LIFE AND TIMES OF ARTIST Jean Michel Basquiat was born on December 22‚ 1960 in Brooklyn‚ New York. His father‚ Gerard Basquiat was born in Port-au-Prince‚ Haiti and his mother‚ Matilde Andradas was born in Brooklyn of Puerto Rican parents. At an early age‚ Basquiat displayed an aptitude for art and was encouraged by his mother to draw‚ paint‚ and to participate in other art-related activities. In 1977‚ when he was 17‚ Basquiat and his friend Al Diaz started spray-painting graffiti art on slum
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|4th January 2012-10th January 2010 | |PURPOSE OF LESSON (teaching intentions) | |To introduce children to the art of Andy Warhol‚ enabling children to engage with his work‚ discuss the medium and colour usage. The activity | |is to allow children to engage with his work in an independent manner‚ they will select appropriate mediums which they have previously worked |
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Roy Lichtenstein was born on October 27 1923 and died September 29 1997. He was an American pop artist. During the 1960s‚ his paintings were exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City and‚ along with Andy Warhol‚ Jasper Johns‚ James Rosenquist‚ and others. He became a leading figure in the new art movement. His work defined the basic foundation of pop art better than any other through parody. Favoring the old-fashioned comic strip as subject matter‚ Lichtenstein produced hard-edged
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the sky and ocean have a lot of patience to be dealt with because it takes a right mixture of colors to make it feel lively. Pop art is the most common art. It has to do with very popular seen people‚ places‚ or things. My favorite pop artist is Andy Warhol. The way he deals with the colors and shapes are amazing. I really enjoy the piece he did with Marilyn Monroe and the Campbell soup piece too. Surrealism is a type of art I enjoy doing. When I have a strange dream I will take the most particular
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Andy Warhol: Pop Politics Andy Warhol -- one of the most influential American artists of the twentieth century -- captured the likeness of some of the most visionary and powerful political leaders of the 20th century. Images of John F. Kennedy‚ Jimmy Carter‚ Ronald Reagan‚ Queen Elizabeth II‚ and Mao Zedong‚ among others will hang side-by-side when the Currier Museum of Art presents Andy Warhol: Pop Politics from September 27‚ 2008 through January 4‚ 2009. Pop Politics displays together for
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the errors and mistakes they did along the road. But is it really advice? Or just simple‚ meaningless and insignificant phrases which are systematically in our society. Famous quotes such as “As soon as you stop wanting something‚ you get it”-Andy Warhol may encourage to stop following their dreams and crashing their future objectives by just `stop wanting them´ In my opinion‚ I
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used a lot of silk screening images onto his canvas. His heavy use of media objects was second to his use of drips of paint to partially blur the images. Andy Warhol was the most famous artist of Pop Art. He was often seen as the central figure in this art movement. His work is highly recognizable to the fact of his subject matter. Warhol often used highly commercial and easily recognizable images in his
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Most people think that being famous is heaven‚ but it’s more like hell. What do you think? Phenomenom of fame is widespread around the world. Being famous today is not the same as it was 50-100 years ago. Andy Warhol once said : In the future everyone will have their 15 minutes of fame. Well‚ in my opinion‚ that time has come. People from all around the world are trying to get their way out there on the stage. It has become easy to acquire fame‚ but difficult to keep it. People get famous for
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Andy Warhol’s Moonwalk exemplifies how pop art took inspiration from cultural trends and in this case from the events of the cold war and the space race. The image envisions the exiting moment when man first stepped on the moon‚ using a technique known as screen printing to capture the dynamic composition. Moonwalk was painted by Andy Warhol in the year 1987 only months before his death. It is currently located in the Huntsville Museum of Art‚ near the NASA Marshall Space flight center. The centre
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in 1962. Today‚ celebrity women continue to imitate Monroe’s style‚ fashion and elegance‚ but few come close to the uniqueness of her stunning beauty and charming personality The art of Andy Warhol was a commentary on the condition of society and their obsession with fame and the famous. This included Andy‚ as he was completely enchanted by the American royalty of movie stars and celebrities. He was fascinated by the power that television had over the everyday person and saw the glowing box as
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