On August 6‚ 1928‚ Andy Warhol was born as Andrew Warhola to Andrej and Julia Warhola in Pittsburgh‚ Pennsylvania. They were a working class family that stuck close to the roots and traditions of their Eastern European heritage. In 1934 Andy began attending the local Holmes School and took free art classes at Carnegie Institute (now the Carnegie Museum of Art). Andy had an amazing gift for drawing even from a very young age. In addition to drawing‚ Andy was fascinated by Hollywood cinema and spent
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Andy Warhol being one of the biggest influences in my work made him the obvious choice for this assignment. I see Warhol ’s influence on the world we live in everyday and strongly believe he helped in creating the pop culture obsession in America. Andy went from rags to riches and defines the American dream. His work has inspired many and continues to be recognized by people throughout the world. Born August 6‚ 1928 to Andrej and Julia Warhola‚ Andy was the youngest of three brothers. Andy
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Andy Warhol Andy Warhol was one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. He often changed his date of birth to « add mystery » but most people believe that he was born on August 6‚ 1928 in Pittsburgh‚ Pennsylvania. {Andy Warhol Pop art painter‚ Susan Goldman Rubin} His art reflected the rapidly changing American culture. When he was young‚ he was obsessed with fame‚ glamour‚ Hollywood stars‚ movies and painting. As he grew older‚ he transformed his obsessions into art and started his
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Andy Warhol I’ve chosen to write my paper on the 20th century artist Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol was born as Andrew Warhola on August 6th‚ 1928 in Pittsburg‚ PA. He is known as a lead figure in pop art for his visually striking prints and paintings. He was also known on the side for filmmaking‚ author‚ and for the people he associated with including celebrities‚ intellectuals and wealthy people. Andy Warhol is well known in the artist community‚ one of his paintings being sold for up to $100 million
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Andy Warhol Andy Warhol was born on August 6th 1987. He was originally given the name Andrew Warhola but as he grew older he developed the nickname Andy and he dropped the extra a in Warhol when he started his art career. He grew up in Pittsburgh‚ Pennsylvania. He attended Holmes School where he took free art classes after school. He later graduated from Carnegie Institute of Technology where he got a bachelor’s degree in fine art. He planned on becoming an art teacher until one of his friends
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towards popular culture transformed his work into a quintessential reflection of the industrial era. His adaptation of a multilayered process‚ and obsession with reproduction became the underlying feature that would set him apart from most pop artists. Warhol had a detached crisp style of art making that was centred on commercial imagery found in media outlets such as advertisements‚ magazine clippings‚ comics and newspapers. The use of silk screen allowed him to create copious amounts of near identical
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critic Henry Geldzahler to Andy Warhol in 1962 (Kamholz). From then on‚ Warhol commenced to bring the theme of death and to merge it with his already established themes of stardom and consumerism. In the same year‚ he completed his painting of Marilyn Diptych (1962) – shortly after Marilyn Monroe’s suicide. He painted Silver Liz (1963) when Elizabeth Taylor’s battle with pneumonia was ringing a tone of death at the height of her fame (Suâarez‚ 128). Subsequently‚ Warhol developed a somewhat obsession
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a full grown woman arriving at the shore. Painted in 1486‚ and with the medium of tempera on canvas‚ The Birth of Venus hangs in the Uffizi gallery in Florence Italy. This renaissance painting is huge and is 67.9 inches tall by 109.6 inches wide. Andy Warhol’s screen print Venus was done is 1984 and has been mass produced all over the country. There are many critiques and analysis for both of these pieces. Also there is a large amount of comparisons between the two‚ because they are both of the
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Andy Warhol’s 1985 painting‚ Apple‚ certainly caught my eyes as I was browsing his exhibit in the Blanton Museum of Art. The painting was a simple Apple logo decorated with a rainbow-like array of colors in between parallel lines that ran across the logo. These lines existed even outside the logo‚ except in a different color‚ yet stayed in stripes similar to how the lines on a sheet of notebook paper are. However‚ the most alluring part was how the lines and the “Macintosh” in the painting looked
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In this day and age‚ the artist Andy Warhol is best known for his iconic pop art prints. Examples of his printed artwork include the Marilyn Diptych‚ a silkscreen painting containing fifty identical images of Marilyn Monroe’s face‚ and the famous Campbell’s Soup Can series‚ paintings of the titular can. Warhol’s printed artworks remain the most famous of his creations; however‚ he was much more than just an ordinary pop artist. Andy Warhol‚ working with many media types such as film‚ sculpture‚ and
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