Andy Warhol Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 6 pages of analysis of Andy Warhol.

Andy Warhol Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 6 pages of analysis of Andy Warhol.
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Andy Warhol

Summary: This decribes why I selected Andy Warhol and what draws me to his work.
I selected Andy Warhol because I have long admired his crazy, quirky, unconventional style of producing works of art from normal, everyday subjects ranging from inanimate, normally unnoticed objects to pop culture celebrity icons. I first heard of him in 1986 when his show Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes aired on MTV. The show featured Andy interviewing what he thought was the next up-and-coming musical sensations about to get their "fifteen minutes of fame."

Two years later on a poster in the mall at a Spencer's store I saw Warhol's famous Campbell's Soup Can work of art. At first glance I thought the poster was ridiculous because it featured such a simplistic, moronic image. Then, my artistic eye and appreciation for the eccentric took over, and I was immediately drawn into this cool and crazy phenomenon that Andy Warhol called art. I bought the poster and hung it in my...

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