Andrew Warhol born in 1928, known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement knows as pop art. At an early age, he showed an artistic talent and studied at the School of Fine Arts at Carnegie Institute of Technology. In 1949, he moved from Pennsylvania to New York City and began a career in magazine illustration and advertising. In the sass, he gained his fame, but during the sass’s was Venn his first pop exhibits hit the galleries. Andy Whorl’s first New York solo pop exhibit was held at Eleanor Ward’s Stable Gallery in 1362.
The show included the works, Marilyn Diptych, 100 Coke Bottles, 100 Dollar Bills, and 100 soup cans. During this time period, Warhol began to create paintings of iconic American Products as well as paintings of celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, and Elizabeth Taylor. Warhol painted a variety of paintings of the actress Marilyn Monroe after she committed suicide in 1362. He made it his goal to mass-produce his art by producing prints using the silkscreen method. He used a photograph by Gene Kormas and painted Marilyn Monomer’s paintings with one color: green, blue, yellow, and turquoise. He then silk-screened her face on top.
In this way, he created different styles and depicted many different colors. For this piece of art he expressed his attestation of morbid concepts, except for this piece, the results were astonishingly beautiful, Andy Warhol had a struggle before he became successful. In the early ass’s Warhol tried to exhibit some of his artwork, but only to be turned down, In time, he became a very successful career as a commercial illustrator, but after he became famous working as painter, filmmaker, record producer, author, and public figure. He has also been the subject of numerous retrospective exhibitions, books, and feature and documentary films.
As well as painting, Warhol worked in the areas of photography, drawing, and sculpture, but also a highly prolific filmmaker. Between the years 1963 and 1968, he had produced more than sixty films. Today, his work has shown in many galleries and museums like the Museum Of Modern Art. There is also a museum dedicated to him, called The Andy Warhol Museum. One would feel that Andy Warhol changed the way people looked at art. He took pieces of art and manipulated them into something so different but magnificent. Depending on one’s point of view.
Andy Warhol can e considered the greatest American artist of the second half of the 20th century. He can also be a cultural transformer. Even though he was the last of his kind to reach the galleries, he soon became better known than the artists before him. Personally, like his sense of style. It seems as if he grasped new, interesting, and different techniques. It’s unique in a way that it stands out from the rest of the other artists. He draws people?s attention by creating multiple portraits of movie stars or basing some to his art on eye-catching images. For example, gruesome car crashes and electric chairs.
His work can make people think and analyze his work in a way that completely different because of his focus on such dramatic events. That’s some of what people find interesting. Warhol doesn’t stay in the comfort zone of what the viewers are used to. Andy Warhol died in 1987 _ Soon, the Andy Warhol Foundation released its 20th Anniversary Annual Report. The Foundation still remains one of the largest grant-giving organizations for the visual arts in the US. Throughout the decades, it has become more and more clear that there had been a profound change in the culture of the art world, and that Andy Warhol was at the center Of that shift.
