Biography Significant Works -Campbell’s Soup Cans consists of 32 canvasses, Key - each of which measure 51cm x 41cm. Each canvass Andy Warhol was an American artist, film Vocabulary Campbell’s contains a painting of one of the 32 varieties of director and producer. soup offered by the company at the time. Soup Cans -The printmaking method was used to produce -Warhol is one of the most famous artists of the (1962) the paintings. The criticism and debate that the th Pittsburgh Warhol 20 Century. work drew helped the rise of pop art, and turned Warhol into one of America’s most famous artists. -He was a leading figure in the art movement -The Marilyn Diptych is a silkscreen painting. known as pop art, from the 1950s to the 1960s. -It contains 50 images of Marilyn Monroe, a America hugely famous American actress and model who -He is most famous for works such as Campbell’s Marilyn died aged 36 in 1962. This was created in the weeks following her death. Soup Cans, Marilyn Diptych and Eight Elvises. Diptych New York (1962) -The 25 images on the left are in colour, the 25 on -Warhol’s works explore advertising and celebrity the right are in black and white, and are faded. -It is thought that the relationship between the culture, which emerged in the 1960s in the United two sides were to represent her life and death. Pop Art States and Europe. -Eight Elvises is another silkscreen painting. -Warhol lived between 1928 and 1987. He was -It contains eight identical images of Elvis Presley -He used a variety of techniques and styles, originally from Pittsburgh, but spent much of Eight in cowboy costume on a silver background. Advertising including painting, silkscreening and sculpture. his life living in New York City. Elvises -The cowboy is a typical Hollywood construction, (1963) and the silver is to represent the ‘silver screen’, a name given for the Hollywood movie industry. -It is a large painting, measuring 200 by 370cm. Celebrity

Styles and Techniques -Pop art is a movement that arose in the late 1950s/ early Silkscreen How do I produce art like Warhol? 1960s. It uses imagery from popular and mass culture, for example advertising, comic books, the media and mass- Step 3: Select two colours for Step 4: On each produced everyday objects. Print Step 2: Print the each image, that you feel will selfie use the two Pop Art -Warhol had a positive view of the features of ordinary image four or six look bold and bright next to modern life presented in pop art, which he felt abstract colouring pens/ times in greyscale one another. impressionism (the dominant style of the time) ignored. pencils to colour in Modern Art (black and white). -Pop art is often bold, bright and brash, and attracted a your features/ the great deal of criticism at the time. background of the -Silkscreen Printing is a stenciling method that involves image. Use the same Collage printing ink through stencils. The stencils are supported by Step 1: Take a selfie scheme (with two a fabric mesh stretched across a frame called a screen. on a smartphone/ different colours) on -It is also known as screen printing or serigraphy. Silkscreen camera. Use the Campbell’s Silkscreen each image. Printing is ideally suited for bold and graphic designs. filter options to find Soup Cans -Warhol used this method because he felt that it allowed a bold and Step 5: Stick the him to easily mass-produce copies of existing images, which selfies next to one interesting style. he could edit and paint to create his desired effect. another in rows on Marilyn

-Modern Art generally refers to art that was produced Things you’ll need: a large sheet of Diptych between 1860 and 1970, which threw aside the traiditions Smartphone/ digital paper. You now Modern of the past in favour of experimentation. camera, printer, have a Warhol- -Modern artists experimented with new ways of using A child’s Warhol- Art coloured pens/pencils, style print of bold materials and forming abstract images. As well as a pop style selfie print Eight Elvises paper. selfie images! artist, Andy Warhol is often considered as a modern artist. artwork

Andy Warhol Timeline

6th August 1928 1945-1949 1949 1954-55 1960 -1961 1 9 62 196 2 19 64 1968 1970 1980 22 nd February 1988 Born Andrew Went to college at Moves to New York Warhol completes He begins to work Creates Campbell’s Creates Opens ‘The Factory’, Is shot and badly Warhol retires from Creates Warhol dies of a Warhola in Carnegie Institute of City, where he lives for work for the Loft with comics and Soup Cans with silk- Marilyn a worldwide centre injured by Valerie pop art and moves Andy heart attack after Pittsburgh, USA. Design & Technology. the rest of his life. Gallery in NYC. advertised pop art. screened photos. Diptych. of creativity. Solanas. into moviemaking. Warhol TV. gall bladder surgery.