Andy Warhol was hand design "The Big Banana" for the cover of the album 《the velvet underground & nico》, almost be the velvet underground logo."the big banana" just so simple, but to create the visual effect of memorable.Expressed a more unconventional theme, at that time,"transvestism"、"same-sex love"still was a taboo subject, fully embodies the spirit of "free".The banana itself is, of course, the handiwork of Andy Warhol, who crafted the image and slapped it on the cover of his pet band's first record in 1967. Warhol served as the manager and patron saint of the now iconic art rock band that surprisingly sold just 30,000 albums in its first five years.The sexually-charged effect was difficult for manufacturers to pull off (the time it took to perfect the peel was part of the reason behind the album's delayed release), but MGM deemed it warranted, since Warhol's stamp of approval was bound to go far in the 1960s. Alas, the record was hardly a commercial success. It was only in the decades after VU's breakup that the band became a cult favorite, transforming their vintage peel-off s...
Gallery 19 of the Museum of Modern Art features Pop Art trailblazers of the early 1960s, ranging from Roy Lichtenstein’s “Girl with Ball” to Andy Warhol’s “Gold Marilyn Monroe.” Alongside these emblematic works of art, there hangs a more simplistic piece: a six foot square canvas with three yellow letters, entitled “OOF.” The work of art, created by Ed Ruscha in 1962, is a painting that leaves little room for subjective interpretation as does the majority of his work. Ruscha represented the culture in the 1960s through his contributions to the transition from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art, efforts to redefine what it meant for a painting to be fine art, and interpretation of the Space Race.
The first cartoon is with Theodore Roosevelt wearing hunting gear and holding a gun. There’s bull sitting on the moon reading the newspaper. There are different names for this political cartoon, like don’t shoot, I’ll come down, the beef trust and et cetera. This cartoon was made when TR was “trust busting” small corporations. After Jungle by Upton Sinclair, people and TR wanted changed. So changes were made and the Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1907, which made sure that inspections are made before meats are processed and ready to be delivered.
In his opinionated book, From Bauhaus to Our House, Tom Wolfe describes his views on the way architecture has framed our modern world. He frames his book long essay with an excerpt from America the Beautiful, "O Beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, has there ever been another place on earth where so many people of wealth and power have paid for and put up with so much architecture they detested as within thy blessed borders today? . . . Every child goes to school in a building that looks like a duplicating-machine replacement-parts wholesale distribution warehouse . . . Every new $900,000 summer house in the north woods of Michigan or on the shore of Long Island has so many pipe railings, ramps, hob-tread metal spiral stairways, sheets of industrial plate glass, banks of tungsten-halogen lamps, and white cylindrical shapes, it looks like an insecticide refinery." (Wolfe 1) This quote, in short, is the premise of his critique. He does not like the way modern architecture
I think Andy warhol printed Marilyn Monroe after hers death because she was a social icon. Marilyn had become a brand and not a person and i think that this was the point of making this. She was dead but her picture was everywhere. He painted Marilyn like he painted the campbell's soup can. He was fascinated about popular culture. Like Elvis Presley or James Dean. They were both very famous in their life but when they died they become a commercial franchise. It’s the same for Marilyn. So Andy Warhol’s painting pf Marilyn Monroe should seen less as a portrait and more as a social
My second piece that I choose was Vincent van Gogh’s, Olive Trees made of oil on canvas in 1889. I have always loved this piece so this was an easy piece to choose. When looking up the dimensions of the piece it was hard to find. There are fifteen different canvases of this series, so it told me all of them. To make a rough estimate I would say it is about 4 feet high and 3 feet width wise.
With an admiration for the unconventional, I am moved by Jackson Pollock’s Autumn Rhythm (number 30). If I could see any art piece in person, this would be my choice. I believe that Pollock’s radical painting style and the way in which he lay the canvas flat on the floor to work, gives this piece a deepened perspective. There is a visible control in the chaos to which Pollock has said "I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident." Seeing this piece in person would awaken my unconsciousness, and convey the feeling of spontaneity that I wish society will still embrace.
