drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too." -Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol is a pop culture artist. He did the Big Campbell's Soup Can, 19 Cents painting which is in the Modern and Contemporary section of the Menil Building. It was done in 1962. In this discussion, I will give some facts about Warhol's life and influences behind his work, and give my interpretation, and a visual analysis, of the Big Campbell's Soup Can 19 cents. Warhol was born on August 6, 1928. He was primarily named Andrew
factors that influence the work of an artist whether architect or painters. Moreover, it is observe that there are many types of artist work that people love to admire however there is always a strong background regarding the choice and selection of the work that an artist possess. The reports aims to analyses the cultural influence on art creatively in regards of Peter Marino who was an American retail architect.Furthermore, it discusses the cultural and interrelation cultural influence that directly
The Question of Authenticity In the mid-20th century, an American artist named Andy Warhol shook the art world like an earthquake. Warhol’s impacts in art and pop culture have led him to be recognized as one of the most influential figures in contemporary art and culture. Many of his groundbreaking influences are still seen today, nearly 30 years after his death. Warhol receives credit as being the first to popularize silkscreen printing; a process that utilizes the properties of a stencil, meaning
western countries, socialist realism style was endorsed as the only official art form to serve the propaganda purpose during the Cultural Revolution . The stagnant of development greatly restricted creativity in artistic community, and continued to influence the trend of Scar Art that had been formed in the first stage (1976-1984) to criticize the previous official realism style. The experiments of western ideologies mainly occurred in the second (1984-1989) and third stages (1989-2000) before the new
Paintings By the beginning of the 1960s, Warhol had become a very successful commercial illustrator. His early paintings show images taken from cartoons and advertisements, hand-painted with paint drips. Marilyn Monroe was a pop art painting that Warhol had done and it was very popular. Warhol's first pop art paintings were displayed in April 1961, serving as the backdrop for New York Department Store Bronwit Teller's window display. Douglas, A. (2015). Andy Warhol. Retrieved December 3, 2015, from http://www
From this week’s reading, I am most interested in Marilyn Diptych from Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol was a artistic giant who dominated pop art from the 1960s, and Marilyn Diptych was obviously a piece of pop art. In contrast to past traditional art at that time, pop art took it style and subject matter from popular culture such as from comic books, advertisements, movies, and television. Accordingly, some referred pop art as low culture in modern art because they saw popular culture as cheap and uneducated
Andrew “Andy” Warhola was born August 6, 1928 in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and he was the youngest of three children. When he was just a child, Andrew was diagnosed with a rare neurological disorder. Magazines and popular comic books helped him cope with this frightening disorder. Andrew went on to attend college at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, where he earned a degree in pictorial design. During these years, Andrew began to reinvent himself by changing his name. He eventually decided to
The piece that I have selected is Beethoven, by Andy Warhol (2013.58.3). Andy Warhol’s Beethoven is a very Meta piece of art; that is, a piece of art which comments on the state of art itself. The painting draws on a famous portrait of legendary classical music composer Ludwig van Beethoven, but makes some significant changes that alter the meaning of the painting completely. The painting takes the original portrait and adds several elements, including bright colors, superimposed musical notes, and
women, is in the collection of the Kunstmuseum Basel. It was finished by Lichtenstein in 1963. The idea was mainly ‘derived from a frame of "Run For Love!" in Secret Hearts, no. 83 by Tony Abruzzo’ (Wikipedia, n.d.). Roy Lichtenstein, along with Andy Warhol, has created the Pop art movement, which ‘ended up Abstract Expressionism as the dominant style during the 60s’ (The Art Story, n.d.). In 1961, he had ‘not only discovered a new way of painting
Finally, the last song analyzed is “Can I Live” by Nick Cannon produced in 2005. This popular Hip Hop and R&B song became a well-known anthem for the pro-life movement. The song depicts the story of Nick Cannon’s mother when she found out as a teenager she was pregnant with him. The song tells how his mother was seventeen when she became pregnant and was going to have an abortion but decided against it after hearing his heartbeat. One of many touching lyrics in the song state “I ain't passing no