5th Blog Entry
Share the information that you found in the 2 articles that you chose. How did the articles help in answering any of your research questions? Please also include the process in which you went through to find and decide on your two articles: They were consise and the title was captivating
Which subjects did you use or discover along the way? his early life as well as his remeberance
Did you narrow down your search results set, how? I just browsed under tpoics with less search results
What articles didn’t you choose and why? they were consise and captivating
Revelations about searching Academic OneFile, frustrations, etc. It was fairly easy to use however i dont know how some of the articals that came up related to my search topic
Why did you choose the 2 articles that you did? Even after i read the first few sentances it was intersting

http://www.jstor.org/stable/3177241?&Search=yes&term=%22early+life%22&term=%22andy+warhol%22&list=hide&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoAdvancedSearch%3Fq0%3D%2522andy%2Bwarhol%2522%26f0%3Dall%26c0%3DAND%26q1%3D%2522early%2Blife%2522%2B%26f1%3Dall%26c1%3DAND%26q2%3D%26f2%3Dall%26c2%3DAND%26q3%3D%26f3%3Dall%26wc%3Don%26Search%3DSearch%26sd%3D%26ed%3D%26la%3D%26jo%3D&item=1&ttl=27&returnArticleService=showArticle

http://www.jstor.org/stable/883667?&Search=yes&term=%22andy+Warhol%22&list=hide&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoAdvancedSearch%3Fq0%3D%2522andy%2BWarhol%2522%26f0%3Dall%26c0%3DAND%26q1%3D%26f1%3Dall%26c1%3DAND%26q2%3D%26f2%3Dall%26c2%3DAND%26q3%3D%26f3%3Dall%26wc%3Don%26Search%3DSearch%26sd%3D%26ed%3D%26la%3D%26jo%3D&item=5&ttl=2661&returnArticleService=showArticle

Tips for searching a topic

Tips for Searching Scholarly Databases:
• Don’t search for journals until you are familiar with your topic
• Know the database before jumping into the search
o Familiarize yourself with the subjects the database indexes
• Plan your search
o Think about your keywords
o Use Boolean
o Scholarly databases are not as good for exploring/discovering a topic (like reference books or Academic OneFile) – have a need in mind
• Finding the perfect scholarly journal is a gold mine of other resources – remember that a lot of research goes into writing for a peer-reviewed journal

Which subjects did you use or discover along the way? i discoverd more about not only his childhood but also his family and especially his mother

Did you narrow down your search results set, how? I scanned over the websites untill i found one that was vissually as well as informationly appealing

What articles didn’t you choose and why? I didn't choose the articals with small and vissually unappealing fonts and layouts because it didn't capture my interest as fully

Revelations about searching Academic OneFile, frustrations, etc. Now that i know how to use academic one file, it is so easy and suficient

Andy Warhol's Childhood

What was Andy Warhols childhood like?

(all excerpts are from http://www.carnegiemuseums.org/cmag/bk_issue/1996/julaug/feat2.htm )

Andy Warhol growing up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was a shy boy with immigrant parents from Czechoslovakia.  Born in 1928, Warhol like many depression era families, were poor.  Unlike his brothers Paul and John, Andy spent most his time at home with his mother claiming illnesses.  Warhol who was a hypochondriac spent many days away from school.  

Andy's father, Andrej, was known to be crafty as well. as was his brothers and mother.  

"Nothing of potential re-use was thrown away during the Depression years, so an efficient system for shoe repair was essential. Andrej's workbench included a shoemaker's cast- iron forms, in various sizes, to hold the family's shoes while he stitched a tear or replaced a worn sole.

"Sometimes he'd buy a piece of leather to replace soles on our good shoes, the ones that we'd wear to church," remembers John Warhola. But more often than not, Andrej would cut up old tires to form the new soles."  

Always observant of appearance, Andy was known to have a strong aversion and self-conscious towards his own looks.  Which included blotchy skin, a bulbous nose, and fly away hair.  Something that would later influence many of his self-portraits.  

Andy Warhol; life as a young boy: 

• Warhol was a devout Byzantine Catholic all his life
• Warhol was shy of being religious 
• In school he was excluded in art class because others were jealous of his talent 

Websites used:

http://www.carnegiemuseums.org/cmag/bk_issue/1996/julaug/feat2.htm

keywords:  my topic question 

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

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