towards popular culture transformed his work into a quintessential reflection of the industrial era. His adaptation of a multilayered process‚ and obsession with reproduction became the underlying feature that would set him apart from most pop artists. Warhol had a detached crisp style of art making that was centred on commercial imagery found in media outlets such as advertisements‚ magazine clippings‚ comics and newspapers. The use of silk screen allowed him to create copious amounts of near identical
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to assess the connection between painting and music‚ and how the works of both Jackson Pollock and John Cage could be specifically intertwined. Lastly‚ the author will express his impressions on the article that was read. In order to understand how the works of two very different men‚ Jackson Pollock and John Cage‚ are related‚ it is first important to understand the individual life and drive of each man. Jackson Pollock was an abstract impressionist artist. In his works‚ he tried to invoke emotion
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a full grown woman arriving at the shore. Painted in 1486‚ and with the medium of tempera on canvas‚ The Birth of Venus hangs in the Uffizi gallery in Florence Italy. This renaissance painting is huge and is 67.9 inches tall by 109.6 inches wide. Andy Warhol’s screen print Venus was done is 1984 and has been mass produced all over the country. There are many critiques and analysis for both of these pieces. Also there is a large amount of comparisons between the two‚ because they are both of the
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critic Henry Geldzahler to Andy Warhol in 1962 (Kamholz). From then on‚ Warhol commenced to bring the theme of death and to merge it with his already established themes of stardom and consumerism. In the same year‚ he completed his painting of Marilyn Diptych (1962) – shortly after Marilyn Monroe’s suicide. He painted Silver Liz (1963) when Elizabeth Taylor’s battle with pneumonia was ringing a tone of death at the height of her fame (Suâarez‚ 128). Subsequently‚ Warhol developed a somewhat obsession
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neurological disorder‚ the young Andy Warhol found solace and escape in the form of popular celebrity magazines and DC comic books‚ imagery he would return to years later. (http://www.warholfoundation.org/legacy/biography.html) After graduation Andy Warhola attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie-Mellon University)‚ graduating in June 1949 with a degree in Pictorial Design and dropping the “a“ from his last name. On February 22‚ 1987 Andy Warhol‚ a millionaire at the age of 58
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Andy Warhol’s 1985 painting‚ Apple‚ certainly caught my eyes as I was browsing his exhibit in the Blanton Museum of Art. The painting was a simple Apple logo decorated with a rainbow-like array of colors in between parallel lines that ran across the logo. These lines existed even outside the logo‚ except in a different color‚ yet stayed in stripes similar to how the lines on a sheet of notebook paper are. However‚ the most alluring part was how the lines and the “Macintosh” in the painting looked
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literature deal wish close relationships.” In the novel Of Mice and Men‚ by John Steinbeck‚ the two protagonists have a close relationship. George Milton and Lennie Small are two migrant workers who travel around Salinas Valley‚ California‚ in the 1930’s during the Great Depression. Unquestionably‚ George and Lennie affect each other in both positive and negative ways. George Milton and Lennie Small are the two main characters who share a strong bond throughout the novel. George Milton is a responsible
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subway-like transportation opened there was a sign stating they had a Jackson Pollock exhibit. Feeling comfortable with Pollock’s work I took it as a metaphoric sign that I should definitely head over there early on to see if it was something worth writing about. Being in front of Jackson Pollock’s 8’ x 20’ painting " Mural " located in the West Pavilion‚ Plaza Level‚ Getty Center was memorizing. Mural was made in 1943 when Pollock used Oil and casein on canvas. My expectations of the museum being
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Warhol created his pieces by discovering what was popular‚ what stood out in modern art‚ and also something with standard American values. Warhol also took everyday objects and turned them into pop art sensations. He realized that the majority of the United States went food shopping and decided to create a line of supermarket products. This line of Warhol’s included the very popular Brillo boxes‚ price tags‚ the banana‚ and Coca-Cola bottles (Wrbican). His creation of Coca Cola Bottles in 1962 became
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Interview Diana Ford FAS 101 4/17/2012 Jackson Pollock (January 28‚ 1912 – August 11‚ 1956) -Many people say that artists think outside the box‚ would you say you were thinking outside the box with the drip technique? In 1947 Pollock first used the process of pouring or dripping paint onto a flat canvas in stages‚ often alternating weeks of painting with weeks of contemplating before he finished a canvas. A whole series of paintings—beginning with Full
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