Essays on Andy Warhol

Pop Art is an art, where everyday objects are used (comics, cans, burgers, etc.) as a subject, and often included into the work. The Pop Art is the direction of the Visual Arts in Western Europe and the United States of the late 1950-1960-ies. The term “Pop Art” was firstly used by Lawrence Alloway in his critical article, but in the meaning of “pop culture”. Pop Art is characterized by the portrayal of all features of pop culture and has a powerful influence on modern life; images are taken from the mass media and especially advertising. Although critics characterized ...

Art has always been the reflection of any society, its core values and tendencies, developed and moved forward by it and sometimes transforming the society itself. In any case, it has always felt even slight changes in the world views of separate personalities and the whole world in general. From the numerous artworks of different historical periods the world has a chance to see and discover the way people lived centuries ago, how they perceived and viewed the world, all its elements and how their mind changed and evolved throughout the years. The same concerns the art space of ...

In this paper we will look at how the 1970s and the early 80s showed a resurgence of interest in painting. This was a result of suppression of visual pleasure that was present at the time in the dominant art practices of the 70s. There came up a movement of painters who came up with the neo-expressionism style that advocated for the freedom in painting, a style that became really popular with the people (Sandler, 1996). It started in Germany in the 60s spread through Europe and then America. So as to study this movement well, painters like Jean-Michel ...

Works of art can communicate critical information on the times in which they were created. Different time periods and different cultural backgrounds provide the stylistic and media elements of a work of art. There may be no specific intent to portray the times, but that is what happens when the artist creates a work of art in a particular artistic period. Examples of art works from two distinctly different times and cultures will demonstrate how the art in the Medieval period of European history and Pop Art from the late mid-20th century differ. The Medieval period in art history ...

Absolut vodka has developed into one of the largest spirit corporations in the world. The Swedish company’s campaign of “constant creativity” have caused it to perform strongly over the years. Absolut was founded in 1879 by Lars Olsson Smith, and by the time he was in his twenties, Smith controlled one-third of the Swedish vodka production by improving the production process and using local products (Pernod Ricard). Distilling this fine liquor in a country where vodka was already a rich tradition, Smith invented the process of continuous distillation, where the liquor is continuously distilled through its production. This ...

An art movement is a specific period characterized by artists who are driven towards a common goal. The fashion industry has made numerous attempts over the years to associate itself with visual arts and popular artists (The Art Story Foundation, 2016). The collaboration between artists and fashion is mutually beneficial for both parties. Fashion applies art more than most practices in the world to reach a wider and a more popular audience. These collaborations have seen the fashion design industry evolve, innovate and provoke its numerous designs and collections (Blechman, 2013). These collaborations have further been encouraged by common ...

The Japanese artist Takashi Murakami was born in Tokyo in 1962. Takashi Murakami studied the art of Nihonga (traditional Japanese painting) within the National University of Fine Arts and Music in Tokyo. The unique and self-sufficient style of the author is expressed through many mediums, including painting, sculpture, industrial design or fashion. He is an artist of the pictorial language, one of those which were strongly influenced by both popular culture and the formal characteristics of traditional art, such as flatness, applying a boss and abundant ornamentation. In 1990, Murakami was introduced to contemporary art with the artist Masato ...

Introduction

Pop Art or Popular Art originated in the Great Britain around 1950s. The word pop was first used to define popular culture existing but as the artist started using popular culture in their artwork the Pop art was created. Although the Pop art movement started in Britain, it achieved its full expression in U.S. American soil nurtured the movement providing a solid base for Pop art. It flourished so much in America that it became an integral part of American everyday life. The art found its way into things like newspaper photographs, Advertisements, Coco cola bottles, used car parts ...

Andy Warhol remains one of the highly paid commercial illustrators in New York even, and his screen printed images became synonymous with Pop art. His rise from the obscurity of an immigrant family from Eastern Europe to the circles of High Society and recognition as a fine artist is remarkable (Andy Warhol 2016). The essay selects an artwork of Warhol ” Telephone” and describes the technique used in making this work, focusing on the elements and principles of design and looks for the meaning of the work.Andy Warhol’s Telephone, 1961Acrylic and pencil on canvas The image of “Telephone” by ...

