Andy Warhol: The Development Of Pop Art In The 1950's

Pop art is a movement that first emerged in Britain in the Mid 1950s and later went on the United States in the late 1950s. Pop art appears on many of the things we use to such as comic strips, magazine ads, and supermarket products. Pop art was shaped by early artists Eduardo Paolozzi, Richard Hamilton, Robert Rauschenberg, and Jasper Johns. The creation of pop art helped to modernize the society we live in today. Pop art is an extension and repudiation of dadaism. (Wikipedia) Andy Warhol was a famous american draftsman, filmmaker, painter, and print maker of the early 1950s to the late 1980s. Warhol was born August 6th, 1928 in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania and later died on February 22, 1987 in New York, New York. Andy worked in the movements of pop art, video art, and postmodern art (Wikipedia). Andy graduated from high school at 16, in 1945 and later went on to Carnegie institute of technology which now is Carnegie Mellon University (the art story). One of Andy’s most famous enough paintings is “Twenty- five colored Marilyn's” which is and acrylic on …show more content…
Andy created this piece shortly after Marilyn's suicide he used a cropped picture of her from the movie Niagra. Another reason why Andy painted Marilyn is a very beautiful pop culture celebrity. In the 25 colored Marilyns Andy used the silkscreen process to duplicate Marilyns face, he figured that uneven ink would translate he face with different clarity degrees (fortworthmuseum). Roy Lichtensteins painting the “Drowning girl” was created in 1963. During the time period when he first created the painting he was very focused on cartoon imagery such as sources from comic books. The Drowning girl is on display at the museum of modern art in New York. The painting is a series of cropped pictures used to create a whole new picture (themodern). Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol both had very amazing