Andy Warhol's Screenprint Of Marilyn Monroe

207 Words1 Page
bulb-icon

Recommended: Postmodernism and its effects on society

According to the powerpoint, postmodernism plays a lot with convention. It is a style of art that has a playful look, blurs between high and low art, is contemporary, and generically blurs objects. I think Andy’s Warhol’s popart of Marilyn Monroe is the best example of postmodernism. Popart was a popular movement during postmodernism. It blurred reality and made eccentric and playful pieces with a flat-like component. So, Andy Warhol’s screenprint of Marilyn Monroe is a great example of postmodernism artwork. The subject is a popular figure in the Hollywood world, but it is done to look flat-like and printed with bright and eye-popping colors. Furthermore, Warhol is blurring the high/low art culture. The high-class subject is printed with low

Show More
Related

  • Self Portrait with Two Pupils by Adelaide Gabille Guiard

    782 Words  | 2 Pages

    Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet and Marie Marguerite Carreaux de Rosemond was done Adelaide Labille Guiard in 1785. It was done in Paris, France and the medium is oil on canvas. Adelaide Labille Guiard was born in 1749 and died in 1803. She was one of few to practice and master at miniatures, pastels and oil paintings. Due to male dominance in these practices, women were not accepted as pupils, due to society perception that women are not able to follow instructions as easily as men.

    Read More

  • Postmodern Art in Andy Warhol´s Silvier Liz as Cleopatra

    1187 Words  | 3 Pages

    ...he era of postmodernism altered the face of art, taking it away from both the religious and ritual context it was originally made for. Warhol was able to create a sense of value in his art by linking illusion of scarcity and inimitability of brand names and branded famous faces to pop art. Through works such as “Silver Liz as Cleopatra,” Warhol had single handedly gave new meaning to art by exploiting a recognized figure of mass culture for the consumption of society. To be specific, the value in “Silver Liz as Cleopatra” is embedded in its mass production and the authentic and genuine appeal of a media icon. Warhol’s take on Elizabeth Taylor defines the transformation in art history that Walter Benjamin alludes to. The value of “Silver Liz as Cleopatra” is not based on its abidance of tradition, but based on its mass production in pop culture, and iconic existence.

    Read More

  • Cubist Movement: The Art Of Futurism

    443 Words  | 1 Pages

    violence and change. Artists who worked in traditional media such as painting and sculpture, and in an eclectic range of styles. Some people went with the movement while others opposed it. I enjoy the different types of eclectic movement in art such as the paintings, drawings and the designs. It was not until 1911 that a distinctive futurist style emerged and then it was a product of Cubist influence. Futurism was not immediately identified with a distinctive style. Futurists were fascinated by the problems of representing modern experience, and strived to have their paintings evoke all kinds of sensations and not merely those visible to the eye. Futurist art brings to mind noise, heat, and even smell of the metropolis.

    Read More

  • Minimalism In Pop Art

    1240 Words  | 3 Pages

    In the mid-1950s in Britain and late 1950s in the United States pop art is a movement that rise. Eduardo Paolozzi and Richard Hamilton in Britain, and Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns in the United States Shaped the pop art movement among the early artists. Art itself refers not as much as to the attitude behind the art. Mass culture, such as advertising, comic books, and mundane cultural objects of pop art employs shape, form, value or line. As well as in expansion of those ideas, pop art interpreted as a reaction to the then-dominant idea of abstract expressionism. Art movement that precede postmodern art, or are some of the earliest examples of postmodern themselves are known as post art and minimalism.

    Read More

  • The Facial Expression Of Marilyn Monroe

    281 Words  | 1 Pages

    Not like other vintage ads which are designed in black and white, this ad appears in color. Although the background of the ad is in blue, the yellow of Marilyn’s eye color, her hair, and some of small lines around her make the poster outstanding and attractive. The color signifies a modern look for a new promising, technological generation of recordable tapes. The ad represents an actual person, Marilyn Monroe. She is the image of a talented actress, a famous singer, and a professional model; moreover, she always symbolizes sexuality even though after her death. By using Marilyn’s image in the ad, Maxell aims to the intended customers who prefer watching films, especially those who loves Marilyn Monroe. The facial expression of Marilyn Monroe

    Read More

  • James Rosenquist President Elect Analysis

    239 Words  | 1 Pages

    The painting by the American artist James Rosenquist titled “President Elect” got my attention as a prominent example of post-modernism by several reasons. First of all, it is important to denote that this artist was obsessed by the promotion of political and social figures in the media. In his board style painting “President Elect”, he utilizes combines street publicity images with political aspects by delineating John F. Kennedy's grinning face close by common American middle class items of consumerism of those times. In order to be more specific, a yellow Chevrolet and a cut of cake from an advertising image. Rosenquist made the arrangement utilizing pictures cut from their unique setting that he adjusted to fit a fantastic scale in a photograph

    Read More

  • yo mama

    1626 Words  | 4 Pages

    Postmodernism is a late twentieth century movement in the arts, architecture, and criticism that was a departure from modernism . It was an era set free from the past, it is distinguished by a general wariness of ideologies as well as a rather ' strenuous' relationship with what constitutes as art. This lead to new types of art such as instillation and performance.

