60's Digital Art

60's Digital Art: POP ART/ ANDY WARHOL

MARILYN MONROE PORTRAITS

Created by Andy Warhol

This piece it a part of the Pop Art culture and uses a silk screen process.

POP ART

Popular and Art

Pop Art- It started surfacing in the 1950’s, however became prominent in the 60’s and 70’s

Pop art is a rebellion against existing painting forms, especially against abstract paintings. It was an attempt to bring art back into American daily life. Doing so by using popular brands, which were a part of everyone’s life and were present in most American homes.

-It uses non-representational color and representational form to convey different sensations.

MARILYN MONROE PORTRAITS

-Warhol experimented with the technique of silkscreen printing, a popular technique used for mass production

-Warhol was intrigued by morbid concepts, therefore when Marilyn Monroe committed suicide in August 1962, Warhol used her image for his screen printing.

PROCESS:

“I wanted something stronger that gave more of an assembly line effect. With silkscreening you pick a photograph, blow it up, transfer it in glue onto silk, and then roll ink across it so the ink goes through the silk but not through the glue. That way you get the same image, slightly different each time. It was all so simple quick and chancy.”

- “Using photo-stencils in screen-printing, Warhol uses photographic images for his screenprints. The screen is prepared using a photographic process, and then different color inks are printed using a rubber squeegee to press the paint onto the painting through the screen.”

-Some form of stenciling has been used since ancient times. A form of the silk-screen process was first patented in early 20th century England and was used for advertising.

ANDY WARHOL

-Sick most of his childhood he was forced to spend a great deal of time in bed. Therefore, He would pass the time by drawing, collecting photos of famous movie stars, and listening to the radio.

-He became a Commercial Artist in New york working with Harpers Bazaar and Vogue.

-He popularized the process called silkscreen printing.

-His work represents an iconic American product or image, like his celebrity portraits. Most known: Campbell's and Marilyn Monroe

-1968, dissatisfied actress Valerie Solanas walked into Warhol's studio and shot Warhol in the chest. Warhol was pronounced clinically dead. The doctor then cut Warhol's chest open and massaged his heart and saved his life. It took Warhol a long time to recover.

-In 1987, he then died.

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