... goes on as to whether the most amazing innovation of the 20th century is pop art, or cubism. Both arose from a rebellion against an accepted style: the Cubists thought Post-Impressionist artists were too tame and limited, while Pop Artists thought the Abstract Expressionists pretentious and over-intense. Obviously, possibly the most famous pop artists of all time is Andy Warhol ... work clearly remains completely original and unlike any other. His professional work has turned him from an ex-graffiti artist, to now painting on canvases. Far from what he or anyone would expect, he is maki...

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... New York and got a job as a commercial artist drawing illustrations for several magazines including Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and The New Yorker. In addition to painting, Warhol made 16mm films like Chelsea Girls, Empire and Blow Job, which have become underground classics. Warhol is considered to be a founder and major ... 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 lost the ability to think...

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... looking for needed to 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 ... ever been more "American", for in many respects, Warhol's work has come to epitomize success in post World War II American consumer culture. Against the backdrop of increasing American affluence, painting of ever-present mass-marketed...

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... seeing a paining at the Chicago Art Institute about ten feet wide, and it was just painted solid black, with a tiny sliver of yellow at the bottom. This painting absolutely baffled my mind. I can sometimes understand abstract art, or at least recognize the fact that a piece of art took a long time to create and a ... effort was put in. In all honesty, however, even I could paint a giant canvas black with my fabulous art skills. Take a piece of abstract art, splatter painting, for example. I can understand how certain colors are used to convey emotion. I can even stretch it to "the way the...

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... and printmaking while enrolled at Tyler. When she moved to New York City in the early 1970's to immerse herself in the art world, she was hearing that painting was dead. In search of another way to make a living, she looked to another art medium for a creative outlet - photography. Laurie never considered photography as an art per se, until ... Kruger, and Sarah Charlesworth, women were out in the forefront. In addition, during the post modernism era photography was taking a new shape. Andy Warhol was using existing photographs mixed with painting. Many photographers were no longer try...

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... paint. He aimed to create multiple images with sharp and definite outlines, and sections of bold, flat colour, less easily achieved by painting. Printmaking most effectively mimics the character of product advertising and design in its bright and simple shapes and colours with little to no ... symbols that sustain us."" -Andy Warhol (1962) Roy Lichtenstien and his composition "Whaam!-(1963) share many of Andy Warhol's beliefs. Through painting he has achieved the sharp, flat and bright elements of productivity. The colours, style and theme reflect the bright, glossy nature of Popular Cul...

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... a group of artists from the punk and graffiti underground held the "Times Square Show" in an abandoned massage parlor . Basquiat began focusing his art efforts on more conventional methods of painting. He met and became friends with Andy Warhol. The two were very close and collaborated on works of art until Warhol's death in 1987. About a year after the "Times Square ... Show-, Basquiat made an untitled painting referred to as "Skull-. This work is very representative of Basquiat's style and focus as a formal artist. The painting is acrylic and mixed media on canvas and measures 89 by 6...

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... repetitions of the same image. Roy Lichtenstein was known for his use of Ben Day dots and his large-scale cartoon paintings like "Wham!" and "Big Painting VI". Both artists were two of the most prominent U.S. Pop artists to come out of this time. Andy Warhol began his art career being a ... Roy Lichtenstein was another artist who is well known during this Pop Art period. He was trained in the traditional arts then tried abstract expressionism before painting bubblegum wrappers at the end of the 50's. By the 1960's he made the realization that cartoon figures had become a big part of Ame...

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... (a friend and art critic), who felt that everything wasn't so fabulous in America and that it was time to reflect that in Andy's paintings. Andy took his advice and began painting images of death and chaos. His Red Race Riot is a perfect example of art, which depicts human suffering and the anger and fear felt on both sides. This anguish is ... way we look at them, the importance we attach to them, and the similarities we see between them." (93) During the 1970's Andy work moved in a new direction. He began painting images of common people. He painted various subjects from his mother, t...

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... (a friend and art critic), who felt that everything wasn't so fabulous in America and that it was time to reflect that in Andy's paintings. Andy took his advice and began painting images of death and chaos. His Red Race Riot is a perfect example of art, which depicts human suffering and the anger and fear felt on both sides. This anguish is ... way we look at them, the importance we attach to them, and the similarities we see between them." (93) During the 1970's Andy work moved in a new direction. He began painting images of common people. He painted various subjects from his mother, t...

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... , or between their world and that of the spectator. Once the film of scholarly mystification is removed, clarity, precision, solidity, lustre and verisimilitude reveal the main characteristic of European oil painting: the representation of material wealth. Following the ideas of Levi-Strauss, Berger explains the development of this particular art technique and art form and its phenomenal rise in the 15th ... of mercantile capitalists, and later the landed gentry, to confirm their sense of ownership and the importance of riches. Set within a conceptual framework that charts the trajectory...

