How Did Andy Warhol Change The World

Andy Warhol was born in 1928, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Warhol’s started painting at the age of eight but became known to the world in the late 1950s. He graduated high school when he was sixteen years old and enrolled in the Carnegie Institute of Technology. Andy Warhol became a commercial illustrator, in 1949, the same year he moved to New York. He worked for well-known magazines like The New Yorker, Vogue, etc. He won awards like the American Institute of Graphics Art with his out of the ordinary advertisement. Andy Warhol became not only a painter, he was also a filmmaker, author, director, and a photographer.
Warhol focused on being different from other artist of the era. His hope of doing comic strips and cartoon soon crumbled by Roy
Women no longer had to stay at home, they were able to work at factories. African Americans were able to sign up for the army. The world was changing in many different ways and so was art. During these times poor people would line up to receive soup and bread. These lines were called ‘Bread lines’. “America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.” Said Andy Warhol. Soup was always available to people. The social scale wasn’t being represented in daily objects. This is how his most famous artwork came into
The soup cans were available to anyone. Andy Warhol wanted to project the positive side of everyday things. In this painting each can was painted and stamped on the bottom of the drawn can for details. There are thirty-two cans in the canvas, eight rows and four columns of cans. At first sight the cans look all the same but if the canvas is well observed, it can be noticed that every can is a different flavor. The method he used for this canvas was “silk printing, a popular technique for mass production.” (1)
Principles of design can be seen in this canvas. Balance is one of them, all of the cans are the same size, shape and color. There are no emphasis in this canvas. Visual rhythm is seen in the space between each can, also the repetition of the warm colors in every single can. In this canvas, the main element of art present is form, even though the drawing is cartoonish, there are lines that emphasize the width which makes the viewer know the can being drawn has volume.
Andy Warhol used different materials to create his artwork. Some of these materials were ink, oil on a canvas, acrylic, and graphite