*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