ANDY WARHOL
POP ARTIST OF THE 60’s and beyond.
Warhol-LIFE and
WORKS
Andrew Warhola (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987), more
commonly known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter,
printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual
art movement known as pop art. After a successful career as a
commercial illustrator, Warhol became famous worldwide for his
work as a painter, avant-garde filmmaker, record producer, author,
and public figure known for his membership in wildly diverse social
circles that included bohemian street people, distinguished
intellectuals, Hollywood celebrities and wealthy aristocrats.
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Birth name Andrew Warhola
Born August 6, 1928(1928-08-06)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania U.S.
Died February 22, 1987 (aged 58)
New York City, United States
Nationality American (United States) Field Painting,
Cinema
Training Carnegie Mellon University
Movement Pop art
Works Chelsea Girls (1966), Exploding Plastic
Inevitable (1966), Campbell's Soup Cans (1962),
Background info.
On June 3, 1968, Valerie Solanas shot Warhol and art
critic and curator Mario Amaya at Warhol's studio.Warhol
however, was seriously wounded by the attack and
barely survived (surgeons opened his chest and
massaged his heart to help stimulate its movement
again). He suffered physical effects for the rest of his
life. The shooting had a profound effect on Warhol's life
and art. Warhol showed early artistic talent and studied
commercial art at the School of Fine Arts at Carnegie
Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (now
Carnegie Mellon University). In 1949, he moved to New
York City and began a successful career in magazine
illustration and advertising. During the 1950s, he gained
fame for his whimsical ink drawings of shoe
advertisements. These were done in a loose, blotted ink
style, and figured in some of his earliest showings in
New York at the Bodley Gallery. With the concurrent
rapid expansion of the record industry and the
introduction of the vinyl record, Hi-Fi, and stereophonic
recordings, RCA Records hired Warhol, along with
another freelance artist, Sid Maurer, to design album
covers and promotional materials
Again this work is typical of
Warhol and what he was on
about. Taking an ordinary
every day object and turning it
into art. Soap powder! It make
people really think about what
should art really be about. In
the past only the rich could
afford it and it was usually of
historical or religious subject
matter or even portraits of the
rich families. This is a 3D piece
of work and is typical of an
object that most people of the
60’s would be familiar with as
so as far as Warhol was
concerned a suitable topic for
his artwork.
His first one-man art-gallery exhibition was on July 9, 1962, The
exhibit included the works Marilyn Diptych, 100 Soup Cans, 100
Coke Bottles and 100 Dollar Bills.
Initially his work caused an outrage because he was he was taking
ordinary subjects and giving them status by calling them art. Today
we even recognise the humble soup can because we all see it on
the shelves of the supermarket. Is it art? I think it is because it
reflects the rapid growth or progress of consumerism on the lives of
ordinary people of the 60’s .Life was supposed to be made easier.
Characteristics
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Ordinary/popular
consumer item as
subject matter is
made into art
This work is typical of
Warhol.
 He has taken an ordinary
mundane object and turned
it into Art. It is something
we are familiar with. Coke
bottles. They look like they
are on a supermarket shelf
but if you look closely you’ll
notice that they are all
slightly different and some
are not even full to the top.
 He has used only a few
colours, mainly browns and
reds with white highlights to
show reflections. His bottled
look 3D because they are
toned in.
 He is making a statement
about the ordinary object by
making his work very large
and by using repetion.
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COKE BOTTLES 1962
This is typical of his movie star series where he does many works
of the same artist and uses strange colour . He uses this weird
colour because he is trying to highlight the fact that we don't
really know the person behind the MASK.
Mick Jagger
Warhol did many works of
celebrities ,something that
the masses were familiar
with. He did lots of painting
and screen prints of famous
people from the movies or
performers of bands . He
used artificial colour on his
portraits because often he
was trying to make a
statement about Super stars
and what we see as an
audience and the real
person behind the ‘mask’.
He is saying that we don’t
really see the real
person,only what the media
want to portray.
MY POP ART WORK
This is an example of my POP
art work. I took a section from
a comic strip (Asterix) and took
it out of context and made it
into an art work by enlarging it
6 times and painting it. I tried
to use the same bright colours
that you would normally see in
a comic. My work is different in
that it is not a print and the
scale of the work s different. I
can call it my own work because
even though it is a borrowed
image I have transformed it into
something else. I have created
a totally different image and it
meaning has changed because
of what I have done to it. I
think I have successfully tried
to achieve the same goals as
the pop artists.