EnglishEssay Preview: EnglishReport this essayI am going to do my personal study on Andy Warhol one of the most influential artist on the Pop Art movement. I hope to produce a realistic and correct account of his life and will be investigating his obsession with fame and money and whether he was in the art world for the money.
No other artist is as much identified with Pop Art as Andy Warhol. The media called him the Prince of Pop.Warhol made his way from a Pittsburgh working class family to an American legend.Andy Warhol the American artist, photographer and filmmaker was born in 1930 in Pittsburgh as the son of Czechoslovak immigrants. His father was as a construction worker and died in an accident when Andy was 13 years old.
Andy showed an early talent in drawing and painting. After high school he studied commercial art at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. Warhol graduated in 1949 and went to New York where he worked as an illustrator for magazines like Vogue and Harpers Bazaar and for commercial advertising. He soon became one of New Yorks most sought of and successful commercial illustrators. In 1952 Andy Warhol had his first one-man show exhibition at the Hugo Gallery in New York. In 1956 he had an important group exhibition at the renowned Museum of Modern Art.
In the sixties Warhol started painting daily objects of mass production like Campbell Soup cans and Coke bottles. Soon he became a famous figure in the New York art scene. From 1962 on he started making silkscreen prints of famous personalities like Marilyn Monroe or Elizabeth Taylor. The pop artist not only depicted mass products but he also wanted to mass-produce his own works of pop art. Consequently he founded The Factory in 1962. It was an art studio where he employed in a rather chaotic way “art workers” to mass produce mainly prints and posters but also other items like shoes designed by the artist. Warhols favorite printmaking technique was silkscreen. It came closest to his idea of proliferation of art. Apart from being an Art Producing Machine, the Factory served as a filmmaking studio. Warhol made over 300 experimental underground films – most rather bizarre and some rather pornographic. His first one was called Sleep and showed nothing else but a man sleeping over six hours.
In July of 1968 the pop artist was shot two to three times into his chest by a woman named Valerie Solanis. Andy was seriously wounded and only narrowly escaped death. Valerie Solanis had worked occasionally for the artist in the Factory. Solanis had founded a group named SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) and she was its sole member. When Valerie Solanis was arrested the day after, her words were “He had too much control over my life”.
Warhol never recovered completely from his wounds and had to wear a bandage around his waist for the rest of his life.After this assassination attempt the pop artist made a radical turn in his process of producing art. The philosopher of art mass production now spent most of his time making individual portraits of the rich and affluent of his time like Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson or Brigitte Bardot. Warhol was a homosexual with a slightly bizarre personality. In the fifties he dyed his hair straw-blond. Later he replaced his real hair by blond and silver-gray wigs.
The pop artist loved cats, and images of them can be found on quite a few of his art works. One of Andys friends described him as a true workaholic. Warhol was obsessed by the ambition to become famous and wealthy. And he knew he could achieve the American dream only by hard work. In his last years Warhol promoted other artists like Keith Haring or Robert Mapplethorpe.
Andy Warhol died February 22, 1987 from complications after a gall bladder operation. More than 2000 people attended the memorial mass at St.Patricks Cathedral.
-Andy Warhol a leader in the pop art craze of the 60s was born in 1928 and died in 1987. He was born with the name Andrew Warhola and like most young artists he was having trouble getting a job. Although he had trouble getting started in about 1949 he moved to New York City and gained success as a commercial artist. He first got a break when he landed a job in Glamour Magazine. They wanted him to illustrate a feature entitled “Success in a job in New York” but by accident the credit read drawings by Andy Warhol. After that he decided todrop the “a” in his name. Warhol was an American artist best known for his images of common objects and famous people. Warhols style made him a leading figure of the pop art movement in the 1960s.
A photograph of Warhol on a beach. The first photograph of Warhol was taken in 1952. Picture was taken by the Italian artist Francesci Bricchi for “Kool & the Gang”.
-Andy Warhol’s family, from left is his son Alexander, his sister Elizabeth, his sister-in-law Rosalind and his sister-in-law Maria.
