Biography Significant Works Key Vocabulary -Andy Warhol was an American artist, film -Campbell’s Soup Cans consists of 32 canvasses, Campbell’s each of which measure 51cm x 41cm. Each canvass director and producer. contains a painting of one of the 32 varieties of Soup Cans soup offered by the company at the time. -Warhol is one of the most famous artists of the (1962) -The printmaking method was used to produce Warhol th Pittsburgh 20 Century. the paintings..
-He is most famous for works such as Campbell’s -The Marilyn Diptych is a silkscreen painting. America Soup Cans, Marilyn Diptych and Eight Elvises. -It contains 50 images of Marilyn Monroe, a Marilyn hugely famous American actress and model who -He used a variety of techniques and styles, Diptych died aged 36 in 1962. This was created in the New York including painting, silkscreening and sculpture. (1962) weeks following her death. - . Pop Art -Eight Elvises is another silkscreen painting. -It contains eight identical images of Elvis Presley -Warhol lived between 1928 and 1987. He was Eight in cowboy costume on a silver background. Advertising originally from Pittsburgh, but spent much of Elvises his life living in New York City. (1963) . Celebrity
Styles and Techniques
Silkscreen
-Pop art is a movement that arose in the late 1950s/ early How do I produce art like Warhol? 1960s. It uses imagery from popular and mass culture, for Print example advertising, comic books, the media and mass- Step 3: Select two colours for Step 4: On each Pop Art produced everyday objects. Step 2: Print the each image, that you feel will selfie use the two image four or six look bold and bright next to colouring pens/ Modern Art -Pop art is often bold, bright and brash, and attracted a times in greyscale one another. pencils to colour in great deal of criticism at the time. (black and white). your features/ the
background of the Collage -Silkscreen Printing is a stenciling method that involves printing ink through stencils. The stencils are supported by image. Use the same Step 1: Take a selfie a fabric mesh stretched across a frame called a screen. scheme (with two Silkscreen on a smartphone/ Campbell’s -It is also known as screen printing or serigraphy. Silkscreen different colours) on Soup Cans camera. Use the each image. Printing is ideally suited for bold and graphic designs. filter options to find a bold and Step 5: Stick the interesting style. selfies next to one Marilyn -Modern Art generally refers to art that was produced another in rows on Diptych between 1860 and 1970, which threw aside the traiditions Modern Things you’ll need: a large sheet of of the past in favour of experimentation. Art Smartphone/ digital -Modern artists experimented with new ways of using paper. You now camera, printer, materials and forming abstract images. A child’s Warhol- have a Warhol- Eight Elvises coloured pens/pencils, style selfie print style print of bold paper. artwork selfie images!
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.