Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Andy Warhol.

Andy Warhol was best know for "The Pop Icon" -  His first one man exhibition was in New York in 1956. He started by painting daily objects of things that were mass produced and well known such as: Campbell Soup cans, Coke Bottles and after that he became famous in the New York art scene. Later on he started making silkscreen prints of famous people like Marilyn Monroe or Elizabeth Taylor. Andy expressed his philosophy in one sentence. "When you think about, department stores are kinda of like museums"
He didn't only want to remake mass products but he also was reaching the goal of mass produce of his own works with Pop Art.

Here are a few examples: I really like how he took something that already existed and kind of put a twist to it and made it his own style. Like the first picture of Marilyn Monroe, it looks a lot like her but she put a twist to her hair -  instead of being bleached blonde he made it yellow and her lips instead of being red he made them a dark pink. In a way he customized it. For the coke bottles he changed them up a bit too. They usually have the label wrapped around the bottle and he made it so the label wasn't on there and it was just the bottles. You can see the extreme detail that he used in making sure that is was a exact replica. I also like how at the bottom the "Cola" in Coca Cola is faded and looks wore. The Campbell's soup photo is unique also -  the labels look exactly the same but he made it more interesting by instead of just having one huge replica painting, he made multiple ones -  you cant really answer the question as to why..?




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