For my History Day topic‚ I chose Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol seemed to be a good topic because I have had an interest for pop art for a long time. Andy Warhol is one of the biggest‚ most popular icons from the pop art movement. This movement started the 1950s in the United States and Great Britain. Warhol led the pop art movement and was always on the cutting edge of art‚ music‚ and popular culture. During the course of his career he produced paintings‚ films‚ commercials‚ print ads and many other
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One page “Choose a work of art or design that you consider to be significant. Imagine that the work had never been made. How would the world be worse off (or better off) without it?”.”. I consider Robert Indiana’s LOVE to be very significant and cannot imagine a world without it. The 1960s‚ Pop art movement in New York would have not had the same impulse without Robert Indiana’s LOVE and the world would be worse off without it. Abstract Expressionism‚ subconscious creation on large canvases‚ would
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of BAM The Black Arts Movement was the name given to a collection of politically persuaded black artists‚ craftsmen‚ producers‚ performers‚ and scholars who developed in the wake of the Black Arts Movement. Maya Angelou played a huge role in this movement with her literature and many more inspirational influences. Maya Angelou’s impact as an artist amid the Black Arts Movement and complexities her impact to Amiri Baraka‚ the man who began the BAM with his radical lyric "Black Art”‚ helped her become
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Mexican muralism is a Mexican art movement that took place primarily in the 1930s. The movement stands out historically because of its political undertones‚ the majority of which are of a Marxist nature‚ or related to a social and political situation of post-revolutionary Mexico. The time between the two world wars was a period when many artists were looking to indigenous traditions and subject matter for inspiration. A number of like-minded artists in Mexico turned to their own history and artistic
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Historical and Creative Literacy Essay The Black Arts Movement and Its Impact From 1954 to 1968‚ Black Americans and other minorities fought for equal rights in what is known as the “Civil Rights Movement” here in America. It all began because of the courage of one woman…Rosa Parks‚ who was arrested in Montgomery‚ GA for refusing to move to the back of a bus. During this period in time‚ blacks were becoming more and more rebellious against the inequality they experienced in comparison to the white
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The Pop Arts’ movement began in the late 50’s and early 60’s. Dubbed‚ the founding father of the movement‚ Andy Warhol brought forward society’s obsession with mass culture and allowed it to become the subject of art itself. Using many techniques such as isolation‚ repetition and colour placement‚ Warhol brought to the world of art his views on materialism‚ politics‚ economics and the media. Andy was quick to warn his admirers and critics‚ do not look any deeper than the surface of my art and my
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abstract expressionist that although he did not identify himself with a specific movement‚ his vast paintings‚ drawings and works on paper‚ sculptures etc. reflect his inclinations. His early art works consisted of tools and other objects that he began to draw and attach to his canvases‚ these providing him commercial success as well as criticisms‚ enabling him to develop his career further and reflect the modern art movement which was widely increasing in popularity at the time. This first example
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collection of outsider art which he termed Art Brut is probably even more important in the influence it has had than his own work. Art Brut‚ which translates as raw art‚ was a collection of work by non-traditional‚ naive artists who were usually self-taught and made art which was not a response or reaction to historic art movements. The movement itself was directly inspired by the seminal work Artistry of the Mentally Ill by Dr. Hans Prinzhorn who was not alone in his interest in the art of the mentally
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Andy Warhol was an American artist who was a leading figure in the art movement‚ his Pop Art. Andy Warhol was born on August 6‚ 1928 in Pittsburgh‚ Pennsylvania. He was the fourth child of Ondrej Warhola and Julia. His parents were emigrants. Warhol’s father immigrated to the United States in 1944‚ and his mother joined him in 1921‚ after death of Warhol’s grandparents Warhol’s father worked in a coal mine. When Andy was a teenager‚ Warhol
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transformed the feminist movement‚ which also coincided with the sexual revolution. She used her efforts to legalize abortion. In 1960 the birth-control pill was approved by the FDA. Friedan was also an advocate for NOW (National Organization for Women). By 1976 over half of the married women were employed outside of the home. Meanwhile‚ Phyllis Schlafly‚ a right-wing Republican activist became a motivational force behind a growing anti-feminist movement. She believed that feminists were “anti-family
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