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Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol

·         Real name is Andrew Warhola (8/6/28-2/22/87) (Became Warhol after a misprint)

o   Born in Pittsburgh, PA, Parents from Czechoslovakia (does not exist anymore)

o   Father worked in a coal mine

·         In High School, kicked out of art club because he was “too good”

·         Graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (Bachelor of Fine Arts)

·         Graduated with degree for pictorial design & wanted to become a commercial illustrator

·         Designed advertisements for women’s shoes

·         Used Polaroid camera

·         Fear of hospitals and doctors, hypochondriac

·         Favorite print making technique was silk screening

·         Friends & family described him as a workaholic

·         His sexuality was speculated upon and how this influenced his relationship to art is “a major subject of scholarship on the artist”

·         First solo expedition in 1952

·         Coined the term “15 minutes of fame”

·         1960s: iconic American products (pop art)

·         Created The Factory, his NYC studio from 1962-1968

·         Celebrity portraits developed into one of the most important aspects of his career

·         Made films (first one called Sleep – 6 hours of a man sleeping) (1963)

·         1965 said he was retiring from painting

o   1972 returned to painting

·         Designed cover for the Rolling Stones’ album Sticky Fingers (cover made out of real jean material)

·         Produced Velvet Underground’s first album

·         Started a magazine called Interview, worked for Glamour Magazine, Vogue

·         Shot by Valerie Solanas 3 times for being abusive and “too controlling” (6/3/68)

o   Solanas authored the S.C.U.M. Manifesto, a separatist feminist document

o   "Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there – I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. People sometimes say that the way things happen in movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television – you don't feel anything. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television. The channels switch, but it's all television."

·         Marilyn Monroe = favorite model (not painted until after death)

·         Wore silver wigs until he dyed his hair silver

·         Practicing Ruthenian Rite Catholic who described himself as a religious person

·         Died of a heart attack brought on by a gall bladder surgery and water intoxication

·         $100,000,000 for one of his paintings (highest amount paid) (“Eight Elvises”)

·         Referred to as the “Prince of Pop”

Photoshop Portfolio

Orange Seagull

            I started with a picture I took for the elements and principles assignment of foam in the ocean in the shape of a heart. There is grass framing the bottom of the picture and it had been made black and white from the previous assignment. I used the palette knife filter to give the picture texture. I then started to work with a picture of a seagull standing on the beach with the tide receding. I use threshold and then a color layering technique to make the seagull orange. Using the threshold I made the duck almost completely white then on different layers put more black into each layer until the last layer was completely black. I then deleted the white from the duck and placed varying shades of orange in place of the black in the picture. I then also used the palette knife filter on this picture, but only on the background not the seagull.

            I went back to the picture with the heart and blended it with the picture of the seagull. I applied the image onto the picture of the foam heart twice and used hard light. By applying the image twice it brought out the image of the seagull more, emphasizing it in a way. I then took another picture I used in the same assignment of a rocky cliff on the beach. I also used the palette knife filter on the image and blended it with the image I was working with previously. I applied my image of the blended seagull and foam heart onto the picture of the cliff. I then used a gradient that was light blue on top and white on the bottom to emphasize the blue of the water at the top of the image. I adjusted the opacity and fill on the gradient lower to integrate the blue of the gradient into the blue of the water to appear natural.

            After doing this I increased the brightness and contrast in the image. I increased both to keep a balance in the image so that it would not become too dark in certain areas. I also increased the saturation in the image to bring out the blue in the water and the orange and yellow in the sand. The last thing I did was adjust the color balance in the image. I put the setting on highlights and increased to amount of red and blue in the picture. Doing this lightened the sand and brought out the blue in the water, creating a balance between the blue and yellow/ orange in the image.

Little Toy

Blended Image

In this image I blended three images together from our photo essay assignment to make a collage of this U10 boys game.

Copy/Paste

For this picture I copied the builiding from my big picture Architecture assignment and also used a filter on the image.

Fisheye