquitous and banal with ordinary objects. Frank Bellon was one of a total of thirteen men wanted for charges by the New York Police in 1962. He was charged for the fatal shooting of 22 year old Michael Macagnone on July 19, 1935 along with unlawful flight to escape prostitution. During Andy Warhol’s time, he was seen

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