Lesson 7: Warhol - PBS
1. What are the three most interesting stories in this film?
Do you like Warhol more or less now? Is Warhol avante garde?
What do you think is Warhol's strangest piece? Why?
- While watching the film, the three stories that were interesting was the beginning of Andy’s life of how he wanted to be a top artist, the struggles he went through throughout his personal life, and dealing with art directors, finding the image that would speak to him more. In terms of Andy, he is very Avant Garde, he started doing silk screen art and combining popular figures as well. As a whole, I still like his background as an artist as a whole and the work he makes, like the Shot Marilyns, the Campbell soup cans, and his self portraits. In my opinion, Warhol’s strangest piece of art he made was Big Electric Chair, majority of the piece is purple while a little bit of it was, instead of focusing it one one color or colors that would make it look like an electric chair.
2. What do we learn from Warhol's CocaCola bottles? How did he arrive at his decision? How was this a paradigm shift for him / painting? What was the popular reaction? How did it lead to the Campbell soup cans? Were did that idea come from?
- In terms of Warhol’s green CocaCola bottles, this was a lesson in how to advertise Coca-Cola as a brand and as a whole. Warhol’s Coca-Cola art emerged as a commentary on mass consumerism, and suggestion that amidst geopolitical tensions and symbols, like Coca-Cola symbol, making the brand universal and unifying. His paradigm shift occurred when he made logos for other products, like the Campbell Soup cans and Brillo Boxes as well. The reaction for the Coca-Cola design was mixed, some like it, some hate it. In terms of the Campbell Soup Cans, Warhol was interested in the consumer culture of America, like the canned soup, and he wanted to represent making a design and reimagined logo to said our brand to make it expand in popularity.
3. What change did Warhol make in August of 1962 that fused his form and content? What does that mean? Why is that so important? Can you think of any other examples of the marriage of form and content?
- In August 1962, Warhol entered into the silkscreen scene, by making screen printed posters. Since he was in the logo making scene with Coca-cola, Campbell Soup Cans, ad Brillo Boxes, he shifted by using his bright and vibrant color scheme and bold lining to the printmaking business. Form and content meaning that as already mentioned he used bold lining and vibrant colors ad merged it into one big work of art, showing how it’s made and the significance behind his work as well. In terms of a piece that uses form and content, the first thing that comes to mind is Duchamp’s Fountain work of art.
4. Peter Blume found the soup can paintings "Complicated in their implication" what do they imply to you? Remember they look like something worth 27cents Blume bought them for $1000 and sold them for $15 Million and their estimated worth as much as $100 million - & Andy started the first Art Factory.
- In terms of the soup can paintings, in the film, it said that, he begs to experiment with a wide variety of approaches when it came to making the soup cans. He would focus on different forms of paintings to make the Campbell Soup Cans, usig the same style he rendered for all of his other paintings as well. More than every other image or symbol define the style, have a literal aspect, and a cerebral aspect like any other work of art that’s shown. The experience with living in the work was so powerful, he was stuck by the paintings, making them look very powerful as well. Those works of art of the soup cans would be irreplaceable and invaluable as well, according to Peter.
Sources:
https://www.thecollector.com/why-did-andy-warhol-paint-soup-cans/
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