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The development of Popart was to use the actual ephemera of advertising !. packaging etc!., itself as a work of art!.
warhol attempted to do this in 1964 when he arranged an exhibition consisting entirely of exact facsimlies of commercial packaging repeated in large numbers!.
The supermarket is the real popular art gallery today is what the artist is suggesting!.
His series of compositions made up of identical photographs of scenes of violence and disaster, leaving one conscious only of the visual pattern which they make!.
Warhol is also making a comment on the complex effects of mass media on our awareness of reality--how repetition may implant an image firmly in our minds, but at the same time reduce our emotional response to events through over-familiarity!.
His screen painting of the Campbel Soup Can was famous, screen painting of Maryln Monroe's silhouette portrait or her face another well known work by him, The Brillo Boxes,in the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City!.
Elvis Prestly, the Electic Chair!.!.!.
Some of his ideas using negative photgaphy has been used in movie like James Bond and the introduction, when they introduce the being!. Very sixties!.
He think was the first to start working with photographic screen printing to create his art!.
His use of silhouette portraits and using the silk screen process and the photography together made his mark!.
He was a commercial artist or a graphic artist , and when he was broke in Paris he made money by creating a portrait of a celebrity or a famous actor , made a silk screen photo graphic silhouette print of a portrait of an actor and signed his name or signature and sold each for 50 dollars a piece and made alot of money out of it!. Started something new!.
Duchamp(1887-1968) may have been one of his influences , one of the Dada artists the predecessors of Pop art, by making rubbish or 'found art' and calling it art!.
eg!. The Bicycle Wheel, 1913-1951!.
Marcel Duchamp was one of the legendary figures of this art movement 'Dada and Surrealism'!.
Andy Warhol lived in New York City and mixed with bad company, homosexuals, tranvestites heroine addicts, and had open free psychedelic parties!.
The life expectancy for tranvestites and homosexuals and prostitues "street people" is never usually very high, one of his group member attempted to take his life, tried to stabe him , did not succeed!. He lived with the scars, a woman who tried to kill him!. He also made very bad movies!.
The woman who attempted to murder held a grudge against Any Warhol, for not accepting her in a part in one of his underground movies!.
One was made in 3-d , Frankenstine, at the cinema you were suspose to wear utra light eye shades, I forgot, saw it all in double vision!.
By the way you did not miss anything anyway!.
Died in 1987!.
The green underwear doesn't mean anything but just how he kept his private life private!.
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