... too could attract attention. Pop art was meant to be fun and entertaining. It was to reflect the novelty and excitement of the high speed modern world but was also a reflection of the materialism and vulgarity of modern mass culture.# The Pop Art movement began as a reaction against the Abstract Expressionist Movement of the 1940's and 1950's. Pop artists considered Abstract Expressionism ... familiar and included such things as beer bottles, soup cans, comic strips, road signs and similar objects incorporated into paintings, collages and sculptures. Much of the materials used were of m...

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... popular culture, Postmodernism in a cannibalistic fashion uses art history imagery as its resource." Explain using relevant artists and examples of their work. Pop art ridiculed many aspects of the modern world, with mass produced objects as the main subject for their collages, sculptures, prints and paintings. Post modernism is an artistic and literary movement that quite obviously rejected the ... subjective, and separate from reality. They hoped to close the gap between life and art and used the environment of everyday life. Images that reflected the vulgar materialism of modern mass...

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Andy Warhol is known to many people as the "Father of Pop Art". He brought about many examples of the modern art style that is known as "Pop art", in various mediums, varying from silkscreen to a cable network. Not only has Warhol greatly contributed to this revolutionary style, but also in ... , pop art focuses more on the subject and less on style, which was left up to each artist. The main themes that are evident in all pop art revolve around modern social values. The style in which these values were portrayed varied depending on the culture and the artist. Andy Warhol used the media, whic...

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Andy Warhol is known to many people as the "Father of Pop Art". He brought about many examples of the modern art style that is known as "Pop art", in various mediums, varying from silkscreen to a cable network. Not only has Warhol greatly contributed to this revolutionary style, but also in ... , pop art focuses more on the subject and less on style, which was left up to each artist. The main themes that are evident in all pop art revolve around modern social values. The style in which these values were portrayed varied depending on the culture and the artist. Andy Warhol used the media, whi...

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... suffered bouts of Sydenham Chorea which is a neurological disorder. He attended the Holmes School and took free art classes at Carnegie Institute. In 1945 he regain attending Carnegie Institute of technology until 1949. In this time he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Pictorial Design. After graduating he moved to New York. Artistically he made his debut in Glamour magazine ... and is an issue that is frequently addressed in his interviews, conversations and publications. Byzantine Catholicism, especially iconography was a major cultural influence of Warhol's which helped him cr...

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... and between 1945 and 1949 he studied pictorial design and art history, sociology and psychology at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. Andy Warhol now sometimes known as the Father of Pop Art is famous for his many examples of the modern style that is known as Pop art. Not only has Warhol greatly contributed to this movement and style of ... ...

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... infliuential minds of our times is Andy Warhol. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1928 undr the name Andy Warhola (Abdy Warhol Foundation). In 1945 Andy entered the Carnegie institure of Technology and majored in Pictorial design. Following grafuatiopn Andy went o New York to seek a carrer as a commercial artist. His early work can be found several magazines including Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and ... style. "The Pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split second--comics, picnic tables, men's trousers, celebrities, shower curtains, refrigerators,...

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