Artist Research Blog Post: Andy Warhol

Andy Warhola, Also know as Andy Warhol was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As a kid Warhol had taken a big interest in drawing and painting-and a talent for it too. After he graduated from high school he studied Commercial Art at Carnegie Institute of Technology in the city he grew up in. Warhol graduated in 1949 and later became an illustrator in New York for magazines such as Vogue, Harpers Bazaar as well commercial advertising. Shortly after that was a employee in an art studio called The Factory. He began to expand his gallery of art work. Warhol was famous for his print making and silk screen pieces. A famous piece of his was a silk screen of Marilyn Monroe, and still remains a well known piece of artwork. Warhol had many different techniques of art and eventually he wanted to show the world his personally hand crafted pieces. Many pieces of his work consisted of silk screening and printing of famous of people. With this in play he wanted mass production on his own works of art. The Factory was also a movie studio, which gave Andy the opportunity to produce movies, before his death he made 300+ underground films; they were reported bizarre and eerie. During his life a co-worker Valerie Solanos, attempted to kill Warhol by shooting him. Although she failed to do so Andy was required to wear bandages around his waist for the rest of his life. Warhol died of a gall bladder infection and lived to be 58.

The reason why I chose Andy Warhol for this is because not because he has multiple techniques of art, but that he wasn’t afraid to try different things, even with pieces that most people would not understand. I believe he did this for personal satisfaction and knowing that his pieces of art that he actually drew/ painted wanted to make a statement that he was talented in art itself, as well as silk screening and printing.

                                                           "Marilyn"

"Triple Elvis"

                                                                                       

Identity Collage

We have recently been working on a "Identity Collage". The main goal of this assignment was to express yourself with pictures, words, art techniques and things that have an importance in your life, wheather it was a physical or mental importance to you. So far this has been one of my favorite assignments so far and I am looking forward to seeing the final product.

Self Portrait Painting

In creative arts the most difficult assignment for me was the self portraits. At first I dreaded self portraits- like I always had had in the past, and the fact that copying a drawing seemed impossile. Over time I realized that with a positive attiditude many things are able to be accomplished. With this assignment I let my over thinking and perfectionism take over me and I was not able to have the fullest potential on this piece. How ever, with this I am able to learn from this and move forward with a different perspective.