4th Grade Art SmartAndy Warhol

*Andy Warhol(1928-1987)

• 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.

Examples of his work:

Project:Using a black & white image of your own

photograph, color with different colored highlighters to create a “Warhol like” image.