The essay discusses three famous artists, Louise Bourgeois, Andy Warhol and Vincent Van Gogh.

Louise Bourgeois The work of Louise Bourgeois is influenced by traumatic events from her childhood and manifested a feminist-inspired body art that carried a strong influence on other artists. It is the highly personal content in her artwork that relates to sexual desire and the body. Perhaps she sought a therapeutic process in her art and developed a highly personal visual language. One finds the use of archetypal imagery in her works based on the adoption of objects such as cages, spiders, medical tools, and spirals that symbolize the feminine psyche and psychological pain. Bourgeois juxtaposes her materials to ...

The Modern period from the late 19th to the early phase of the 20th century served as the catalyst for the beginning of avant-garde works of different artists whose works isolated their styles from the rest of the artistic movements that emerged in the previous eras. These new designs spearheaded the development of the comic book art wherein the iconography of the subjects attempted to portray the real world yet in an animated way without closely resembling the reality. The artists who popularized these method includes Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, and Larry Rivers each of the defined the early ...

I was fortunate to visit the beautiful Wynwood Walls, an art district in Miami, Florida. Before visiting the art district, I tried to get some more information on the gallery and what it had to offer to its visitors. I leant that Wynwood was a warehouse area at one time and full of dilapidated buildings (Wynwood Walls 2016). However, it is today a magnet for artists, who display their large sized works and lure Miami locals and visitors alike. It is just a couple of minutes away from downtown Miami and boasts of offering some of the most stunning ...

The Château de Versailles has been on UNESCO’s World Heritage List for more than 30 years and is an example of classical 18th-century French art. French kings who lived there have only added glory to the site, expanding and transforming it over the years. Today, the château has acquired a new role, and many of the château’s rooms are used as Museum of the History of France. The Palace of Versailles has been a public institution since 1995. It works under the direction of the ministry of culture and communication and has independent administrative ...

Pop-Art is a term that was coined by Lawrence Alloway, an English curator, and critic of art, in the year 1955. The term describes a movement that emerged in the US in the late-1950s and mid-1950s in Britain and consisted of subversive artists who adopted art from popular culture and materialism, and majorly used mass media to convey messages from their artworks. Pop culture, also called popular culture, are mainstream perspectives, views, adverts, images, etc. mostly portrayed in mass media. Pop-art integrates into pop culture in that it uses our every day’s life as portrayed in the media ...

In the mid-1960s and already on the peak of his popularity Andy Warhol carried the products of mass-production and, usually, highly popular among the consumers products into the realm of sculpture. The stack of boxes can remind a factory, in fact, the boxes were made by carpenters he employed and painted ‘with assistance from Gerard Malanga and Billy Linich and silkscreens the with logos’ [Warhol.org]. The gallery with the sculptures looked more like a warehouse with different products as the boxes were very similar to the real ones. The work of art was so ordinary and mundane it caused ...

Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Research Paper Introduction Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) has been an interest to numerous experts for decades. In the past, BDD is called 'dermatological hypochondriasis' and 'dysmorphophobia' (Wilhelm & Phillips, 2012, 3). However, experts became dissatisfied with such mere renaming of the disorder, and so they decided to give it a full and clear definition. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR), BDD is an obsession with a perceived deformity in one's appearance, or if the individual really has a minor physical defect, the burden and effect on the person is enormous (Wilhem & Phillips, 2012). This excessive ...

Analysis of an Artwork

For the right and correct message to be passed on to the audience in a context, it requires an in depth analysis to help one comprehend and understand the message. Message are displayed and conveyed in different forms that include both verbal and non-verbal ways and this applies so in equal measure to artistic works and features. Art work conveys messages in various forms that include the various elements such as color, texture, design and shape of the art product among other features that have to be analyzed ad interpreted wholly to get the different meanings and messages being presented ...

