Andy Warhol: Pop Art Making a Pop in History
Joanna Farnsworth
What Are The Humanities?
Humanities
Humanities “include(s) several modes of expression: the visual arts (drawing, painting, sculpture, architecture, printmaking, photography, and film); the performing arts (music, dance, and theater); and the literary arts (poetry and prose)” (Bishop 16)
- Modes of expression develop over time
- Andy Warhol made use of the visual arts in his pop art paintings to reflect the commercial consumer
Andy Warhol
Andy
Warhol
- Known for displaying mass-produced commercial images
- Campbell’s soup cans, Coca-Cola bottles, and celebrities
- Most popular medium was silkscreen
- silkscreens “served as an extension of how the celebrity of such individuals was communicated throughout the world by the media through magazines, films and television” (Petersen and Pritchard Andy Warhol)
- allowed for mass production of art pieces
Pop Art
Pop Art
Marilyn Dipytch
- Marilyn Monroe
- canvas with silkscreen of oil and acrylic
Creative Elements
Creative
Elements
- Both Warhol and Picasso used...
- geometric shapes
- adds organization to the artwork
- vertical and horizontal lines
- make the consumer's eyes move across the artwork
- vibrant colors
- make the art stand out among others
- images of people
Pablo
Picasso
- Cubism
- “a style that analyzed natural forms into planes, angles, and geometric shapes” (Bishop 386)
- Modernism
- Focused on feeling and emotion in artwork
- opposite affect of Warhol
Modernist
Art
Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon
- female nude expressed with cubism
Bishop, Philip E., and Margaret J. Manos.
Adventures in the Human Spirit. Pearson, 2014.
Petersen, Jennifer B., and Joshua Pritchard.
Work Cited
“Andy Warhol.” Andy Warhol, Aug. 2017, p. 1. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/ login.aspx?direct=true&db= prh&AN= 17933907 &site=ehost-live&scope=site.