Andy warhol's Artistic Creation

Warhol was a sharp-edged art student when he was a teenager. Encouraged by his teacher, he decided to go to new york, an art melting pot. At first, he was only responsible for illustration design for books and periodicals, but he soon became famous in the pop art circle in new york. The most prominent style is to turn characters into visual goods through screen printing and repeated images. Representative works include Marilyn Monroe, Canned Campbell Soup, Coke Bottle, Car Accident, Electric Chair, etc. These works are all in Warhol's studio. By 196 1 year, Warhol was known as another avant-garde art celebrity after Dali and Picasso. Whether it is a roll of toilet paper or a toilet board, as long as it is stamped with his seal, it will immediately become fashionable!

(The Concept of Modern Art, edited by Nicholas Stangos, translated by Hou Hanru, Sichuan Fine Arts Publishing House, 1988, p. 247) He prefers repetition and reproduction. "(The Impact of New Art by Robert Hughes, translated by Liu Pingjun, Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House, 1989, p. 307) In fact. Warhol became a successful commercial illustrator in the mid-1950s. He designs covers for photo albums and books, and also provides paintings for department store windows. Among them, the most striking illustration is Miller's shoe store, which won him the reputation of "shoemaker". During this period, Warhol had a distinctive painting style, with strange and charming patterns and irregular and rough handmade textures. He often paints on ink-stained glossy paper first, then presses it with his fingers, prints it on another absorbent paper, and finally "makes" slightly blurred and uneven lines.

Warhol's first invention was Coca-Cola. "When you see Coca-Cola on TV, you can know that the President drinks Coca-Cola, Liz Taylor drinks Coca-Cola, and you can also drink Coca-Cola. You drink the same Coca-Cola as everyone else, and no money can buy you a better Coca-Cola than a street bum. All Coca-Cola is the same, and all Coca-Cola is good. " He wondered why Coca-Cola could not be a work of art? Then, canned Campbell soup with tomato, beef and clam flavors also entered his painting field. 1In July, 962, Warhol held his first pop art exhibition with 32 paintings of "Jinbao Canned Soup", and these 32 cans still occupy a place in the history of modern and contemporary art in the world. The patterns presented on the screen are concise, clean, geometric and mechanical, and the huge logo declares its commodity identity. In the past, although painters mostly depicted life, they focused on crops, ox carts, flowers and fruits, and put commercial items such as Coca-Cola, canned food and even dollars and stars in the center of the canvas, which was a great idea at that time. This completely breaks the boundary between elegance and fashion.

At the same time, Warhol also tried to integrate art into the process of "reproduction" and "mass production" through film making and screen printing. He called his silver studio on 47th Avenue in the east of new york a "factory", where art and commerce are integrated, so-called works of art are produced in an assembly line, and the abandonment of artistic skills and originality is further strengthened. There is no "original" in his works, they are all copies. He just wants to replace the original with countless copies. And as long as others pay, he is willing to help them make prints, posters or advertisements. Many works were even finished by his assistant, and the names were signed by his mother.

In 1970s and 1980s, Warhol's influence was almost everywhere: he launched two TV programs, Andy Warhol's TV program and Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes, participated in the American variety show saturday night live, made music films for rock bands, and appeared in fashion shows and numerous print and TV advertisements. He applied and developed all kinds of media and expression possibilities without any taboo, and set foot in many different fields, such as design, painting, sculpture, installation, recording, film, photography, video recording, writing and advertising ... What remains unchanged is that he is highly sensitive to his own times.

In Warhol's paintings, there are often smeared newspaper meshes, immortal ink pages, and rough images that are not allowed to be overprinted, which makes people watch carefully as if watching TV flash by, rather than enjoying the painting.

/kloc-On the evening of February, 2004, the portrait of Mao Zedong by the famous artist andy warhol was auctioned at Sotheby's in London, England for 7.6 million pounds (about 76.63 million yuan).

This portrait of Mao Zedong was auctioned for 420,000 pounds (about 4.25 million yuan) in June 2000. Today's price is more than 18 times the original price. This portrait was painted by Warhol during Richard Nixon's visit to China in 1972. He broke the previous standards and created this red and yellow oil painting portrait during the Cultural Revolution.