The life of a lady in the 19th century is painted in a romantic light. Pictured in her parlor, the lady sips tea from delicate china while writing letters with a white feathered quill. Her maid stands silently off in the background, waiting for orders to serve her mistress. What is not typically pictured, is the sadness or boredom echoed on the lady’s face. Perhaps the letter is to a dear friend, not seen in ages, pleading with the friend to visit, in hopes that the friend will fill the void in the lady’s life made from years spent in a loveless marriage. Possibly the lady isn’t writing a
Salvador Dali's life and art were very closely related. Everything in his life was reflected in his art. All the major changes in his works and styles represented important turning points for him. When Dali was younger, he experimented with different styles. The first style he used was soft, blurry and seemed a little bit out of focus, although his use shadowing was well from the beginning. Dali's early works were
Two years later on a poster in the mall at a Spencer's store I saw Warhol's famous Campbell's Soup Can work of art. At first glance I thought the poster was ridiculous because it featured such a simplistic, moronic image. Then, my artistic eye and appreciation for the eccentric took over, and I was immediately drawn into this cool and crazy phenomenon that Andy Warhol called art. I bought the poster and hung it in my bedroom. None of my friends had ever heard of Warhol and did not understand why I would display a 24 x 30 inch Campbell's soup can on my wall amongst the likes of Iron Maiden and Heather Locklear. I didn't either, but I knew I liked it.
Imagine watching the camera footage that you filmed earlier hoping to see nothing, but you see a young boy and girl crawling out of a painting that you bought for your young child. This happened to families who owned “The Hands Resist Him” painting. This painting has caused many families sheer terror. This painting has received the nickname “The Ebay Haunted Painting” after being sold on Ebay in February of 2000. Many unusual reports have been made of the horrifying painting. “The Hands Resist Him” is still intriguing people to this day.
Keith Haring’s poster of Ignorance=Fear, Silence=Death has a series of three yellow colored people in several different positions. The figures are non-representational because we do not see anything that truly defines the gender, age, or possibly even race of these people. The first yellow colored figure has their hands covering to what appears to be their eyes, and has a pink x over their stomach. A series of black lines surround the figure. Some of these lines are straight and others curve around the figure’s body. The second figure is covering the sides of their head. Once again a pink x mark is covering their stomach, and there are black curved and straight lines surrounding the body. Finally, the last figure we see is covering the bottom
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, author of the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” wrote this story with the intent of opening society’s eyes to the truth behind mental illnesses during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Although Gilman was considered to be “…the leading intellectual in the women’s movement during the first twenty years of the twentieth century” (Billy 1), she suffered from mental health problems for the majority of her life. Marital problems and opposing social opinions caused Gilman much grief through her lifetime. Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s life, and mental health struggles are clearly reflected in her short story “The Yellow Wallpaper.”
Van Gogh is an artist who starts with a perception of Nature. But Pollock says, “I am Nature.” He is a conceptual artist. What “Nature” are the two artist painting in their art? What are the different “landscapes” that they are painting? What is the different Nature that they are expressing in their art?
One of most famous artist is Andy Warhol was the king of Pop Art, formerly known as Andrew Warhola. Born on August 6, 1928 in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ,in United States. Graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) major is Commercial Art and In the final year of university studies he served as editor of Journal of University name "Caro" This is working properly for the first time his own. Andy Warhol died at the age of only 58 years on 22 February 1987. In essay, I will explain about my favorite picture of Andy Warhol.
“There is always hope,” stands on the gray background of the concrete of the famous Banksy graffiti art. The art chosen is made of spray paint and stencil, on a concrete background. The image is a black and white portrait of a little girl, wind blowing through her hair and dress, holding out her arm towards a red, heart-shaped balloon. On the side of the image is the statement written in what appears to be the dirt and soot on the wall, “There is always hope.” The artwork stands out on the inner-city concrete walls, with the bold of the black and white image of the little girl and the brightness of the red balloon, certainly catching to the eye of parents and children in these inner-cities that have little to no hope. It portrays the message