Artist Name: Andy Warhol Title of Artwork: Marilyn Monroe Year Created: 1962 Media Used: Screen Printing Dimensions: 2054 x 1448 x 20 mm Location: Tate Cultural And Historical Contexts: 1. I think it reflects the time because it was the beginning of pop art and Marilyn monroe was famous and lots of people around that time were doing lots of pop art of famous models and actresses. Many Artist were also doing pop art that were comic style and one of those artists are Roy Lichenstein. 2. I think
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live in today. Pop art is an extension and repudiation of dadaism. (Wikipedia) Andy Warhol was a famous american draftsman‚ filmmaker‚ painter‚ and print maker of the early 1950s to the late 1980s. Warhol was born August 6th‚ 1928 in Pittsburg‚ Pennsylvania and later died on February 22‚ 1987 in New York‚ New York. Andy worked in the movements of pop art‚ video art‚ and postmodern art (Wikipedia). Andy graduated from high school at 16‚ in 1945 and later went on to Carnegie institute of technology
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Luke Klingler Marilyn Monroe Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe print to everybody has a different meaning. To some it can be a work of art‚ a true masterpiece‚ but to others it can be seen as simply just a painting. To me at first I saw simply just a painting‚ I did not see it as anything special but when I started toying with the colors and hues and saturations I began to see different things. It was necessarily the picture itself but different colors reminded me of different experiences throughout my
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Andy Warhol was born on August 6 ‚ 1928 and was an American artist who was a figure in letting pop art be known. Pop art is art based on modern popular culture and the mass media. Before becoming an artist Warhol was gained acknowledgement when he did whimsical ink drawings of shoe advertisements he also designed album covers and promotional materials. He was also a commercial artist. Around the 1950s he started to exhibit the work he did . He exhibited his work at galleries in New York and he did
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‘All great ideas are controversial or have been at one time’ All pieces of art that have challenged‚ questioned or opposed stereotypical beliefs or traditional values are regarded as great ideas. Artists such as Marcel Duchamp‚ Andy Warhol and Kara Walker are all significant memorable artists that have a tendency to disregard high art and produce works that break down conventional ideas of the time. These outrageous and opposing perspectives of the time period have been developed via conceptual
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As a profound influence on the twentieth century pop art movement‚ Andy Warhol ascended to become a cornerstone in the modern art world. After taking cues from society in the mid-twentieth century‚ as well as conversing with Muriel Latow‚ Warhol did what many artists strived to do but failed. Andy also extracted many of his ideas from other artists and built on them. He put a culture on canvas and revolutionized pop art for a life time. The nineteen sixties‚ seventies‚ and eighties were periods
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Contributions of Andy Warhol In Art Andy Warhol was born August 06‚ 1928 in McKeesport‚ Pennsylvania. Warhol went to Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Institute of Technology as an art student in 1946. At the institute Andy learned to become a designer‚ painter‚ printmaker‚ filmmaker‚ and publisher. Originally named Andrew Warhola‚ Jr. form birth‚ he was also the son of a Czech Roman Catholic emigrant miner that lived in the remote area of Forest City‚ Pennsylvania. After his father’s death in the year 1950‚ Andy shortened
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history‚ in a similar way to what writing tells us‚ from oral history. Without many of the artworks that we now have‚ we would not have a clear look at what all happened. Some examples of this are Ti Watching a Hippopotamus Hunt and Race Riot by Andy Warhol. These two very different pieces show different historical situations that were happening in that time period. For the Ti mural‚ we see that people in Ancient Egypt found hippo hunting to either be important or was common to a point that it became
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Andy Warhol Best-known for his silk-screened photographs of Marilyn Monroe‚ Jacqueline Kennedy‚ Elizabeth Taylor and Elvis Presley‚ Andy Warhol accustomed artists and critics worldwide to use the art of borrowed imagery. Replicating previous artwork from decades before him‚ Andy Warhol became the founding father of appropriation‚ that has now become a symbol of postmodernism‚ and an artistic approach for an era in which concepts of innovation and authorship are thoroughly questioned. This theory
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in 1891. The second being “Marilyn Monroe” painted by Andy Warhol in 1967. When Monet painted “Grainstack‚” he was experimenting with perceptual color. The idea of the Impressionist movement was to objectively record nature as it was seen by the painter‚ focusing on the effects of color and light. He painted “Grainstack” the way he saw it; not the actual color that we know it was‚ but the colors that the sunset made it appear. When Warhol painted “Marilyn Monroe” he used non-representational
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