... creativity. He got several ideas from a woman named Muriel Latow; a gallery owner he knew. She advised him to paint what he loved most (like money) or what everybody would recognize (soup cans and coke bottles). Andy expanded on these ideas and his paintings of the early 60's reflected his progress as a Pop artist. He finally gained the financial success and international ... in different media and by different methods. Before 1962 he used paint - acrylic or oil - and stencil for his subjects, included the repeated series of images as in Warhol's Campbell Soup" cans (Copplestone 14). Af...

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... style of popular advertising, their motivation was just the opposite. The most famous of the paintings during it's time, was the paintings of thirty- two depictions of Campbell Soup cans. One in particular, "Campbell's Soup Box", is a good example of "repetition". Another example of "repetition" was his painting of "16 Jackie's" (1964), which was meant to show emotion, effect and to reflect ... sometimes shock his audience. Warhol died in February 27th, 1987 after gallbladder surgery. In his life, he certainly stretched the boundaries of pop art. His depictions of everything from Campbe...

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... creativity. He got several ideas from a woman named Muriel Latow; a gallery owner he knew. She advised him to paint what he loved most (like money) or what everybody would recognize (soup cans and coke bottles). Andy expanded on these ideas and his paintings of the early 60's reflected his progress as a Pop artist. He finally gained the financial success and international ... in different media and by different methods. Before 1962 he used paint - acrylic or oil - and stencil for his subjects, included the repeated series of images as in Warhol's Campbell Soup" cans (Copplestone 14). Af...

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... style of popular advertising, their motivation was just the opposite. The most famous of the paintings during it's time, was the paintings of thirty- two depictions of Campbell Soup cans. One in particular, "Campbell's Soup Box", is a good example of "repetition". Another example of "repetition" was his painting of "16 Jackie's" (1964), which was meant to show emotion, effect and to reflect ... sometimes shock his audience. Warhol died in February 27th, 1987 after gallbladder surgery. In his life, he certainly stretched the boundaries of pop art. His depictions of everything from Campbe...

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... designed just for them. Artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Claes Oldenburg popularized Pop Art in America with some of their works. They took everyday objects such as soup cans and hamburgers and transformed them into art that stood as a parody of the consumer society. The fine artists also took mass culture as their source of inspiration and Roy ... his own publisher and, using commercial screenprint workshops, founded Factory Additions to release print portfolios based on specific themes in his paintings. These portfolios include Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn) and Campbell's ...

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... designed just for them. Artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Claes Oldenburg popularized Pop Art in America with some of their works. They took everyday objects such as soup cans and hamburgers and transformed them into art that stood as a parody of the consumer society. The fine artists also took mass culture as their source of inspiration and Roy ... his own publisher and, using commercial screenprint workshops, founded Factory Additions to release print portfolios based on specific themes in his paintings. These portfolios include Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn) and Campbell's ...

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... than to the skill and personality of the artist. The subject matter and images of Pop Art, taken from mass culture, were 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 modern technology such as plastic, urethane foam and acrylic ... early 1960's Andy Warhol carried this idea a step further by adopting the mass production technique of silk screen printing, turning out hundreds of identical prints of Coca-Cola bottles, Campbell soup cans and ...

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... express the very opposite of this myth of total individual freedom. So, he looked not inward but outward, toward easily recognized manifestations of popular culture. Warhol's painting of the Campbell's soup cans is probably one of his most famous images. In his own words, it was an attempt "to paint nothing" (Wollen 167). Yet, the painting is anything but nothing. It ... post World War II American consumer culture. Against the backdrop of increasing American affluence, painting of ever-present mass-marketed consumer goods took on a decidedly nationalist slant. To eat Campbell's soup or ...

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... way the paint is splattered on the canvas shows-. But there is a certain point when art can just no longer be appreciated. I would definitely describe paintings such as Andy Warhol's soup cans as art. First of all, not anyone can draw that. I am positive that I could never draw a picture like that. Also, the simple fact that it has lived on for ... so long implies even further that it is art. Shakespeare's sonnets have persevered through generations, and I think even the soup cans will live on for a long time. The odd thing about art is that there is no one way to describe what is and w...

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... he shortended his name form Warhola to Warhola. The 1960's was filled wirth great fame for Andy and is when he did some of his most memerabloe work including Cambells Soup Can (Beef noodle) (fig. 1) and the rest of the Cambells Sopup can seris. Equally famous, the Marilyns, a seris of silk screenings of Marilyn Monroe, were pai9nting during this time. But ... ideas f Andy Warhol have contributed to our society in major ways. His contributions to the art world have left a mark on it they always be present. Such a simple objecvt lke a soup can can be identified as an Andy Warhol. He is pe...

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... silk screening, celebrity fame, and other aspects of American culture in the late 20th century. In his lifetime, he was known for his artwork, which turned everyday images, such as soup cans and soapboxes, into fine art. Among his most-identifiable works were brightly colored prints that put an iconic spin on famous figures such as Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, and Mick ... reputation has noticeably increased. This is because Warhol's work "not only allows us to see eternity in a grain of sand, but to see it in a Coke bottle or a can of soup" (Nicholson 71). Hawkins 3 Mickey Mouse, who through...

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... way he depicted pop art was thus mesmerizing to people. He was most famous for his portraits like his Marylyn Monroe piece, which popped out very vibrantly. The Campbell's noodle soup art is also a work of art to Andy Warhol's name. He, and the few other artists' I talked about, exhibited avant-garde art that helped shape an era of art. The ... ...

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... thought out of the box, with everything he did. He was never ordinary. One of the pieces that he is known for is the picture of the Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup can. His style of artwork was built around a lot of imitations and reproductions of things that have already been done or created. Andy Warhol was known for this type of ... ...

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... objects. In the early 1960s, Andy Warhol used this idea in adopting the mass-production technique of silk-screening, and produced hundreds of identical prints of Coca-Cola bottles, Campbell's soup cans, and other familiar subjects. Post Modernism essentially marks the end of modernity. Here originality and individuality is called "sentimentality and indulgence." Skills and techniques can be rejected. Art is ... ...

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... Warhol (1928-1987), he is a household name all over the world. Many of his pieces were of famous people, including himself. His most famous and favourite pieces being the Campbells soup tin, and the portrait of Marilyn Monroe, which, ironically happens to be my favourite piece. This could be because I have a personal interest for her, however I love the extreme colour and ... ...

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... 1960's to reproduce multiple portraits of celebrities, including Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, and Jacqueline Kennedy. At the same time, he duplicated images of mass-produced commercial products, such as Campbell's soup cans and Brillo boxes, suggesting that the media marketed celebrities just like products. With this painting of Marilyn Monroe, Warhol is subtly making fun of the fact that society has ... ...

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