I was surprised by the exhibition Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists. Fifty Years. I was never aware of the overwhelming influence Warhol had on the art world let alone his ability to capture seemingly mundane aspects of daily life. It was exactly this realization that the exhibition was trying to portray and feel that the layout and artists chosen directly portrays the reach of Warhol’s influence. Along that note, it is interesting to me that much of Warhol’s inspiration derived from public media sources like the news, tabloids, and commercial imagery.

Similarly, many of his admires and artists ...

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The inter-reliability between art and, culture through the course of civilization has been immense. Art has played some defining roles in the course that the human race has responded to situations by either perpetuating existing perceptions and ideas or by promoting a new way of doing things and approaching situations. Art has also found immense in its primary use as a form of entertainment, where communities appreciative of art visit galleries and marvel at the various artworks in ...

Appropriation is the art of using already existing images and objects without much transformation of the image. The art of appropriation has played a significant role in the history of arts. In the arts of visuals, appropriation means to adopt, or borrow sample aspects made by humans targeting visual culture. It is notable that appropriation has caused a significant amount of damages on the world of arts, thus the controversy that has befell the art industry. It is argued that appropriation has paved way for values and such as criticism and other means of challenging the existing scenarios. For instance, appropriation ...

It’s about living in the now. It’s about not taking life too seriously. It’s about going out with a bang. This is pop art and it exploded through classical and traditional art. Pop art is modern, ironic and colorful with a twist of reality. While looking at pop art, instant gratification burst and it caused a release of endorphins. It’s fun, sassy, and bright. It is art with an attitude. Pop artists created their works using vivid images of everyday modern life. It was art that society could easily relate. The pop culture was able to penetrate to ...

Ai Weiwei is one of the most influential Chinese artists of the twentieth century. Born in the year 1957 to an intellectual poet Ai Qing, Ai Weiwei spent his childhood in the hinterlands, firstly, in the bitterly cold lands of Heilongjiang, and then in the western Xinjiang province of China. In Weiwei’s childhood, living conditions were very harsh and education was non-existent. However, Weiwei grew up within the Cultural Revolution studying criticism and the political works of various famous personalities, such as Mao, Lenin, Karl Marx and many others . By the end of the Cultural Revolution, Weiwei’s ...

Communication

Some paintings can make people mad, make them ask questions, and make them see things differently (Heppermann, 2001). In the case of Andy Warhol, he was known for being the “Prince of Pop Art” when he first started during the 1930s in Pittsburgh, where he spent most his childhood. He rose to fame in 1966 and became a visionary artist with his innate qualities of perseverance, hard work and dedication. As a young artist, Warhol was often seen drawing pictures of flowers in his sketch pad based on his autobiography. Long before Warhol’s “pop art” was born, he was able ...

Analysis of an Artwork

Pop Art is probably one of the most intriguing and interesting elements in today’s age. Several artists initiated this genre in the late 1950’s and the 1960’s but none was more prominent than Andy Warhol. Although there have been several critics who have criticized his work as being without any form or sense of direction, posterity has shown otherwise. Works of art such as ‘Telephone’, ‘Marilyn Monroe’ and other pieces have fetched tens of millions of dollars as wealthy collectors have paid huge sums of money to acquire these iconic works. ‘Telephone’ is one such work, ...

A painting or a canvas is not just a picture drawn to attract people towards it or for the fun of a painter. A painting depicts lot more than just colors or the shape of the object drawn. It shows the thought process of a painter, the feelings and emotions of the subject that is being drawn, the place or situation the subject is in, and a lot more. The basic idea behind studying a painting is to be able to understand what forced the painter to paint that particular picture and the message the painter wants to convey with that picture. When one ...

Image analysis

Images in art and architecture are important in that they carry message. Interpretation of images is an important skill to posses in the field of art and architecture. Image interpretation therefore is a fundamental component of decoding the meaning of images. Artists in the creating of their works employ various features in their work of art to create the desired effect on the person interacting with the image. These features give the image its interpretive value. In interpretive analysis, a determination is made on the elements of the drawing more represented than the others are. Such aspects include the use of ...