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... silkscreen portraits of movie actresses Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe simply because, he said, they were beautiful and they were "popular" (American Art History and Culture, 574)." In addition to painting, Warhol made several 16mm films which have become underground classics such as Chelsea Girls, Empire, and Blow Job. In 1968, Valerie Solanis, found and sole member of SCUM (Society for ... , known as the Factory, and shot the artist. The attack was nearly fatal. After overcoming this attack, in the 1970s, Warhol began publishing Interview magazine and renewed his focus on painting...

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... significant and prominent artists of this time. One of his more recognizable pieces, the "Blue Monochrome," was very influential and proven in changing the art era. A simple blue painting, but it was more than that. The vibrant and big piece of art was making a statement. Piero Manzoni and Joseph Beuys were similar in that they were both avant-garde ... is all based on machinery like concepts. The feeling that was given off was a very prominent sort of feeling. It was lively, happy, exciting and so on. The polka dot painting portrayed this perfectly on the feeling that could be felt. Th...

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... an object, whether it be a symbol, person, or situation, until it was already well known to its audience in its usual setting. They highlighted not the commonplace in a painting, but the commonplace as a painting. Each artist in this movement had their own way to express their take on Capitalist Realism. One of the first English pop artists was Richard Hamilton, who defined ... ...

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... paintings of the old West. Lichtenstein initially experimented with abstraction but said it "didn't have much of a sense of humour."" Shortly after the artist moved to Cleveland where he continued painting while working as an engineering draftsman to support his growing family. Lichtenstein taught at the State University of New York, Oswego from 1957 to 1960. It was by this time ... you can't paint as good as that' while pointing at a cartoon of Mickey Mouse. Lichtenstein took this picture, which was on a bubble gum wrapper, blew it up into a full scale painting turning commercial art i...

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... time Roy Lichtenstein, a well-known pop artist, extended the range of pop art with his oil paintings that appropriated enlarged frames of comic strips. The appearance of simplicity in this painting was painstakingly done - thousands of dots of simple colours (red, blue yellow, black, white). Pop art appropriating both the subject matter of mass culture and the techniques of mass production ... previous artworks (hence "cannibalistic"). Yasumasa Morimura appropriates previous paintings using computer technology. He, like Sherman, places himself in the artwork. "Daughter of Art History Th...

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... interiors demonstrated the importance of fine art for interior design. The architectural elements that used to be employed for decoration melted away and the room became an Environment, a Happening or a painting. Lastly, a very important influence came from the need young people had to dissociate themselves from the older generation. The main characteristics of Pop art was a lack of seriousness and an ... to reproduce art for the masses and it revolutionized printmaking and screenprinting. Also, for the first time in history everyday objects, such as soup cans, became the main subject f...

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... interiors demonstrated the importance of fine art for interior design. The architectural elements that used to be employed for decoration melted away and the room became an Environment, a Happening or a painting. Lastly, a very important influence came from the need young people had to dissociate themselves from the older generation. The main characteristics of Pop art was a lack of seriousness and an ... to reproduce art for the masses and it revolutionized printmaking and screenprinting. Also, for the first time in history everyday objects, such as soup cans, became the main subject f...

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... way. (Art Fundamentals, 305) The introduction of American Pop art resulted in a major reaction against abstract expressionism, which had dominated painting in the United States during the later 1940s and 1950s. During the later 1950s, there were many indications that American painting would return to a new kind of figuration. Pop art brought art back to the material realization of everyday life, to ... ...

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... ) Jean-Michel later signed on with his first full-time dealer. Annina Nosei cleared out her gallery basement for Jean-Michel to use as his studio. While Jean-Michel was painting, Nosei would bring in clients and disrupt him. She would also sell his unfinished works without his permission. This upset Jean-Michel and he ended up leaving Nosei. Afterwards he ... ...

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... 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 pain of the assignation of JFK, Jackie's husband. The copying of images was the visual means ... ...

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... really insecure and unhappy, his only friend was Andy Worhol, and it seemed like they got along quite well and they appreciated each other. I loved the scene when they were painting together, Andy would do his thing, and the Basquiat would come up and paint over what Andy did, Andy seemed confused, but that he liked it. I really liked the relationship ... ...

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... of mass production. Many repeats of works were used, often in the same piece. And lastly the artists mocked the abstract expressionists style and philosophy with Robert Rauschenberg even creating a painting entitled "erased de Kooning drawing" 1959. Pop artists wanted to stress the importance of everyday objects and for everyone to be able to relate to their art. Pop artists work ... ...

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... and began working as a commercial artist and illustrator for magazines and newspapers. He worked for Glamour magazine for about a year. He soon started working as an independent artist concentrating on painting derived from comic strips and advertisements. His most interesting and successful works were his silk-screen printing pieces. Silk-screen printing, also known as serigraphy, is a modern colour printing process ... ...

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... 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 pain of the assignation of JFK, Jackie's husband. The copying of images was the visual means ... ...

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