Andy Warhol and "The Factory"

Goals:To provide foundation of information about Andy Warhol and his importance in the Pop Art movement.

Objectives: Students will create a collage that reflects the style and different philosophies of Andy Warhol.

Students will support their collage through written response.

Content: From the previous mini lesson, we have established a foundation to answering the question of “What is Pop Art?” We are now going to focus our lens and make this exploration a little tighter by developing a stronger relationship with the iconic American artist Andy Warhol.

Warhol was born on August 6, 1928 in the working class neighborhood of Oakland, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. At a young age, Andy was stricken with a rare neurological disorder, which hindered his mobility. During this phase of his life of being bed ridden , Andy found solace and escape in the forms of popular celebrity magazines and DC comic books, imagery he would return to in his later years.

Andy started his career as a commercial artist and quickly grew in popularity by the time the Pop Art movement was in full swing. The turbulent 1960s ignited an impressive and wildly prolific time in Warhol’s life. It is this period that we saw the production of many of Warhol’s most iconic works. Building on the emerging movement of Pop Art, Warhol started painting readily found, mass-produced objects, drawing on his extensive advertising background. The mass production philosophy of the Pop Art movement and Warhol’s work was supported by the studio titled “The Factory”, a direct reaction to the media and popular culture of that time. His omnivorous curiosity resulted in an enormous body of work that spanned every available medium and most importantly contributed to the collapse of boundaries between high and low culture. More than twenty years after his death, Andy Warhol remains one of the most influential figures in contemporary art and culture.

Please review the following videos to engage in an in depth look at Andy Warhol in relation to his philosophies and interpretation of the world during this time frame.

Video 1: Bio: Famous Pop Artist http://www.biography.com/people/groups/famous-pop-artists

Video 2: Modern Mastery Andy Warhol, Pop Art, Artist, Art, Documentary, Warhol, Painter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZfhRuEk4Uc

Video 3: Andy Warhol's Soup Cans: Why Is This Art? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2CtQD3OLRI

Assessment

Andy Warhol’s artworks still plays a great role in today's society. His iconic images of pop culture and his interpretation on everyday objects can be seen in all mediums throughout the world. Your task for this assessment is to create a collage, using PowerPoint, that describes the philosophy and artistic style of Warhol. The artwork must be accompanied by a write up that supports and explains the connection between the collage and information relating to Warhol and the Pop art movement. This collage and write up needs to be saved as a PDF file and can be emailed to me at jpisaturo@albany.edu.

I have attached a tutorial to help desk the process of creating a collage using PowerPoint:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jhd81EdiliM&t=2s

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