Pop Art Period

Andrew Warhol

Andrew Warhol, Jr. also famous as Andy Warhol was an artist as well as a filmmaker U.S. played a crucial role in the birth and development of the pop art. Following a flourishing career as an illustrator career, Warhol acquired international notoriety for his work in painting, film of art and literature, notoriety that came backed by a business relationship with the media and its role as a guru of modern times.

His first solo exhibition in an art gallery was the July 9, 1962 at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles, California. The exhibition manifests the entrance of pop art in the West Coast. The Warhol's first solo exhibition in New York was at the Stable Gallery, Eleanor Ward, from 6 to November 24, 1962. The exhibition included works such as "The Marilyn Diptych", "100 Cans", "100 bottles of cola" and "100 dollar bills." In this exhibition, the artist first met with John Giorno, which over time acts in the first film by Warhol, "Dream" in1963.

His work, equipped with the cleverest advertising capacity, had as the main objective portrait of reproduction that represents the triumph of capitalism. Currently, in corners of the world are sold reproductions of his multiplication of Campbell soups, the thousand and one guns, their knives in the shadows because of the color pink, your shoes on black background cocktail tone, and spontaneous Technicolor butterfly. Warhol's art is a performance, an art that makes fun of art, making fun of him also to boast to him, laugh at our pretentious modern world. Already well Warhol said that in our society everyone has their fifteen minutes.

However, it admits that the personal background of all this is consistency Warhol from the moment he came from a poor family and in his quest for social uplift began in ...