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Art 112 - Flores
March 4th, 2010
Andy Warhol: Pop*Art

Somalia Nayobe Suber

(All the information on my blog has derived from en.wikipedia.org and from notes from our lectures)

*F*ck*

Artist: Andy Warhol
Title: Blue Movie aka "F*ck"
Date: June 1969
Material: Film
Location: English
Significance: This movie pushes the envelope and describes Andrew Warhola as a who according to his art. Co-stars Viva and Louis Waldon are recorded having sexual intercourse while random facts, tid bits, stories of war and random everyday acts are being narrated in the background. It's produced by Andy and Paul Morrissey. This is another item that shows Warhol's expensive "Dabbling" in art.

*25 Cats Name(d) Sam and One Blue Pussy

Artist: Andy Warhol

Title: 25 Cats Name Sam and One Blue Pussy
Date: Circa 1954
Material: Book
Location: Only 150 printed;
Significance: This book caught my name because of the title (childish but I'm being honest). The "d" was accidentally left of the NAME in the title by Julia, Andy's mother who was the calligrapher for the book. This added perfect imperfections to this art which Warhol loved. It's actually a series of snippets/mini stories of "cats" 18 of which were actually named Sam. This is significant to this project because it shows Warhol's variety. Not only did he single handily start a new art form that is still prospering today, but he also dabbled in other mediums. These were given as gifts and keepsakes but are highly prized today.

*Campbell Soup Cans

Artist: Andy Warhol
Title: Campbell's Soup Cans
Date: 1962
Material: Synthetic polymer paint on canvas
Location: Museum of Modern Art, NY
Significance: This is piece is the most questioned and controversial piece so far in my research. Famous artists such as Duchamp have had trouble explaining his thought of the piece. Duchamp simply thought Warhol liked soup! This canvas consists of 32 variously flavored cans of Campbell's soup, all of which were actual soups offered from the company at that time. Many think some of the soups have dark, racist meanings while others look passed the names and focused on the soup and canvas itself. This piece is actually a collage per say. It started out as 32 individual art works.

*Knives

Artist: Andy Warhol
Title: Knives Pink
Date: 1982
Material: Acrylic and silk screen ink on canvas
Location: Selections from the Andy Warhol Collection, D.C.
Significance: This piece just illustrates and reiterates Andy's love for silk screens. For this he used a Polaroid, one of his favorite base mediums, a very bright, girlie pink to accentuate the knives. This is another comical piece. Pink Knives? Who can take pink knives seriously? This piece is significant to the pop art form because it shows how basic it can be just by viewing it to how deep the culture has grown to become by actually studying it.

*Eight Elvises*

Artist: Andy Warhol
Title: Eight Elvises
Date: 1963
Material: Silkscreen, canvas, acrylic paint
Location: Private Collection
Significance: This piece is said to be one of the most expensive paintings ever and the most expensive for Warhol. It was sold to a private collector for $100million. "Bellwether of the art market". this piece has not been seen in public since 1963 when it was first exhibited in Los Angeles.

*Self Potrait - Camoflauge

Artist: Andy Warhol

Title: Self Portrait Camouflage

Date: 1986

Material: Polaroid Paint on canvas

Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Significance: This self portrait was made only a few months before his passing. He used a Polaroid picture and placed a thin canvas over top so that the basic outline of his features would show through. This picture is kind of creepy. His head is ghostly floating in a deep never ending background. His face has this dead blank expression on it covered in combat paint. This painting expresses how Andy must have felt toward the end of his life. When I stare in his eyes I feel he knew the end was near. The stare is too blank and he's looking off into no where.

*Big Electric Chair*

Artist: Andy Warhol
Title: Electric Chair
Date: 1967
Material: Silk screen ink on synthetic polymer canvas
Location: Unknown
Significance: This piece is my favorite so far from my research of Andrew. This piece is also in a series of color changed electric chair. I chose this one with the green because when I first saw it, my mind ran across the infamous phrase "The grass is/is not greener on the other side." This piece SCREAMED irony! The hue on the right side of this pic is a soft, pale pink I'm guessing which to me is a soft, female, sensitive color while the green is known to be a "growth", nature color. Is he trying to say that the afterlife is "greener" than the jail? Hmm...

*Cars*

Artist: Andy Warhol

Title: Car (Mercedes Benz Type-C 111, Versuchwswagon, 1970)

Date: 1986

Material: Painting, silk screen

Location: Stuttgart, Germany

Significance: This piece is one in a series of car prints from Warhol. With this series, he wanted illustrate the cars that were booming and that he liked. The prints are drawings from Andy. The top two are just color prints while the bottom two are considered negative prints.

*Green Coca Cola Bottles

Artist: Andy Warhol

Title: Green Coca Cola Bottles

Date: 1962

Material: Oil on Canvas

Location: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Significance: This painting, oil on canvas, depicts various Coca Cola glass bottles, that were collected and replicated by Warhol. This piece doesn't fit the typical Warhol comic book or photo negative stigma BUT it does show his irony to the then current pop culture. He took something that was hitting its peak in 1962, Coke, and helped make it into an iconic image.

*Marylin Diptych*

Artist: Andy Warhol
Title: Marylin Diptych
Date: 1962
Material: Acrylic on Canvas
Location: Tate Gallery, London
Significance: This piece seems to be the most known and unknown Andy Warhol piece. Almost everyone has seen it before but not many know who or what it is. There are many different variations of this picture. The 25 black and white replicas to the right can be viewed as the ups and downs in Ms.Monroe's career. This is considered one of his "break out" pieces.

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