Andy Warhol Biography 1928-1987 Campbell’s Soup: Black Bean (c) VG Bild-Kunst‚ Bonn 2001/2002 No other artist is as much identified with Pop Art as Andy Warhol. The media called him the Prince of Pop. Warhol made his way from a Pittsburgh working class family to an American legend. Born in Pittsburgh Andy was born in 1930 in Pittsburgh as the son of Slovak immigrants. His original name was Andrew Warhola. His father was as a construction worker and died in an accident when Andy was 13 years
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the most influential and referenced designer out of them all. With a career spanning more than three decades and several lines‚ Yamamoto has created a signature look with the use of black and conceptualist ideals. Much like contemporary artists Marcel Duchamp and Donald Judd‚ Yamamoto and his peers sought inspiration from the real world and represented this engagement with everyday life through their designs. Further‚ they advanced a movement in ready-to-wear that rejected the bizarreness and extravagance
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The photograph could capture exactly a face‚ a pose‚ a scene and even actions of different motion. The earliest work by photographers Eadward Muybridge and Etienne-Jules Marey influenced among many painters such as Edgar Degas‚ Giacomo Balla and Marcel Duchamp. “When in the late 1870’s‚ Muybridge’s snapshots of the animal locomotion‚ specially the studies of horse’s different gaits‚ came to be known in France and the United States” (de Duve p.114). Eadweard Muybridge was known for his early use of
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one of first the 20th century (female) artists to dress herself up in an array of gender bending disguises and photographed herself in the name of art‚ from the time she was 16 with the collaborative assistance of her life partner (and step sister)‚ Marcel Moore. Cahun had preferred to present herself as both object and subject for her own sexual fascinations‚ rather than a passive object (Claude Cahun‚ Self-Portrait‚ 1928‚ The Guerilla Girls’ Beside Companion to the History of Western Art‚ page
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discovering her love for clay‚ Wood had forays into painting‚ drawing‚ writing‚ and theatre. Involved in everything from Vaudeville to Dada‚ she spent her youth searching for the right outlet for her artistic and creative energies. Beatrice met Marcel Duchamp and his friend‚ writer and diplomat Henri Roche‚ and the three formed a close friendship. Together they founded the magazine Blind Man‚ one of the first manifestations of the Dada art movement in New York. They also frequented Avant garde gatherings
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1950’s Advertising and Post War Optimism 23 8. Appropriation Art 26 1 9. Symbolism Reading 31 10. James Rosenquist and Found Images 32 11. Rosenquist vs American Pop Art Scene 35 12. Rosenquist and Advertising 37 13. Postmodern and Jeff Koons 40 14. Readymades of Jeff Koons 42 15. Kitsch
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November 1954) was a French artist‚ known for his use of color and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman‚ printmaker‚ and sculptor‚ but is known primarily as a painter.[1] Matisse is commonly regarded‚ along with Picasso and Marcel Duchamp‚ as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century‚ responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture.[2][3][4][5] Although he was initially
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contemporary conceptual artists Sol LeWitt. Conceptual art was a positive reaction to the work of Marcel Duchamp. Duchamp‚ a French artist‚ was one of the first artists we now call conceptualists. His most famous art piece was a pre-made urinal he named Fountain (1917) and was signed by the clever pseudonym “R.Mutt” which was derived from the Mott plumbing company’s name and a popular comic at the time. Duchamp submitted his piece in an exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists in New York but it
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Art Forgeries When one enters into an art museum‚ one would expect all of the pieces of art to be that of the original. However‚ when an art lover does not know the difference between an original from a forgery‚ then they may have been fooled by both the museum and by the forger. No one can really look at a painting and distinctly know whether it is a forged piece of work or an original piece of work. Art forgeries may seem like an artist copying a well-known artists work‚ but it depends on how
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value. It will first consider the perception of art through history and the change in the authority of art‚ before examine the structure of Bourdieu’s theory and looking at the above statement with regards to two specific artists: Damien Hirst and Marcel Duchamp and their work. In the past‚ the kings and the aristocracy determined what was art and who was an artist. Later on‚ the church gained influence in the same respect. During the 11th-12th century art was simply seen as a "skill” (Jirousek‚ 1995)
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