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Andy Warhol PowerPoint
- 2. ANDY WARHOL • Born August 6th, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania • Graduated from Carnegie Institute of Technology • Famous American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker • Leading figure of the Visual Arts Movement
- 3. COMMERCIAL ART (1949-1961) •Career in magazine illustration and advertising • Whimsical ink drawings for shoe advertisements • Expanded to album covers and promotional materials • Glamour magazine and Columbia records
- 4. FINE ART (1962-1967) •Also know as Pop Art • Imitates methods, styles, and themes of popular culture and mass media that is reflected in comic strips, advertising, and science fiction • Aspects of everyday American life
- 5. 1950’S • 1955 “Greenand Yellow Shoe” • Commercial Art • Simple line drawing • Painted • “Shoe bright, shoe light, first shoe I’ve seen tonight”
- 6. 1950’S • 1958 “TheMagic Porridge Pot” • Commercial Art • Simple line drawing • Painted • Playful and fun images
- 7. 1960’S • 1967 “The Velvet Underground and Nico” • Commercial Art • “Peel slowly”
- 8. 1960’S • 1968 “Campbell’s Soup Cans” • Pop Art • Painting • Established Warhol’s Reputation
- 9. 1970’S • 1975/1976 “Mick Jagger” • Pop Art • Painting and silkscreen • Graffiti style
- 10. 1970’S • 1973 “Mao Zedong” • Pop Art • Painting and silkscreen • Graffiti style
- 11. COMPARISON 1950’s 1960’s
- 12. COMPARISON 1960’s 1970’s
- 13. OVERALL COMPARISON 1950’s 1960’s 1970’s
- 14. VISUAL ARTS ICON • Died February 22nd, 1987 in New York City • Foundation dedicated to the “advancement of the visual arts” • Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylva
- 15. THE MESSAGE • Behindevery artist is the same questions: • 1) Develop an idea, question, or problem that is guided by art • 2) Apply the arts to communicate and improve daily life and solve problems
- 16. IMAGES • Powderrun, “AndyWarhol”, April 4th 2007, via Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution License. • Ian Burt, “The Velvet Underground and Nico 1967”, January 5th 2006, via Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution License. • Punxsutaweneyphil, “Campbell’s Soup Cans”, March 4th 2009, via Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution License. • Ian Burt, “Andy Warhol-Mick Jagger 1975”, May 2nd 2006, via Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution License. • Istolenthetv, “Warhol-Mao”, October 29th 2005, via Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution License. • Banalities, “Warhol-Roy Snell”, July 10th 2007, via Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution License.
- 17. RESOURCES • Slide 2-Artquotes, “Andy Warhol Biography”, http://www.artquotes.net/mas ters/warhol-biography.htm • Slide 4- Farlex, “Pop Art”, 2010, http://www.thefreedictionary.c om/pop+art • Slide 14- Artquotes, “Andy Warhol Biography”, http://www.artquotes.net/mas ters/warhol-biography.htm