There is a remarkable change regarding the extent of art in history. In the past, art paid attention to the natural art and beauty solely. However, the majority of art has continued to flow on different directions and has crossed different oceans. Many years ago, arts that depict the environment has captured interest and it has developed as an imperative center of contemporary investigation of arts. Together with environmental principles, art has turned to be an element of the wider variety of environmental investigation as well as environmental activities and endeavors. This development has sustained, understanding environment in ...

Introduction

Artists Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol were among the first Pop artist in America; their artwork made them very famous in America and across the globe. Pop art is referred to as an art movement that began in 1950s in Great Britain and later spread to United States of America in the late 1950s.It is a type is art that showcases challenge to cultures of fine art through involving imagery from renown cultures like news, advertising and many others. This paper will clearly show the comparison between the motives for painting, personal life, works of art, style of painting and ...

Introduction

There had been many innovations for developing equipment that could deliver nutrients or even doses of medications inside a person’s body. One of these developed medical devices is the infusion pump. Infusion pumps are used to deliver nutrients and medications, such as antibiotics and pain killers. They can also be used to administer chemotherapy drugs which, if not administered properly, can be the difference between life and death for the patient (Brady). Infusion devices are usually classified based on the power source used and could be either of two types: gravity controllers or infusion pumps. Gravity controllers, which ...

Introduction

Gob Squad is a group of German and British artists. Gob Squad was formed in the Nottingham and now mainly operates from Germany. This group performs in the area of theatres, films, real life incidents, videos and other visual mediums of entertainment. Gob Squad performs in urban various centers including theaters, clubs, car parking, hotels, shops and houses. Gob Squad’s realistic and vivid performance is highly acclaimed by acclaimed by audiences, as well as, critics. This paper intends to discuss the Gob Squad’s performance and their show on “Kitchen”.

Background

Gob Squad was founded in the year 1994 in ...

In 1994, by Jeff Bezos instituted Amazon.com Company and launched in 1995. Bezos made a list of several products that he thought were greatly needed by the people around the world; it included magazines, books and music and then finally came to choose books over the others. He chose books because he knew that by that time, there were more book lovers compared to music enthusiasts since the book publishing are more accessible to the people. Him quitting his job in 1994, he chose to start his Amazon.com business in Seattle because of the book publishing houses that situated there. ...

Andy Warhol was an artist in the pop art. He explored the relationships between advertisement, celebrity culture, and artistic expression. Warhol was very successful as an illustrator of commercial art. He is however known for being controversial in art. His artwork is composed of different types of media such as painting, photography, hand drawing, printmaking, music, film, sculpture, and silk screening. He also pioneered computer generated art. He used collaborators to help him in accomplishing his art (The Warhol, 2013). Warhol focused on the popular people or items to form the subject of his art. Warhol focused on producing ...

Identity and Creative Practices

Thesis statement: Identity is a broad term comprising many sub-types. There is identity as to gender, identity as to race, social identity, identity as to stereotype and many others. This paper will elaborate on all these forms of identity while giving tangible examples and borrowing from the works of scholars like Stuart Hall who wrote a lot on social identity. Three images have been chosen to elaborate further on the same.

There is no exact meaning of identity. The meaning of identity depends on what a person thinks it is, or the context that they are discussing it. Stuart Hall discusses ...

Examining the vital and distinct differences between street art and pop art, it is necessary to look at several examples. Andy Warhol’s portrait of Che Guevara, created in 1968, is a perfect example of pop art – a genre that Warhol himself innovated. In this work, nine differently colorized images of Che Guevara are presented in a tiled manner, each of them having a different brilliantly neon color scheme. This particular image is pop art due to its appropriation of pop culture imagery in order to make an artistic statement in a formal, artistic exhibition context; the use of Che’s iconic image in ...

