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"

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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.

Hello! The end of the marking period is nearing, and so is the holidays! This year has been the first year of really experiencing photography for me, Fall has been an intresting season for me for pictures, not my favorite but everything is pretty in individual ways. Since this town is vastly small and the landscapes generally seem to remain equivalent, feeling like I have taken so many photos in the same place already. I have realized in the past few days that everything does change- and very fast! Change happens to everything, everywhere, all the time. Everything is always different and will never exactly be the same. I think its intresting to have the access to capture some movements while the universe continues to change. Generally my favorite season is Spring, but I'm eager to see Winter approaching, even though it already feels like Winter!

These are some plant phots, nature if you may, that i have always seemed to like, rarely its lucky to get a good picture with good lighting.

Hello everyone! I've always had a large interest in writing, photography and art. One thing that I have always believe in is freedom of expression, weather it ranged from a painting to what you wore. To my opinion, many people start to hide who they are from people, especially in this decade. People have hidden who they are because they are afraid of  responses and reactions. Part of me wants to glue confidence into every ones mind but realizing yourself and finding confidence on your own is all for you to figure out. There has been many types of ways to express yourself and one big aspect is art. If people cant express how they feel verbally they can express their feelings by drawing, painting and a million other options. My favorite kind of expressing myself is writing and photography, I hope you enjoy looking at my blog.. Thanks for looking at my page!(: