Andy Warhol By Lamara Fuller

Andy Warhol Andy Warhol lived his life as an American painter, film- maker and author born in 1928 in Pittsburgh and had moved to new York in 1949 to then work as a commercial artist. Andy Warhol also known as Warhola was a man fully of many talents, creative as he was popular for the creation of pop art. Andy Warhol was an unique artist who so art in everything he could see, touch and eat. He Began in 1960 to make paintings based on newspaper title pages, advertisements and other mass-produced images, and from 1962 to use silkscreen for the largely mechanical production by himself and assistants of series of easel paintings of 'Campbell's Soup Cans', 'Coca-Cola Bottles', portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Elvis Presley, Jackie Kennedy, and later also car crashes and many more. Unlike the Fauve colors, the non-representational colors of Pop Art do not depict the artist's inner sensation of the world. They refer to the popular culture, which also inspires Warhol to experiment with the technique of silkscreen printing, a popular technique used for mass production. Sadly he died February 22 in 1987 in new York city.

Andy Warhol In the late 1950s, Warhol began devoting more attention to painting, and in 1961, he debuted the concept of "pop art"—paintings that focused on mass-produced commercial goods. In 1962, he exhibited the now-iconic paintings of Campbell's soup cans. These small canvas works of everyday consumer products created a major stir in the art world, bringing both Warhol and pop art into the national spotlight for the first time. People described his work as popular, transient, expendable, low cost, mass-produced, young, witty, sexy, gimmicky, glamorous, big business." As Warhol himself put it, "Once you 'got' pop, you could never see a sign the same way again. And once you thought pop, you could never see America the same way again." Warhol's other famous pop paintings depicted Coca-cola bottles, vacuum cleaners and hamburgers. He also painted celebrity portraits in vivid and garish colors; his most famous subjects include Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Mick Jagger and Mao Zedong. As these portraits gained fame and notoriety, Warhol began to receive hundreds of commissions for portraits from socialites and celebrities. POP ART Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the 1950s and flourished in the 1960s in America and Britain, drawing inspiration from sources in popular and commercial culture such as advertising, Hollywood movies and pop music. Key pop artists include Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Hamilton, Peter Blake and David Hockney. Emerging in the mid 1950s in Britain and late 1950s in America, pop art reached its peak in the 1960s. It began as a revolt against the dominant approaches to art and culture and traditional views on what art should be. Young artists felt that what they were taught at art school and what they saw in museums did not have anything to do with their lives or the things they saw around them every day. Instead they turned to sources such as Hollywood movies, advertising, product packaging, pop music and comic books for their imagery.

famous quotes that were/still popular today “If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.” “Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.”

Game time!!! Are your creative/drawing skills.. Fleeky or Not Game 1- you will be handed a piece of plain A4 paper and a colour pencil, pen, pencil, flit tip… blah blah blah of your choice, you then will be handed and picture to trace, yes I said trace cause I know some of you lots cant draw but that doesn’t matter “I GOT YOU” you would be given approximately 7 minutes to complete this task the best tracer wins. GAME 2- you will be given a piece of paper and a pencil and within 10 minutes I would like you to create your own pop art design, be creative with it don’t be scared to draw let your imagination control your pencil…. The best pop art design wines GOOOD LUCKKKKK!!!!!!!

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