Introduction

Hierarchic scale refers to the act or process of manipulating the size and the space in a given picture. Usually, this is done in order to emphasize the importance of some specific object in the picture. For instance, when an individual undertakes to paint a picture of some woman in a farm of vegetables, one could do several things to the picture in order to emphasize the importance and the value that is attached to the object in question. If the most important thing in that picture is the shoe that the woman is wearing, then the person painting the picture would ...

Introduction

Kara Walker is a modern African-American visual artist who focuses on race, sexuality, violence, identity, and race in her artworks. Born on 26 November 1969 in Stockton, California, the artist is renowned for her big tableaux of black designed paper shapes. He father was a former professional artist, university professor, and a manager while her mother worked as a secretary. Kara grew with a good relationship with his father whom she was quoted as saying that her best memories are about the times she sat on his father’s laps in the studio in their house’s garage and watch him draw. She remembers ...

The artist

Christian Paul Kunsch was born in Hagen in the North German state of Westphalia. He is primarily a husband and father but is also a photographer and Taoist for good measure, also describing himself as ‘European’ on his website. His work which is chiefly in black and white is basically inspired by the work of Bernard Plossu, Francoise Nunez, Henri Cartier Bresson and Lucien Herve. However he claims other influences such as the music of Radiohead, Thom Yorke and Max Richter. Another source of inspiration is Wim Wenders, the film director whose movie, ‘Wings of Desire’ is an important part of ...

Kara Walker’s painting is a clear combination of techniques which can be said to have imbued the American psyche. The issue of racism is quite clear and one can feel it in the title which is ‘The Rich Soil Down There’ where the inherent racism which permeates the piece is demonstrated by its clear allusion to the agricultural labourer’s history especially in the Antebellum South. The work which is currently on display at the Museum of Fine Arts has a lot in common with other works which Walker has exhibited at a number of important museums. These include the ...

Question 1

Art has to have the ability to evoke a reaction from the people interacting with it, either from the sentimental meaning the specific work of art elicits, or from the aesthetic value it creates. Art is the conversion of obscurity and rendering of meaning to it. Clay in its natural state cannot be depicted as a work of art. An artist sources the clay, in this instance the raw material and transforms it into something meaningful such as a flower vase. The artist gives the specific work of art form while interactions with the work of art elicit different reactions and varying ...

Introduction

The aim of this paper is to conduct an analysis three works of art. First, the paper will present the background information about the artists, followed by description of each art piece and origin and the current location of the art work. Secondly, the paper will explain the artistic message that each artist intended to communicate. In general, the paper will evaluate and analyze the works based on research, using artistic vocabulary, and concepts. Drawing is a form of visual art made with a pen, pencil, or crayon rather than paint. Drawing also refers to virtual representation of forms or ...

Art project

Still life photography of the female nude in provocative backdrops My art project is aimed at the younger generation and is particularly male although females can also enjoy what I have in mind. I have decided to take some photos of nude women and create a collage of images which are interspersed together with popular advertisements. The artist who inspired me in this sense is Mel Ramos whose portrayals of erotic female nudes against advertising backdrops caused a sensation when they were first portrayed in exhibitions. The female body should be taken as a holistic experience. The way the sexual ...

Introduction:

Art is always subjective but the way it has developed in recent years does show a certain tendency for the cubist and realist elements to be at the forefront. However one can observe how art changed from the middle 19th century to the avant garde preoccupations of Picasso which have demonstrated the changing face of art. We have also moved on to the modern exhibits such as those of Andy Warhol who demonstrates an original way of depicting artistic visuals. The change can be seen by comparing Gustav Courbet’s ‘The Meeting’ with Picasso’s ‘Le Demoiselles de Avignon’. ...

Analysis of Andy Warhol’s Marylin

Andy Warhol is considered to be one of the most famous artists of the 20th century. Actually, he is the leader of the pop art movement, which balances on the verge of artistic expressions, celebrity culture (mainly, movie stars) and advertisement. Pop art marked the consumerism mood among art lovers and artists. Unsurprisingly, it appeared in America and Britain, where consumers are famous for their active position. And Andy Warhol was their icon and so to say spokesman. In his work he combined different materials and techniques: he used hand drawing, oil painting, printing, photographing, silk screening, filming, using ...

