Pop Artist Andy Warhol

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This paper explains that, loosely defined, Pop Art describes works, which borrow imagery from the mass culture--high art mimicking low art; everyday items such as commercial product packaging, newspaper articles, advertisements and comic books are the foundation of the Pop Artist's works. The author believes that the greatest Pop artist, whose innovations have affected so much subsequent art, is the American artist, Andy Warhol, whose works--"Campbell's Soup Can" series, "Green Coca-Cola Bottles, 1962" and "192 Dollar Bills, 1962"--are detailed in this paper. The paper relates that Andy Warhol, son of disadvantaged Polish immigrants, became an icon not only of Post-Modern art in the Pop movement, but also the epitome of enviable glamor as one of the leading mass-media personalities of his time.

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"Warhol's method of reproducing identical images, echoing the assembly-line production of the objects depicted, gradually became more technically efficient and a standard feature of his work. He introduced this method of screen-printing in 1962 and encouraged the impression that works were churned out from the Factory, as his studio on East 47th Street in New York was known, by his entourage of assistants. "With screen-printing Warhol had finally found a way of eliminating altogether the distinguishing personality of brushwork, at the same time satisfying his professed desire to make himself into a machine, registering images as a mere film of color on the canvas surface.""

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