The Man Behind The Bright

The outcome of a new culture.

The response to the new technology.

*ANDY WARHOL*

- Born Andrew Warhola

-Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

-Sunrise: August 6, 1928 Sunset: February 22, 1987

-Painter, print maker, film maker

-Most prized art: Eight Elvises and Marylin Diptych

-Break Out Art: 100 Soup Cans, 100 Coke Bottles, 100 Dollar Bills

debuted at the Stable Gallery in Los Angeles

Emerging from the late 1960s, Andy Warhol steam rolled the art culture with his "negatives" and random color blocks and coined it

*POP ART*.

-Characterized by images and events of mass culture and popular advertisements

-Influenced by works of Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp

-Often called an extension of Abstract Expressionism

-Paired with the Dada Movement

-Comic Strips, Photo Negatives, Everyday items placed in not so everyday settings

-Moved beyond the every day to emphasize the irony

of the new 1960s/1970s pop culture