Andy Warhol :: Visual Arts Paintings Art

Andy WarholPaintings are too hard. The things I want to exhibit are mechanical.Machines have less problems. Id like to be a machine, wouldnt you?Andy Warhol, 1963Warhol was a modest artist and at time could be annoyingly blastowards his art. With a cheeky nature, Warhol is considered to be themost influential American artist of the routine half of the 20thcentury. He has a signature style which he uses repeatedly inartworks, by using commercial silk-screening techniques to createidentical, bundle produced images on canvas thence varying the color andt nonpareil to call for each edition look different.Warhol was fascinated by Hollywood, fashion and style. He transferredthis interest to his artwork, claiming not to see the differencebetween a museum and a department store. Blurring the distinctionbetween art and life, he believed art could be fashion, decoration,and politics. Like his contemporaries Jasper Johns and RobertRauschenberg, he borrowed images from popular culture for hi s artwork.He was similarly influenced by Marcel Duchamp, who took ordinary objectsand displayed them as readymade works of art.His works overly radically challenged utmost modernist ideas associatedwith the concept of originality and the role of the artist as anindividual. by 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 fifth avenue department store displayed his comic booksuperhero images. His initial penetration into Pop Art was in the early60s with his Coca-Cola Bottles and then sculpture of the brillo boxeswhich he replicated onto plywood boxes. By the completion of these 2artworks one would establish that Warhol was challenging traditionalnotions of art by mechanically repetition a single image, mimicking themanufacturing industry and parodying mass consumption.Warhols subject issuing went from one extreme to the other, one beinga series name Jews of the 20th century, which is guess was Andyrecognizing a repressed group and creating entirely unassuming artabout them. The other extreme being a series titled Cowboys andIndians which yet again displays Andys childlike and sinless themes