    Read More

  • Post Modern Artists

    877 Words  | 2 Pages

    The realm of postmodern art encompasses various aspects of contemporary styles. There is no set format to creating artwork anymore. Art pieces in the past basically conformed to the Kantian-Hegelian theory of art. Thomas McEvilley claim, "It was essentially an aesthetic theory of art, which held Beauty is a universal force that enters the soul with immediate, unquestionable authority at the instant when the soul approaches the beautiful object with openness to it" (qtd. in Weintraub 245). Beauty became an inborn characteristic of art. Pieces of artwork inevitably possessed the quality of beauty, seeking to inspire and touch the soul with powerful, aesthetically pleasing images.

    Read More

  • A CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW IN A POSTMODERN CULTURE

    2203 Words  | 5 Pages

    The word “postmodernism” first surfaced in architecture and the fine arts, perhaps in the 1950’s, referring to a new style. Later it acquired a meaning in the world of literature as well. It is not a theory or a creed: it is more like an attitude or a way of looking at things. Postmodernism is essentially a philosophy, which declares there is no absolute truth or objective truth particularly in the realm of spirituality or religion. Often times when a postmodern is confronted with an individual claiming an objective or absolute truth you would here them say the common phrase, “That may be true for you, but it is not for me.” One could easily utilize this phrase in more arbitrary and less important matters of our every day life (ex. Food, clothing choices) though this is a difficult course to navigate because it confuses matters of opinion with matter of truth.

    Read More

  • Pop Art: Turquoise Marilyn Monroe By Andy Warhol

    662 Words  | 2 Pages

    Description The artwork is called Turquoise Marilyn Monroe by Andy Warhol in 1964. Andy Warhol was an innovator of the visual art movement known as Pop art, which is a challenge to the traditional fine art that includes popular culture images, and known for hand drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, silk screening, sculpture, film, and music. This artwork was made to show the remembrance of a famous celebrity, named Marilyn Monroe, who committed suicide in 1962. This artwork was replicated from a magazine still by using silkscreen ink on synthetic polymer paint on canvas. One of the aims of this period is to use images that are popular (Marilyn Monroe) and cultures in art and was a major shift from the modernism direction.

    Read More

  • 1984 Analysis

    1136 Words  | 3 Pages

    In the 1950s, authors tended to follow common themes, these themes were summed up in an art called postmodernism. Postmodernism took place after the Cold War, themes changed drastically, and boundaries were broken down. Postmodern authors defined themselves by “avoiding traditional closure of themes or situations” (Postmodernism). Postmodernism tends to play with the mind, and give a new meaning to things, “Postmodern art often makes it a point of demonstrating in an obvious way the instability of meaning (Clayton)”. What makes postmodernism most unique is its unpredictable nature and “think o...

    Read More

  • The Pop Art Movement

    1307 Words  | 3 Pages

    Pop art got its name from Lawrence Alloway, who was a British art critic in 1950’s. The name “Pop Art” reflected on the “familiar imagery of the contemporary urban environment” (kleiner, 981). This art form was popular for its bold and simple looks plus its bright and vibrant colors. An example of this type of art is the oil painting done by Andy Warhol, “Marilyn Diptych” (Warhol, Marilyn Diptych) in 1962. The Pop art movement became known in the mid-1950 and continued as main type of art form until the late 1960’s. The Pop art movement, was a movement where medium played a huge part in the society, with it reflecting on advertisements, comic strips and even celebrities, like Marilyn. This movement also has a large background and artist that are deeply connected.

    Read More

  • Renaissance Artists: Cubism And Braque

    719 Words  | 2 Pages

    Those visual art styles were created by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Cubism has a great role about the understanding of modernism and that plays a role in the 20th century art till this day. In the article it says: “…Cubism was the cornerstone of twentieth-century art because it broke with past tradition definitively; established “modernist” flatness, opticality, and involvement with the medium of art; and thus sanctioned a new tradition that would lead to nonobjective art as well as to assemblage and to other “modernist” principles and practices.” By reading this it shows that Cubism had a huge impact in the 20th century and that it had something special about it that made it really important. Cubism is all about art and it’s also art, Picasso is really popular because of his work and that was all in the period of Cubism which is still to this day. Cubism is one of the first to be most developed in the modern era, especially in the visual

    Read More

  • The Philosophy of Postmodernism

    1050 Words  | 3 Pages

    The philosophy of postmodernism supported the feeling of variety and uniqueness with all architecture. Beginning in the 1960's and lasting through today, the postmodern movement took root as a response to modernist design. This movement began in America and then spread internationally across the globe. Postmodernism, concerns the symbolism, ornament, technology and the relation between existing and past cultures. Postmodern designers tend to reject the functional, minimal use of materials and lack of embellishment adopted by modernist designers.

    Read More

  • The Painting

    1128 Words  | 3 Pages

    "A picture can paint a thousand words." I found the one picture in my mind that does paint a thousand words and more. It was a couple of weeks ago when I saw this picture in the writing center; the writing center is part of State College. The beautiful colors caught my eye. I was so enchanted by the painting, I lost the group I was with. When I heard about the observation essay, where we have to write about a person or thing in the city that catches your eye. I knew right away that I wanted to write about the painting. I don’t know why, but I felt that the painting was describing the way I felt at that moment.

    Read More

More about Andy Warhol's Screenprint Of Marilyn Monroe

Open Document