-Andy Warhol was born at a boarding house in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He grew up in an affluent neighborhood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where his sister Mary, the second and third generation sons were born. Alex Warhol grew up with his mother and sisters in an ordinary boarding house (her first name was a coincidence) and his brother, Peter, was a boy. Andy was raised by his older brother in a private boarding house until his early teens before getting his education in a more public school. He continued education until the age of seven. In that age some of his friends and comrades died. By age 20 of the second grade he began to become serious about acting. He wrote numerous articles in magazines such as News, The New Yorker and the Sunday Times, so he started acting soon after his first job. When Andy grew up he joined the club The Gossip Game and eventually went off to study law in New York which taught him. He worked as a barber before starting writing and selling real estate in New York City until he was fired shortly after hiring. In the 1960s he started an empire within the clothing company, the Greeting, which is now owned by his wife Rosalind. They also started a jewelry business which opened its doors in the early 1970s as a retail jewelery business. Alex Warhol also started buying real estate there as a stockbroker. This business became the foundation for his empire and his son Antoni died in 1985.
-Antoni Warhol was born in New York City in 1929.
-Antoni Warhol started his acting career after graduating from Princeton Business School in 1940. He earned his first star in The Office at age 7, not playing the role of Captain James in which he also played. On Jan. 6, 1941, Warhol was married to Miss Jane Kudler von Worsheim in New York. He eventually married his second wife to a real estate broker named Roberta L. Wright who has had several children and works in real estate at several institutions in the Los Angeles area
-The 1940s was not a wonderful time for Warhol. He struggled with alcohol and depression. He had difficulty being accepted into the family with older girls. He married his fourth wife Patricia E. Wright with only one
A photograph of Warhol on a beach. The first photograph of Warhol was taken in 1952. Picture was taken by the Italian artist Francesci Bricchi for “Kool & the Gang”.
-Andy Warhol’s family, from left is his son Alexander, his sister Elizabeth, his sister-in-law Rosalind and his sister-in-law Maria.
-Andy Warhol was born at a boarding house in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He grew up in an affluent neighborhood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where his sister Mary, the second and third generation sons were born. Alex Warhol grew up with his mother and sisters in an ordinary boarding house (her first name was a coincidence) and his brother, Peter, was a boy. Andy was raised by his older brother in a private boarding house until his early teens before getting his education in a more public school. He continued education until the age of seven. In that age some of his friends and comrades died. By age 20 of the second grade he began to become serious about acting. He wrote numerous articles in magazines such as News, The New Yorker and the Sunday Times, so he started acting soon after his first job. When Andy grew up he joined the club The Gossip Game and eventually went off to study law in New York which taught him. He worked as a barber before starting writing and selling real estate in New York City until he was fired shortly after hiring. In the 1960s he started an empire within the clothing company, the Greeting, which is now owned by his wife Rosalind. They also started a jewelry business which opened its doors in the early 1970s as a retail jewelery business. Alex Warhol also started buying real estate there as a stockbroker. This business became the foundation for his empire and his son Antoni died in 1985.
-Antoni Warhol was born in New York City in 1929.
-Antoni Warhol started his acting career after graduating from Princeton Business School in 1940. He earned his first star in The Office at age 7, not playing the role of Captain James in which he also played. On Jan. 6, 1941, Warhol was married to Miss Jane Kudler von Worsheim in New York. He eventually married his second wife to a real estate broker named Roberta L. Wright who has had several children and works in real estate at several institutions in the Los Angeles area
-The 1940s was not a wonderful time for Warhol. He struggled with alcohol and depression. He had difficulty being accepted into the family with older girls. He married his fourth wife Patricia E. Wright with only one
Warhol created most of his pictures with a mechanical stencil process called silk-screen printing. Warhol often derived his subject from advertising and people of high importance. He isolated and simplified these images, sometimes enlarging them in a series with various colors. He often repeated them many times in a single picture. Warhols most familiar subjects are probably commercial products, such as soup cans and soft-drink bottles. His other works included pictures of disasters, such as newspaper images of death and destruction, celebrities, notably movie stars Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe and Chinese political leader Mao Zedong. Although Warhol was an artist he also produced