Andy Warhol Pop Culture Icon

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Andy Warhol Pop Culture Icon
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Overview
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• Pop artist of the 1960s
• His art commented on consumer culture and the
  influence of mass media
• 20th century icon who influenced fashion and art
  for decades to come

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Background
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• born Andrew Warhola in
  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and
  lived in poverty during Depression
• At age nine became ill spent time making paper
  cut outs and reading comic books
• Loved Hollywood films, celebrities, and
  memorabilia, which he collected

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Pop Art
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• International movement in painting, sculpture,
  and print making beginning in 1950s
• Major premise presenting everyday objects in new
  ways (forms, colors, techniques)
• Other pop artists Jasper Johns and Robert
  Rauschenberg

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Style

• Brightly colored backgrounds and overlapping
  images on large canvas
• Subjects advertisements, everyday objects,
  movies, celebrities
• Used silk-screen technique so he could mass
  produce images
• Most famous for canvases of consumer products
  such as Campbells soup cans, dollar bills,
  soft-drink bottles, and soap-pad boxes

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Purpose Why?

• Out to shock?
• Make a commentary on the consumer nature of our
  culture?
• Ridicule the hollow materialistic values of the
  middle class?
• Celebrate the everyday?

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Late Career
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• 1968 - one of Warhols own
  actors shot him
• 1970 onward-turned to
  producing portraits of cult
  figures, important people, and friends
• Famous images Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, Mick
  Jagger, Jimmy Carter, Mao Tse-tung
• On Feb 22, 1987 died of heart failure

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Impact

• He was possibly the first artist whose work was
  instantly accessible in both elite and popular
  circles, in the high culture of the academy and
  the low life of the tabloids. - Joanne
  Patterson, Rolling Stone
• Irving Sandler described Warhol's art as "a
  mirror reflecting American life for good or bad.
  The New York Times

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Conclusion

• Andy Warhol was an influential pop artist during
  the 1960s.
• His art forced viewers to re-examine both
  familiar and hidden aspects of American culture.
• His influence can still be seen in the fashion
  pop culture of today.

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In the future everyone will be famous for
fifteen minutes. Andy Warhol