Monday, October 26, 2009

Brainstorm:
-reasons
-Factory life -family life

{What I want to Learn} -inspirations
-sexuality -highschool life
-motivation
-movies (databases)
KWL chart

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what do i KNOW?
    • i know Andy Wahol was a revolutionary artist
    • i know he changed the way people of that time and after veiw art
    • i know he took surrealism to a new level
    • i know he cause alot of uproar when it came to fine arts vrs. pop art
    • i know he was and is known as the "prince of pop"
    • i know he was one of the main leaders of the visual arts movement known as pop art
what i WANT to know?
    • what was Andy Warhol's sexuality?
    • was he married or have kids?
    • what was his motivation?
    • what his family and highschool life was like?

what have i LEARNED?

  • so far I've learnt only most of what I already knew

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

ANDY WARHOL
  • pop artist who revolutionized art culture
  • 1928-1987

Famous Warhol Works:

  • Cambells Soup
  • Gold Marilyn Monroe, 1962Elvis,
  • 1963The Last Supper

Advertising, popular culture, and design

leading American pop artists

non-threatening gall bladder operation complicates and leads to death

In 1994 the Andy Warhol Museum opened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1968 one of the Factory regulars shot Andy Warhol in the stomach injuring several internal organs by crazy feminist Valarie Solanas

"Elementary school was traumatic for Warhol, especially once he contracted St. Vitus' dance (chorea, a disease that attacks the nervous system and makes someone shake uncontrollably)." -http://history1900s.about.com/od/artists/p/warhol.htm

Went to carnagie mellon

earned a reputation in the 1950s