Project1: Andy Warhol

Project 1: Warhol 1/18/16
Andy Warhol was born on August 6, 1928 and later in life he became a successful magazine and ad illustrator. He also became a leading artist of the 1960’s Pop art movement, pop art was a form of new art that began in the 1950’s in England. It popularized non-academic art by coinciding with pop music and the youth culture boom in the 1960”s. Warhol’s art varied from performance art, filmmaking, video installation to writing. Warhol began silkscreen prints of famous people in 1962 and was obsessed with the goal of becoming rich and famous. Andy Warhol’s art to me is very interesting, so I would want to buy his artwork because the colors he used are very vibrant like in the Marilyn Monroe portrait.

 In my perspective Warhol’s art reminds me of the different sides of a person because the different color combinations almost to me symbolize a person’s characteristics. The association I feel is pleasant because the bright colors used in his artwork just feels very vintage and pleasing to see. Critics in popular culture give feedback based on their opinion on the flaws or outstanding features of something that is relevant. The difference between and informed and uninformed opinion is in an informed opinion there is evidence to back up the claim being made but in uniformed there is no evidence, therefore it is mainly bias. A bias is different from taste because bias is usually an unfair opinion and is more associated with disliking the opposition but taste is simply liking or preferring something over something else with no hate towards the other side. The formal aspects of Warhol’s portraits are the colors being used are contrasting colors or complimentary colors because on the color wheel the colors are opposite of each other. The sitter’s pose is usually not straight but at an angle and the whole of the upper torso isn’t shown, only just from the shoulder or neck up. Although the colors are complimentary the overall portrait has balance and unity. Portraits are important to human being because it was a form of remembering past family members and it was a form of showing someone’s higher class in the past which made it relevant. For artist it was the popular form of art in the past which made it common for artist to paint portraits throughout the ages. I am very excited to be making a Warhol portrait of myself because I enjoy working with vibrant colors and I am getting the opportunity to learn how to use different tool in Photoshop and how to edit photos in different ways. The different tools I used where the quick selection tool, rectangle tool, move tool and the paint bucket tool. Other processes where used like creating filter, making copies and putting mask over the photo but the only ones considered tools were the ones stated above. I would like to see myself using these skills in the future because I can imagine it, if not for a job then just me experimenting with different photos and objects.