Andy Warhol

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" and that's how Andy dropped the "a" in his last name. He continued doing ads and illustrations and by 1955 he was the most successful and imitated commercial artist in New York. In 1957 he won the Art Directors Club Medal for a giant shoe advertisement. In 1960 he produced the first of his paintings depicting enlarged comic book characters - such as Popeye and Superman - initially for use in a window display. 3
gained his early fame by such things as repetitive paintings of Campbell's Soup cans and sculptures of Brillo soap pad cartons. He mass-produced his art in a workshop called the Factory by a process whereby an enlarged photographic image is transferred to a silk screen that is then placed on a canvas and inked from the back. This silk screening process allows for endless reduplication of an image. He followed these with variations of celebrity portraits in garish colors. One of his best known works is a portrait of actress Marilyn Monroe known by some as a woman ...

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Through 's artwork he created his own aura, one centered on this new pop culture offshoot of fine art. Warhol's motivations were very simple much like the man himself. He was merely looking for fame.
The subjects that Warhol used in his work helped to promote this popular culture fad which Warhol had found himself in the forefront of. His artwork transcended the present day and went ahead, his ideas and machine like processes were something that had not been seen in the art world yet. Some would say that was an innovator, fixing a machine that needed some new parts. Others would say that Warhol was merely egocentric and thrived on his fame and publicity. As an artist and as a man, ...

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