Andy Warhol

I have seen Andy Warhol’s arts many times at the museum, but never came close to his messages through art. Warhol’s art to me is very simple and clean, yet I have learned that his art was the solution to expression during the 60s and on. Andy Warhol, famous for commercialized works, was the inspiration that helped me to begin myself in the world of art.

During the 1960s, Warhol’s art marked for commercializing products such as Campbell’s soup and Coca-Cola, and also painted celebrity portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Evis Presley, Elizabeth Taylor and etc. While his works were becoming popular, Warhol founded his studio “the Factory” and gathered around himself a wide range of artists, writers, musicians, and underground celebrities. The controversies of his artworks were his subjects to his pieces- brand names and celebrities. And he also used imageries from newspapers to comment on the hassle of civil rights.

His films, sexuality, and belief were also a great impact to the pop culture. Many people thought of Warhol as an eccentric man, but is now established that he was homosexual, which caused a create catastrophe. Because of his sexuality, Warhol’s work was influenced and it shaped his relationship to the art world. His homoerotic films brought a new sightseeing of complexity of desire, however were many times rejected for being too openly gay.

I think that the development of Andy Warhol’s creations are fascinating as well as his life living as a famous pop artist. His persona brings out his art, and I think that is why many people like Warhol’s art series. His unique, odd, avant garde style, and sexual ideas throw off the innocence, but it can be related to the reality of mature, adults’ lives.