ANDY WARHOL AND POP ART

ANDY WARHOL

BETTY BOOP

MARILYN MONROE

MICHEAL JACKSON

DEBBIE HARRY

HELLA HEAVEN

CAMPBELLS SOUP

MUNCH WARHOL

MICKY MOUSE

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• Andy Warhol was born August6, 1928
• He grew up in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
• His full name is Andrew Warhol
• He was known as the Prince of Pop

CHILDHOOD

• both of his parents emigrated from Czechoslovakia
• His mother also was an artist
• His mother would give him a chocolate bar when he finished a coloring page
• Elementary school was thought for him cause he contracted St. Vitus' dance

SCHOOL

• Warhol took art classes at school and at the Carnegie Museum
• He always be found with a sketchbook in his hands
• pale skin and white-blonde hair
• Warhol went to Carnegie Institute of Technology

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• In his college years that Warhol discovered the blotted-line technique
• tape two pieces of blank paper together and then draw in ink on one page
• Before the ink dries, press the two pieces of paper together.
• result was a picture with irregular lines that he would color in with watercolor

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• After college Warhol moved to New York
• quickly earned a reputation in the 1950s for using the blotted-line technique
• most famous ads were for shoes for I. Miller
• also drew Christmas cards for Tiffany & Company
• Created book, album covers, and illustrated Amy Vanderbilt's Complete Book of Etiquette

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• 1960, Warhol had decided to make a name for himself in pop art
• began in England in the mid-1950s and consisted of realistic renditions
• turned away from the blotted-line technique and chose to use paint and canvas
• Warhol began with Coke bottles and comic strips

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• 1961 Warhol gave $50 to a friend, that told him she had a good idea
• The idea was to paint what he liked most in the world
• something like money and a can of soup
• His first exhibition in an art gallery came in 1962

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• Warhol found that he couldn't make his paintings fast enough on canvas
• he discovered the process of silk screening
• technique uses a specially prepared section of silk as a stencil
• immediately began making paintings of celebrities

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• http://history1900s.about.com/od/artists/p/warhol.htm