Essays on Andy Warhol

Comparison of Mona Lisa by Andy Warhol and Leonardo Da Vinci with Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility Artworks can be seen as an indicator of time. For instance, in Jane Austen’s book, Sense and Sensibility, the passage “His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle” can be applied to…

Where is Warhol himself in his apparently affectless, neutral pictures and films?             Figurative art regarded the body as commercialised – something chopped up and sold for parts.  Abstraction claimed to reflect the artist’s inner state, but it has been much criticised for lacking an essential human quality: the reality of human relations, which are…

New Realism and Pop Art movements: Comparing the Works of Daniel Spoerri and Andy Warhol The study of the rise of the art movements may be used to understanding the impact of mass consumerism and mass communications in our society, particularly in relating their impact to the growth of art.  To help decipher some of…

The first superstar of American art, Andy Warhol was obsessed with fame, glamour, and money. He is best known for his images of stars and celebrities and for his reproductions of symbols of the American society. Andrew Warholas (he later dropped the a) birth date is uncertain, Andy said himself that his birth certificate had…

Page 1 Andrew Warhola was born August Sixth, 1928, in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. He was the youngest son of Julie and Andrej Warhola, both immigrants from Czechoslovakia. After a quiet childhood spent alternately alone and in art classes, Andrew went to college. He then got a job doing commercial art, largely advertisements for large companies. Over…

The Founder of Pop Art: Andy WarholAndy Warhol is the god father of Pop Art. His window advertisements were the beginning of an era where art would be seen in an array of forms away from the traditional paintings and sculptures of the old world. His love of bright colors and bold patters along with…

Andy warhol’s brillo box: an artist study             Postmodernism, as a school of thought, influenced the very many ways in and through which we view the world, life and even reality. Such influence manifests itself in diverse areas of human interests, even the sciences. The most prominent influence of postmodern thought though may be seen…