Amelia+M.

__** Andy Warhol **__ images found at: http://www.artexpressions.com/search.exe The artist I have chosen is Andy Warhol. He was born with the name Andrew Warhola on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Andrew was from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania and his parents were Slovakian immigrants. He lived from 1928-1987; he died at the age of 59.

 His primary type of artwork was painting, but he also did photography. His media was acrylic paint and Silkscreen. Silkscren is a technique used by rolling ink onto the canvas or paper. Many of his more famous paintings were made with acrylic. His style and period was pop art. Pop art is an art movement and style that had its origins in England but in the 1960s it made its way to the United States. Pop artists have focused attention upon familiar images of the pop culture such as billboards, comic strips, magazine advertisements, and super market products.

 One of his influences is that he got shot in 1968, but he took that and turned into inspiration (unlike most artists). With this inspiration he made some of his most famous works like the Marilyn Monroe portrait. He is most famous for his paintings of Cambell’s soup and many of his celebrity portraits. His Cambell’s soup portrait was displayed at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angles, California. He made several portraits of Liz, Jackie, Marilyn, and Marlon. His art was enhanced by the way he never cleaned up his mistakes and making them part of the painting.



__**Artist Statement **__

 The title of my artwork is “Many Mikeys”. I gave my artwork this name because there is several of him and each one is slightly different than the last. I used paint and black sharpie to create my artwork.

 My inspiration was Andy Warhol; I got my ideas from his painting of the cartoon character Mickey mouse repeated four times. My artwork unlike his I used blue for the top square, and orange for the bottom rectangle. My interpretation of Andy’s work was to convey three different emotions this is represented by the three colors in the background, pink, blue, and orange. I left Mickey pink, orange and blue to make it seem like he is feeling the emotions. The emotions are happy, sad, and confused. I enjoyed and hated working on my piece, because it was fun drawing one of my favorite cartoon characters, I disliked working on it because I made a mistake on a part but I was able to fix it some what. Nonetheless I thought it was a very successful piece of artwork because it is such a recognizable character and he was fun to draw him too.

 I believe my painting is ready to put on the web. I know I made a few mistakes but like Andy Warhol I was able to make them part of my painting . 