Introduction

An art manifesto is defined as a public declaration of views, intentions and motives of artistic movement or of an artist showing standard features of the modernist avant-garde. It is noted that art manifestos are generally extreme in the way they are written and are intended to achieve a revolutionary effect. A manifesto is literary an address to the whole world with the pretense of discovering a cure for artistic, political, agronomical, parliamentary, astronomical and literary disease that has been ailing the society. Warhol’s manifesto centers on the change that is inevitable and has been embraced by all people of all ...

SECTION 1

Popular culture is a term that was crafted to refer to the ways and norms of peoples occupying lower social classes in societies such as the United States. One thing that is worth noting is the fact that some of the things that are associated with this culture include the daily problems that continues to be bedeviling American middle class. The United States has a large middle class than other nations in the world. This means that some of the problems such as consumerism that are associated with popular culture affect a large population of the people. This paper argues that the ...

Silent Cries: A Look at the Influences on Art that impacted the United States Before, During, and After the War Aras Through Four Pictorial Portholes History: it really is his-story. What better way to tell a story than to make sure there are pictures in it? After all, a “picture is worth a thousand words” as the adage goes. Paintings, statues, photos, even architecture, from a given time periods such as the early American Colonial days give new meaning to an event in history. On the flip side, knowing the historical background of a piece of art creates deeper meaning for it and ...

TIME CAPSULE

Time Capsule Letter to the Future Generation Dear Future Reader/s, As you read pass this electronic mail, perhaps you are using a highly sophisticated gadget and you might need a document translator to be able to read through this text. Notwithstanding, I would like to share with you a common life in our times. I am a wife and the mother to six beautiful children, with two sets of twins included. I have three daughters and three sons ranging from ages six to twenty. My days are full of excitement as one can only imagine. Every day is different ...

Introduction

Andy Warhol represent popular culture type of art or “pop art,” an art movement which was very popular in the second half of the twentieth century. While he is famous for his unique paintings of Marilyn Monroe and Campbell's soup cans, he also created tons of inspiring artworks which included silk screens, commercial advertisements and films. "Pop" is a shortened term for popular art which became an important art ethos in the late 1950s (Delves, p. 12). It is also considered as an art movement which intends to “blur the boundaries between "high" art and "low" culture” (Scherman & ...

1. “Dead Stop” is one of Andy Warhol’s earlier paintings, finished in 1954. It is done on Strathmore paper with ink and wash, and is 19.5 inches by 23 inches. It is one of Warhol’s earliest adaptations of an object that is found in popular culture – the diamond-shaped traffic sign. Rather than render it in its traditional yellow, he has chosen to keep this work monochromatic, with everything running in black, white and gray. Also, the terminology on the usual sign is “DEAD END,” not “DEAD STOP,” and so the adaptation here clearly has a metaphorical purpose that ...

Introduction

This essay will look at Campbell’s Soup Andy Warhol, identifying and analysing various interpretations of this artwork. Andy Warhol made various versions of his Campbell’s Soup idea: some depict soup cans painted on canvas and others were screen-printed. Some of the variations depict multiple cans of soup; others show only one can in various states of use/abandon. His Small Town Campbell’s Soup Can (Pepper Pot) painting, for example, shows a single can of soup that has been opened and is in an advanced stage of decay. His Campbell’s Soup with can opener painting shows, as the ...

Andrew Warhola was born August 6, 1928, in Pittsburgh, to Slovakian immigrants. He grew up in a devout Byzantine Catholic family, within an Eastern European neighborhood in the city. When he was eight, Andy developed chorea, a condition of the nervous system that kept him in bed for months. This was the time when he received his first drawing lessons from his mother, who was a skillful artist. When he was nine, his mother bought him a camera, and he took up the hobby of photography as well. When he was 14, his father passed away, but he left his life savings to ...

