Andy Warhol was born in 1928 at Pittsburgh, U.S. of Czechoslovak immigrant parents. Throughout his life Warhol worked for magazine companies and had a big role in the media in general. Warhol then moved to New York and invented the blotted line technique, which lead to an interest in the serigraph technique also referred as silk-screening.

Warhol was an American, and did all his work in New York, U.S. Warhol started his career in Pop Art around 1960 and was active in his art and filmmaking until the late 80’s. He then experienced some health problems and died as a result of an operation. Considering that Warhol was a Pop artist, he did his art on objects that were pop

Today and also at the time Andy Warhol did his art, society is so worried about what they look like and are not worrying about what really counts, you look to the inside of the person that is where the true beauty is. Warhol knows that we worry about these kinds of things and he just wants to show, and give us an example of how pathetic we can be sometimes. All around the world people look through fashion magazines and say, ‘I want to be like him or her,’ why can we not just be satisfied on the true beauty God has given us? So many people starve themselves just because they think they look fat, but truly they do not. There are disasters, suicides, war and other kinds of sin disasters which show where Warhol collects his disaster’s art work idea’s from. Warhol believes everybody looks and acts the same just so they can be popular, why can we not look past this?

“When a interviewer asked him why he started painting these cans [soup cans], Warhol gave a typical but not very enlightening reply: ‘because I used to drink it. I used to have the same lunch everyday for twenty years I guess, the same thing over and over again.’” (Leslie pg.58)

Warhol wanted to get the point across that silk-screening was a process that the images were constructions, just as the images of stars and fame itself are intended constructions. Warhol’s subjects may have been famous though he was advertising himself and his as a pedestrian. By changing the colours of his art it gives the viewer a totally different outcome of the art. For instance the ‘Race Riot’ pictures done by Andy Warhol were done in a dark red effect, which makes the viewer, think of blood, dea

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