Andy Warhol :: Visual Arts Paintings Art

Andy WarholPaintings ar too hard. The things I want to show are mechanical.Machines have less problems. Id like to be a machine, wouldnt you?Andy Warhol, 1963Warhol was a scummy artist and at time could be annoyingly blastowards his art. With a jittery nature, Warhol is considered to be themost influential American artist of the second single-half of the twentiethcentury. He has a signature style which he uses repeatedly inartworks, by using commercial silk-screening techniques to createidentical, mass produced images on canvas then varying the color andtone to make separately edition look different.Warhol was fascinated by Hollywood, fashion and style. He transferredthis bet to his artwork, claiming not to see the differencebetween a museum and a surgical incision store. Blurring the distinctionbetween art and life, he believed art could be fashion, decoration,and politics. equal his contemporaries Jasper Johns and RobertRauschenberg, he borrowed images from popular culture for his artwork.He was also influenced by Marcel Duchamp, who took ordinary objectsand displayed them as readymade works of art.His works also radically challenged high modernist ideas associatedwith the concept of originality and the role of the artist as anindividual. Through this and through his obsession with money, fame,commercialism and mass culture he challenged high art, blurring thedistinction between it and popular culture.He first applied his silk-screen techniques as a commercial artist inthe 1950s when a 5th lane department store displayed his comic booksuperhero images. His initial entrance into pull down Art was in the early60s with his Coca-Cola Bottles and then shape of the brillo boxeswhich he replicated onto plywood boxes. By the completion of these 2artworks one would founder that Warhol was challenging traditionalnotions of art by mechanically repeating a single image, mimicking themanufacturing industry and parodying mass consumption.Warhols subject matter went from one extreme to the other, one beinga series titled Jews of the 20th century, which is guess was Andyrecognizing a repressed group and creating completely modest artabout them. The other extreme being a series titled Cowboys andIndians which yet again displays Andys childlike and innocent themes