Pop Art |
Andy Warhol |
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1930-87 |
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NY, US |
| What: |
Artist and film-maker.
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Started as a very successful commercial artist
in NY. |
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Warhol pioneered the development of the process
whereby an enlarged photographic image is transferred to a silk
screen that is then placed on a canvas and inked from the back.
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"Campbell Soup" 1961 |
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It was this technique that enabled him to produce
the series of mass-media images - repetitive, yet with slight
variations - that he began in 1962. |
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Hence, he substituted the silkscreen for the brush.
Use flat, uniform colours. |
| What: |
A whole series of popular culture imageries emerged
from the silk-screen onto canvas technique:
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Commercial symbols
- Campbell soup
- Dollar notes
Can be seen as a critique of uniqueness of art.
Bringing the everyday life back into art.
Consumerism and images of mass culture reflects and shapes our
life.
Why can’t these be art? |
"Dollar Signs" 1982 |
Celebrities & Pop icons
- Marilyn Monroe
- Elvis Presley
- Jackie Kennedy
Can be seen as a critique of the Pop culture.
They appear and reappear in the papers and newspaper everyday.
The issue of reproducibility and authenticity is question.
Which is the real Monroe? |
"Marilyn Three Times" 1962 |
"Elvis" 1964 |
Disaster images
- Car & plane crash
- Electric chair
Can be seen as a critique of shock values of images.
Grotesque images in the media had numbed the senses of the people.
Hence, the more we see such images of death and disasters, we
will not be shocked by them anyway.
The Electric Chair series also bring attention to the execution
in prisons in US.
The series also known as ‘American Death’. |
"Electric Chair" 1967 |
"5 Deaths 11Times In Orange" 1964 |
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In the 1960s, he collaborated with rock bands,
made a series of experimental films based on the ideas of boredom,
time and repetition.
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"Self-Portrait" 1986 |
He worked and lived like a movie star.
Called his studio the Factory as he once said he wanted to produce
art like a machine. |
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On June 3rd 1968, Valerie Solanis (author of the
S.C.U.M. manifesto) came into the Factory and shot at Warhol
and injured him.
Continued to work after recovery until his death in 1987. |
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