Pop art. Andy Warhol

ANDY WARHOL

Andrew Warhol was one of the most important plastic artists of this movement in the 20^th century.

He was born in Pittsburgh, USA in 1928. His parents were from Czech Republic. He started her art studies by the 1950’s at the Carnegie Technology Carnegie Institute. The last year he started a degree as commercial artist for magazines as Vogue, Harper´s Bazaar, Seventeen y The New Yorker. At the same time he used to paint canvas using thematic about daily elements, advertisement and comics and he started exposing in different galleries.

The use of mass media images, easily recognizable by everybody, such as the famous soup and coca-colas cans, becomes one of the most interesting characteristics of all his production. He also captured real hard situations, like in “Electric chair”, one of his most representative works.

In 1963 he created a workshop called Factory, where a lot of underground culture artists met.

His most productive period was the 60’s. Hi died in New York in 1987, at the age of 58.

Andy Warhol’s paintings were characterized by:

• The use of monoprint technique in some paintings, mainly his first works.
• The use of offset impression, with bright colours to paint portraits, daily elements, traffic accidents and other disasters… And the repetition of these elements.
• The painting of mass media images, very commercial pictures.
• He used to reflect the underground culture

 MARILYN DIPTYCH

Andy Warhol exposed painted this diptych in 1962. He exposed it in New York, in Stable gallery. It’s an oil, acrylic, and silk-screen enamel on canvas painting. In 2004 it was named the third most influencial work of modern art.

“This image can result very repetitive, monoton and boring because it´s the same picture repeated many times in two different colour ways. However this is one of Andy’s most important characteristics. It neither shows all Marilyns face because colour contrasts make it very difficult.”

“I  think this is a fantastic painting of Andy Warhol, that includes a lot of his characteristics. Andy makes a great commercial picture from a simple portrait. I like the colour contrast: bright colours against black and white, that gives the paint a funny and pop view. It seems  very simple the action of repeat the same image some times but the result was once something very new and modern.”




Extracted from:

http://leahthomason.wordpress.com/tag/marilyn-monroe/

http://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/w/warhol.htm

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol




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