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Andy Warhol POP ART 1928 - 1987

Andy Warhol, Pop icon, artist and filmmaker, is considered by many to be the most influential American artist of the second half of the 20th century. Early in his career, he established a unique style, transforming the mundane to whimsical and distinctive. The fashion world took notice, and several of his illustrations were published in magazines such as Vogue and Glamour. The Andy Warhol art unit meets the following Colorado model content standards elementary visual art:
1: 2. 3. 4. 5. Students recognize and use the visual arts as a form of communication Students know and apply elements of art, principals of design, and sensory and expressive features of visual arts. Students know and apply visual arts materials, tools, techniques, and processes. Students relate the visual arts to various historical* and cultural* traditions and various cultures (e.g. portraits). Students analyze and evaluate the characteristics, merits, meaning of works

Students will: Learn how Warhol communicated meaning in the way he chose to display common objects as art. (Standard 1) Discuss works of art made by Andy Warhol, identifying the art elements, design principles and expressive features of his work. (Standards 1, 2, 4 &5) Understand how the events of Warhols time (i.e., Civil Rights, President Kennedys assassination, television and advertising) influenced his art. (Standards 1 & 4) Use art materials and techniques to create artwork in the style of Warhol.
(Standard 3)

Websites on Warhol: The Warhol Museum: http://edu.warhol.org/aract.html: a resource for lessons and information about Andy Warhols life and works. DVD- Getting to Know, Andy Warhol Pop Art icon Andy Warhol narrates the story of his life and works in this child-friendly, animated introduction to one of the best known and most fun periods of art ever! Covering Andys blue-collar birth in Pittsburgh to his (much more than) 15 minutes of worldwide fame, Warhol also puts his art in context with modern-art contemporaries including Rauschenberg, Johns, Oldenburg and Lichtenstein. CC, PPR. Approximate run time: 24 minutes. 15 minutes of fame (or famous for 15 minutes) is an expression coined by the Andy Warhol. It refers to the fleeting condition of celebrity that grabs onto an object of media attention, and then passes to some new object as soon as people's attention spans are exhausted. It is often used in reference to figures in the entertainment industry and other areas of popular culture.

Closest place to see a Warhol: The Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Dr., Salt Lake City, UT (801-5857163) has an exhibit of Warhol art.

Biography
1928: Andrew Warhola, is born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. He is the third child of Andrij (Andrew) and Ulja (Julia) Warhola recent immigrants from Slovakia-Russia. His father works in a coal mine. The family are Byzantine Catholic (Warhol regularly attended
mass throughout his life and created many religious-themed art worksnot usually included in his biographies)

In third grade, Warhol has St. Vitus' dance, a nervous system disease that causes involuntary movements of the extremities. The disease is believed to be a complication of scarlet fever and causes skin pigmentation blotchiness. He becomes somewhat of a hypochondriac, developing a fear of hospitals and doctors. Often bedridden, he is an outcast among his school-mates and bonds strongly with his mother. When in bed he draws, listens to the radio and collects pictures of movie stars around his bed. (Warhol later described this period as very important in the development of his personality, skill-set and preferences.)

1945: He enters the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) and majors in pictorial design. After graduation, he moves to New York City where he develops a career in magazine illustration and advertising. His first big break

