American fine Arts
American Fine Arts 1945-1970 By: Anonymous PREFACE: Art during the mid-twentieth century contained some of the most important changes art history. These explosive times were counter-balanced with explosive popular culture. More historical events, abrupt changes, and turbulence occurred from th....

Andy Warhol Bio
Andy Warhol was born in 1928 in Pittsburgh. His mother was Julia Warhol and his father was Andrej Warhol. He was the youngest of the three sons. His original name was Andrew Warhola. His father worked as a construction worker, he unfortanetly died when Andy was only 13 years old, and his mother drew....

Artistic Intentions and Morality
I am in a museum looking at a piece of art of an object I see on daily basis. I am filled with wonder as I look at the piece wondering what it is suppose to mean. With this I see that in purely philosophical terms, the precise nature of arts links with morality has long been questioned. Some hav....

Claes Oldenburg - pop art
In Claes Oldenburgs essay I am for an art he summarises what he thinks art should be, in over a hundred demands each starting with I am for an art He writes that anything and everything should and can be art. Explaining that in the society he lived in art is only for the bourgeois. Old....

Is graffiti art a direct result of post war advertising?
ABSTRACT In a cultural landscape of hyper reality, branded lifestyles and 15-minute fame, one's subconscious receives thousands of advertisements a day. It is through this daily diet of propaganda that we shape our minds as we grow up. The desire we feel to make a mark on this world leads us to exc....

Joseph Beuys.. cult figure, icon or deluded fantasist?
JOSEPH BEUYS..CULT FIGURE, ICON OR DELLUDED FANTASIST? Joseph Beuys plays a major role in art history and can be considered extremely influential in the post 1945 realms of sculpture and performance art. He seems to have excelled beyond the title of "artist" to adopt a cult status and has even....

Keith Haring- Gender and Political
Keith Haring by Alan Luong Keith Haring, born in 1958 and died in 1990, was a young New York artist who aspired to be an influential figure in his time. His art developed from smaller sub-way drawings to gigantic murals done on historical landmarks like the Berlin Wall. Such transition to being a....

Picasso, Warhol, Tucker and Booth, the importance of time and place
Artists produce artworks to express their opinions and strong feelings about the events occurring in their world. Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Peter Booth and Albert Tucker all reflect how artists time and place are conveyed through their artworks. Picasso was especially committed to expre....

pop art
(Beginning in 1956 in England, early 1960's USA) Pop Art has started in England in late 50's and grown in United States in early 60's. Among the Pop Art forerunners are two unique models - prototypes of the modern artists: the French artist Marcel Duchamp and the German Kurt Schwitters. Duchamp'....

Red Disaster
A Personal Take on Red Disaster I was drawn to this striking canvas as soon as I walked into the room. Red Disaster is a silkscreen on linen painting produced by Andy Warhol in 1963 and is on permanent display at The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. A vivid and very poignant image of twelve electric ....

Robert Rauschenberg's Almanac
Born on October 22nd 1925 in the oil-refining city of Port Arthur, Texas ne Milton Ernest Rauschenberg, he later renamed himself Robert after his Grandfather. Rauschenbergs father was one of the many blue coloured workers in the oil refineries whilst his mother worked as a telephone operator. He fir....

Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein Pop art emerged in England around the mid 1950s, and soon after in America. It continued to develop in both countries through the 1960s. The pop artists of this movement shared an interest in popular culture. They borrowed images and objects from everyday life including the ....

Salvador Dali: The Life and Legacy of an Insane Genius
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure that of being Salvador Dali (Miesler, 2005). These were the typical sentiments of arguably the Twentieth Centurys most eccentric and successful artist. Dali, the mere mention of his name conjures images of a ....

SEARCHING FOR TRACES OF ANDY WARHOL
SEARCHING FOR TRACES OF ANDY WARHOL Andy Warhol s cousin,Helena Bonovièová,lives in one-story home in the small north-eastern Slovak village of Miková (population 300),where the artist s mother Julia was born and raised.I have come with one reporter-my friend- to ask questions about her fa....

Susan Sontag, Hilton Kramer, KitschCamp
Susan Sontags' Notes on Camp was written in 1970 to define the term 'Camp' as it relates to art. She was the first writer to set out definitive parameters of what Camp art is and the sensibilities that can be associated with it. Her style of writing is that of jottings, which is states are more appr....

The New York City Punk Scene
Throughout history, many cities had a great impact on the music that emerged from them. Chicago influenced the blues, Seattle influenced grunge, and although New York City influenced many genres of music such as rap, I believe its biggest influence can be found in punk music in the 1970s. Wh....

the west side story vs romeo and juliet
Andy Warhol once said, "They say that time changes things, but actually you have to change them yourself." Two hundred fifty years passed between the original Romeo and Juliet and the premiere of West Side Story on Broadway in 1957. However, time did not change the message of the story, simply the c....

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