Andy Warhol’s work:
Andy Warhol was an American visual artist, film director and producer. A leading figure in the pop art movement, Warhol is considered the most important artist of the second half of the 20th century. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, advertising, and celebrity culture that flourished by the 1960s, and span a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, photography, and filmmaking.
Warhol was born and raised in Pittsburgh in a family of Rusyn immigrants, Warhol initially pursued a successful career as a commercial illustrator in the 1950s. After exhibiting his work in art galleries, he began to receive recognition as an influential and controversial artist in the 1960s. After exhibiting his work in art galleries, he began to receive recognition as an influential and controversial artist in the 1960s. His New York studio, The Factory, became a well-known gathering place that brought together distinguished intellectuals, drag queens, playwrights, bohemian street people, Hollywood celebrities and wealthy patrons. He directed and produced several underground films starring a collection of personalities known as Warhol superstars , and is credited with inspiring the widely used expression “15 minutes of fame.” Warhol managed and produced the experimental rock band the velvet underground. Warhol expressed his queer identity through many of his works at a time when homosexuality was actively supressed in the United States.
Warhol has been described as the ” bellwether of the art market”, with several of his works ranking among the most expensive paintings ever sold In 2013, silver car crash (double disaster) (1963) sold for $105 million, setting a record for the artist. In 2022, Shot sage blue Marilyn (1964) sold for $195 million, which is the highest price paid at auction for a work by an American artist. Warhol has been the subject of numerous retrospective exhibitions, books, and documentary films. The Andy Warhol Museum in his native city of Pittsburgh, which holds an extensive permanent collection of art and archives, is the largest museum in the United States dedicated to a single artist.
I really like Andy Warhol’s work and would quite like to include it into my work, I could simply just add the pop art filter on top of one of my photos to see what kind of effect it will give, I have a feeling that pop art tends to make a photograph a lot more brighter and happier than it is intended. Pop art tends to be really bright and has many colours involved. I could try and make my photos look more original to m and make each photo look more gloomy and hidden by using a dark filter, that still provides the pop art effect but isn’t filled with colour and more so a controversial look. I would like to take some portraits of my model and simply just experiment with different filters and see what looks best on each photograph that I had taken. The theme of this project is union and i have added another word to my project, “sonder”, the idea that everyone is living a complexed life. The pop art can help identify each emotion of the models face or either hide and this proves the point that you never know what happens in a persons life, its the idea that everything can change within a few minutes or even a few seconds.
My final outcome:
Overall, I do like how this turned out as it looked quite similar to my inspiration photo, though mine does lack a bit of colour. I do believe that a colour can completely change a perspective of a photograph as each colour represents a different emotion. To make my image look even more like Andy Warhol’s work would be to add a coloured background. Each photograph tells a story of what is going on inside the models head and what way they might react to a certain piece of news, it’s a way of showing that everyone has different morals and purposes in life, each individual have a different goal and will achieve it with different timings. Most of the expressions the model is making are quite similar but each photo if different depending on the position the model is sitting in, for example two of the photos are very similar but in one of them the model is tilting her head which creates a whole new perspective of what he model may be feeling, it could be a sense of confusion or possibly a sense of annoyance.
coloured example:
