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Title: Andy Warhol Pop Culture Icon


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Andy Warhol Pop Culture Icon
Get our attention!
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Overview
Give a brief overview so we know who/what your
topic is. Let us see right away what makes it
exciting!
  • Pop artist of the 1960s
  • His art commented on consumer culture and the
    influence of mass media
  • 20th century icon who influenced fashion and art
    for decades to come

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Background
Briefest background possible!
  • born Andrew Warhola in
    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and
    lived in poverty during Depression
  • At age nine became ill spent time making paper
    cut outs and reading comic books
  • Loved Hollywood films, celebrities, and
    memorabilia, which he collected

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Pop Art
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youd like to make Keep it concise! NO
COMPLETE SENTENCES!
  • International movement in painting, sculpture,
    and print making beginning in 1950s
  • Major premise presenting everyday objects in new
    ways (forms, colors, techniques)
  • Other pop artists Jasper Johns and Robert
    Rauschenberg

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Introduce your video/media clip.
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Style
  • Brightly colored backgrounds and overlapping
    images on large canvas
  • Subjects advertisements, everyday objects,
    movies, celebrities
  • Used silk-screen technique so he could mass
    produce images
  • Most famous for canvases of consumer products
    such as Campbells soup cans, dollar bills,
    soft-drink bottles, and soap-pad boxes

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Purpose Why?
  • Out to shock?
  • Make a commentary on the consumer nature of our
    culture?
  • Ridicule the hollow materialistic values of the
    middle class?
  • Celebrate the everyday?

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Late Career
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  • 1968 - one of Warhols own
    actors shot him
  • 1970 onward-turned to
    producing portraits of cult
    figures, important people, and friends
  • Famous images Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, Mick
    Jagger, Jimmy Carter, Mao Tse-tung
  • On Feb 22, 1987 died of heart failure

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Impact
  • He was possibly the first artist whose work was
    instantly accessible in both elite and popular
    circles, in the high culture of the academy and
    the low life of the tabloids. - Joanne
    Patterson, Rolling Stone
  • Irving Sandler described Warhol's art as "a
    mirror reflecting American life for good or bad.
    The New York Times

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Conclusion
  • Andy Warhol was an influential pop artist during
    the 1960s.
  • His art forced viewers to re-examine both
    familiar and hidden aspects of American culture.
  • His influence can still be seen in the fashion
    pop culture of today.

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In the future everyone will be famous for
fifteen minutes. Andy Warhol
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