Andy Warhol (Andrew Warhola)
Andy Warhol was an American artist and filmmaker.
He was the leading exponent of the Pop Art movement. He chose his imagery from common everyday items such as money, soup cans, soft drink bottles and soap-pad boxes.
He is famous for consistently attempting to ridicule and celebrate middle-class values by blurring the distinction between popular and high culture.
Monotony and repetition became the trademark of his works, multi-image, mass produced silk screen paintings.
In the Mid 1960s, Andy Warhol began making films.
Some of his films are
He died in 1987 from complications following surgery.
Pop Art was a movement which began in England in the mid 1950s. It was inspired by the commercialism which developed during World War II.
It is art where common objects were used as subject matter and were often physically incorporated in the work.
Its iconography (taken from TV, comics, movies, magazine, and all forms of advertising) was presented emphatically and objectively, without praise or condemnation but with overwhelming immediacy, and by means of commercial techniques used by the media. Which is also where the iconography was taken from initially.
ANDY WARHOL's TRASH
Andy Warhol was an American artist and filmmaker.
He was the leading exponent of the Pop Art movement. He chose his imagery from common everyday items such as money, soup cans, soft drink bottles and soap-pad boxes.
He is famous for consistently attempting to ridicule and celebrate middle-class values by blurring the distinction between popular and high culture.
Monotony and repetition became the trademark of his works, multi-image, mass produced silk screen paintings.
In the Mid 1960s, Andy Warhol began making films.
Some of his films are
- Flesh (film) (1968)
- Blue Movie (1969)
- Trash (1969)
- Women in Revolt (1970-71)
- Andy Warhol's Bad (1976)
He died in 1987 from complications following surgery.
Pop Art was a movement which began in England in the mid 1950s. It was inspired by the commercialism which developed during World War II.
It is art where common objects were used as subject matter and were often physically incorporated in the work.
Its iconography (taken from TV, comics, movies, magazine, and all forms of advertising) was presented emphatically and objectively, without praise or condemnation but with overwhelming immediacy, and by means of commercial techniques used by the media. Which is also where the iconography was taken from initially.
ANDY WARHOL's TRASH
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