By Andy Warhol from the Leo Castelli Gallery, NY

Marilyn

By Andy Warhol From the Leo Castelli Gallery, NY

TITLE: Marilyn

ARTIST: Andy Warhol

DATE: 1964

SIZE: 40 X 40“

MEDIUM: Silkscreen & Oil on Canvas

STYLE: Pop Art

ELEMENT & PRINCIPLE: Color & Value to create Emphasis Andy Warhol was born on August 6, 1928, in Pittsburgh, PA, to Czechoslovak immigrant parents. He received his B.F.A. from the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, in 1949. That same year, he moved to New York, where he soon became successful as a commercial artist and illustrator. By the 1960s, Warhol began to paint comic-strip characters and images derived from advertisements; this work was characterized by repetition of culturally popular subjects such as Coca-Cola bottles and soup cans. He also painted celebrities at this time. By 1963, he had substituted a silkscreen process for hand painting, making this medium a serious fine art medium. He tried his hand at filmmaking, but soon began to paint again. Warhol died from gallbladder surgery complications February 22, 1987, in New York. Pop Art (1950’s – 1960’s) is a style of art which explores the everyday imagery which is part of contemporary consumer culture. It was a movement in which artists adopted and adapted elements of popular culture (hence, the name "pop") into their works of art. Common sources include advertisements, consumer product packaging, celebrities, and comic strips. Leading Pop artists include Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, George Segal, Jim Dine, Tom Wesselmann, Robert Indiana, Wayne Thiebaud, and Robert Rauschenberg. On the next 3 slides you will see more Marilyns …pay attention to the technique of placing down areas of flat color, followed by a stamp-type photographic image.

(from Marilyn) No Title

1967 Screenprint on Paper 36 X 36” Tate Gallery, London (from Marilyn) No Title

1967 Screenprint on Paper 36 X 36” Tate Gallery, London More Pieces by Warhol:

Roll of Bills

1962 Pencil, Felt-tipped Pen, & Crayon on Paper 40 X 30“ Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), NY This is one of Warhol’s first Pop Art images. Green Coca- Cola Bottles

1962 Oil on Canvas 6’10” X 4’9” Whitney Museum of Am Art, NY Liz Taylor

1964 Lithograph 21¼ X 21¼” Cleveland Museum of Art Elvis I & II

1964 Silkscreen on Acrylic, Silkscreen on Aluminum paint on Canvas 164 X 82” Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada Black Bean

1968 Silkscreen on Paper 35 X 23” Tate Gallery, London Mao

1973 Silkscreen, Acrylic on Canvas 176½ X 136¼“ Nationalgalerie, Berlin Birth of Venus (after Botticelli)

The actual painting by Sandro Botticelli 1485

1984 Screenprint University of Maine Museum of Art Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

1985 Silkscreen on Paper 39 X 31” Tate Gallery, London Self-Portrait

1986 Silkscreen ink on synthetic polymer paint on canvas 106 X 106” Guggenheim Museum, NY What was Warhol’s first career? Commercial Artist & Illustrator

Shoe Bright, Shoe Light, First Shoe I’ve Seen Tonight 1955 Silkscreen 10 X 13½“ Palazzo Forti, Verona, Italy What art medium did Warhol change from a commercial to a fine art medium? Silkscreen, Screenprint, or Serigraph (3 names for the same process)

Silkscreen Supplies: screen, squeegee, inks, emulsions Explain Warhol’s main silkscreening technique. 1.Image Sources 2. Image Processing 3. Silkscreen Burning 4. Tracing 5. Underpainting 6. Silkscreen 7. Printing Name some of the famous celebrities that Warhol based his artwork on.

Marilyn Monroe Mao Tse-Tung Queen Elizabeth II Elvis Presley Elizabeth Taylor Jackie Kennedy, and others. Credits: http://imv.aau.dk/~jfogde/gallery/art/12.html & http://www.artchive.com/artchive/W/warhol.html http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/p/popart.html & http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/art.asp?aid=356 (Botticelli) http://www.usc.edu/schools/annenberg/asc/projects/comm544/library/artists/W arholAndy.html http://www.ago.net/info/collection/artist.cfm?artist_id=4&collection_id=2 http://moma.org/collection/depts/drawings/blowups/draw_025.html http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=2121& page=5&sole=y&collab=y&attr=y&sort=default