ANDY WARHOL

Andy Warhol was the quintessential figure that highly contributed to the pop art movement in the 50’s and 60’s.Warhol worked with Glamour magazine in and went on to become one of the most successful commercial artists of the 1950s. He won frequent awards for his uniquely whimsical style, using his own blotted line technique and rubber stamps to create his drawings.

In the late 1950s, Warhol began devoting more attention to painting, and in 1961, he pioneered the concept of "pop art"—paintings that focused on mass-produced commercial goods. In 1962, he exhibited the now-iconic paintings of Campbell's soup cans. These small canvas works of everyday consumer products created a major stir in the art world, bringing both Warhol and pop art into the national spotlight for the first time. 

     

Warhol art became more and more famous and his next step was the creation of his renowned celebrity portraits which h were portrayed in vivid and garish colours; his most famous subjects included Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor,Mick Jagger and Elvis Presley . As these portraits gained fame and notoriety, alos did Warhol. He began to receive hundreds of commissions for portraits from socialites and celebrities.



Warhol's life and work simultaneously satirized and celebrated materiality and celebrity. On the one hand, his paintings of distorted brand images and celebrity faces could be read as a critique of what he viewed as a culture obsessed with money and celebrity. On the other hand, Warhol's focus on consumer goods and pop-culture icons, as well as his own taste for money and fame, suggest a life in celebration of the very aspects of American culture that his work criticized.

Andy Warhol contributed immensely to consumer art and his studio pioneers new techniques that portrayed art in context with the emerging society. Warhol was the Pioneer of introducing video as an art form. This today is seen as a common and run of the mil technique.





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