More on Warhol

Throughout Warhol’s life he was influenced by many things, one of the biggest influences was his life ambition which was fame and money. He wanted to be able to walk down the street and as he walked by someone would recognise him for the richest man in the world!!! This gave a massive impact on his work as he looked at famous celebrities that people idolised. Warhol’s Main pieces being Marylyn Monroe and Elvis Presley, which were produced in 1963.

In 1968 Andy Warhol was shot, but fortunately he survived but suffered pain from the wounds for a long time. This caused him a lot of pain and grief as all the time it was on his mind and he felt as if he had just experienced the closest thing to death! From then onwards his work was inspired by death and things related to death.  This lead to some of his work being duplicates of the Marylyn Monroe prints but instead of Mrs. Monroe it was Skull. More of his work was influenced by death such as the car with the 5 teenagers underneath, and the tyre with the foot being crushed showing pain at a glance. These images where very powerful because on the car crash one all the eyes on the young boys where open and looked as if they were alive but the painting was a pure silhouette black with a red wash over to give the effect of looking through blood filled eyes.


He took the ideas from the media into his own work and they saw him as a Light and Breezy guy but on the other hand others saw him as a very Dark person because he was so simple yet so powerful and had a lot of thought behind his work.

Magnification of Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol!

Warhol is  one of the most well known Pop Artists with work recognised worldwide. Some of his work have been so inspiration to people throughout the production of his work. Warhol is most recognised for his Campbells Soup Can print that hit the public jsut after the 2nd world war, this gave a new image to public about art and that anything can be looked upon and defined as art!.

He focused on the idea of everything being mass produced and being handed out so everyone could see this and gave the impression of a sort of supermarket where everything is in order and duplicated when they are being stacked.

An Example of this ---

This is a representation of his work The Soup Can that has been physically done in a supermarket to show that his work has a relevance to real life, by doing this he made his own manual of what he meant in his art work, what he said was "if you want to be like something you love it" and he loved this theme of multiplacation and used it throughout his whole work.

Materials

There are many ways in which pop art is produced, there are multiple uses of materials in different ways. One of the most popular ways of producing Pop Art was silk screening, this was used by Andy Warhol to give an effect of a painting but that could be mass produced. Other artists used multiple layers to give different aspects of each of the final peices, this gave individuality to that peice and drew your eye to different parts of the piece; an artist who did this was Robert Rauschenberg who encorporated glass, metal, mirror into his designs.

Untitled is a peice created by Rauschenberg using materials form everyday life, things that are so obvious that are looked past; but what he was trying to do what give back the authenticity of the basics. This is a list  obtained from:

"http://arthistory.about.com/od/from_exhibitions/ig/rauschenberg_combines/rrc_06.htm" of the list of materials used in this piece.

oil paint, crayon, pastel, paper, fabric, print reproductions, photographs and cardboard on wood. 

the inner feeling

Pop Art tended to focus on billboards, comic stripsand supermarket advertisements. This give the public somehting to relate to when they saw the art, allowing them to give more respect and have something in common with what had been produced. Popular and high culture where fused together to get rid of teh difference between as the economic state at teh time wasnt so great so people where restricted with what material possesions they could afford to buy, such as pieces of art. If you where to come across a peice of art and wanted to know whether it was pop art or not, probably the easiest way to determine would be to ask yourself "is it something you see in everyday life?", a pack of cigs? a tin of soup? a man sitting in a cafe window?.. all these things can be used and defined as pop art.