Pop art:

Abstract: This is a form of art whereby traditional art is fused with popular culture. Popular culture refers to advertisements, celebrities, popular destinations and movies. This art movement had its roots in the United States and Britain in the 1960s. Pop art uses different elements that are evident in modern pop culture as a form of art. This include comic strips as well as advertisements and product names and brands,. It is believed that the movement rose in order to rebel against the ideas on traditional expressionism and postmodern art that were constrictive.

Poster Created:

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Introduction

Although lithography was not a product of the 20th century (Pipes 17), it remained a relevant form of art throughout the 20th century, specifically during the years between 1945 and 1980. Although other forms of art and printing have been developed since then, this paper argues that the mass production of lithography still offers a lot of benefits and that it remains significant in the art industry.

Lithography

Lithography is a type of surface or planographic printing (“Lithography”). It is different from intaglio and letterpress printing where the design is etched or cut into the plane. Lithography is used both as a commercial printing process – ...

One of the most enduring subjects for art through the ages is the female figure often identified as “Venus”. From the earliest times to the present day, the feminine form has intrigued and inspired artists through the ages. Venus of Willendorf is one of the earliest works of art ever discovered. Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus has remained a classic image of feminine beauty since its creation in the 15th century. For many Marilyn Monroe was the living breathing embodiment of the love goddess for the 20th century. When she died, Andy Warhol attempted to capture the mortal and ...

In naming this piece, Damien Hirst compels us to confront the message of End Game: our vanity and mortality. Hirst draws from the vanitas (Latin for vanity) genre of paintings of the 17th century, which depicted decaying animals and fruits and human skulls. The effect was to remind us of the temporality of all life. Hirst too wants us to stand face to face with our own personal “end game.” End Game is a large-scale sculpture. It measures 77 X 148 X 20 inches and stands up along a wall at one end of the gallery. The main component of ...

One of the most incredible and prolific art collections in the world resides in Houston, Texas - The Menil Collection. Cubist, Surrealist, Modernist, Abstract Expressionist, Byzantine, Minimalist, Pop Art: all of these styles and more can be found at this art museum, the result of decades of collecting by a fascinating family whose forward thinking and deep connections in the art world led to this incredible collection. Their art collecting was fueled by a deep and powerful philosophy that guided their work, leading to a seemingly random collection that nonetheless carried significant purpose and weight. The Menil Collection currently stands as one ...

Andy Warhol was an American painter. He was a leading influence in the development of Pop Art. Warhol’s original name was Andrew Warhola, and he was born in Pittsburgh, in Pennsylvania. Early in the 1960s, Warhol started experimenting with artistic representations of various media, including adverts, newsprint headlines and other images from popular culture in the US. In 1962, he started working on his series of Pop Art portraits of Marilyn Monroe. He also worked, in a similar style, on portraits of other celebrities including Elvis Presley (News History, 2012). Also in 1962, Warhol partook in the New Realists ...

Never judge culture by one man and never judge a man by popular culture.

- Anonymous

Abstract

In “The Death of the Author,” structuralist thinker Roland Barthes suggested the notion of the author as a distinct identity in the creation and interpretation of a text was a thing of the past. Instead, he preferred the use of the word “scriptor” to refer to the person writing or typing a work for the first time. The ideas in the scriptor's mind would have to travel through his or her semiotic filters to make it to the paper – those filters take the ideas and shape them – for ...

1. The Elder Sister

This is a painting made by a French painter, William Bouguereau in 1869. The medium employed is Oil on canvas. It is 51 ¼ x 38 ¼ inches in dimension and found at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. It was presented as gift b an Anonymous Lady in memory of her father.

Description

It portrays a young girl, staring fixedly at the beholder while affectionately embracing an infant on her thigh, gifted with an almost mysteriously enticing beauty. William Bouguereau was the typical thriving scholastic painter. His canvases were in great demand by European and American investors mutually, and his reputation has been reawakened lately.

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