andy warhol
I am going to do my personal study on Andy Warhol one of the most influential artist on the Pop Art movement. I hope to produce a realistic and correct account of his life and will be investigating his obsession with fame and money and whether he was in the art world for the money.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.Andy Warhol the American artist, photographer and filmmaker was born in 1930 in Pittsburgh as the son of Czechoslovak immigrants. His father was as a construction worker and died in an accident when Andy was 13 years old.Andy showed an early talent in drawing and painting. After high school he studied commercial art at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. Warhol graduated in 1949 and went to New York where he worked as an illustrator for magazines like Vogue and Harper's Bazaar and for commercial advertising. He soon became one of New York's most sought of and successful commercial illustrators. In 1952 Andy Warhol had his first one-man show exhibition at the Hugo Gallery in New York. In 1956 he had an important group exhibition at the renowned M
Warhol developed radically new artistic techniques, which have influenced artists the world over. Of course, throughout, Warhol offers no overt analysis. The possibility for anyone to be 'world famous for fifteen minutes' has been realised. Race Riot - from a photo of a civil-rights demonstration - shows police attacking black protesters, letting loose their dogs. The repeated image, often criticised for desensitising reactions to catastrophic events, seems to emphasise and harangue. Tate Modern's exhibition reveals Warhol as one of the most significant artists of the 20th century. In 1964 he was asked to produce pictures for the New York World Fair. Warhol made over 300 experimental underground films - most rather bizarre and some rather pornographic. Similarly, photo-realistic paintings that playfully mimic photography are more than just copies of photographs or the objects they represent, but create a whole realm and style of painting where the objects bear little significance to real world objects, though they depict these objects with a realism usually reserved for cameras. One of Andy's friends described him as a true workaholic. Apart from being an Art Producing Machine, the Factory served as a filmmaking studio. There's a driven need to get things down. We often see this in Pop Art, where Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup cans may be said to represent the originals, but that is not their main function. Warhol has attracted criticism from the left.
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