Andy Warhol: Pop Art Icon and Influencer

1. 4th Grade Art Smart Andy Warhol

2. American artist born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania • leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art • artwork ranged in many forms of media that include hand drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, silk screening, sculpture, film, and music • His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s. • After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became a renowned and sometimes controversial artist. • The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, PA is the largest museum in the U.S. designated to a single artist. Pop Art: is an art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular culture such as advertising, news, etc. Andy Warhol(1928-1987)

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4. Project: • Using a black & white image of your own photograph, color with different colored highlighters to create a “Warhol like” image.