was in August 1949 when Glamour Magazine asked him to illustrate an article called "Success is a Job in New York". Although born Andrew Warhola, he dropped the 'a' in his last name when the credit mistakenly read "Drawings by Andy Warhol." He creates illustrations for several magazines including Vogue, Harpers Bazaar and The New Yorker and does advertising and window displays for well-known retail stores. 1950s: By 1955 Andy Warhol has almost all of New York copying his work. He is well known for creating ink images with slight color changes. Andy Warhol is into doing popular items like Coca-Cola bottles and celebrity faces, like Marilyn Monroe. His Campbell's Soup Can is a classic and an easily recognized work of Andy's. Warhol receives awards from the Art Directors Club and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. His work was exhibited in several shows including the Museum of Modern Art. 1960s: Andy Warhol works with the rock band The Velvet Underground in 1965. He travels around the country, not only with The Velvets, but also with 1965 superstar Edie Sedgwick and the lightshow The Exploding Plastic Inevitable. He begins using images from popular culture and creates many paintings that become and remain identifiable as his work: Campbells Soup Cans, Disasters, and Marilyns. He also made several short films that became underground classics. In 1968, Warhol was critically injured when a woman walked into his studio and shot him. The woman, Valerie Solanis, was the founder and sole member of SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men). Warhol is rushed to the hospital where he is declared dead, but revives when open heart massage is provided. 1970s: Warhol begins publishing Interview magazine and renews his focus on painting. Works include Maos, Skulls, Hammer and Sickles, Torsos and Shadows and many commissioned portraits. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (from A to B and Back Again) is published. Warhol becomes established as a major 20th-century artist and international celebrity, his work is exhibited in major galleries throughout the world. 1980s: Warhol publishes POPism: The Warhol '60s and exhibits Portraits of Jews of the 21st Century and Retrospectives and Reversals. Television shows, including Andy Warhols TV (1982) and Andy Warhols Fifteen Minutes (MTV, 1986) are created by him. Paintings include: The Last Suppers, Rorschachs and Ads. He collaborates on several paintings with younger artists: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Francesco Clemente and Keith Haring, among others. 1987: Andy Warhol dies (Feb. 22, 1987) following routine gall bladder surgery. More than 2000 people attend a memorial mass at St. Patricks Cathedral in New York honoring his contribution to art. 1989: works. 1994: The Museum of Modern Art in New York has a major retrospective of his

The Andy Warhol Museum opened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Famous Quotes by Andy Warhol

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have. Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television. Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.

Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.

Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always taxdeductible.

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is "In 15 minutes everybody will be famous."

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.

I am a deeply superficial person.

I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.

I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.

I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, and everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of ''work,'' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.

I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.

If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.

It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.

Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again. People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coca Cola, Liz Taylor drinks Coca Cola, and just think, you can drink Coca Cola, too. A coke is a coke and no amount of money can get you a better coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the cokes are the same and all the cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.
When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

Lessons: http://edu.warhol.org/aract.html

Andy Warhol Art Project (Recommended

Project)

Materials: Colored Chalk Paper

1. To prepare ahead of time: Cut several pieces of paper into equal parts, i.e. quarters or sixths. Cut enough for each student in a class to have one cut piece. 2. Present Warhol material, reviewing his repeated image pieces. Talk about how we see some things over and over (McDonalds arches, Target logo, and famous peoples faces.get examples from the students). Repeating an image changes its impact. It can make it more of a pattern or an artistic composition. 3. Hand out 2 pieces of paper: one full size paper and one cut piece of paper to each student. Pass out colored chalk. 4. Have students fold their full-size paper into equal parts, (quarters or sixths).

5. Have students brainstorm a simple designa shape or line drawing. They will then draw that image once on the cut piece of paper, with one color. The image should be an outline, or a simple line drawing. Have the students color the lines heavily with the chalk! 6. Have students create duplicates of this image by placing the cut piece FACE DOWN on the larger paper and rubbing the back of the cut piece to transfer the drawing. They can use the back of their thumbnail, or a plastic spoon. Have them do this in EACH SECTION of the folded paper. (If you prefer, have students simply transfer their image several times on the full-size paper, without folding it first). 7. Students may outline the design to make it permanent, using a black marker. 8. Using other colors of chalk, have students fill in their design, using different colors for each repeated image. Laminate pieces, if possible!

Alternative Art Projects:

1. LABELS Arrange with students ahead of time to collect and bring labels from food or other (appropriate) products. Labels will need to be flat, of paper or plastic. You might want to supplement theirs by bringing some yourself. Have students glue a label to one half of a piece of paper, then draw a replica of that label on the other half, using different colors. For example, if the label is for Campbells Soup, they might use green where the original label is red. If you wish, you might talk to older students about complementary colors (opposite on a color wheel) and have them try using those colors in their reproduction to replace the original colors. Note: Find a color wheel online by using the search function for color wheel images. There are many different styles to choose from.

2.

Shoe Party
Show students the images of Warhols shoes. Discuss color, pattern and texture seen on the images. Students draw an image of a shoe, their own or an imagined one. Using color, pattern and texturethey design a new style of shoe. (Option: Use Warhols coloring pages)

ART HERITAGE PROGRAM Today in Art Heritage, we learned about Andy Warhol. He was an American artist who created Pop Art.

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