Warhol Response
I definitely learned a lot from the video about Andy Warhol. Before the class, all I knew about Warhol was one Campbell soup piece and his varied colors of Marilyn Monroe. I found it interesting that he was formally trained when he was 16. From what I know, not that many artists have education in the arts. I did not realize that his Campbell soup work was a series. I found his series of the last supper most fascinating. I liked the pieces where he focused only on a few of the subjects and what he chose to accentuate within the pictures. It seems interesting that he would do religious art. The movie made it seem like he did them because he was brought up religiously by his mother. I found his paint by numbers spoof amusing because it makes fun of people who think his art is something ‘anyone can do’ or it could be making fun of people who are trying to copy his style or artwork. I also thought it was clever how he made a fetal shadow of the skull, contrasting life and death. I never thought of Andy Warhol as having messages to his artwork, but I was obviously wrong. I found it sort of surprising that his artwork was used by Tiffany & Co. because it makes his artwork more commercial than ‘real art,’ although he did start out as an illustrator.