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  • Essay / How Andy Warhol Influenced Pop Culture - 1111

    Andrew Warhola was born in 1928, in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. He specialized in pictorial design at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. After graduating, he moved to New York where he began working as a commercial artist and illustrator for several magazines, Vogue, The New Yorker and Harper's Bazaar. In the 1950s, Warhola had successful work as a commercial artist, winning several awards for his talents and soon shortening his name to Warhol (Andy Warhol // Biography). Andy Warhol was an American artist known as a leading figure in the pop art visual arts movement. He explored the relationships between artistic expressions, commercial advertising, and celebrity culture in the 1960s and beyond. His views on American culture and his unique artistic expressions of the art style had a great impact on American society by stoking society's obsession with mass culture and developing mass media in America. Andy Warhol, the founding father of pop art, created a movement that began in the late 1950s, Andy Warhol's idea of ​​art highlighted society's obsession with mass culture and allowed it to become the main subject of art. He used many techniques such as repetition, isolation and placement of colors; all of this contributed to his works and gave his art a different style and meaning from other artists. His art gave the world a new vision of materialism, economics, politics and media. He has produced works of art that define the main idea of ​​what we should be and what that really means for the world. Warhol's works were primarily meant to be taken at "face value" and nothing other than what they were advertised as, meaning that his works often sparked debate and influenced public opinion. Pop Art was a popu...... middle of paper ......and used them in his art because he liked the idea of ​​using things that are used and talked about in the daily life and to make them known for what they are. Bottles are a part of an American's daily life, which has made them very familiar to virtually everyone. “Warhol identified the nature of the great American society, anonymous and consumerist, dedicated to conformism and proud of unanimity, with the omnipresent Coca Cola bottle” (Influence on the pop art movement of the 20th century). From Warhol's perspective, the Coca Cola bottle was seen as very simple for him and everyone, but also a well-known icon in the United States that had an impact on American culture from a simple bottle, but because his art became so famous, this object was used in the daily life of an American, making it very familiar with virtually everyone..