Andy WarholEssay Preview: Andy WarholReport this essayAndy WarholAndrew Warhola is considered to be the “founder and a major figure of the pop art movement”. He was born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania in 1928. He graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology, where he majored in pictorial design. He worked as an illustrator in many magazines including Vogue, Harpers Bazaar and the New Yorker, but, his big break was in 1949, when he illustrated for Glamour Magazine. Andy Warhol was born with the name Andrew Warhola, he dropped the “a” when his credit for his drawing read, “Drawings by Andy Warhol”. Warhol was obsessed by ambition to become famous and wealthy, and he knew the only was to achieve this was with hard work.
In the 1950s, he moved to a place on East 75th Street, his mother moved with him. Warhol had successful career as a commercial artist, he won several commendations from the Art Directors Club and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. In 1952, the artist had his first individual show at the Hugo Gallery, exhibiting �Fifteen Drawings based on the Writing of Truman Capote’. His work was exhibited in several other venues during the 1950s, including his first group show at The Museum of Modern Art in 1956.Soon He had all of New York copying his work
The 1960’s was when Warhol began to make his first prints. They started off mostly based on comic strips like, Dick Tracy, Superman, and Popeye. In 1962 Warhol made prints of dollar bills and Campbell soup cans. He also did many prints on famous people, including, Marilyn Monroe, John Wayne and Anney Oakley. He was well known for making prints with slight colour change. Warhol’s favorite printmaking technique was вЂ?silkscreen’. In this same year, 1962, he founded The Factory, it was an art studio where he employed in a rather chaotic way “art workers” to mass produce mainly prints and posters, but also some other things like shoes designed by the artist. Other from art, the Factory also served as a filmmaking studio. He made a series of 16mm films about time, boredom and repetition which became
underground classics such as the Empire, The Chelsea and Blow Job. In November of this year, Eleanor Ward showed his paintings at Stable Gallery, it became a sensation. November, 1964, his first solo exhibition in the U.S was held at Leo Castelli Gallery. This is when he began his self Portrait Series. Summer of 1966, six of his self portraits was shown at Expo 67 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. In August of this year he began to go to different colleges across the Los Angeles area and give Lectures, they became so popular that some colleges hired Allen Midgette to impersonate him for lectures. Warhol later moved and met Fred Hughes, who later became president of Enterprises and Interview Magazine. Then, on June 3rd, 1968, Valerie Solanis, a member of the entourage surrounding Warhol, and the sole member of SCUM (Society for Cutting up Men) walked into Warhol’s Studio, The Factory, and shot Andy
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Although not a member of the group, his friend, Steve Voss, was his mentor during his early days in the group. During the mid 1990s, they worked together at a cafe called “In the Village” and began photographing women while together. During a trip to Los Angeles they took a group of men and women working side by side and photographing women as well. This group included such Hollywood stars like Roger Moore, Lenny Bruce, Sharon Stone, Al Pacino, and many of the most recognizable people on film. These men and women also started their careers as “The Artists” and became more of a “progressive” group after joining. Their work became so significant and inspiring that, for the first time since the era of the so-called “Stray Boys,” they became known as the “Women’s Art Directors”. As more and more of these women was involved to the point of death as children, so it was that their portraits turned into more beautiful works of art. Many of these portraits are currently being exhibited in The International Gallery in Milan, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, Spain, Israel, and New York.
Artist’s Introduction:
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol was born in the United States of America on 10th November, 1957. After a very short stay in China, Andy went and studied architecture at the University of Iowa. By the time Andy entered his very early twenties, he was developing the art style that was then on display in his apartment in the Village of Westchester. At this point, Andy would come to love painting for the first time, drawing all his own clothes and having others see which clothes he was in in his house until he began to do work for other artists. He continued to paint until he retired from painting after about 1960…
In 1960, Andy began to work on his own photography and in his early twenties, he was drawing all the clothing and objects that he used in his day-to-day life. However, this work was not always flattering. He became drawn to work on his favorite objects, which was his very first painting and then he was looking to continue painting and not looking for some easy to find or cheap paint job. The resulting work on Andy’s clothes and various artwork, was quite different than the paintings that he always used or used for his art. This painting was also one of the first work Andy had done since he was very close to his family during his childhood. Soon after he retired from painting, Andy took a look at himself and was drawn to one piece that he liked: The Time In Heaven. These works are known in his collection as “The Time In Heaven” and have been exhibited outside of his studio all over the U.S., Canada, Mexico and New York. From 1960 onwards, Andy loved experimenting with all kinds of things and had a lot of time to think. In the early 1970’s, he worked on all sorts of different work and began to use some of these works as his “artist’s canvas.” Around this time, Andy was also looking for a way to get the