FINAL #5 Pop Art

Question 1

Andy Warhol *

Answer 1

• An a leading artist in the Pop Art Movement.
• Warhol has included different angels into his work.
  > Chance/Indexical
  
  • oxidation
  • films
    > Readymade Portraits
    - Silkscreens using Marilyn… using random newspaper image and repeating images
• Much of his work comments on the shifting of the readymade onto a person. Further turning the person into a commodity.
• Warhol combine both low and high culture… he sees it the same… he takes the commodity and brings it to the art level.

Question 2

Marilyn Monroe Diptych, 1962 *

Answer 2

• An art piece in which Warhol finds a random photo of Marilyn Monroe and creates a repeating pattern of the image.
• Comments on readymade being an a person.
• Comment on how Marilyn is now a commodity.
  > her identity as Marilyn Monroe is a commodity… she is a construct.
• This comments on the idea of a celebrity and persona and how it is a commodity

Question 3

200 Soup Cans, 1962 *

Answer 3

• An art piece in which Warhol repeats the image of Campbell Soup Can 200 times.
• ## In reflection of Warhol… he stated that he ate Campbell soup everyday of his life for lunch. This piece comments on that stating that he’s the readymade.

Question 4

Death series

Answer 4

• Takes images of deadly car crashes and repeats the images.
• Meant to make images meaningless.
• It is his way to honor and mourn but also his way to remove the meaning behind the images.
• Relates to Marilyn Monroe work b/c he mourns her outcome but also expresses the repetitiveness removes the meaning and emphasizes her image as a commodity.