Pop art was one of the biggest movements in its time and in the century. With pop art being introduced around the 1950s and later becoming a huge hit in the 1960s. Pop art was all over the place like ads and most of all; comics. The movement originally started in the United Kingdom and found its way into the United States. Artist in the 1960s wanted to capture the true meaning of what pop art is and what it symbolized as a whole. But many artists had different views of what pop art is according to them and how they have seen it. Many artists define the meaning of pop art but there’s one person that defined the pop art movement, and that is Andy Warhol. Warhol was truly one of the greatest artist to every live, not only for his paintings, but …show more content…
Warhol’s Campbell Soup Cans (1962) which had capture everyone’s favorite soup as a kid, his famous Marilyn (1962) painting that depicts every man’s favorite girl during the 1960s and lastly Warhol’s Elvis Six Times (1963) piece. These pieces showed the true meaning of pop art. Some people have called Andy Warhol the Michelangelo of pop art with his descriptive style and the way he uses he artistic skills to depict the meaning of ever painting he has made just like Michelangelo. One of Andy Warhol’s famous works has been everybody’s favorite Campbell Soup Cans. Many other famous artists during this movement have agreed that this painting has been Warhol’s most famous and globally world known and also Warhol’s favorite painting. Warhol’s painting grabbed many people’s attention with how much it looked like the can. Some people thought the painting had looked so real that they thought it was a photograph rather than a painting that it was. Warhol had made a painting of each and every type of soup Campbell’s has to promote advertising for them. Also, the way Warhol does the outline of the Campbell’s soup can resembles the exact way the cam looks while looking at it in person. Comparing the real soup can to Warhol’s painting would …show more content…
Yes, Warhol’s Campbell’s painting was known to be his signature painting but his Marilyn painting represented the true beauty and obsession that people had for her capture on a simple painting. Made in 1962, after she had passed away, many people who reminded of her true beauty through this painting and how it captures Monroe. The way Warhol had drawn the hair and the outline of the curls is a perfect replica of what she truly looked like. One of the most important details that had been added to this piece and were one of the reasons why Marilyn Monroe was so attractive was her mole. The placement of the mole is the precise location of where it is in real life. Many people would see this as a painting that symbolizes beauty. So many people have misinterpreted the true meaning of beauty and how people have seen women. This also symbolizes the death and remembrance of the most beautiful and famous women during the 1950s and 1960s time period. Each and every Marilyn painting that Warhol had created should what beauty a women can have even through a painting and not in real life. Warhol used his unique skills by using acrylic and silkscreen ink on linen to capture every outline, medium and shade that was needed in order to show how he had seen the most beautiful women ever. With the many types of art pieces he has created throughout his career and throughout the pop art