Friday, 1 November 2013

Andy Warhol's art work

Art Work:
1.      Marilyn Monroe – 1964
Material: Silkscreen and oil on canvas
The art work is to pay tribute to Marilyn Monroe. It created a “collage” style to present the portrait of Marilyn Monroe. It uses a many wild and bright colours to illustrate the work.

 
2.        Campbell's Soup Can – 1962
Material: Silkscreen on canvas
Size: 35 3/4 x 24
  The art work was created during the early Pop art movement. The whole picture is all Campbell’s Soup Cans. Campbell’s soup can was popular during the 80s and 90s. Andy Warhol decided the paint it because the soup can is significant for him. He drank it every day in the morning and it became part of his daily life.  

3.      The sixteen Jackies – 1964
Material: Acrylic and silkscreen on canvas
Size: 80 x 64 in
There’re faces of four kids in the pictures. Their faces keep repeating on rows Andy Warhol chose their faces because they appeared ubiquitously in the media after the assassination.


I choose Andy Warhol because I like his art works and ideas. He likes to create works that near to his life. That remind me that art can be everywhere in our life. For example: your teacher’s faces, the tree behind your house or even a poster that you see every day. If you pay a little bit attention, life can be funny and more interesting. Moreover, he is talented at using colours. For exmaple: the Marilyn Monroe is merged of successive intense colours. However, it is successful and looks suitable. 

Andy Warhol's profile

Artist Name: Andy Warhol
Style: Pop art
Life history:
   Andy Warhol is an American artist and film maker. He is talented and very popular in the second half of the twenties century. His art works including drawing, painting, prints and videography.
   When he was in college, he discovered the blotted-line technique. It was to tape two pieces of blank paper together and then draw in ink on one page. Before the ink dried, press the two pieces of paper together. Finally a picture with irregular lines comes out, and color in with watercolor. Andy Warhol didn’t like to study, he always missed classed. He only interested in art. He took arts at school and Carnegie Museum.
    Before he became an artist, he was a commercial illustrator. He worked to explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement. After that, he acted as a leader of the visual art movement. He also discovered the process of silk screening. This technique uses a specially prepared section of silk as a stencil, allowing one silk-screen to create similar patterns multiple times.
    Moreover, Andy was a gay man and he lived openly even before the gay liberation.
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