Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was one of the most influential artist of the 20th century, and was a famous and dominant figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works examine the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement that were expanded in the 1960s.
Source: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol
Moreover, he worked in marketing, and he made super evident the discussion that we have had about Modernism: Concepts are not natural, we use them to understand reality, but the concept is not the reality, is a tool. Concepts like love, men, women, and nature are culturally constructed, they are not reality. Reality is nothing, what we see is not what really is. The only thing we can trust is not reality. What's more, when we write the only valid topic is the reality that we know, language. If there’s no absolute knowledge, the appreciation of reality can change.
Continuing, the idea of the image has to do with : an image can sell and is a product that you sell. Therefore, you have to put it at a window, the object stops becoming the object but the image of the object. If we want to have access to this reality we have to buy it. It's a fragment of a world that offers you a whole world. Furthermore, publicity is selling a fantasy, little pieces that promise a lot but that are not reality. They are selling us realities that are fantasies, and when you make a fantasy a reality you kill the desire.
Source: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol
Moreover, he worked in marketing, and he made super evident the discussion that we have had about Modernism: Concepts are not natural, we use them to understand reality, but the concept is not the reality, is a tool. Concepts like love, men, women, and nature are culturally constructed, they are not reality. Reality is nothing, what we see is not what really is. The only thing we can trust is not reality. What's more, when we write the only valid topic is the reality that we know, language. If there’s no absolute knowledge, the appreciation of reality can change.
Continuing, the idea of the image has to do with : an image can sell and is a product that you sell. Therefore, you have to put it at a window, the object stops becoming the object but the image of the object. If we want to have access to this reality we have to buy it. It's a fragment of a world that offers you a whole world. Furthermore, publicity is selling a fantasy, little pieces that promise a lot but that are not reality. They are selling us realities that are fantasies, and when you make a fantasy a reality you kill the desire.
Further, Warhol famous painting is called "where’s your rupture". In briefly words, this painting makes you think about the forceful connection, what we say and what we see. As well, it implies that all the meanings that we create are meanings place together by something artificial.
"Where's your rupture was based on an advertisment with a chart of a torso that could be filled out and mailed in indicating where a consumer was suffering. In turn the company would fashion a support garment to bring "comfort and security" to most "reducible" ruptures"
(http://wheresyorupture.blogspot.com/2011/05/wheres-your-rupture-is-andy-warhol.html )
Moving on, although artists had drawn on popular culture throughout the 20th century, Pop art highlighted an important new phase in the failure between high and low art forms. Warhol's paintings from the early 1960s were important in pioneering these developments, but it is suportable that the diversified activities of his later years were just as influential and dominant in spreading out the implications of Pop art into other spheres, and further destroying the lines between the worlds of high art and popular culture.
Albeit Warhol would continue to create paintings occasionally throughout his career, in 1965 he officially retired from the commonplace to concentrate on making experimental films. Despite years of carelessness, these films have recently brought all over the place interest, and Warhol is now seen as one of the most important film makers of the period.
All in all, I only knew the Marilyn painting of Warhol, which I believed it was the most famous paiting, now, and as all the other contents that we've been seeing in Literature, I find myself with a more accurate and appropiate knowledge about Andy. Honestly, at first I found his works and procedures really weird and unclear, but going over his life and the background of his works, make me comprehend even more what images with texts are.
"Where's your rupture was based on an advertisment with a chart of a torso that could be filled out and mailed in indicating where a consumer was suffering. In turn the company would fashion a support garment to bring "comfort and security" to most "reducible" ruptures"
(http://wheresyorupture.blogspot.com/2011/05/wheres-your-rupture-is-andy-warhol.html )
Moving on, although artists had drawn on popular culture throughout the 20th century, Pop art highlighted an important new phase in the failure between high and low art forms. Warhol's paintings from the early 1960s were important in pioneering these developments, but it is suportable that the diversified activities of his later years were just as influential and dominant in spreading out the implications of Pop art into other spheres, and further destroying the lines between the worlds of high art and popular culture.
Albeit Warhol would continue to create paintings occasionally throughout his career, in 1965 he officially retired from the commonplace to concentrate on making experimental films. Despite years of carelessness, these films have recently brought all over the place interest, and Warhol is now seen as one of the most important film makers of the period.
All in all, I only knew the Marilyn painting of Warhol, which I believed it was the most famous paiting, now, and as all the other contents that we've been seeing in Literature, I find myself with a more accurate and appropiate knowledge about Andy. Honestly, at first I found his works and procedures really weird and unclear, but going over his life and the background of his works, make me comprehend even more what images with texts are.
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