Andy warhol 3
Andy warhol 3Andy Warhol
Pop art is a movement that occurred near the end of the 1950's. It was a reaction to Abstract Expressionism. Pop art emphasized contemporary social values, the sprawl of urban life, the vulgar, the superficial, and the flashy. Advertising provided a number of starting points for the subjects. A man named Andy Warhol is considered a founder and major figure in Pop Art.
Andy Warhola was born in 1928. There has for years been quite a bit of confusion to where and when Andy Warhol was born, but according to Andy's two older brothers and the birth certificate that was filed in Pittsburgh in 1945, he was born on August 6th in Pittsburgh. (www.warhol.dk) Warhol was a graduate of the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1949. After he moved to New York City and gained his success as a commercial artist. Andy got his first break in August 1949, when Glamour Magazine wanted him to illustrate a feature entitled "Success in a Job in New York." But by accident the credit read "Drawings by Andy Warhol" and that is how he dropped the "a" in his last name.
A particular favorite advertisement form that Warhol likes to use was product labels. You will see quite a few examples of this in some of his work. (Grolier 1996) Warhol did most of his well-know works in a four year span from 1960 to 1964. He started out by reproducing images such as comic strips on much larger canvases. Some examples of these would be Nancy, Dick Tracy, Superman, and Popeye. He later became much more interested in reproducing labels of products and some people. This became a standard procedure for Warhol during this period. He later began to make movies and photography. (Coplans pg 47-48)
At the beginning of his work, he started out with the making comic strip "reproductions." They really shouldn't be considered reproductions because they aren't an accurate portrayal of the product. Some of his pieces such as the thirty-two painting collection of Campbell's Soup Cans, are almost identical to the models he used. While others have a looser quality and are merely starting points on which to begin. (Coplans pg 47)
He accomplished the mass amounts of the same subject through many methods. Sometimes he would just paint each of the subjects by hand, one by one. Other times he would use stamp molds and silk-screening. The silk-screening process is very similar to that of a sophisticated stencil. There is a screen made of fine silk or similar material that is made impermeable to all places except that of the area wanted to be colored. This is done photo mechanically, a process that makes photographs into silkscreen. The silk-screening process is fairly simple....
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