In the 1960s an art movement known as Pop Art had begun. Pop art was meant to be simple to aid the audience in creating their own interpretations of the pieces. Two of the leading artists were Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. Warhol was a fan of women‚ unlike Warhol‚ Lichtenstein was inspired by culture; their paintings are both pieces of Pop Art but they are different because Warhol’s paintings are mostly of women and Lichtenstein’s are of famous cartoon characters. The artists used different techniques
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Andy Warhol had a very different way of doing things‚ not just in his art‚ but in his entire life. He was so different from everyday people‚ that people saw him as an outcast‚ just because he did things the way he wanted. Eventually his weird style and social awkwardness became something people were somehow drawn to. He became famously known for his innovative style‚ which people found fresh and interesting. His unique style was new‚ modern‚ and the definition of pop culture
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Art History Having the title of a designer‚ film director‚ painter‚ photographer‚ stylist and writer made Andrew Warhola into the prince of Pop Art. Born in Pittsburgh‚ Pennsylvania on August 6th‚ 1928‚ Andy Warhol was focused on all his talents at an early age. He studied commercial art at the School of Fine Arts at Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh‚ now known as Carnegie Mellon University. After graduating with a degree in fine arts‚ Warhol decided to start his new life in New York
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Andy Warhol was born August 6‚ 1928 in Pittsburgh‚ Pennsylvania. In third grade‚ Andy had Sydenham’s chorea. He was often bedridden as a child he became an outcast at school and ended up bonding with his mother. At times when he was confined to his bed he drew‚ listened to the radio and collected pictures of movie stars.When Warhol was at age 13‚ his father died in a car accident. When Warhol graduated from Schenley High School in 1945 he had planned to study art education at the University of Pittsburgh
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Andy Warhol Andy Warhol was born in Pittsburgh‚ Pennsylvania in 1928 as Andrew Warhola. He graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology before moving to New York where his first big break‚ occurring in August 1949‚ took place. Glamour Magazine had asked him to illustrate an article called “Success is a Job in New York”. He had dropped the ‘a’ in his last name when the credit mistakenly read “Drawings by Andy Warhol.” By 1955‚ Andy Warhol had almost all of New York copying his work.
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Andy Warhol Andrew Warhola is considered to be the “founder and a major figure of the pop art movement”. He was born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania in 1928. He graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology‚ where he majored in pictorial design. He worked as an illustrator in many magazines including Vogue‚ Harpers Bazaar and the New Yorker‚ but‚ his big break was in 1949‚ when he illustrated for Glamour Magazine. Andy Warhol was born with the name Andrew Warhola‚ he dropped the “a” when his
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Wanted Dead Part One Andy Warhol‚ was the creative mind that created pop art. Andy Warhol is a Polish American artist that lived during the twentieth century. Mr. Warhol’s paintings focused on the mass production of commercial goods‚ as well as under minded the supposed value of art based on the uniqueness of the work. The thing that I enjoy the most about his works is the way that he incorporates silkscreen in order to produce multiples of a single image yet still manages to make each one different
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With Campbell’s Soup Can (Tomato) Andy Warhol takes as his subject a ubiquitous staple food found in millions of American homes and turns it into high art. With the unique candor he displayed in the best of his early Pop art works he appropriates the curved lines and iconic graphic imagery of a tin of canned soup and re-examines them in the context of their pure visual qualities. Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans transformed him into an overnight sensation when they were first exhibited in Los
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Keith Haring and Andy Warhol were both very famous American artists and are pop artists. Although they both did pop art‚ they were known for different reasons and became artists in different ways. Keith Haring was a social activist and was known for his inspiring cartoon graffiti against drug addiction‚ diseases‚ etc. Some of his artworks are‚”Crack is Wack” and “Ignorance Equals Fear”. He died at the age 31 because of AIDS complications.On the other hand‚ Andy Warhol was known as a leading figure
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The painting done by Andy Warhol called Marilyn Diptych was the third most influential piece of modern art according to an article in The Guardian (Warhol).The canvas was based on a publicity photo of Marilyn Monroe from the film Niagara. Furthermore‚ Warhol took the one picture and spread it across a two sided canvas as fifty smaller images. On one side there were twenty-five images expressed with bright colors. Likewise‚ on the other side there were twenty-five pictures conveyed in black and white
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